Our thanks to Philip Davies MP for his sterling efforts in achieving this. Hopefully the debate will not be confined to the issue of mental health issues, and men’s reluctance to seek help at times of crisis, but address the burning question of why so many men suffer reactive depression to the extent they take their own lives – the reasons include, of course, denial of access to children after family breakdowns, and denial of support for male victims of domestic violence.

The male:female suicide rate in 2013 was 3.5:1, in 1983 it was 1.7:1.

My International Business Times article on male suicide is here.

Over three years ago, four months before the launch of J4MB, our allied organization the Anti-Feminism League presented Philip Davies with a Winston award. He remains the only politician ever to have one won a Winston award.

Our thanks to Francis for this. The woman didn’t go to jail, although the boy she sexually abused was 13. Wow, how lucky was she? No, hold on. Female sex offenders rarely serve prison sentences, while male sex offenders invariably do. It’s almost as if there’s a gender bias here somewhere…

From the article:

Judge Karen Holt, sitting at Amersham Crown Court, said: ‘You were trusted to be the babysitter. You clearly knew what you were doing was wrong. [Don’t worry sweetie, I’m going to give it some blah, blah, blah, pretend I give a flying f***, then you’ll walk free as if you’d never sexually abused a 13-year-old boy.]

‘I don’t have a victim impact statement [Note to judge: Why not? Don’t you care, because the victim was a 13-year-old boy, not a 13-year-old girl? Surely you should have insisted on a victim impact statement before sentencing the woman whom sexually abused him?] but there is reference in the papers I have read to [the boy] becoming withdrawn after this happening.

‘I have listened very carefully to everything said on your behalf – I don’t find this an easy case.

‘The law reflects the seriousness of this abuse of trust on a child so young. As far as you are concerned, it is right I take into account the background – you have a sad background. You have not got into trouble despite your poor parenting.

‘Bearing in mind your age and lack of previous convictions, your case doesn’t meet the criteria for any form of imprisonment for public protection.

‘A custodial sentence is appropriate. I have spent some time, bearing in mind all the circumstances, on whether that has to be an immediate custodial sentence. I am just about persuaded I don’t need to send you to prison today.’

Our thanks to Mike for pointing us an interesting piece in today’s Daily Mail.

On 24 February, some 10 weeks before the general election, I was interviewed by Emma Pearce, a feminist student, in the impressive Student Radio studio in Nottingham University. My thanks to John for informing me that the interview has won Emma the Gold Award for Best Interview at the Student Radio Awards – here. We congratulate Emma on her award.

On our YouTube channel, the piece has attracted over 5,000 hits, and 179 comments.

Out thanks to @TicklishQuill for this:

A tip of the hat to HEqual for this.

My thanks to all the people who took the trouble to email me in recent days to inform me of a forthcoming piece to be broadcast on BBC3, presented by Alys Harte, a young lady from Donegal. It was broadcast earlier this evening, and it was titled The Rise of Female Violence.

Two or three were optimistic that the BBC might hold women accountable for something, for the first time in its history. Some chance. I’m more likely to become pregnant, and give birth to a lamb later named Felicity Fluffy-Fleece, than that will ever happen. To my mind, the only question was how the programme would show women to be unaccountable for committing violence.

Before you watch the programme, I urge you to watch Men’s Rights Versus Feminism Explained (using magnets) – a video (4:27) about moral agency by Alison Tieman, one of our favourite Honey Badgers, a charming woman who I had the pleasure of meeting (along with her husband) at the 2014 International Conference on Men’s Issues, in Detroit. I was constantly reminded of her video throughout the BBC3 programme, available on iPlayer for the next 29 days – here.

I don’t have the time to pen a detailed critique of the programme, sadly. But let me give you a few reflections, some of which we’d anticipate from Alison Tieman’s critique of gender-specific moral agency (or the lack of it, in the case of women):

• Throughout the programme, violent women were referred to as ‘girls’. Some of these ‘girls’ appeared to be over 30.
• A young alcoholic woman from Newcastle took up much of the programme. She had ‘threatened’ Caroline Criado-Perez (three-times winner of our ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards, it must be days since I last mentioned that) on Twitter – whilst so drunk, she later had no recollection of the matter – and was charged. CC-P said the woman had ‘internalised misogyny’. Classic. No woman must ever be held accountable for her actions or inactions, which seems to be the prevailing philosophy of the criminal justice system towards women. The young woman from Newcastle was ‘lucky’ to be spared a prison sentence – her ‘luck’ is shared by women in general – and given ‘a last chance’ by a magistrate at the end of the programme. The first of many last chances, we can be sure.
• (unlike men) Women are not accountable for the violence they commit when under the influence of alcohol.
• (unlike men) Women are not accountable for the violence they commit if their levels of testosterone – bad hormone!!! – are increased by alcohol, or otherwise. The increase is larger if they’re taking contraceptive pills.
• (unlike men) Women are not accountable for the violence they commit if they’ve had a ‘difficult childhood’.
• (unlike men) Women are not accountable for the violence they commit if they have mental health issues.
• (unlike men) Women are not accountable for their violence they commit if they’ve been the victims of violence (particularly at the hands of men, of course)

All in all, as balanced a programme on gender matters as we’d expect from the licence fee-funded feminist parasites at the BBC.

Our thanks to Toy Soldiers for this.

I had the pleasure of meeting Jack Barnes at the International Conference on Men’s Issues, in Detroit, in 2014. He was a pleasure to be around, and worked tirelessly helping make the conference the resounding success it was. AVfM have just published this.

Our thanks to a number of people who’ve given us helpful feedback on our original placard designs for the protest in London in 11 days’ time. We shall now be carrying at least six large placards, two apiece of three designs, #1, #2, #3. Men Do Complain will be bringing several of their own placards, as well as a lengthy banner.

We’ll be placing an order for the placards early tomorrow morning, so if you have any suggested changes, please comment on this blog piece or email info@j4mb.org.uk before 09:00 tomorrow, letting us know which design(s) you’re referring to. Thank you.