Martin Fiebert is a psychologist, since 1978 a psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach. His CV is here. Our thanks to J for sending us this link to an important report from Professor Fiebert, References examining assaults by women on their spouses or male partners: an updated annotated bibliography. It was published in June 2013, and updates his initial report, published in 2012. The full Abstract:

This annotated bibliography describes 343 scholarly investigations (270 empirical studies and 73 reviews) demonstrating that women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships with their spouses or opposite-sex partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 440,850 people.

Given the weight of evidence about intimate partner violence (IPV), the lack of support for male victims of IPV is a scandal across the developed world, as is the seizure of virtually all public funding to support IPV victims by radical feminist organisations including some well-known charities in the UK, for the past 30+ years. There are 4,000+ places for abused women in shelters in the UK, and just 11 for heterosexual men (Source: Mankind Initiative).

We’ll have a good deal to say about IPV in our forthcoming election manifesto.

[Note added 20.10.15: The world’s most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website has just published our piece on this – here.]

We recently sent a letter to Theresa May, Home Secretary, in connection with the Home Office’s highly flawed and ideologically-driven proposals to strengthen the law on domestic abuse. We publicly challenged her to hold a public inquiry into the proposals, and we await her response.

The letter was one of two documents we submitted to the Home Office last night in connection with the associated equally flawed public consultation exercise – here. The other document was our 154-page report – here. The document outlines in detail the anti-male bias of politicians and institutions including Theresa May, Yvette Cooper, Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Equality & Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Justice, the police, the judiciary…

The report was primarily the work of one of our supporters, and a second supporter contributed substantially to the final version. We thank them both warmly for their efforts, and we look forward to the Home Office response.

On 19.1.14 we made our first official complaint to the BBC, concerning a piece on Newsnight which breached 50+ BBC Editorial Guidelines.

The BBC’s response was nothing short of insulting, so we appealed.

The BBC’s response to our appeal was again insulting, so we took it to the next stage in the complaints process and that, too, was rejected. We’ve reluctantly joined the army of people who’ve concluded that the BBC complaints process is utterly unfit for purpose, and designed primarily to protect the organisation from those who fund it, license payers.

AVfM has just published a video of the first day’s presentations. Mike Buchanan’s presentation (and the associated transcript) is here. He’s introduced by Paul Elam, the founder and publisher of the conference organisers, A Voice for Men, the world’s most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website.

Here’s the sequence of the day’s presentations, with their durations:

1. Attila Vinczer and Paul Elam
2. Senator Anne Cools (48:32)
3. Erin Pizzey (19:11)
4. Dr Tara Palmatier (27:30)
5. Mike Buchanan (21:13)
6. Fred Jones (16:00)
7. Barbara Kay (44:50)
8. Tom Golden (25:12)
9. Paul Elam (26:38)
10. Bob O’Hara just before dinner (00:00 – 4:25), Paul Elam thanking the Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post (4:26 – 5:55), presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award to Erin Pizzey (5:56 – 14:31)

About four weeks ago I was commissioned by International Business Times, a leading international online news service, to provide some balance in their output of pieces about gender-related matters. I would be free to write on any matters I wished, in a fortnightly column. The website already had two feminist commentators on gender-related matters, including Laura Bates of The Everyday Sexism Project, twice a winner of our ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time that a men’s rights advocate anywhere in the world had been given a regular platform by the mainstream media.

I was commissioned to write pieces on men’s issues, with an open-ended contract, and I was looking forward to providing pieces for years to come. I started off with surely uncontroversial pieces. The first was on gender balance in corporate boardrooms. Nobody in the world is challenging the evidence presented by Campaign for Merit in Business, demonstrating a causal link between artificially driving up female representation on boards, and corporate financial decline. I presented the evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, yet the government continues to bully major companies into taking on more female directors, with the threat of legislated gender quotas.

The second piece was on suicide, the leading cause of death of men under 50 in the UK. The male:female suicide differential rose from 1.7:1 in 1983 to 3.5:1 in 2013, and the government is not only doing nothing about the matter, it is actively driving the high male suicide rate, as the article explains.

A day or two after the second article was published, I received the following email from my Commissioning Editor, and it’s reproduced here with his kind permission:

Hi Mike, I hope all’s good with you.

We’ve had a chat as a senior editorial group and unfortunately we think it’s best to terminate the relationship we have with you.

Your articles for us have been balanced and backed by evidence, which is fine. But we realise you have courted controversy for other articles you have written, and we feel this isn’t the best image for the IBT brand going forward.

Please understand that we will continue to seek balance in our coverage of gender issues, and we will keep a close eye on the progress of J4MB. We may well be interested in doing an interview with you in the lead-up to May’s election.

You will, of course, be paid in full for what you have written for us.

I hope you understand our position on this, and, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to raise them with me. Good luck for the election.

A Voice for Men is an American website, and it’s the most-visited and influential men’s rights advocacy website in the world. In February 2013 AVfM exclusively revealed the name of our new political party when they published an article – Let’s get political – in which we revealed some of our thinking behind launching a political party.

AVfM has published over 60 of Mike Buchanan’s articles, and they’re accessible here.

AVfM relentlessly and fearlessly exposes the lies and damaging narratives related by feminists. We strongly recommend that you subscribe to the site (no charge).

If you read every article published by AVfM in the course of just one month, along with the associated comments streams, you’ll then understand better than 99% of people exactly how the human rights of men and boys are assaulted in many areas, usually at the behest of feminists. 20 such areas are detailed in our election manifesto.

With polling day a week away, an ever-increasing proportion of visitors to this website are new to the site, and a few have struggled with the key blog pieces under the ‘masthead’. Over the course of this evening we’ll be sending out these pieces again, and removing them from the ‘masthead’, one at a time.

We’ve long been fans of Sargon of Akkad. His latest piece should explain why.

Since we launched J4MB, daveyone1 has been a tireless re-blogger of many of our pieces. He’s just put up a post with a chilling photograph of Harridan Harman, the most prominent destroyer of the nuclear family in Britain. Expect things to get even worse for men and boys (and families, and in turn women and girls) if Labour wins the election in 8 days’ time, regardless of whether they need support from the SNP, one of three parties led by odious radical feminists. The others are Plaid Cymru and the Greens.

Another interesting piece from Kathy Gyngell, co-founder of the excellent ‘Conservative Woman’ website. She recently wrote a piece about how men should do more to stand up to feminists, and was somewhat taken aback from the record 255 comments it received. The new piece is a response to those comments, and we thank her for her mention of, and support for,  J4MB.

The comments stream on this new article is well worth reading, as always with TCW pieces.