68 of the current 331 Conservative MPs (20.5%) are women. Dave has just given a third of cabinet positions to women, thereby meeting his longstanding target – which only begs the obvious question:

If these women have been appointed on merit, why was there a need for a target?

Where next? A gender-balanced cabinet, as introduced by President Francois Hollande in France? That’s been a roaring success…

All else being equal, a female Conservative MP is 62% more likely than her male colleagues to be given a cabinet position. There must be numerous male Conservative MPs denied a cabinet position solely on the grounds of their gender. Not one has publicly said a word about the matter.

AVfM have just released a video of Canadian MRA Dan Perrins being interviewed by Steve Brule and Paul Elam.

A little background. After a 75-mile walk from his home town to Toronto, Dan settled down within 30 yards of the main entrance to the Ontario Legislative Building in Queen’s Park, Toronto. The building is the administrative heart of the province of Ontario. The Premier of the province is Kathleen Wynne, the first openly gay head of government in Canada, and the English-speaking world. She became Premier last year as the head of a Liberal majority government.

So far the politicians have refused to meet with Dan to discuss his demands concerning the high male suicide rate, driven in part by the absence of refuge shelter places for male victims of domestic violence. Dan’s brother committed suicide in 1982, as did a friend, Earl Silverman, who ran Canada’s only refuge for battered men before the project ran out of funds.

Will Ontario politicians in general – and Premier Kathleen Wynne, in particular – permit a man to slowly commit suicide in front of their eyes, rather than speak to him?

So far the answer seems to be, ‘Yes’.

We wish Dan well, and hope that the politicians finally start to demonstrate some long-overdue compassion towards men at times of crisis.

Our thanks to M for an interesting article from the United States.

Of the 251 male soldiers participating in the first co-ed class of U.S. Army Ranger School, 115 passed the first phase of the gruelling infantry course. Of the 136 who failed, 101 (74.2%) will repeat the phase.

Of the 8 female soldiers participating, none passed the first phase. All 8 will repeat the phase.

What a waste of taxpayers’ money. Chinese and Russian generals must be laughing their socks off.

Our thanks to William for this. The overwhelming majority of the audience members were women.

Sadly, the last piece from William Collins for a while. We look forward to more when he has more time available.

A Voice for Men is the most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website in the world, and our piece on The Whine Club was published there. We’ve been delighted by the number and quality of comments the piece has attracted.

We invited nominations for our ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ awards, and were inundated with suggestions, as you’d expect. More than a few people have suggested we have a ‘Whiny Feminist of the Week’ award, but we’re too busy to add that to our list of things to do. Maybe one day.

The inaugural winner of the Whiny Feminist of the Month award, which leads to automatic membership of The Whine Club, was – quelle surprise – Laura Bates, the ‘brains’ behind The Everyday Sexism Project. We generally refer to it as The Everyday Whining Project. Her certificate is here.

Subsequent winners of the award are below, the list will be updated each month:

November 2013: Contributors to Mumsnet, here’s why. The award certificate.

December 2013: Julie Bentley Chief executive of Girlguiding UK

January 2014: Ellie Slee Blogger at the Huffington Post

February 2014: Hannah Betts Journalist

March 2014: Sally Morgan Baroness Morgan of Huyton

April 2014: Caroline Criado-Perez Whine merchant

May 2014: Professor Jennifer Coates University of Roehampton

June 2014: Dina Rickman London-based ‘journalist’

July 2014: Harriet Harman Labour MP

August 2014: Jo Swinson Liberal Democrat MP

September 2014: Meg Hillier Labour MP

October 2014: Laura Bates (the second time Special Snowflake has won this award)

November 2014: Dr Heather Savigny Politics lecturer, Bournemouth University

December 2014: ‘womaninthewoods’ A woman suffering from Feminist Personality Disorder

Please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk with details of any feminist you’d like to nominate for an award. I know it’s difficult to choose just one out of so many obvious contenders, but do your best. Thank you.

A guide to awards presented by ourselves and other organisations is here.

On the fourth line of the ‘masthead’ is a tab, ‘Key posts’. We’ve put a selection of blog pieces there, from the launch of the party (February 2013) to more recent times, and will keep it updated as we go forward. As of today’s date, it consists of the following pieces, in alphabetical order:

6 dangerous rape myths (Hannah Wallen).

10 reasons false rape allegations are common (Jonathan Taylor).

13 reasons women lie about being raped (Janet Bloomfield).

27 pence per day – the cost of enabling J4MB to make a breakthrough at the 2020 general election.

