Feminists want men who’ve had sex with women to be assumed guilty of rape, unless they can prove the woman gave consent. Men are guilty until proven innocent, an affront on due process. Men are open to charges of rape from women who later regret the encounter, despite having consented at the time.

There are many reasons why women lie about having been raped, and the first three pieces in our list of ‘key posts’ – here – cover the issue. Two were written by women, Hannah Wallen (‘6 dangerous rape myths’) and Janet Bloomfield (’13 reasons women lie about being raped’). The third is by Jonathan Taylor (’10 reasons false rape allegations are common’).

Feminists have failed to explain how men can prove consent, so someone’s come up with the good idea of an application (‘app’) which will make a 20-second video recording of a woman giving consent before sex. It’s an unfortunately necessary and practical response to the problem men face in proving consent, so predictably feminists are up in arms. This won’t help their mythical ‘rape culture’ narrative at all. An interesting piece from Community of the Wrongly Accused.

Yet another outrageously lenient sentence for a female sex offender in a position of trust.

She’ll be out of prison in three months, on licence. How many YEARS would a 48-year-old male teacher who’d sexually abused a ‘vulnerable’ girl of 17 have served? And in far worse prison conditions, in all likelihood.

There’s always a ‘mitigating circumstance’ for women. Here it is, in this case:

Kama Melly, defending, said the most serious offence took place just two weeks before the boy’s 18th birthday. She described her client as ‘a woman who is isolated and alone’, who was ‘frankly amazed’ when the teenager mentioned his desires to her.

Let’s do a gender switch, and see how it reads:

Kama Melly, defending, said the most serious offence took place just two weeks before the girl’s 18th birthday. She described her client as ‘a man who is isolated and alone’, who was ‘frankly amazed’ when the teenager mentioned her desires to him.

Would any defence counsel for a male sex offender ever say something along those lines? Surely not. This is simply the latest illustration of a female sex offender not being held properly accountable for her crimes, not being treated as having the moral agency we should expect of an adult woman in a position of trust over vulnerable young people.

In our general election manifesto we included a lengthy section on sexual offenders (pp 31-37). It starts with the following:

It will come as a surprise to many, but women are responsible for a substantial proportion of sexual offences, including sexual abuses of children. A website(1) concerned with female sex offenders has a bibliography(2) of over 900 academic studies, articles, and books on the subject, dating back to 1857.

People struggle to recognize women as perpetrators of sexual and non-sexual violence, in spite of the weight of evidence showing them to be frequent perpetrators of both. This is because we live in a culture which regards men as ‘actors’ and women as ‘acted upon’. The public has become conditioned to viewing men as perpetrators, and women as victims. Alison Tieman, a Canadian men’s human rights advocate, produced an insightful short video on this matter.(3)

This culture leads to inequalities. Few women are held accountable for sex offences, including those women who sexually abuse children. It’s known from a major American survey (details below) that slightly over 25% of sex offences are committed by women against men (with no male accomplices).

We would therefore expect the male/female ratio of people charged with sex offences to be a little under 3:1. In the UK, in 2013, the ratio was 146:1.

Women as well as men suffer from this failure to hold female sex offenders to account. Michele Elliott is the founder and director of Kidscape, a British charity. Her book Female Sexual Abuse of Children – The Ultimate Taboo was published in 1993.

In 1984 two American researchers, Petrovich & Templer, reported that of a sample of 89 incarcerated (male) rapists, 49 (59%) had been sexually abused as children by one or more women.(4) There is, therefore, a de facto correlation between female sex offences and male sex offending.

A moving tribute to a fine man, denied access to his young daughter, by Archi Ssan for New Fathers 4 Justice. He writes:

Sadly it looks like another superhero father has taken his own life… leaving a little girl without her daddy! Since when was in the best interest of the child not to have her daddy?

Earlier today we posted a link to an outstanding piece on ‘The Conservative Woman’ by Kathy Gyngell, about the increasing feminisation of the army. It contained a link to another piece published on the site today, by Belinda Brown, a social anthropologist. In case you missed it, it’s well worth catching too – here.

