I’ve just been emailed by a new donor, asking if there’s a link to all the articles we’ve had published on AVfM. Indeed there is, and I believe they’ve published over 40 articles now, the first being the one in which we first outlined the broad J4MB strategy. Our AVfM article archive is here.

David Futrelle’s just published a new blog post. It’s a gem even by his standards. I think the memes he knocks are terrific, but make up your own mind. I’ve posted a comment and invite you to do the same. A word of warning. The commenters have a hilarious habit of adding ‘y’ to the end of first names, in a juvenile attempt to denigrate people who don’t follow their totalitarian ideology. So I’m ‘Mikey’, Paul Elam is ‘Pauly’, and Dean Esmay ‘Deany’. They didn’t know what to do last night with someone who supported my comments, ‘Woody’. So why not spread a little happiness by posting a comment with a pseudonym ending in ‘y’, ‘ey’, or ‘ie’?
Futrelle’s posts are so dire, and the comments streams so misandrous, that I’ve decided to put up a live RSS link to his last 10 blog posts, to show visitors to this site what male feminists look like.

An excellent new article by Luke Gittos, Law Editor, Spiked.

I simply couldn’t resist posting a link to this. Hopefully Professor Claus Voegele and his crack team of researchers at the University of Luxembourg will now move on to answering another pressing question:

Are people who exercise regularly more physically fit than people who never exercise?

Last week AVfM published this article written by the site’s founder, Paul Elam. It’s worth catching.

Another interesting article by the Guardian columnist and blogger. One of the comments in response to the piece:

Are articles like this allowed?

Anyone who believes that sexual abuse of men and boys by women is a rare phenomenon should check this link.

The Detroit conference is now just two weeks away. Because of two ‘Platinum donations’ of $1,000 made towards the $25,000 security fundraiser – the target was met in just 22 hours – we have on offer three free conference tickets (they’re currently priced at $259.00) and three free places at the dinner AVfM is laying on to thank the speakers. You’ll be able to choose a seat near the speaker of your choice, and the list of speakers (with brief details of each) is here. The day-by-day programme of presentations is here.

Please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk if you’d like to make use of either or both offers.

Earlier today we publicly challenged David Futrelle to write a blog piece about the impact of increasing gender diversity in the boardroom (‘GDITB’). We’d sent him evidence of causal links between GDITB and declines in corporate financial performance. We’re guessing he has no evidence to the contrary – to be fair to him, nobody else in the world has, either – because he’s just posted the following comment on one of his blog comment streams:

I would like to respond to Mike’s Public Challenge with one of my own: Mike, I challenge you to swim to Iceland. Come on, it’s June. The North Atlantic can’t be that cold in freakin june.

The man’s an intellectual giant.

Given the welcome news that an alternative – and more suitable – venue has speedily been found for the upcoming Detroit conference, a ‘Veterans of Foreign Wars’ facility near Detroit, we think an appropriate choice for the new ‘Meme of the Week’ is this.

An astonishing story on a number of levels, not least for the derisory ‘punishment’ meted out to the dead man’s wife and a female accomplice. The misleading headline claims he ‘died of natural causes’. We’ll never know if he did, or he didn’t. From the article:

The inquest heard how the pathologist who undertook a post-mortem on Mr Sturdey’s body could not give a formal cause of death, and he could only be identified from his dental records.
Mr Sturdey’s GP, Jacqueline James, the last professional person to see him alive, paid him a visit in October 2008, and identified a number of risk factors, including diabetes and high blood pressure, which she likened to a ‘ticking time bomb’.

But what of the ‘punishment’ meted out to the two women? From the article:

In February this year, they were each given 20-month prison sentences at Swansea Crown Court after pleading guilty to unlawful burial and fraud. At an inquest into Mr Sturdey’s death, Ceredigion coroner Peter Brunton declined to offer his condolences to Mrs Sturdey, who was present at the inquest having already completed the custodial part of her punishment, because it would ‘not be appropriate’.

What message does all this send to wives of 60-year-old men with diabetes and high blood pressure? That even if they bury their husband’s body for a number of years and steal £77,000 in benefits, their ‘punishment’ will be just 20 months in jail. I’m 56, diabetic, and I have high blood pressure. I’m a ‘ticking time bomb’, apparently, which will surely come as welcome news to Laura Bates, Caroline Criado-Perez, Julie Bindel, Kat Banyard, and quite a number of other ladies…
Fortunately, I’m not married – if I were, I don’t think I’d sleep too well at night. As we keep saying, given how utterly toxic marriage has been for men for decades, Men shouldn’t marry.