First it was White Ribbon Australia, now it’s White Ribbon Canada facing the AVfM spotlight… and found wanting.

I’m enjoying a fascinating book by Dick Swaab, an eminent Dutch neuroscientist, titled We Are Our Brains (from the womb to Alzhemer’s). In one chapter he outlines the compelling evidence that the human brain becomes ‘hard wired’ in the womb for sexual identity, sexuality, body integrity identity disorder (the conviction that a part or parts of your body don’t belong to you), transsexuality, and more. One paragraph (p.78) struck me being possibly of particular interest to followers of this blog, and it takes up the remainder of this post.

“Our description of the first sex differences found in human hypothalami in postmortem brain tissue (Swaab and Fliers, Science 228 [1985] : 1112-15) provoked a hostile reception from feminists. At the time there was widespread denial within the feminist movement of possible biological sex differences in the human brain and behaviour.

Speaking about our findings in an interview with the Dutch magazine HP (January 17, 1987), a woman biologist by the name of Joke t’Hart said, ‘But if I were to accept that there are differences between the sexes in such fundamental areas as the structure of our brains, I would no longer have a leg to stand on as a feminist.’ Whatever the case, I never heard any more of her.

Many hundreds of sex differences have subsequently been identified between the male and female brains.”

We’ll have a lot to say about the appalling crime of paternity fraud in our election manifesto, which we expect to publish on this website in the next week or two. We’ll certainly be linking to William Collins’s new piece and, I’m sure, Part 2 in due course.

On my Facebook page there are a number of images, none of which I posted there. But some are interesting, herewith a random selection:

Interesting.

Welcome to an alternative universe where all victims of domestic violence are women, and all perpetrators men – as presented in a shameless government press release.

An overdue nod to Erin Pizzey and her new website. We wish Erin, and the site, every success.

One of the greatest pleasures of the Detroit conference was the opportunity to meet and talk with MHRAs from around the world. I know that all the Brits who made the trip felt the same, and I’m sure others did too. On one of the days I was taking a walk by the lake, getting some fresh air, near the building where the conference was being held. I don’t recall the name of the lake, only that it was so damned large, you could barely see the opposite shore. I’m not even sure if the opposite shore was in the United States, or Canada. But an Australian MHRA I recognised was sitting on a bench looking out over the lake, Dr Greg Canning. He works as a GP in Queensland. We had a lengthy chat, and I recall thinking he’s the sort of man anyone would be pleased to have as their GP.

Dean Esmay’s just interviewed Greg about domestic violence – here.

Hopefully it won’t be too long before AVfM announces its plans for next year’s conference. Make it to the event, if you can. The day is coming when these events will be recognized as being of historical importance. That day can’t come soon enough.

Sage Gerard – who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Detroit conference – is going to become ever more important in the MHRM, we have little doubt. Enjoy.

Our thanks to a supporter in Eastern Europe for pointing us towards this. It’s almost as if men and women are different, somehow… Needless to say, the piece also provides a feminist explanation for the phenomenon. Is there anything gender-related for which there isn’t a feminist explanation, no matter how dotty?