My thanks to Andrew for sending me the following:
ICMI16: UK rail bookings for this weekend are just open, with advance tickets (for specified journeys) saving typically 50% on the cheapest turn-up-and-go fares. You might like to advise speakers and delegates.
Excellent. I look forward to the second part.
We don’t hear so much of Special Snowflake these days – maybe even the BBC finally had enough of her whining – but she was the inaugural member of The Whine Club in 2013. Two years ago I penned a very short piece about her on another of our websites, Will someone change Laura Bates’s diaper?
The monthly talks run by Gender Equity Network are attracting ever larger audiences, and are useful events at which to meet with other people interested in men’s issues. Details of the next talk are here. I would strongly recommend that you register to ensure a place (no charge), as I just have. From the description:
Martin Seager, consultant clinical psychologist, author, and expert in men’s mental health, explores why, in the field of psychology, there is a blindness to the male gender and suggests we can get better outcomes if we practice psychology in a way which recognises gender differences and honours human diversity.
Four days ago we linked to an outrageously misandrous, sexist, and racist video on the Women’s Equality Party’s official website. It’s worth checking it out, even if you did before. Key stats:
– 4,081 views
– 42 upvotes
– 375 downvotes
– 128 comments, virtually all of them critical of the video
My recent interview about paternity fraud on LBC Radio, along with a female medical ethicist, generated an unusually high number of comments. I’m delighted to see that William Collins has used it as the starting point for another of his consistently excellent articles – here.
Our thanks to Martin for this.
A day or two before we learned the sad news of Angry Harry’s premature demise, I had a Google Hangout with Paul Elam. The (audio) file is on Paul’s YouTube channel, here (35:24). The main topics of discussion were MGM – in particular our planned pre-conference protests, including two in Golders Green, on the afternoon of 5 May – and the London conference. As always, Paul was forthright and insightful on the key issues.
Details of the planned protests are here.
If you haven’t yet ordered your ticket(s) for the conference, you have until 12:00 GMT on Sunday, 5 June, to do so – here. That’s when ticket sales will end, and there won’t be tickets for sale at the venue.
We invite you to vote in response to this appalling video (3:56) on the official WEP YouTube channel. Let’s see how they respond.
We’ve posted the piece on our Vimeo channel – here. Feel free to leave comments.
The video currently has 32 upvotes and 90 downvotes, and has attracted some interesting comments. I’ve just posted the following comment, and invite you to post your own.
Sophie Walker and Sandi Toxic have each won two of our political party’s Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards:
//j4mb.org.uk/lying-woman-of-the-month/
Have a nice day.
Mike Buchanan
JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS
(and the women who love them)
It grieves me to bring news that Angry Harry, a British legend in the MRM for many years, has passed away, at the age of 64. His partner called me earlier today to inform me of the news. Harry died suddenly from a brain aneurysm at the end of February, we hope without having suffered.
His partner also emailed Paul Elam, who’s posted this tribute, which explains why Harry was so widely admired. At the Detroit conference in 2014, many people came up to me hoping to meet Angry Harry and/or ManWomanMyth. Sadly neither were there, and MWM has since ‘gone to ground’.
An archived copy of the home page of Harry’s principal website is here.
My memories of Harry, from the four or five times we met, are of a warm, generous, amusing and mild-mannered man (despite his pseudonym). A deeply private man, he didn’t even own a mobile phone. He declined an offer to speak at the London conference because he was concerned that if his identity became publicly known, it could impact negatively on his work prospects. But he was grateful for a complimentary ticket, and was greatly looking forward to meeting people at the conference, after insisting that we didn’t announce his appearance as a delegate in advance.
Harry was one of the good ones, who helped bring so many to the MRM. May he rest in peace.
Our thanks to David and others for this. Extracts:
The fact is that our criminal justice system is supposed to be founded on two critical principles. First, the presumption of innocence. Second, due process: the belief that criminal accusations must be proven beyond reasonable doubt, by fair procedures.
However, when it comes to sexual assault, decades of campaigning by feminists [my emphasis] and more strident members of the victim lobby have browbeaten judges and policy-makers into a change of approach.
The prevailing attitude seems to be that it is unfair to anyone claiming to have been the victim of a sexual attack that they should have to accept that their alleged attacker is ‘innocent until proved guilty’ and that the case has to operate under due process. As a result, the system has been re-engineered to make it more difficult for the accused to defend himself…
I am aware of many sex attack cases in which defendants and their lawyers have complained that when they provided the police with evidence suggesting that a complaint of sexual assault was false, the police simply ignored it. [my emphasis]
Justice for Men & Boys 