We recently publicly challenged Theresa May, Home Secretary, in relation to the Home Office’s feminist-driven consultation document and ‘consultation exercise’ about the government’s plans to extend legislation to cover areas of domestic ‘abuse’ which have up to now – quite rightly – been regarded as outside the scope of legislation. AVfM has just published a piece from us on the matter, with some background beyond what we’ve already published on this site.

An excellent new piece which not only critiques the bigoted journalist’s comments, but also makes some insightful comparisons between South Africa and Britain. If you’ve not already subscribed to Mr Purdy’s excellent blog, we recommend you do so now.

A new piece from Ally Fogg about one predictable consequence of a prison service which is increasingly brutal towards men, and increasingly compassionate towards women.

We’re happy to interrupt our manifesto drafting for uplifting stories like this. Our thanks to the supporters who phoned to alert us to a new blog post by someone we much admire, Kathy Gyngell, Co-Editor of The Conservative Woman website. The site doesn’t have a facility to be automatically notified of new blog pieces, something that will hopefully be rectified before long.

Her new piece is a powerful critique of the increasingly feminist-driven recruitment and promotion decisions at the Bank of England under the leadership of Mark Carney. She’s obviously learned of our recent public challenge of him, and we’re pleased to see she gives exposure to that challenge. Enjoy.

The team is busy working seven days per week drafting the 2015 general election manifesto, and it’s already over 70 pages long. Many of our proposals will be thought controversial by people unfamiliar with men’s human rights issues – the proposal on compulsory paternity testing at birth being an obvious example – so we’re preparing extensive background information to explain why the proposals are being made. This is all taking even more time and effort than we were anticipating, but when we’re finished, the result should be a document with content which will be of value to both J4MB and men’s human rights advocates in general for years to come.

To help us focus more intensely on drafting the manifesto, we’ll be spending less time in the coming weeks on the activities which normally take up so much of our time – such as posting blog pieces, publicly challenging prominent figures, presenting awards… and acknowledging and responding to emails. We ask for your understanding of all this at a very intense time. Thank you.

We plan to publish our manifesto on this website in the second half of October.

Among the uglier tactics used by feminists is their habit of portraying MRAs as misogynistic, homophobic, racist etc. In the years I’ve been an MRA I’ve never encountered an MRA – online or in person – who could be said to be any of these things.

So I was interested to hear from a supporter who’s just viewed the video on the blog piece about me, written by the feminist behind the Mancheeze blog – downloadable here. He spotted a caption which has led to me watching a short extract. It’s before an extract from my latest appearance on London Live TV and it’s led to my posting the following comment on the Mancheeze blog:

I am utterly mystified by your caption in the video stating, ‘A black woman STOLE MAH job’ at 4:19, before I related my story about a feminist denying me a consulting assignment (the piece ends at 4:55). What makes you think the woman was black? To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never stated what her colour was. As it happens, she was white. I cannot think you have any motivation for writing that caption other than trying to mislead your followers into thinking I’m racist, and I invite you to remove the caption. Thank you.

I see that a couple of days ago she included this in her response to a commenter:

He’s got Laurie Penny’s email address she’ll use in America, she just got a gig at Harvard U. He’s giddy about it because he’s going to stalk her across the Atlantic.

Laurie Penny is, of course, the New Statesman ‘columnist’ who libelled me some months ago. In my response – yet to be published – I included this:

What on earth makes you think I have the email address Laurie Penny will be using in America? I don’t. Would I be right in surmising you lose touch with reality on a fairly regular basis?

My thanks to an estimable American gentleman for pointing me to this piece published by an American feminist blogger, ‘Mancheeze’. This ray of sunshine resides in Vancouver. Lucky Vancouver! Her piece is full of nonsense which is demonstrably so, but I spent a little while posting a comment, which she may or may not deign to publish. In case she doesn’t, here’s what I wrote:

“Hi. A supporter just pointed me to your tirade, which I’ve ‘speed read’. Delighted to be attacked by you – especially since much of what you say is demonstrably ridiculous – so I’ll post a link to this on http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com shortly.

