Dave’s at it again. He just can’t help himself, it seems. From the article:

A veteran Conservative said: ‘The whole thing is absurd. Some of the women put forward are complete nonentities. And some of the men being turned down have first-rate brains and a wealth of experience. Nothing makes more of a mockery of Parliament than putting people in it who aren’t up to the job.’

Our thanks to David for alerting us to a book he’s just finished reading, The Privileged Sex, by Martin van Creveld, an Emeritus Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The book was published in 2013. David writes:

This book is extremely well researched and powerfully refutes the feminist canard of historic female oppression. If you haven’t already read it, I’d strongly recommend it.

It can be ordered from Amazon here. We’ve just added it to our long list of recommended books.

Excellent. I’ve posted a comment linking to two of William Collins’s pieces, and our public challenge of Nicky Morgan MP, the response to which was predictably derisory..

Janice Fiamengo was a professor of English at the University of Ottawa, and has long been  prominent anti-feminist. In a video (12:07) produced by Steve Brule, she explains why she is an anti-feminist.

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We look forward to the response of the Children’s Commissioner for England to the public challenge we posted earlier today. In the meantime, I thought I’d see what information on MGM, if any, is on their website. Searching with the keyword ‘circumcision’ led to no results. Searching with ‘genital mutilation’ led to four results – here. It surely doesn’t need saying, but I’ll say it anyway. All four results relate to FGM.

The final link leads to a piece about the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. It’s introduced with this sentence:

Female genital mutilation is a violation of the rights of girls and women.

We wonder if Anne Longfield OBE, Children’s Commissioner for England, can manage to finish the following sentence:

Male genital mutilation is a violation of the rights of…

There is not the slightest doubt that MGM is illegal in the UK, and we recently sent public challenges to Alison Saunders (Director of Public Prosecutions) and Theresa May MP (Home Secretary).

We are about to mail a public challenge to Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, in relation to MGM. The home page of her organization’s website carries the following lie:

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Every child under the age of 18 has all of the rights in the UNCRC

The UNCRC is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Our challenge refers to two attachments including our election manifesto.

Given that MGM will be our #1 campaigning issue for the foreseeable future, we are grateful to Tim for reminding us of a remarkable paper on MGM and FGM, published last year.

Brian D Earp, the author of the paper, is a Research Fellow in Ethics at the University of Oxford. He holds degrees from Yale, Oxford and Cambridge universities. The paper is here. Helpfully, it contains hyperlinks, so you can access the referenced materials.

A tip of the hat to 5hadowfax for this excellent piece, on which we see Karen Straughan has already posted insightful comments. I expressed similar sentiments about male suicide in an article I wrote for the International Business Times some months ago. We covered the issue on pp 46-48 of our election manifesto.

Our thanks to Ian for this. It’s associated with a wider UN-driven campaign to ‘persuade’ 20 million men living in Sub-Saharan Africa to ‘voluntarily’ have their genitals mutilated in a probably futile bid to slow the progress of HIV. The evidence base on which this is being done has been widely discredited – William Collins’s piece on MGM covers the issue, see the section titled, ‘The WHO and HIV’ – but hey, it’s only men’s genitals which are being mutilated without any good reason, not women’s, so where’s the problem?

Let’s do a gender switch. Even if there were cast iron proof that FGM slowed the progress of HIV, would the UN be seeking to mutilate the genitals of 20 million African women? Would the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation be donating $50 million to fund the ‘voluntarily’ mutilation of the genitals of 20 million women living in Swaziland and Zambia? Of course not.

Nothing to do with gender politics, but I’ve just received an email, purportedly from PayPal. It starts:

Your Account Will Be Closed !

Hello, Dear Membre. (sic)

Your Account Will Be Closed , Until We Here (sic) From You .
To Update Your Information . Simply click on the web address below

You have to admire people who can’t write decent English, having a bash at internet fraud through representing themselves as working for financial institutions.

Ambition is a fine quality. In the same vein, you wouldn’t believe the number of expatriates with the surname ‘Buchanan’ who die in car or plane crashes every month – invariably in African countries, mysteriously – leaving multi-million pound sums in banks, just waiting for a safe place to be deposited. Sadly, I’m just too pressed for time to reply to the bank clerks who kindly inform me of these matters.