A short but insightful piece. We recommend you subscribe to this excellent site while you’re there.

Belfast City Council agreed in principle to play a video from Men’s Human Rights Northern Ireland as part of its commemorations of International Men’s Day. Once the officials saw the video – here – they refused to play it at their event. We recommend it thoroughly, and congratulate the gentleman behind it – ‘Forty Two’ – on a job well done.

Our thanks to Sebastian Shakespeare, a Daily Mail columnist, for this (scroll down a little to the section in bold type).

The key local newspaper in the constituency where I’ll be standing next May is the Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. One of the paper’s journalists, Ben McVay, covers local politics, and I’ve had a couple of lengthy conversations with him. I’m pleased to say he understands the broad thrust of our thinking, and I’m hopeful we’ll get fair coverage from him over the coming six months. If this piece is anything to go by, we shall.

An interesting piece from Karen Woodall. Other well-known British members of LW4SP include Erin Pizzey and Dr Nicola Graham-Kevan. We wish the organisation success.

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is my favourite work of fiction. I read it again every few years, and I’m always struck by the parallels with modern-day life – in recent years, by the parallels with feminism, of course. If Orwell were alive today, doubtless he’d be writing about ‘Big Sister’. It’s been many years since I last read Animal Farm, and I was formerly unaware of the Preface to the book, of which William Collins writes in an insightful new piece.

Vanessa Pellegrin is a highly-regarded documentary maker who has been working on a lengthy documentary with the title, The trouble with the F word. A trailer will be out shortly, and the film will undoubtedly receive considerable coverage in the social media. It will feature both feminist and non-feminist presenters, and they’ll be interviewing feminists, non-feminists, and anti-feminists, on a range of topics. A Facebook page has been launched, along with a Twitter account.

We look forward to the final film, and wish the project well.

Another fine piece from Mr Purdy.

His timing is perfect. J4MB believes that marriage has been a toxic institution for British men for decades, and we run the website Men Shouldn’t Marry. Earlier this afternoon we loaded a second poster onto the site – here. It bears a thematic resemblance to the earlier poster – here. Feel free to print them off, copy, circulate, whatever.

A disturbing piece from Andy Bob, a highly respected contributor of articles and comments on AVfM.

We bring you news of a debate which promises to be a fascinating one for those interested in gender politics. It will be filmed for posterity. Zara Faris is a researcher and speaker for the Muslim Debate Initiative, while Julie Bindel needs no introduction. I look forward to being in the audience during the debate, and possibly asking a question in the Q&A session. Maybe Julie Bindel will give me the public apology she should have given me ten months ago, after she’d wrongly accused me of being a liar, during our debate at Durham University. I won’t hold my breath. She did at least apologize to me privately, which is more than any other prominent feminist has ever been prepared to do (Laura Bates and Caroline Criado-Perez spring inevitably to mind). My account of the Durham exchange is here.

We link to videos of Karen Straughan and Zara Faris on the J4MB ‘menu’, under the heading of Karen’s video title, ‘GirlWritesWhat: Were women historically oppressed? Are they now, in developing countries?’ The link is here.

These videos have attracted considerable interest, because they explore the often nuanced and complementary positions of women and men in the developing world in general, and in the Islamic world in particular, without looking at the positions through the toxic lens of feminist ‘patriarchy theory’, which considers that women are oppressed by men wherever, whenever, and however they interact – in all places, at all times, in all situations.

Believing this nonsense to be reality, it’s little wonder feminists are so relentlessly angry and miserable, is it? It’s also little wonder that angry and miserable women find a warm reception in feminist circles, where they’re taught that all their problems are attributable to men. Feminism turns women into perennial victims – whiny dysfunctional people stuck somewhere between childhood and adulthood, believing that feminism has the solutions to their problems. It’s tragic.

In Durham, after the debate, a number of feminists came up to me for a chat. Every one of them, unprompted, informed me they’d come from a broken home. Presumably the irony that the ideology they espouse is the biggest enemy of marriage and the nuclear family hadn’t occurred to them. Does feminism particularly appeal to women from broken homes, who are envious of the happiness of women lucky enough to have been brought up in loving families, with a father and a mother?

I hope you can join me in the audience. If so, and you’d like to meet up beforehand, please email me – mike@j4mb.org.uk. Tickets are a very reasonable £5.00, and can be purchased through this link. Be sure to order your ticket(s) soon, because they’re going to sell out fast.