Our thanks to a supporter for pointing us to this.

My thanks to William Gruff for pointing out the irony that the Women’s Equality party will talk about ‘Equality in the Media’ in Nottingham, the city where the local BBC radio station failed to invite Ray Barry, our other candidate, to the hustings in Broxtowe, and invited an all-female audience to my hustings in Ashfield, where I was challenging Gloria de Piero, shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

All five candidates were at the Ashfield hustings, and the audience mainly asked questions about women’s issues – not one question was asked about men’s issues. Whenever I mentioned a men’s issue, the feminist presenter pulled the microphone away. However, I used the opportunity of my minute-long uninterrupted slot at the beginning of the programme to criticise the BBC’s blatant anti-male bias, with respect to both this occasion, and in general. The full programme is here.

Sophie Walker is the leader of the Women’s Equality party. A few weeks ago we published a piece with details of her party’s ridiculous goals.

Ms Walker is inviting people to nine ‘fun-packed events’ (her words, not mine) across England, Scotland, and Wales, over the coming six days. Quite what will make the events ‘fun-packed’ isn’t revealed, and what does it say about the women who might attend, that they have to be promised the prospect of ‘fun’ to encourage them to attend? What are they, children? In a sense, of course, they are – the sense that, in common with the women running the party, they’re Entitlement Princesses who cannot see that women and girls in the United Kingdom today are members of a deeply privileged class, on many counts.

Where tickets are available online, they’re free. Each fun-packed event (well, nearly every one) has a different theme:

BATH – Equal Education
BIRMINGHAM – Equal Parenting and Caregiving
BRIGHTON – Equal Pay
CARDIFF – Ending Violence Against Women & Girls
EDINBURGH – Equal Representation in Politics
GLASGOW – Equal Pay
LONDON / HACKNEY & ISLINGTON – Equal Representation in Politics
NEWCASTLE – Equal Representation in Business
NOTTINGHAM – Equality in the Media

How have these fun-packed events come to my attention? A lady who’s on the party’s circulation list has just forwarded me an email she received from Ms Walker earlier today. The key content of Ms Walker’s email is here. If you have an interest in going along to any of the events, perhaps with a view to meeting the ladies and presenting them literature containing something they may be unfamiliar with – facts, that kind of thing – please let me know.

Kathy Gyngell nails it.

At the recent general election we attracted fewer votes than UKIP – a party which has been around for over 20 years, compared with our two years – but we ended up sending only one fewer MP to the House of Commons. We’re proud of that landmark achievement, at our very first general election.

I contested the Ashfield seat held by Gloria De Piero, Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities. In July 2014, before we’d even settled on the seats we were going to contest, Gloria De Piero won the first of her two Lying Feminist of the Month awards, for comments about the gender pay gap – here.

My thanks to Jeff for pointing me to an Independent piece showing the odious woman continues to lie shamelessly about the issue. An extract:

Ms De Piero said: “The Labour Party is urging as many people as possible to respond and call for an independent gender pay gap watchdog to monitor progress each year. If the Government is truly committed to making progress to eliminate the gender pay gap, they have no reason to oppose an annual ‘Equal Pay Check’ on their progress. Women have waited long enough.”

She’s joined by Chuka Umunna, shadow Business Secretary:

Mr Umunna added: “We cannot tolerate inequality in men and women’s pay, which has persisted for far too long. Still today, too few women are progressing to the top roles within companies and women can still expect to earn less throughout their professional careers than men.”

Not to be outdone, and true to form, Nicky Morgan chips in with some equally idiotic comments:

Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary and minister for women and equalities, believes that equalising women’s productivity and employment to the same level as men’s could add nearly £600bn to the economy, which would eradicate more than one-third of the national debt.

In the consultation, Ms Morgan says: “We believe that greater transparency will encourage employers and employees to consider what more can be done to close any pay gaps. Doing this will take us a step further on the path to closing the gender pay gap in a generation. Employers with a positive story to tell will attract the best talent.”

The blog piece we cite most in relation to MGM is one by William Collins – here. We’re pleased to report he’s updated it with links to a number of materials including:

– the 5hadowfax video on the WHO/UNAIDS programme to circumcise 20 million Sub-Saharan males, purportedly to slow the spread of HIV, with close to zero scientific justification
– a video from a conference in Frankfurt in May 2015, relating some key findings of the first Global Survey of Circumcision Harm. It’s available on our YouTube channel and the website of Men Do Complain.

An insightful new video (10:33) from Lucian Valsan, the Romanian host of the AVfM radio show, ‘Voice of Europe’. He covers a good deal of ground including Comrades Corbyn and Cooper, Claire Perry (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport), women-only carriages (some startling statistics), internet firewalls, feminist indoctrination of schoolboys, and air conditioning.

