In common with all of William Collins’s output, essential reading.

Excellent.

My thanks to ‘vohshkab’ for leaving a comment on the YouTube video of my recent Sky News interview, concerning Charlotte Proudman, the 27-year-old feminist barrister we presented with our inaugural Toxic Feminist of the Month award. He linked to a video which has received over 8 million hits, and wrote the following:

I have just seen the most rampant sexist video … this is exactly why Charlotte is right … this woman needs to be given another award not just for Human Rights but for the battle against institutional rampant sexism and I am a guy … I feel so bad for her

[Note added 19.9.15: This video has just been published by A Voice for Men, the influential and most-visited men’s human rights advocacy website in the world – here.]

We’ve just loaded a new video on our YouTube channel, along with this commentary:

I was honoured recently to be invited to give a presentation at the AGM of the country’s best-known anti-MGM charity, 15 Square. Formerly NORM-UK, the organization was launched in 1995, so this was their 20th AGM.

The event took place last Saturday, and it proved to be a very interesting day. It was good to meet so many anti-MGM campaigners for the first time.

The gentleman who introduces me in the video is the leader of the organization, David Smith. I thank both him and Richard Duncker, who did the video recording and editing. Richard leads another anti-MGM organization, Men Do Complain.

Our thanks to moms4dads for this.

ShoeOnHead is a hilarious anti-feminist young woman, and we thank Toy Soldiers for bringing her to our attention with this video (5:49). If you don’t laugh out loud at several points, you might want to have someone check your pulse.

Our thanks to Tim for pointing us to a video (21:40) which we’ve just posted on our YouTube channel, along with the following commentary:

Men and women who display little or no concern over the harm caused to males by MGM often justify their position by saying they know men who are not unhappy with having been circumcised. Women often say this about their male partners. Many circumcised men themselves say they’re not unhappy with having been circumcised, often saying it hasn’t affected them. Some look on it in a positive light. This begs an obvious question. For those circumcised as babies or infants, how can they possibly know what they’ve lost?

The answer to that question lies in this video. Nickolas K Intactivist is an American anti-MGM campaigner, who was circumcised at 18 years of age. In this video he reflects on his own experience of the impact of the procedure, and makes some excellent general points about MGM. The video was recorded in Washington DC during the 2015 Genital Integrity Awareness Week.

A tip of the hat to the interviewer and videomaker, Patrick Smyth of Men Do Complain.

Please leave your comments on the YouTube channel, not on this blog piece. Thank you.

A tip of the hat to the indefatigable HEqual for this.

Sandi Toxic, spokeswoman for the Women’s Equality Party, was on Question Time last night. The iPlayer file will be available for 11 months. Four of her contributions are worth listening to:

2:45 – 4:32
She responds to the question, ‘Is Labour now more electable under Jeremy Corbyn, than it was under Ed Miliband?’

20:44 – 21:50
She talks after John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, had apologised for remarks he’d made about the IRA’s contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland.

35:54 – 37:45
She responds to the question from a 17-year-old man, put to Liz Truss, a Conservative MP, ‘When I’m eligible to vote, why should I choose the Conservatives over Labour?’ It’s in this section she nominates herself for a Gormless Feminist of the Month award, with this gem:

Women are the majority, major beneficiaries of the welfare system. The real question that we have to be asking ourselves is, ‘Why are women the load bearers of austerity, and what are we going to do about it?’

Her diversionary ploy of stating, ‘The real question we have to be asking ourselves is…’ is straight out of the Feminist Guide to Media Manipulation. I’d have liked another panelist to say:

The real question is, ‘Why are women the main beneficiaries of the welfare system, when men pay 72% of the income tax collected in this country, £69 BILLION pounds more than women at the last count?’

The ploy was used by the lesbian radical feminist Bea Campbell in a BBC radio programme which I also contributed to, in January 2015. I was told the two of us would have a discussion, but in the event I was interviewed, cut off, then she was interviewed. Her contribution was simply appalling, and I critiqued it in the video’s description. Pleasingly, however, she referred to ‘The Buchanan phenomenon’. As we always say:

They don’t like it up ’em.

They do NOT like it up ’em!

45:28 – 46:52

In response to a question about the refugee crisis, Toxic utters exactly the sort of sanctimonious, self-righteous tosh you’d expect from her. I look forward to Toxic inviting a refugee family to live with her and her wife Debbie Toxic – and maybe some of Mrs and Mrs Toxic’s three children – on their houseboat. Then I might listen to what she has to say on the subject.

Sometimes people arrive at our blogs through ‘googling’ terms clearly unrelated to what we do, and they can be entertaining. Today we had an example:

canary wharf interview for receptionist, what to wear

The blog piece in question was this. The photograph accessible in the piece should have helped the person decide what to wear, if she clicked on it. We’re always pleased to help the ladies…