Kathy Gyngell: Cheer up! Only 7 per cent of Brits call themselves feminists.

An excellent piece, drawing on a poll undertaken by… The Fawcett Society! Their Gormless Feminists of the Month award certificate is here.

It is claimed that 9% of British women and 4% of British men self-identify as feminists, an average of around 7% overall. In my experience the vast majority of such people know little if anything about the true nature of feminism, and suffer from the delusion that it’s concerned with the pursuit of gender equality (rather than the truth, the pursuit of gender supremacy).

I am convinced that fewer than 1% of British people are radical/gender feminists, the group that has created havoc for 30+ years in the UK, and across much of the developed world.

It’s time for some democracy.

It’s time for the 99% of British people who aren’t radical feminists, to consign these contemptible hate-driven people to the dustbin of history.

Thornhill Clinic, Luton – our forthcoming protests

[Note added 21.2.16: We’ve just announced that the first of our protests outside the Thornhill Clinic will be held on 22 March, details here.]

On some days in the near future, and beyond, we shall be protesting outside the Circumcision Centre at the Thornhill Clinic, Luton. The people behind the business proudly boast of the centre being ‘the UK’s largest private male circumcision clinic’.

The individual doctors have been placed on the Known Genital Mutilators directory at Neonatal Cutting, and the clinic’s web page on them is here. They are:

Dr Murtaza Khanbhai
Dr M Ruhul Amin
Mr Farooq Ali Khan
Mr M Asad Saleemi

Darrel Gregory is the Executive Director and Registered Manager of the clinic.

A link to the video (6:30) of the anti-MGM protest in Parliament Square last International Men’s Day – we were supporting Men Do Complain – is here. Please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk if you’d like to join us in protesting against Male Genital Mutilation at the Thornhill Clinic. Thank you.

Lord Bramall: Ex-army head to face no action on child abuse claims

Our thanks to Kevin for this. The campaign of police assaults against elderly prominent men shows no signs of slowing down. Lord Bramall is 92. From the article:

The Met said it had informed a man in his 90s who was interviewed on 30 April 2015 by officers working on Operation Midland that he would face no further action.

The force added: “Following a thorough investigation officers have concluded there is insufficient evidence to request the Crown Prosecution Service to consider charging the man with any offences.”

Operation Midland is part of a wider umbrella of investigations by Scotland Yard, dubbed Operation Fairbank, into allegations of abuse involving senior politicians and high-profile figures…

Anthony Stansfield, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Thames Valley, who also served as a platoon commander under Lord Bramall, condemned the police investigation.

“This is a man who has commanded our nuclear deterrent, was in charge of all our armed forces,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“He would have been surrounded by staff, he would have had a very, very detailed diary of every day. It is utterly inconceivable and the slightest investigation would have shown that.

“Instead they seem to have barged into the house of a 92-year-old. His wife was dying of Alzheimer’s in the house… The victim in this entirely is Field Marshal the Lord Bramall.”

Matthew Lye – ‘The New Gay Liberation: Escaping the Fag End of Feminism’

Highly recommended. Kindle ebook, £3.44.

There isn’t a description of the book on Amazon.co.uk, so herewith the one from Amazon.com:

TRIGGER WARNING!

If you are a gay man who also supports feminism, this book may be the toughest (and most worthwhile) read of your life.

In “The New Gay Liberation: Escaping the Fag End of Feminism” social commentator Matthew Lye, aka Andy Bob, rips the cover off of feminism’s false pro-gay front to reveal Westboro Baptist Church level hostility toward gay men that has burned through feminist rhetoric for 40 years.

And he documents how that hatred is alive and well today.

At a little over a hundred pages, this book is a brief but devastating indictment of feminism’s bogus claim to support the gay community.

Reading it, if you are gay and feminist, might turn your whole world upside down.

Here’s the forward by David Palmer.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin

I’m a gay man.

I am not a feminist.

There’s a shocking statement. How could any gay man not need, want, support, affirm feminism?

To be fair, I was a feminist for years. I remained a feminist while phrases like “Old white guy”, “Cishet guy”, and “Male privilege” made their way into the lexicon. I remained a feminist while straight men were demonized by feminism-because, of course, I wasn’t “one of them”. I remained a feminist while GLBT became LGBT. I remained a feminist for years.

Over time, however, I found myself, with ever increasing frequency, in the position of feeling that I had to use my sexual orientation to defend myself in conversations with feminists, and feeling as if I were a “token” male, only acceptable to feminists because of my orientation.

Of course I made all the excuses: “not all feminists are like that”, “well, that’s not real feminism” and so on – until I began to actually take the time to learn about feminism.

What I learned surprised me. I learned that feminism was not about equality. I learned about the feminist history of hatred toward gay men. And eventually, I learned that feminism was actively engaged in a campaign that was doing to all men what others have so often done to gay men: demonize them as sexual predators and abusers in the interests of their own power and their own ideology.

Feminism wasn’t about equality: It was about bigotry.

During the course of that journey, that red pill trip from feminist to anti-feminist, if you will, I had the good fortune to encounter many people. I found men and women, all sorts of them, who cared about the issues facing men and boys and who spoke out about those issues despite feminist efforts to slander and silence them.

AndyBob is one of those people.

In “Why Gay Men Don’t Need Feminism”, AndyBob has, in many ways, written a part of my own journey, and the history of the relationship between feminism and gay men. He has written it far better than I would have done. He has provided, in a single place, much of the information I found over the years about feminism, feminist history, and the homophobia underlying much of feminist thought. He has destroyed feminism’s false façade of “it’s about equality” and has given a clear, articulate explanation of why gay men not only do not “need” feminism, but why they should reject feminism outright.

He has also done much more than that. What he has written is not only a well thought out, well researched, and well-supported discussion of the history of feminism. It’s a foundation, a basis for change, a reason to end the divisive ideological rhetoric that seeks to separate gay and straight men from one another-for the benefit of others. It teaches us that men, all men, need to come together, to work together, as men, to address our common concerns.

And it also serves as a warning. In the face of a mindset that sees all men as a threat, and sees all men as “the enemy,” that Mr. Franklin was right.