Firstly, our website on sexism is http://thealternativesexismproject.wordpress.com. You couldn’t find stories of men writing about the impact of sexism on them? Look again.

I’ve run Campaign for Merit in Business http://c4mb.wordpress.com for well over two years, and have engaged with two parliamentary inquiries. ALL the studies you cite – and others – make it clear that not only is correlation (of female representation on boards, and enhanced corporate financial performance) NOT evidence of causation, it can’t be taken to even IMPLY it. Only longitudinal studies can provide evidence of a causal link, and longitudinal studies clearly show a causal link between increasing female representation on boards and DECLINES in corporate financial performance. 15 minutes ago we posted a public challenge of the Bank of England, which includes links to the evidence:

http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com/2014/09/13/our-public-challenge-of-mark-carney-governor-bank-of-england/

We’re shortly going to present Carolien Criado-Perez with her second ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award. She also won our ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ award, of course.

Have a nice day.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS
(and the women who love them)

http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com “

Mark Carney is known to be an enthusiastic supporter of increasing the number of women in senior positions or, as we prefer to put it, reducing the number of men in senior positions. This is a feminist project which, by definition, has nothing to do with appointing the person with the most merit – work ethic, experience, expertise – regardless of gender.

Last week a national newspaper reported Carney as warmly welcoming the ‘success’ of initiatives designed to increase the number of women in senior roles at the Bank of England, and then he came out with this gem:

Hiring more women in senior roles makes us much, much more effective.

Well, he was inviting a public challenge from J4MB, wasn’t he? We were happy to oblige. It’s here.

Yesterday we posted a link to a piece from Red Pill UK about a recent Home Office consultation, titled, ‘Con, not consultation’. Herbert Purdy has left a comment on the piece, and it takes up the rest of this blog piece:

“The degree to which organisations like Women’s Aid has penetrated the highest corridors of power in our land is astonishing, and worthy of the worst excesses of lobbying and political chicanery ever seen. What is equally astonishing is that no one seems to see through this organisation as the blatantly feminist political lobby it really is. These people are man-haters, pure and simple. They are out to get men: the other half of the population, for god’s sake! Why can’t people see this?

Under the catch line ‘Until women are safe’, Women’s Aid’s aim is, ‘… to end violence against women and children’, and lists amongst its patrons: Jenni Murray, the voice of feminism on Woman’s Hour, broadcast daily on the BBC, Sarah Brown wife of former British Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Labour should be renamed the Feminist Party, because it certainly doesn’t represent labour – remember, that was men? – anymore), the internationally famous actress Julie Walters CBE, popular TV actor Kevin Whatley, and Gordon Ramsay, the famous TV chef and his wife Tana.

Perhaps these celebrities and other fellow travellers who support Women’s Aid: the actors, chefs and wives of former politicians who appear amongst the ranks of those who espouse its cause would do well to consider that, maybe, they have taken this strongly anti-male, political pressure group too much at face value? They need to get real about its blatantly misandrous/feminist ‘vagenda’, and go back to their chef’s kitchens and actor’s film sets and quietly reflect on their responsibilities to society as a whole in their support for this foul organisation. Society is not going to be helped by them aiding and abetting the feminist fire-stoking that is so clearly going on in Women’s Aid.

I mean, even the very name implies women need aid when the truth is that those who need aid are those who suffer from partner abuse – and that is ALSO men, many of whom dare not do anything about it for fear of having the tables turned on them – they becoming the victim who is blamed – and losing contact with their children.

It is unconscionable that Women’s Aid in its dismal disgusting diatribe against men and its constant harping on the woman-as-victim narrative should have such sway in our government. And it is equally unconscionable that it should have charitable status. Charities are charged with the responsibility of carrying out philanthropy – love of men, literally, but of mankind – and that includes everyone (doesn’t it?).”

Appalling. The doctor even failed to gain proper consent to undertake the procedure on a five-week-old boy. His actions were held to amount to ‘misconduct’. Might the media interest have been higher if he’d illegally circumcised 41 girls in a ‘non-sterile’ clinic?