As a class, men have long been treated as pariahs in the UK, as in other developed countries. Having delivered that ‘result’, feminists are increasingly focusing their attentions onto boys. We shouldn’t be surprised. All men are rapists, after all, to the warped feminist mind. Why not assume that all boys are rapists, too, until and unless they can prove otherwise?

Polly Stewart is a New Zealander, a trained journalist, who now lives in the UK.

She runs an online magazine, Woman-On-Top, described as ‘The UK’s first mag-e-zine for working women’. She interviewed me at some length for her article, and explored some issues with commendable thoroughness.

Polly devoted more time, effort, integrity, and skill to the piece, than was shown collectively by all the mainstream media ‘journalists’ who’ve attacked J4MB and myself over the past three weeks (interestingly, the comments streams following their pieces have been overwhelmingly supportive of J4MB analyses and policy positions). And that’s why we say:

Polly Stewart, we salute you.

Maybe one day a mainstream media publication will publish a piece of this quality. We won’t hold our breath…

About two months ago I had an enjoyable lunch and a two-hour-long discussion with Finlay Young, a Scottish feminist journalist with Newsweek. He was engaged in writing an article about male suicide, and we touched on many related areas. His article has just been published in the European edition (print and online), and I invite you to add a comment. Joe Wilson, not a name that rings a bell, has already done so.

A longer piece has been put on sale as an ebook at a cost of £1.99. The word count is almost four times longer than that of the article, and much of Chapter 10 is drawn from our meeting.

Herbert Purdy posted a riposte to Isabel Rogers both here and on her website, which she’s cleared for publication. We look forward to her response, if any. Herbert Purdy wrote:

“As pedantry seems to be alive and well here and being exercised with just an ever so slight touch of superiority, might I respectfully point out that ‘more politicians who use Wiki to research their manifestoes’ are only going to find that, yes, those sweet little pinkies on the ends of their feet are real. Just a petty point, I know, but I couldn’t resist it, especially when you make so many petty points, whilst ignoring the herd of elephants in your own room.

I know its probably difficult for you to see them, of course, because you are so righteously and sanctimoniously full of your own rights, but feminism’s activities in the name of equality are creating some very serious social inequalities that men are beginning to get just a tad tetchy about. Actually, more than a tad – across the developed world, a backlash is building against your one-sided, so-called equality, and when that breaks, there’s going to be hell to pay.

If I might be so bold as to offer some advice? If I were you, I would be thinking very seriously about coming down off your self-created pedestal, and engaging with the ideas of honest men who are expressing honest opinions, cogently argued, instead of ridiculing them and engaging in that old canard of the ad hominem attack. Frankly, it demeans you more than it demeans the man. If I were you, I would be losing the levity and waking up to the reality that the politicisation of gender has been one of the greatest tragedies to befall women, let alone men – and children – in our society.

And, you are a fool if you think that feminism is getting ‘equal dibs at stuff’. Maybe it is you who should take the red pill. Feminism is cultural Marxism driven by the likes of Germaine Greer, Kate Millett and a host of others in the 1970s and right up to the present, including Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt, and a their clones in parliament today who are intent on tearing our society to ribbons, casting women as a political classes and setting them against men to the good of neither. These radical feminists are feeding naive women like you the sugary pill of ‘liberation’ and quasi-equality in the name of alleged historical oppression by men, which is one of the most flagrant examples of the basic logical fallacy of the argumentum ad logicam there is. And whilst you are buying it lock, stock and barrel, your sugary feminism is subjugating you and destroying your families, your freedoms and your respect for men.

You write with humour, Isabel, but the last laugh may not be yours, or feminism’s m’dear. I shall be interested to see if you have the confidence to pass this comment for public viewing.

(Oh, and just a note for you too: ‘Women have been voting for nearly a hundred years’, which is about the same time as the overwhelming majority of men have been too. Do some research and work it out.)”

Predictable. Could Harman and GDP possibly have thought of a stunt more patronising towards women? Only a fool could now fail to see the Labour party is now driven by feminist thinking – Ed Miliband’s first job in politics was as Harriet Harman’s PPS or ‘bag carrier’ – and is institutionally anti-male?

We did, however, enjoy this:

After arriving in the pink bus with fellow Labour MP Gloria De Piero, Ms Harman was also harangued by a man wearing a t-shirt which read:

This Is What A Victim Of Feminism Looks Like.

An Independent piece on the matter includes a photograph of the estimable man who – from the banner he’s carrying – would appear to be a father denied reasonable access (or possibly ANY access) to his daughter. We wish him well.

We’ll look out for the pink van while we’re campaigning on the streets of GDP’s constituency, Ashfield. With a majority of just 192 votes in 2010 – the runner-up was a Lib Dem candidate, who’ll be standing again in May – GDP may one day look on this as a stunt which contributed to her losing her seat after only one term in office, in a historically safe Labour seat. You can but hope.

Seven months ago, before we decided to contest GDP’s seat, we presented her with one of our ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards, for comments she made about the gender pay gap. The award certificate, and the background to her winning it, are here.

Some excellent mansplaining.

Our thanks to Claire for pointing us to this. As we’ve come to expect of critiques of our manifesto, it contains numerous misinterpretations of the document, but on the plus side:

– she’s spotted a couple of typos missed by others; and
– occasionally she’s amusing.

Enjoy.

We’ve been exceptionally busy, and we’re running a little behind with presenting awards. The January 2015 ‘Gormless Feminist of the Month’ award goes to Stephanie Laughlin, a Public Relations student at McGill University, Montreal, for her recent article. A link to the article, and a blog piece comparing feminists to dogs, are on her award certificate:

Perhaps uniquely for an important men’s rights advocate, William Collins is a physicist. It puts him in an authoritative position to write this remarkable piece.

Sargon of Akkad is one of a very small number of British vloggers recommended in our election manifesto. Others included ManWomanMyth (now ‘Humanity Bites’) and 6oodefella. This may explain why SoA was one of them. Enjoy.