The piece we link to most in relation to the gender pay gap is one by William Collins – here – which showed that there is no gender pay gap between the ages of 18 and 40, despite two-thirds of public sector employees being women (72% funded by male income tax payers), and two-thirds of private sector employees being men (not reliant on a penny of income tax paid by women, nor men, for that matter).

Our thanks to Mike for this. For some reason known only to itself, the Daily Mail printed a comment from Sam Smethers, the Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society for the past four months. From her profile, on the Fawcett Society website:

Sam is no stranger to equalities work and issues having worked for both the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

What are the chances that Ms Smethers was formerly employed as a taxpayer-funded whine merchant? Very high. Her comments, reported in the Daily Mail article, relate to the gender gap appearing at the age of 40:

Feminist campaigners said companies should close the pay gap at older ages by offering senior jobs to part-time or job-share managers.

Sam Smethers, of the Fawcett Society, said: ‘Sadly the opposite is true. Once you get to a certain level it is a full-time role, which excludes many women from roles they would be perfectly capable of doing.’

Many women over 40 are incapable of working full-time, Ms Smethers informs us, without explaining why. The solution to the ‘problem’ is, to her whackaddodle feminist mind, two or more women job sharing in order to do the senior jobs hitherto done for many years by individual men. Yes, that makes complete sense.

Let’s sense check her assertion. During a key meeting, what if someone needs to know what decisions were made at a meeting that ‘part-time woman #1’ attended, but it’s the turn of ‘part-time woman #2’ to work that day? Perhaps part-time woman #2 might call part-time woman #1, to find out? Of course. But what if part-time woman #1 is pursuing her lady entitlement to work/life balance, and has switched off her smartphone as a result? Might there be the tiniest reduction in efficiency and effectiveness when two or more women do a job which one man used to manage? Crazy talk, I know…

Fortunately the article is redeemed by a woman talking common sense:

Patricia Morgan, an author and researcher on the family, said: ‘If the pay gap in the 20s and 30s was the other way around there would be bucketloads of experts jumping up and down demanding that we act to address this dreadful inequality. No-one seems to worry about being unfair to men.

‘This is about women and their ability to choose to have children, and to look after them themselves. There is a smack of totalitarianism about the attitude which says women cannot choose to bring up their own children rather than pursue careers.’

Daisy Buchanan (no relation) is a Guardian columnist and features writer, with whom I once had a discussion on London Live TV. More on that, and a wonderful article critiquing her views on women-only railway carriages, shortly.

We’re grateful to Captain Nemo for posting some of our videos on his channel, reaching a large audience. The numbers after the following pieces (the titles are his) are the latest number of viewings. The first features the aforementioned discussion with Ms Buchanan:

Three biased feminists vs one men’s and boys’ rights activist (84,597) (London Live TV)

Feminist lies shattered by men’s rights activist (237,814) (Notts TV)

Privileged feminists STUNNED by empirical evidence (190,512) (London Live TV)

Feminist confusion vs men’s rights activist’s logic (87,151) (London Live TV)

Men’s rights activist vs feminist delusions (52,069) (ITV This Morning)

The final link relates to the programme during which Caroline Criado-Perez spouted the lie which led to her third Lying Feminist of the Month award. Links to the full 20-minute-long footage – an older woman was shoe-horned into the discussion for the second half, in an effort to save CC-P from making an even bigger fool of herself – and her award, are available here.

This brings us to an excellent article by Rod Little in the latest edition of The Spectator, inspired by an article Ms Buchanan wrote for the Guardian. Enjoy.

Our thanks to Jeff for this. What starts out as an intelligent and promising article descends into offensive sexist comments about the relative impacts of men and women on workplaces, and ends with this:

Medicine should be seen as a vocation, and with this comes the harsh reality that your patients have to be your priority.

It’s not sexist to point this out, and I don’t think this is a reason for fewer women to go into medicine. But it is a reason to think hard about the way we work.

I know some women doctors who have decided their choice of career simply precludes motherhood. Others, quite reasonably, think that’s too extreme — and make it practical by renegotiating roles at home.

After all, if you’re a female brain surgeon and your husband works in marketing, why should you be the one who has to give up when a baby arrives? Surely, when men have less important jobs, they should take on the childcare.

Flexible thinking — by both individuals and the NHS as a whole — is the only way forward. Otherwise, the welcome feminisation of our health service will simply cause greater and greater problems.

So that’s what we need. Not fewer female doctors and more male doctors, but ‘flexible thinking’. Well, that’s going to make legions of female doctors switch from part-time to full-time working, isn’t it? Give me strength.