Our thanks to Mark for this.

Another strong piece by Kathy Gyngell, in today’s Telegraph.

Our thanks to Ray for this. He writes:

I don’t normally buy my local paper, but I picked up a copy today when I saw the headline, “Wolverhampton Pc sacked for making ‘bad joke’ about rape says his life has been ruined”.

The story turns out to be as appallingly unjust as the headline suggests.

Rape culture doesn’t exist – it’s a figment of feminists’ fevered imaginations – but rape hysteria certainly does, and many men’s lives are ruined by it. The state does all it can to maintain the hysteria. The Coalition Agreement in May 2010 committed to bringing back anonymity for those suspected of having carried out sexual offences, but later reneged on the promise, under pressure from feminists.

Our thanks to John for pointing us to some sad news. Murray Straus was held in the highest regard by those keen for the truth about the non-gendered nature of domestic violence to be more widely known.

A lengthy new piece but – as always with William Collins’s pieces – well worth reading, at least once. If you have the time, twice.

In January 2015 we reported that Nicky Morgan had appointed two new female Commissioners to the EHRC, leading to nine of the 11 Commissioners being women – here. You can rely on feminists in general – and the Minister for Women and Equalities, in particular – having an interesting notion as to what constitutes gender equality.

JB nails another feminist.

Another strong article in the current edition of The Spectator, and I’m not halfway through it yet. An extract:

Facebook’s bans are political. In September last year Angela Merkel was overheard asking Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, what he planned to do about offensive posts about the refugee crisis. ‘We need to do some work,’ he said. And he did. In February he said that in Germany, ‘with the migrant crisis here and all the sensitivity around that’, his service would clamp down on xenophobic posts.

Twitter, too, polices its users’ chat. It once described itself as ‘the free-speech wing of the free-speech party’; now it has its own Trust and Safety Council, stuffed with NGO people and feminists [my emphasis] who aim to make it more ‘pleasant’. This isn’t about banning morons who make death threats; it’s about morally managing the conversation. In the words of Twitter’s British head of policy, Nick Pickles, the web has helped to make ‘challenging, even upsetting viewpoints… more visible’ in a way that is ‘not always comfortable’. So Twitter must think up ways of ‘drowning out’ uncomfortable viewpoints.

We’re witnessing a massive shift in the whole idea of the internet; from an open platform for the discussion of ideas to something that must be moderated and editorialised…

We’re looking forward to Terrence Popp being the Master of Ceremonies at the London conference. From the home page of his website, Redonkulas:

WE’RE GOING TO OFFEND YOU.

At Redonkulas.com, we don’t do butt-hurt. We don’t do Wet Wipes. We really don’t care if it makes you cry.

Man up. Or woman up. Whatever. Put some damn pants on, quit your sniveling, stop looking for reasons to be offended (we’ll offend you, we promise) and stop being such a sissy mouth-breathing oxygen-thieving apple-ass.

It’s all in good fun, kids. If we’re not offending you, tell us. We’ll try harder.

If strong language troubles you, it might be advisable to give his videos a miss, but you’ll be missing some insightful and often hilarious material. I’m sure he’ll employ less colourful language at the London conference.

The remainder of this blog post consists of a post we originally published in August 2014, following Terrence’s memorable appearance at the Detroit conference.

“Terrence Popp is a remarkable American, a distinguished war veteran, and we’re admirers of the videos he posts on his channel, Redonkulas. We had a number of email exchanges in the months before the conference, and I was pleased to meet Terrence there, and be photographed with him – here. He ‘pulled a few strings’ and persuaded the fine people running a ‘Veterans of Foreign Wars’ facility in a quiet suburb of Detroit to host the conference, after the Hilton hotel in Detroit (where the conference was scheduled to be held) at very short notice… and I’ll say no more, for legal reasons.

AVfM has just posted a video of Terry’s well-received presentation in Detroit, and it includes the award-winning video about the time he came very close to committing suicide. The whole piece is well worth watching.

Without men like Terrence Popp, the world would be a far more dangerous place.

We salute him, and men like him.”

I can scarcely believe I’m recommending an article containing the words, ‘… the excellent lesbian feminist writer Julie Bindel got it right …’, but the article in the current edition of The Spectator was written by Rod Liddle, a columnist I much admire. The magazine is worth subscribing to for his column alone, leaving aside the point that it’s invariably available to access at no cost online. Someone needs to pay for quality columnists.

Last October, Ms Bindel was our Toxic Feminist of the Month. In January 2014 she claimed in the course of a debate at Durham University that I’d lied about a website she was associated with – in front of an audience of 300+ people, almost all of them students – and later apologised privately for her error in having done so. Predictably, she refused to apologise publicly – no prominent feminist has ever apologised publicly for anything, to the best of my knowledge – so I published this account of the matter.

I was reliably informed in the hours before the debate that young ladies belonging to the Durham University Feminist Society – ‘DUFferS’ to their non-feminist colleagues, pleasingly – had planned to picket the event, but had called it off, because it was a little chilly, and the forecast was for light rain. In Durham, in January. Inconceivable.

A tip of the hat to Janet for this. She’ll be speaking at the London conference on the topic, ‘How Feminism Infantilizes Women’. You have until 12:00 GMT Sunday, 5 June, to order your ticket(s) – here.