There are people who spend time trying to dissuade potential buyers of books about feminism – and other subjects – from ordering them. This often takes the form of posting ‘spoiler reviews’ – 1-star or 2-star reviews – on Amazon. There’s plenty of evidence to show these people only drive up book sales, but still they go on. Why do they fail to dissuade people from buying the books? It’s simple.

People don’t take kindly to being told what books to read, or not read.

My thanks to Amy, a supporter in the United States, for alerting me to the fact that there’s been a recent spate of 1-star reviews of Feminism: the ugly truth on Amazon.com. Great news. I’ve taken a couple of minutes to capture some of the reviews posted two days ago – here – all of which have purportedly been found ‘helpful’ by all the people reading them. Priceless. With geniuses like these opposing us, we can surely move forward at a faster pace than we’d anticipated.

I was pleased to be asked by Lucian Valsan – the estimable Romanian gentleman who hosts AVfM Voice of Europe – to appear on last night’s show, to reflect on our mainstream media breakthrough of the last 10 days, and what we’d learned from it. We also explored a number of elements in the election manifesto, starting with abortion.

The file has been posted on Paul Elam’s YouTube channel – here – and we hope to post it on our own YouTube channel shortly. The interview lasts from 52:34 – 2:11:46.

An excellent piece by Neil Lyndon in the Telegraph two days ago.

A year ago AVfM published my piece explaining that the BBC had become a job creation scheme run by women for women – here. How else could you possibly explain Kate Smurthwaite’s frequent appearances on the BBC?

Three days ago I was a contributor to a show on BBC Radio Ulster, The Stephen Nolan Show. Also on the show was Kate Smurthwaite, a feminist ‘comedian’ who – like all such women – is as funny as a dislocated shoulder. The BBC is introducing gender quotas for panel programmes, so we’ll see more of women like her. Joy. Our YouTube clip of the exchange is here. It’s already received 50+ comments, 50+ upvotes, and no downvotes.

After the programme, Ms S posted this on her Facebook page:

Here’s me on BBC Ulster with Mike Buchanan from the anti-feminist party lot. To be honest more shocking is the way we’re introduced with references to “whiny feminists” and “has the pendulum swung too far?”. No, Stephen, while women are still a tiny minority in the corridors of power and two a week are murdered by their male partner or ex-partner, the pendulum has not “swung too far”.

Hilarious. My sides are splitting. Of course Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000) explains why a minority of senior politicians (and business people, Nobel Prize winners etc.) are women, but let’s focus on this gem:

…two (women) a week are murdered by their male partner or ex-partner…

Yes, it’s the long-discredited claim that led to both Caroline Criado-Perez and Special Snowflake being presented with ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards. Why do feminists keep handing us these gifts? If we had the spare time we could present them with ‘Lying Feminist of the Day’ awards.

In a moment I’ll send a link to this piece to Ms S’s Twitter account @Cruella1. Our challenge:

Kate, the latest government statistics of which J4MB is aware showed that 75 women  were killed by male partners or ex-partners during the year in question – nearer ‘one per week’ than ‘two per week’, unless in Femland there are 37.5 weeks in the year? The idea that the number says anything other than men tend to be stronger than women, and more likely to have access to firearms, is one of countless feminist myths.

The number has declined by around 25% in 10 years. These deaths were attributable to both murder and manslaughter, while you refer only to murder.

Even Vera Baird dissociated herself from the ‘two women a week’ claim in 2010, when she was a Labour MP, shortly before being booted out of office by her electors. We recently called for her resignation as PCC for Northumbria.

We publicly challenge you to provide evidence to back up your assertion ‘… two (women) a week are murdered by their male partner or ex-partner… ‘ by 5pm February 7, and if you fail to do so, we’ll present you with a well-deserved ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award. Have a nice day.

Yesterday evening I learned in the course of an AVfM interview that Vice had published a piece about us 10 days ago. We’ve just had an email from Cheryl with a link to the piece, written by Eleanor Morgan, a Senior Editor. We shudder to imagine the quality level of pieces written by Junior Editors at Vice. Cheryl writes:

Dear God, will there be no end to stupid articles written by stupid feminists about you and your party, shamelessly misrepresenting the manifesto content? This daft women even claims the manifesto has ‘cleanly ignored’ the issue of male unemployment, when it has a whole section on it, pages 18-23.