A call to academics and students.

‘A Voice for Men’ – our articles.

Alternative Sexism Project.

Angry Harry interviews Janet Bloomfield. You have to catch this. Seriously, you do.

Angry Harry interviews Mike Buchanan.

Awards.

BBC anti-male ‘debate’ on sexism… Laura Bates lies AGAIN!!!.

BBC anti-male Newsnight piece on domestic violence breached 50+ editorial guidelines.

BBC anti-male manipulation of pre-election broadcasts – Mike Buchanan and other Ashfield candidates are asked questions about women’s issues by an all-women audience.

‘Big Red’ makes a compelling case for feminism.

Bill Burr: ‘There is NO reason to hit a woman!’.

Caroline Criado-Perez wins her third ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award, for her lie during a discussion with Mike Buchanan on ITV ‘This Morning’.

David Cameron – sexist, racist, ageist.

David Cameron wins his fourth successive ‘Toady of the Year’ award.

Domestic violence – 1 in 4 women admit to violence in relationships.

Domestic violence – double standards.

Domestic violence – more men than women die as a result of it.

Domestic violence – Refuge: our challenge of Sandra Horley, Chief Executive. No response.

Domestic violence – the anti-male bias of politicians and public bodies which lead to a lack of support for male victims of domestic violence.

Domestic violence – women are as physically aggressive towards opposite-sex intimate partners as men, or more physically aggressive.

Domestic violence – Women’s Aid: our public challenge of Polly Neate, CEO, to retract seven lies and misleading statements. She refused to do so.

Domestic violence – worldwide.

Don’t be that lying feminist (Karen Straughan, GirlWritesWhat).

Female postgraduate engineering students entitled to taxpayer-funded sponsorships worth £22,750 on the basis of gender alone.

Female sex offenders.

Feminist – ‘Abolish the white race. Abolish men.’.

Feminist make-up tutorial.

Feminists – sometimes, for the sake of your sanity, you have to laugh at them.

Feminists – this is what they look like.

FTSE350 shares – do you own any? If so, you should sell them NOW..

Gynocentrism.

Honey Badgers – the video.

Increasing female representation on boards leads to corporate financial decline – the evidence.

‘International Business Times’ – our articles.

Jim Jefferies talks about relationships.

Julia Hartley-Brewer interviews Mike Buchanan.

Julie Bindel apologises to Mike Buchanan.

Laura Bates (‘Special Snowflake’) – Lying Feminist of the Month (twice), Whiny Feminist of the Month (twice).

Lying Feminists of the Month – Gloria De Piero MP (twice), Laura Bates (twice), Caroline Criado-Perez (thrice), Kat Banyard, a Women’s Aid spokeswoman….

Mallory Millett: ‘Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives’

Men’s Rights versus Feminism explained using magnets (Alison Tieman).

Our public challenges of feminists and their male collaborators.

Paul Elam interviews Janet Bloomfield.

Paul Elam interviews Mike Buchanan.

Recommended blogs and other websites.

Recommended books.

‘The Fraud of Feminism’ (book, 1913).

Were women historically oppressed? Are they now, in developing countries? (Karen Straughan, GirlWritesWhat).

Why are women above the law?

Why most people at the top of major companies are men – Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000).

William Collins – a ‘must read’ blogger.

Women Against Feminism: ‘I don’t need feminism because…’.

I recently met with an eminent Business Studies professor who agreed with my general analysis about ‘women in the boardroom’, but believed that because of demographic changes in recent years – namely the flood of women into business-related courses, such as accounting – the ‘problem’ of board gender ‘imbalance’ would disappear within 10-20 years. I disagreed, citing Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory, which shows that while four in seven British men are ‘work-centred’, only one in seven British women is.

Dr Hakim first published her theory in an Oxford University Press book in 2000 when she was a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. The professor was intrigued by the theory, but suggested the proportion of work-centred women would have risen dramatically since 2000. I doubted this was true, but said I’d contact Dr Hakim on the matter. She kindly sent the PDF at the end of this piece, and commented as follows:

Regarding your anonymous professor, you can give him the attached three-page synopsis of preference theory. The ‘trends’ and ‘critical mass’ arguments do not apply in medicine, where women are already over half of all entrants to medical schools. The BMA recently expressed concern about this, saying that because women choose part-time work etc., and do not put in the same time and effort into bargaining and trade union activities, so the relative pay and standing of doctors would decline slowly but surely. In Russia, where the majority of physicians are female, the pay and status of doctors is far lower than in the west. So I do not see these female accountants breaking the ‘glass ceiling’ to push their way into the boardroom. Even in Sweden, where ‘gender equality’ has ruled for decades, only one-third of women work full-time continuously in the same way as men – see Table 3 in the attached file summarising preference theory. Most men assume that once women start professional and managerial careers, they will behave exactly like men. In reality, research shows that even the most highly educated and qualified women divide into three groups, with careerist women a minority in all countries, even in Sweden.

