[Note added 15.1.16: Some resellers have started to sell this book on Amazon.co.uk below the recommended price of £10.00.]

The paperback edition of Feminism: The Ugly Truth is available to order, and it should be available from all online booksellers. On Amazon.com it’s correctly priced at US$15.00, while on Amazon.co.uk it’s not yet showing at the correct price of £10.00, but that should change some time tomorrow, the official publication date. In the meantime a few booksellers on Amazon.co.uk are taking the opportunity to sell it for more than the price Amazon will be charging.

My own copy arrived yesterday, so I had it with me on the train to and from London today, and on the Tube, before and after a filmed discussion with a Labour MP on the gender pay gap. I think it’s fair to say people noticed the cover…

The book is 428 pages long, and the Table of Contents is here. Ignore the vertical lines which for some mysterious reason appeared in the PDF creation process.

If you’d like a copy of the book which is signed and/or dedicated, please send £10.00 (inc p&p) by PayPal to mb1957@hotmail.co.uk and I’ll send a copy to you as soon as possible. I’ll sign all copies ordered this way. If you’d like a dedication as well, please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk with the wording you’d like. If the mailing address is in Europe (other than the UK) add £2.50 p&p, and if outside Europe, £5.00. Thank you.

Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, failed to respond by the required deadline to our FOI request asking for minutes of meetings she’s had since she took on her role, with organizations advocating for victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse. Her response is now TWELVE weeks overdue.

Our letter to Ms Saunders is here. We’ll publish a post each week on the delay, and email the Crown Prosecution Service each time, until we get a response.

Our thanks to a number of people for pointing us to an excellent piece in the Telegraph.

A comment in response to our Nigel Short blog piece earlier this morning has prompted us to provide a link to William Collins’s piece on male/female brain differences. It’s sad to see New Scientist capitulate to feminist ideologues, as have other publications. A year or two ago I read a fascinating National Geographic article on the human brain, which nonetheless failed to mention what was then already widely known about male/female brain differences.

Impressive (video, 9:23). I’ve just added Theryn’s YouTube channel to our list of recommended websites.

Our thanks to Martin for this. Anyone who doubts the existence of gender-typical brains should read We Are Our Brains by an eminent Dutch neuroscientist with an unfortunate name, Dick Swaab. In the book he explains that as a result of scanning, there are now known to be many hundreds of differences between gender-typical male-pattern brains and female-pattern brains.

Give me strength. The start of the article:

The Women’s Equality Party (WE), the newest party to field candidates in elections in 2016, was helped into existence by a donation from a wealthy male entrepreneur, The Independent can reveal.

Financial support from Maurice Biriotti, co-founder and chief executive of the business management consultancy firm SHM, enabled the newly created political party to pay a salary to one of its founders and meet the costs of getting names on ballot papers for the 2016 elections.

Mr Biriotti, who has not sought publicity, is a former academic. He set up a business partnership with fellow academic, Henrietta Moore and BBC film-maker Sophie Marnham in 1996. He is also involved with the HIV charity Body & Soul.

We’ve just had the following remarks left by a feminist in response to our piece about Reggie Yates’s relentlessly anti-MRA ‘documentary’, which screened on BBC1 earlier this evening (it originally screened on BBC3 some weeks ago). I really don’t need to make any comments on her remarks – although I’ve put some of the more gormless content in bold, for emphasis – other than to say I do appreciate it when feminists nominate themselves for our awards. The genius writes:

Okay I know this must be highly unusual for you but I am a female commenting on your blog. I mean, get that! I want to point out several things that’s wrong with everything you’re putting.

The BBC aren’t producing anything anti-man. Legally, they have to show equality.

Secondarily, please stop complaining about anything that you could possibly regard as against your gender. I know men haven’t had it easy over history- oppressing women is hard work, I sympathise with you. Feminism has brought around huge changes in people’s lives and is a worthwhile movement.

Just to make it clear, feminism is equality of the sexes. Not the supremety (sic) of women. Equality. We are all human and there is no point in discrimination over what you have between your legs.

Finally, even though feminism has focused more on female rights since the beginning of the movement, it doesn’t mean it isn’t focusing on men too. Women have just has further to go to gain equality. We feminists have been campaigning to end the stigma surrounding male gender roles and to raise awareness about their issues such as mental health and child custody. But the way to get those rights for you isn’t by oppressing women once again. It doesn’t seem too absurd thag (sic)  and that we want to be taken seriously with feminine issues.we want to be paid the same as male counterparts

Reggie Yates and the whole programme is there to raise awareness about feminism and what it currently is and how some men can’t handle the fight for equality just because it has “fem” in the title. So basically you all need to get your heads out of your asses and just see the world for how it is and realise women are human too and not just there for you to fuck and to produce babies.

Our thanks to Mike for this. What can be said about this case, that hasn’t been said of so many similar cases? The man and his family have been put through hell, in large part because his identity was revealed at the outset, while the women who made the rape allegations remain anonymous. The comments stream is full of very sensible reflections.

One of the founders of the Gender Equity Network, Belinda Brown, will be interviewed by Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4’s Woman Sour tomorrow morning, at 10am. The subject under discussion will be whether younger women are becoming more socially conservative. ​Also in the conversation will be Carole Easton of the Young Women’s Trust. You can listen live on your radio (93.5 FM) or online here.

Two recent articles related to the discussion are here and here.​

A reminder of the free lecture at UCL on Thursday 21 January by the acclaimed Neil Lyndon, journalist and author of the seminal book No More Sex War. In this lecture, Neil will critically explore the evidence that men have lost their traditional role as protectors of women​, and now are seen as a threat to women.

This event will take place on Thurs 21 January, 6.00 – 7.15pm, at UCL’s A.V. Hill Lecture Theatre, Gower St, London. For further details, please see here.