Donation on the way, chin up, and keep up the great work!

Ms Morgan refers to an unnamed friend receiving one of our ‘Gormless Women of the Month’ awards, and the two of them celebrating the fact. Well, who wouldn’t celebrate being the recipient of this? Ms Morgan will surely be delighted to learn she’s in contention for this month’s award.

Another day, another silly article about J4MB and our election manifesto. The genius behind the piece is Lydia Smith, writing for the International Business Times. It was published online nine days ago and has attracted only one comment, by Sally Fladrick, not a name we’ve seen before. Sally writes (I’ve corrected a few minor typos):

What a disgustingly biased article. It is about time there is someone standing up for men’s issues. The idiot who wrote this piece should probably look up the fact the wage gap is a myth and there are less women in politics because less women go into politics in the first place and yes there are hateful women in parliament. Harriet Harman said fathers aren’t that important. Name one right men have that women don’t have. There isn’t one. Do you want to know a right women have that men don’t have? The right to not have their genitals mutilated. FGM is illegal in the UK. Male circumcision is legal in the UK. You can legally cut off a piece of a man’s genitalia without his permission if you want. Like he says at the bottom maybe you Lydia should try educating yourself.

Yesterday I was in Canary Wharf, one of the most iconic buildings in the UK, engaged in an interview with Alex Hudson, a reporter working for the Mirror. His article, and my reflections on it, are here.

When I entered the building, I was struck by a common characteristic of the four receptionists, and took a photograph of them – here.

All the receptionists were young, attractive, cheerful, and of the female persuasion. Three of them were blondes. Shocking. Deeply shocking, to be honest. It shouldn’t be allowed.

We invite three ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award winners – Caroline Criado-Perez, Special Snowflake (Laura Bates), and Roz Hardie – to launch a campaign for Canary Wharf receptionists to reflect the diversity of British citizens. They should demand more receptionists who are:

– male

– middle-aged, or older

– unattractive

– miserable

– not blonde

We’ve had strong positive feedback to our YouTube clip of the Irish radio show in which Roz Hardie’s arguments and narratives were destroyed by Niall Boylan. A donor has called to ask about her claim, in the course of the programme, that I’d written in one of my books that women photosynthesise, i.e. put on mass in the same way as plants.

Almost three years ago my book Feminism: the ugly truth was published, and it’s available only in ebook editions. They can be read not only on e-readers such as Kindle, but also on PCs, tablets etc. with excellent free-to-download software. For some reason feminists have been upset by the book’s cover design. I have no idea why…

When Ms Hardie stated that I’d written that women photosynthesise, I assume she was trying to imply to the presenter and the listeners that I have bats in the belfry. Niall Boylan groaned softly and moved on, perhaps assuming (correctly) that if I had written such a thing, it would have been in a humorous context. Is Roz Hardie so humourless that she took my comments on women photosynthesising seriously?

To celebrate her woeful performance on the programme – which has led to nominations for both our ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ and ‘Gormless Feminist of the Month’ awards – I’ve prepared a PDF of three short successive chapters from Feminism: the ugly truth. Photosynthesis is covered in the first chapter, ‘Why are fat women fat?’

Today was a busy day. I spent the afternoon being interviewed in Canary Wharf, while first thing in the morning I debated with Kate Smurthwaite, a feminist ‘comedienne’ on the Stephen Nolan show (BBC Radio Ulster). Enjoy.

I wish I had more time to thank individually all the good people who leave comments on our blog and YouTube pieces, and respond to their comments, but there simply aren’t the hours in the day. But I read all of them, and thank all of the commenters for going to the trouble. I learn a good deal from them.

Sometimes the comments make me laugh out loud. One – from ‘aesopstortoise’ – was posted not long ago in response to Bea Campbell’s evasive comments following my contribution to the BBC Radio Berkshire programme on Monday:

Bea Campbell swerved every issue, Man Utd could use skills like that in midfield.