Dr Hakim’s synopsis of Preference Theory is here.

[Note added 31.10.14: The reasons Laura Bates has won the ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award for a second time are outlined on her award certificate.]

[Note added 27.9.14: The proof that Laura Bates’s repeated claims about the number of British women being killed by partners and ex-partners are lies is here.]

[Note added 30.12.14: Laura Bates has won a second ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ award – here.]

A Voice for Men is the most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website in the world, and our piece on The Whine Club was published by them. We’ve been delighted by the number and quality of comments the piece has attracted.

We invited nominations for our coveted ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ awards and we’ve been inundated with suggestions, as you’d expect. More than a few people have suggested we present ‘Whiny Feminist of the Week’ awards instead.

The inaugural winner of the Whiny Feminist of the Month award, which leads to automatic membership of The Whine Club, was – quelle surprise – Laura Bates of the ‘Everyday Sexism Project’. We refer to it as The Everyday Whining Project. Her award certificate is here. Subsequent winners of the award are here.

In a TEDx presentation in December 2013 Laura Bates lied about the number of women being killed by partners or ex-partners. We publicly challenged her to retract the lie, and she declined to do so. We presented her with our Lying Feminist of the Month award.

In the course of a BBC TV debate broadcast live in September 2014, on the topic ‘Is Britain a sexist country?’, in which Bates was a panel member, a member of the audience raised the question of our public challenge concerning her lie in her TEDx presentation. Far from retracting her lie, she brazenly repeated it.

Laura Bates, in common with all high-profile feminists, is utterly shameless.

Some of Laura Bates’s supporters have defended her decision not to retract the lie, even after they’ve been made aware of the government reports which prove her to be a liar – we even went to the trouble of emailing Laura Bates with links to those reports. We’ve presented those supporters with a ‘Gormless Feminists of the Month’ award – here.

Other ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award winners include Caroline Criado-Perez (twice), Kat Banyard, Gloria De Piero MP, and Franki Hackett, a Women’s Aid spokeswoman. Polly Neate, CEO of Women’s Aid, declined to retract seven lies and/or misleading statements made by Ms Hackett.

We’ve publicly challenged many feminists (and their male collaborators) to retract their lies. Not one has ever done so. Details of those challenges are here.

Why are the mainstream media failing to hold lying feminists (and their male collaborators) to account?

[Note added 12.5.15: This blog piece was originally published in 2014.]

About three weeks ago we posted on our YouTube channel recent video footage of feminists assaulting commendably peaceful Roman Catholic men seeking to prevent their cathedral in San Juan, Argentina, from being vandalised by the women.

The police did nothing to stop the women’s assaults – needless to say, had the genders been reversed, many men would have been arrested and charged with assaulting the women. It was ironically an illuminating display of female supremacy, whereby women aren’t held accountable for behaviour that men would never get away with. Behaviour that men wouldn’t let other men get away with.

There were 32 ‘upvotes’ and only one ‘downvote’ for the video, but one or more of the whiny brigade evidently contacted YouTube, because the video’s been flagged as ‘inappropriate’. YouTube have determined it contains content in violation of Community Guidelines, and have removed it from our channel. I’ve just checked the YouTube guidelines and the only guideline the video violated was the following:

Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked or humiliated, don’t post it.

This is priceless. Feminists have reported the video because it shows people (men) ‘getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated’ – BY FEMINISTS!!! You couldn’t make it up. So be it. You can still catch the video through many links including this one, which has a good deal more background information than our original YouTube link.

It’s worth watching the more graphic extended edition of the video (about five minutes long) which you can access by clicking on the link in this piece of text following the video link:

(Note: Some of the most graphic content has been removed from the video. Uncensored footage is available here. Viewer discretion strongly advised.)

The bottom line? It’s taken me 10 minutes to expose feminists’ attempts to stop the people visiting this blog from seeing how disgusting they really are, and the result will be more viewings of the video, and people reading more background information. I’ve said it before, and I’ll surely say it again:

Feminists – they’re not the sharpest knives in the block, are they?