Roz Hardie: ‘Mike Buchanan awarded me Lying Feminist of the Month. That’s the greatest honour of my life.’

Our thanks to C for pointing us to an interview with Roz Hardie on an appropriately named website, Dazed. Impressively, the writer manages to pack four lies into the second paragraph alone:

Their 80-page general manifesto can best be summarised as “dudes to the front”: Buchanan wants to scrap the Equality Act 2010, make abortions illegal, discourage lesbians and single mothers from having kids, and stop women from being appointed in senior executive roles.

Later in the piece:

But the J4MB website makes it clear that women (and feminists especially) are to blame for most men’s problems. Male suicide? Women. Male unemployment? Women. And if you disagree with the party line, you get honoured with the party’s Lying Feminist of the Month award. Other prizes include Gormless Feminist of the Month and the Harpy Lifetime Achievement Award. Last honouree: Germaine Greer.

So who are these lying harpies hellbent on destroying male entitlement and privilege, and how can we be friends with them? Roz Hardie is one such award winner. The Object CEO campaigns against sexual objectification and exploitation and was proudly given the Lying Feminist award for standing up to Buchanan on a TV debate. [Our emphasis]

Ms Hardie didn’t get her ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award for standing up to me in a TV debate, she got it for… er… LYING. It’s clearly a distinction that’s too subtle for the feminist mind to grasp. A quote from Ms Hardie:

Mike Buchanan awarded me Lying Feminist of the Month. That’s the greatest honour of my life.

I don’t wish to be unkind, but doesn’t that say more about Ms Hardie’s life than our award? She comes across as one of those sad women to whom feminism is such a large part of their identity, they could barely function without it. They can never ditch the ideology, however ridiculous it patently is, because it provides them with a reason to carry on.

Mike Buchanan debates with Roz Hardie (Lying Feminist of the Month) on an Irish radio station

Last night I was engaged in an hour-long discussion on an Irish radio station, Classic Hits 4FM, which I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I did, for reasons which are explained in the notes below the video. I invite you to email Niall Boylan, the host of the programme, to thank him for for his robust challenging of a radical feminist. How rarely we encounter that in the media. His email address is niall.boylan@classichits.ie.

J4MB may overtake the Lib Dems

The number of visitors to individual political parties’ websites is a litmus test of public interest. How could it not be? So we were interested to receive the following comment a moment ago, from a website which has been providing a great deal of interesting political commentary during the run-up to the general election, now less than four months away:

Just to let you know about our latest chart, you are still a strong 7th, and as the Lib Dem site seems to be declining, you may even overtake them

The latest chart is here.

YouTube – comments stream following the video of Mike Buchanan’s discussion with Caroline Criado-Perez

While we seek to have the YouTube block on the TV discussion with Caroline Criado-Perez lifted, a supporter has pointed out that the ensuing comments stream isn’t available to read. Given that a number of noted anti-feminists and MRAs contributed comments, including Karen Straughan, as well as a number of regular contributors and supporters, we thought we’d publish them in a PDF document. Enjoy.

Nick Clegg talks about suicide

The differential between male and female suicides in the UK is around 3.3, a differential which has almost doubled in the space of 30 years. The government has historically taken virtually no interest in male suicide. We thank H for pointing us to this by Michael Buchanan (a BBC reporter, no relation). Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister, is reported as saying:

Suicide is one of the biggest killers of men under the age of 50 and if this was a physical health problem, there would be a national outcry.

What he should have said, of course, was this:

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 50 and if this was a physical health problem, there would be a national outcry.

We cover suicide on pp 46-48 of our election manifesto. Most of the drivers of the high male suicide rate are a consequence of the state’s actions and inactions e.g. denying fathers access to their children after family breakdowns, denying support to male victims of domestic violence, and so much more.

Five days left to catch the discussion with Caroline Criado-Perez

YouTube have taken down our video of the discussion with Caroline Criado-Perez on the ITV programme This Morning, doubtless at the instigation of feminists horrified at the performance of CC-P, in the course of which she made a claim about the number of women killed in the UK by partners, which resulted in her third ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award – here. Doubtless it will appear somewhere on the internet shortly, but for the next five days you can catch the discussion on the ITV ‘on demand’ service – here. The relevant sections are 00:29 – 1:15, 3:20 – 14:20, 47:53 – 56:40.