If men were treated as leniently as women in sentencing terms, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there

The media storm over Philip Davies’s perfectly reasonable speech at the conference rumbles on, much of it very silly, for example this from Cosmopolitan, a magazine well-known for its insightful coverage of gender-related matters. Much of the media coverage implicitly or explicitly dismisses the possibility that a justice gender gap exists, so it seems a good a time as any to republish a piece by William Collins, UK Prisoners – The Genders Compared. His remarkable website, which covers a large range of issues, is here.

Media coverage in the past 12 hours

Our thanks to John for this:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/12/pressure-mounts-on-may-to-respond-to-philip-davies-feminist-zealots-comment

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mp-philip-davies-complains-militant-feminists-are-being-pandered-to-by-politically-correct-men_uk_57add4f9e4b01ec53b3f5069

http://www.refinery29.uk/2016/08/119902/philip-davies-mp-sexist

https://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/news/philip-davies-attacks-%E2%80%98feminist-zealots%E2%80%99-conference-%E2%80%98mens-rights%E2%80%99

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/conferences/news/78081/watch-tory-mp-denounces-feminist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37059193

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mp-philip-davies-complains-militant-feminists-are-being-pandered-to-by-politically-correct-men_uk_57add4f9e4b01ec53b3f5069

https://www.rt.com/uk/355695-tory-mp-feminist-zealots/

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-08-12/women-launch-cake-campaign-against-anti-feminist-mp/

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/men-pander-to-feminists-who-want-to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it-says-tory-mp-g2ms9rshg

http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/12/feminists-are-sending-a-conservative-mp-pictures-of-them-eating-cake-6064438/

Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the Labour Party) attacks Philip Davies MP for speaking at our conference

Our thanks to Jordan for this, on Comrade Corbyn’s Facebook page. It starts:

It is unfathomable that – in this day and age – a Conservative MP can make derogatory sexist comments at a conference held by an openly misogynistic political party.

I’m guessing that both Philip Davies MP and J4MB will survive the attack. An attack from a party leader who has consistently sold men and boys down the river – an example here – and supports the mutilation of male minors’ genitals – here.

Shami Chakrabarti: The honour that truly stinks came from Corbyn

An excellent piece by Rod Liddle in today’s edition of The Spectator. An extract:

Too often I hear people decry what they call a charade, citing the awards doled out to cronies, lickspittles, wankers, desiccated mandarins, half-witted sportswomen, professional lesbians, time-serving persistent vegetative state dullards, pompous community panjandrums and smirking air-headed luvvies.

Sophie Walker (leader, Women’s Equality Party): MPs such as Philip Davies make me proud to be a feminist zealot

Enjoy. An extract:

I don’t expect much of this to hold sway with Davies, or indeed with the Justice for Men & Boys party, who regularly send waspish updates to inform me that I have again been named their “Lying Feminist of the Month”. (This usually prompts an eye roll, and another order of doughnuts in our office.)

Hmm, wouldn’t an ethical response to being publicly branded a liar by another political party, not to order doughnuts, but to refute our charges that she – and Sandi Toxic, come to that – demonstrably lied? As an example of Walker’s shamelessness and lack of moral agency, it would take some beating. She wants the freedom to lie without consequence, and unfortunately the mainstream media let her – and other toxic feminists – get away with it.

A list of the award winners is here. Both Walker and Toxic have won it twice. Only Caroline Criado-Perez has won it more often.