A number of people have commented that they struggle with the J4MB website due to the large number of links to blog pieces at the top, which requires people to scroll down to find new blog pieces. We’ve temporarily taken down the vast majority of the links, in a bid to make the site more user-friendly, but we’re conscious this isn’t the ideal solution to the problem. While we seek a better solution, please bear with us.

After the election we’ll be devoting time to improving the J4MB website, and related sites.

The latest gem from Terrence Popp, a former marine who was awarded two Purple Hearts. We recommend you subscribe to his channel.

Two weeks ago we were campaigning outside the University Park campus of Nottingham University, being filmed over four hours by a crew working on a BBC documentary, when some aggressive young men turned up. One hurled a quantity of very soiled cat litter over one of our vehicles – a short video of the culprit skulking off is here. In response, we announced we’d return to the same spot at 11:30 – 14:00 today, and duly did so. There were two things we hadn’t announce in advance:

– two female supporters would be joining us. You’ll be seeing more of them shortly;
– a highly respected (female) documentary maker would be joining us, with a substantial crew – two video cameras, a sound lady etc. A prominent feminist – not Special Snowflake or CCP – interviewed the two ladies, Ray Barry (leader of Real Fathers for Justice, our candidate in Broxtowe), a male supporter, myself, and a young feminist who turned up.

We parked the J4MB battle van in the middle of the almost deserted Main Visitor’s Car Park for over three hours, and it wasn’t vandalised. No hostile people turned up, and there was no demonstration. We’d like to think that at last – at last! –

Feminists are getting the message. When they’re hostile towards J4MB and/or our supporters, when they try to deny us freedom of speech, they drive more people in our direction.

So, what will feminists do now, given they’ve seemingly realised intimidation won’t stop their critics, only strengthen them? Only time will tell. Given that all feminist narratives have long since been forensically exposed as conspiracy theories, fantasies, lies, delusions or myths, and parts of the mainstream media are starting to tell the truth about men’s issues and presumably making money in the process – International Business Times comes inevitably to mind – feminists must surely know the tide is turning against them.

About damned time.

There are fewer than 60 days left before the general election, and we have 30,000+ A3 leaflets still to distribute, on one side of which is our A3 ‘father and son’ poster. We’re pleased at the number of people posting them in their windows.

We’d like to distribute the majority of these leaflets door-to-door in the next two weeks, for maximum impact, and for this we need your help. If you can spare some time, day or night, weekday or weekend, it will really help. Please email me (mike@j4mb.org.uk). Thank you.

Another well-researched gem from William Collins.

I’m shooting off for another day’s door-to-door leafleting in Sutton in Ashfield, in Gloria De Piero’s constituency – on a good day, two of us can put up to 1,500 leaflets through letter boxes – but I’d just like to take a moment to invite you again to meet with us tomorrow, between 11:30 – 14:00. Details here. A PDF of the University campus is here. We’ll be outside the West Entrance, and we look forward to meeting you.

My thanks to Tony for this:

If a man in a forest speaks, and there’s no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

A short but excellent video by an Australian lady.

Last night Peter Lloyd commented on BBC Radio 5 Live about an outrageous claim – go to 2:39:08 on this link. The other commenter is the awful divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd-Platt. The piece will be available on iPlayer for 29 days.

I’ve long been a comedy fan, and groaned when a BBC senior executive publicly announced last year that all-male panels on comedy panel shows would no longer be permitted. Why? Because the number of comedians who excel (and therefore entertain) on such shows vastly outnumber the number of comediennes who do. It’s just a FACT. Very few comediennes have the ‘wiring’ for competitive humour at the top level. As always, there is no problem here requiring a ‘solution’.

Sure enough, the consequence of this positive discrimination – for that’s what it patently is – has been a marked decline in the quality of BBC comedy panel shows. While a few performances by comediennes have been strong, the vast majority have been little short of embarrassing. And you often sense the comediennes know it. More than a few times I’ve switched over to another channel rather than watch the poor women put themselves (and myself) through the wringer.

My thanks to L for pointing me to me this. It’s a piece on the BBC website about the views of Jason Manford and Dara O’Briain on panels, and in particular their regret about the fact that the BBC made the decision public. As if the public is too stupid to realise what’s going on. You would as usefully introduce a number of female players into the English men’s soccer team, and claim they won their places on merit.

But it’s the reason Manford and O’Briain both cite for their regret which should make them utterly ashamed of themselves. Essentially they’re saying that it’s good to preference a comedienne over a comedian, but she shouldn’t be made to feel she’s a token woman – even though she obviously is (generally, at least). We mustn’t hurt these women’s fragile egos…

If they’re that fragile, what the hell are they doing on comedy panel shows?

So, who gains from the BBC decision? Comediennes who wouldn’t have a hope of being on these shows if the producers still had a free hand.

Who loses? Comedians who are more talented than the comediennes who’ve replaced them, and thereby lose exposure and income. And long-suffering licence fee payers, who are financing a social engineering exercise which has inevitably led to less funny programmes.

Ironically, of course, all this is being driven by feminists at the BBC who (by definition) have no sense of humour anyway. They give Kate Smurthwaite work, for heaven’s sake. When the licence fee is abolished and people have to pay to watch BBC content – or be exposed to adverts – these initiatives will hopefully be swept away.

This is only one part of a much bigger picture. Exactly a year ago, to the day – now, that’s spooky – AVfM published my piece on the BBC being a job creation scheme run by women for women.