Here we go again:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638672/Lloyds-TSB-cashier-stole-30-000-vulnerable-customers-including-one-blind-deaf-SPARED-jail-judge-says-crimes-cry-help.html#ixzz32pMZaDoy

The start of the article:

A banker who stole more than £30,000 from sick and elderly customers has walked free after a judge decided her dishonesty was a ‘cry for help’. Victoria Earle targeted the accounts of four vulnerable customers at her branch of the Lloyds TSB bank.

Three of the personal banker’s victims had Alzheimer’s disease and one was blind and deaf. One of the customers was nearly 70 and the rest were in their 80s. But the court heard she was getting over the loss of a grandparent and was finding her work stressful.

The judge, Mr Recorder Edward Bindloss, said a suspended jail sentence and the loss of her good name was adequate punishment.

A man has just left the following comments on a blog piece at Men shouldn’t marry. I invite you add your own ‘thoughts’.

A few thoughts from your self-appointed and terminally-single representative.
1. The cost of raising a child is said to be around £230,000. I have raised none.
2. I have lived in my present house (which I intend to die in, or owning) since 1993 and, in that time, apart from the odd bit of decorating, I have the same kitchen and bathroom layouts as on the day of moving in.
3. My wardrobe consists of clothing of my choice – of the quality, quantity and price to suit me.
4. I have not inherited another person’s relatives and friends, all of whom may require presents for Birthdays, Christmas, Weddings etc.
5. I make all the decisions about where and when to spend my money.
6. I am not reminded constantly of the various faux-pas I have committed over the years (and therefore have forgotten many).
7. I do not find myself spending over-long in retail outlets – I can get my ‘therapy’ in other ways.
8. I do not have to seek approval from a ‘significant other’ for any decisions I make.
9. I can take (and lose) interest in many things, involving different locations and people.
10. I can state my case (see above) by using ‘I’ in every sentence. (I’m always suspicious of couples, one of rep of whom – often the woman – talks about what ‘we’ believe/want etc.)

Cynical – and I know there are many positive aspects to marriage – but how about this for starters?

An interesting piece:

http://toysoldier.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/study-finds-43-of-boys-coerced-into-sex

Rick Bradford left some insightful comments in response:

In respect of the apparent low impact of sexual coercion on a male’s self-esteem – in contrast to the apparently high impact on a female’s self-esteem – I have a modest hypothesis. Society, both men and women, expect the female to be in control of a sexual encounter. Coercion of a female therefore undermines her ‘rightful’ position and hence is transgressive and hence damaging to her self-esteem. For a male, in contrast, coercion by a female does not transgress the accepted order and hence is not damaging to his self-esteem. The strength of this perspective is that it also explains the importance of the female’s consent in order to avoid intercourse being rape, whilst in contrast few are concerned about the man’s consent. (You only need the consent of the boss!). The same hypothesis explains why people regard a woman violating a man’s sexual boundary (e.g. unwanted kissing) as more acceptable than the reverse. And similarly people have less support for a man withholding consent than for a woman withholding consent, because such control is deemed rightly to belong to the woman.

We recently posted a piece about a short video (1:50) from Mankind Initiative about the public’s double standards with respect to men assaulting women, and women assaulting men. We’ve just learned that the video’s already been viewed by over a million people, and attracted more than 1,000 comments. An outstanding response. We take our hats off to Mankind Initiative for this achievement. The video is here.

A few days ago on BBC Radio WM (West Midlands) Ray Barry – leader of Real Fathers 4 Justice, Equal Parenting Alliance, and the J4MB candidate for Wolverhampton South-West at the 2015 general election – gave his customary excellent contribution to a radio discussion. The subject was some iniquitous anti-male rules being introduced by the Child Maintenance Service, the successor to the Child Support Agency. The discussion has just been uploaded to our YouTube channel, and you can access it here. Please leave any comments you may have there rather than here. Thank you.
For many years the CSA was recognised as being a bloated inefficient and ineffective organisation. In 2012 the CSA was replaced by the Child Maintenance Service (‘CMS’). The government is slimming down the organisation, and seeking to persuade ex-partners to negotiate financial arrangements independently. In its customary anti-male fashion, however, it’s just given a trump card to women.
Later this year, newly separated parents will have a choice to make. They can either make independent financial arrangements, or pay through CMS. If they take the latter option, they’ll be required to make a financial contribution to the CMS, all part of reducing the taxpayers’ contribution to the CMS. People will be given six months to decide which route they wish to take, and the first batch of letters has just gone out to the men and women involved. Over the next 3 years, people already paying under the old CSA scheme will have to make the same choice – make private arrangement between themselves, or pay through CMS.
So far, so good, but as we might expect with anything emanating from a publicly-run body, there’s a sting in the tail for men. If the non-paying parent (almost always a woman) decides to continue using the CMS services, that parent will pay a £20 registration fee (victims of domestic violence will be spared this charge), and 4% of the payments made by the paying parent will be taken by the CMS. A woman from Gingerbread protested about these costs on the TV news soon after this became public knowledge.
In stark contrast, nobody was on TV news protesting about what the paying parent (almost always a man) would be paying, namely an additional sum of 20% – FIVE times the sum paid by the non-paying parent – which would be taken by the CMS. This differential treatment of men and women clearly raises some issues, and Ray Barry explored them well in the time he had available, less than five minutes.

Another excellent piece from Janet Bloomfield (‘JudgyBitch’), one of numerous Honey Badgers whose pieces never disappoint:

http://judgybitch.com/2014/05/25/deeply-disturbed-man-kills-4-men-and-2-women-and-then-himself-and-is-declared-a-violent-misogynist-because-the-deaths-of-men-dont-count/

There are few people whose new videos I never miss, but one is the man behind the legendary ManWomanMyth channel. One of our all-time favourite videos was made by him. It’s about feminism being the pursuit of female supremacy, and it’s here.
In January 2014 he launched a new channel, ‘Humanity Bites’. One of his earliest videos posed and answered the intriguing question:

If we ‘need’ more women in boardrooms, do we ‘need’ more white sprinters in the Olympics 100 metres men’s final?

Along with Erin Pizzey, the veteran campaigner on domestic abuse and violence, and Steve Moxon, author of The Woman Racket (2008), I was interviewed for the video which is here.
His latest video, released a few days ago, explores the differences in the attacks by Boko Haram on Nigerian women and girls, and men and boys.
The number of people visiting our library of video and audio files continues to grow strongly, and we’re pleased by how many ‘upvotes’ they’re getting.

More ridiculous political correctness from the BBC. The girl herself didn’t find the remark sexist, but the ever-vigilant thought police at the BBC inevitably did, and decided to protect the public from a shocking word.

One of the ghastliest feminists of her generation has been wittering on at the Hay Book Festival. Two years ago the Anti-Feminism League presented her with a Harpy award.

Our thanks to Jeff for pointing us towards this highly insightful piece.

The same article is here but with 2,000+ comments.