My thanks to a number of supporters for pointing me to an excellent new piece (29:28) published today by TL;DR. As we’d reliably expect from him, it’s been meticulously researched.

Some background is in order. The blog piece which is the subject of TL;DR’s attention was written by a 16-year-old New Statesman blogger, June Eric-Udorie, and published about a month ago. It was an idiotic piece even by New Statesman standards, and that’s saying something. It concerned the purported lack of outrage among MRAs to the news that Survivors UK, a London-based charity supporting male victims of sexual abuse, was to lose its government grant. We linked to the story before Ms E-U wrote her piece, as TL;DR points out at about 2:10.

Our own blog piece on the matter (15 June) is here, the following are extracts:

Her Cosmopolitan profile consists of:

I’m June, 16 year old teenage feminist blogger and obsessed with smashing patriarchy. Often found with my nose in a book, talking about vaginas or dancing to Beyonce. Oh, and I’m addicted to Coca-Cola.

She also writes blogs for the Guardian and Huffington Post. Her mistresspieces for the Huffington Post include ‘Feminism: Believing in the Power of Vaginas Is Not Something to be Ashamed Of’. An extract from that piece, displaying her genius in full flow:

I’m a feminist. I’m a very, very proud feminist (this is when you can start judging me). And why shouldn’t I be? Fannies are WAY better. I mean, come on?! We can bring new life into the world and still bounce back into shape. The fact that even men came out of a vagina is saying something about how powerful vaginas actually are. The power of the vagina is why we continue to be oppressed and dominated every day.

Peter Lloyd is a Daily Mail and Mail Online journalist, and author of the bestseller Stand By Your Manhood. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist. Next Sunday, 19 July, at the Lewes Speakers Festival, 18:45 – 20:00, they’ll be debating the question:

Do men need their equivalent of feminism?

More details here, and you can book tickets for the event through the link.

An outstanding piece.

[Note added 18.7.15: A transfer of data to a new server by ‘The Conservative Woman’ following initial publication on 15.7.15 unfortunately resulted in the piece not being accessible, and the lengthy comments stream being lost. The piece was published on the site for a second time 18.7.15.]

Followers of this website will know we’re big fans of The Conservative Woman. The website isn’t aligned with the Conservative party, so it’s free to point out that the Conservatives have been woeful when it comes to policy related to families – and other gender-related matters – and only gets worse over time.

The general quality of the website’s output is excellent, so we were pleased when they asked to republish our recent piece on David Cameron’s bid to end the ‘gender pay gap’, after Dave and his colleagues seemingly swallowed the often-discredited feminist narrative on the subject hook, line, and sinker.

The piece is here, and we invite you to both vote for it and leave a comment. Thank you.

I’m about to take a break until Monday 27 July, but I’ve just been through the J4MB bank accounts with the party treasurer for the first time in a while. I was delighted to see some generous donations in the past two months, as well as a number of new standing orders for £8.33 pcm, the sum required for Bronze membership, to fund an individual candidate’s deposit in 2020. Details of party membership options can be accessed here, these donations are being ring-fenced for the candidate’s deposits.

Single donations to support the party’s campaign work (as well as recurring monthly donations) can be made here, by PayPal, credit or debit cards.

The party treasurer informs me that in some cases there is no way to identify the donors, and no contact details. So if you’ve made a donation and not received an acknowledgement, that will be why, and I’d ask you to contact me mike@j4mb.org.uk. Thank you for your generous support of our work.

About three weeks ago we sent a FoI request to the Cabinet Office in relation to honours presented in the Queen’s birthday honours list to two lying feminists, Laura Bates and Caroline Criado-Perez. They were awarded the BEM and OBE respectively.

The Cabinet Office’s response was predictably disappointing, so we’re about to email a request for an internal review of the decision not to provide us with the information we’d originally requested – here. We expect in due course to have to take the matter to the Information Commissioner.

Presenting awards to unrepentant liars brings the honours system into disrepute.