Special Snowflake (aka Whinin’ Laura Bates) joins Caroline Cupcake-Perez as a winner of two ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards. The reasons are outlined on her award certificate. When we have a few spare minutes we’ll publicly challenge her again. In the meantime, given her track record of lying publicly and refusing to retract her lies – a gift to J4MB, and men’s rights advocates in general – she’s currently the leading contender for our November ‘Gormless Feminist of the Month’ award. Her apologists won the award earlier this month:

An interesting piece which includes some welcome words about Laura Bates. The intellectually-challenged hysterical blonde harridan (Laura, not Kathy) has fewer than 48 hours remaining to respond to our public challenge, and retract her lie about the number of women who are raped every year in the UK. Ms Bates confidently asserted on Free Speech Live that the number is 85,000, although official statistics show that fewer than 1,000 British men are convicted of the crime every year. Maybe each of these men raped 85+ women, on average? Or maybe… look, I know this will sound crazy, but let’s entertain the possibility… maybe a lot fewer than 85,000 women are raped by men every year in the UK?

We publicly challenged Loopy Laura to substantiate her whackadoodle claim, and you’ll be stunned to learn she hasn’t responded to the challenge. We’re so sure she won’t respond, that we’ll prepare her November ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award certificate tomorrow, in readiness for presenting her with it shortly after our deadline for a response to the challenge, 17:00 on Friday. She’ll join that other ray of sunshine, Caroline Criado-Perez, in having won the award twice.

Our thanks to H for this image.

Two donations this evening have particularly pleased us. The first was £15 from a young lady, the mother of two young sons, who is understandably concerned about their futures in a state education system run by women to help girls succeed at the expense of boys. I first met her around the time I was thinking of establishing  J4MB – in January 2013, I think – and her enthusiasm for the project was inspiring. I can’t thank her enough. A charming woman, who I know can ill-afford to make donations to J4MB, but she does so, anyway.

We were also pleased by the second donation, for £1,000, which has brought the appeal total to £2,620. This is the largest ever single donation to J4MB, although a number of individual donors have sent in more over a period of time. We have the donor’s email address, and we’ve asked him (or possibly her, the person’s gender is unclear from the email address) to write a short piece explaining the motivation behind this donation. We’d like to think it’s a testament to the growing importance of our work. Should you wish to make your own contribution towards that work, you can do so here.

Thank you for your support.

We always have time for some light relief here at the J4MB global headquarters in Bedford, so we thank K for sending us this. The piece refers to David Cameron’s ‘toad-like ancestors’. Now whatever gave them that idea? Maybe his three ‘Toady of the Year’ awards? His 2014 award certificate is here.

It’s just been brought to our attention that when people log onto our crowdfunder and click on the button to make a donation, they’re meet with what appears to be a suggested donation of £100. We wish to make it clear this wasn’t done at our request. We’ll obviously be grateful for each and every donation, regardless of size, and we’ve had donations down to £5.00. Some people have pressed on and discovered they can enter the amount of their choice. We’ve just emailed Indiegogo – the crowdfunding ‘host’ – requesting that the page be replaced with a number of suggested amounts, but more importantly, also a blank box for people wishing to enter different amounts.

An excellent piece by Laura Perrins for The Conservative Woman website. At long last Cameron has done something right, however small. Enjoy. But be warned. We advise you not to open the link in the piece to a Telegraph article if you’ve just eaten. J4MB isn’t in a position to financially compensate people who throw up over their computer keyboards when they see the photographs of Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg wearing ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T-shirts.

Around an hour ago AVfM published my article about our advertising crowdfunder. It has already resulted in donations of £300, including £100 from Paul Elam himself, bringing the current total to £1,010. Please support us with whatever you can afford. This is going to be a high-profile advertising campaign, and it well send a very strong message:

The state must stop its relentless assaults on the human rights of men and boys.

A short (30 second) but powerful video. We wish the campaign well.

An excellent new piece from the ever-reliable Mr Purdy which will doubtless influence our thinking about the J4MB general election manifesto content on the issue of asset division following divorce, custody of children, and more. In an age when women have long enjoyed the same employment opportunities as men, the division of ‘matrimonial assets’ following divorce seems positively Dickensian, to put it mildly. In reality it’s daylight robbery, enabled by a chivalrous judiciary exercising a ludicrous amount of discretion pandering to women by handing them assets largely earned by their husbands, on account of the women having been… er… married. That’s it. Married. No wonder women get so excited when one of their female friends manages to persuade some hapless man to get engaged to her or, as we like to think of it, to volunteer for life-long servitude. More thoughts on this at our associated website Men shouldn’t marry.

It’s no surprise that three-quarters of divorce applications are filed by wives. I’m guessing wildly that a supporter from Eastern Europe won’t disagree with this view – chivalry is his big ‘thing’, and with very good reason – and I look forward to him commenting on this piece.