Our review of 2016 is here. The transcript of my Christmas message occupies pp.1-4, our review of 2016 – through the key blog pieces we’ve posted – pp.5-14.

On behalf of all those involved with J4MB, I wish our party members, donors, contributors, and other supporters, a happy and successful 2017.

Onwards and upwards!

With just 105 minutes left before the start of the new year, fireworks are already being let off in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford, Bedfordshire. So it seemed timely to bring you this.

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Six days ago we posted a piece about a forthcoming (free) screening of The Red Pill in Norwich, on 18 January, at which Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Erin Pizzey, myself – and hopefully DrRandomerCam – will be present.

Ticket demand has exceeded expectations, and the prediction is that the screening will soon be sold out, so I strongly encourage you to order your ticket now.

There’s a possibility of a second screening the following evening, but this can’t be guaranteed, and some of the ‘guests’ may not be present then, so at this stage we urge you to order a ticket for the 18 January screening.

So far donations of £540 have been made towards Barry Wright’s fundraiser of £7,500, a target set not to make Barry a profit, but to help defray some of his sunk costs (e.g. guests’ flights and other travel costs, hotel accommodation…). If you’re in a position to make a donation to Barry’s fundraiser, and haven’t already made one, your support would be greatly appreciated.

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In October we joined the good men of The London Group outside the HQ of the CPS, and in Parliament Square, at their protests against the Rape Culture Myth. A tip of the hat to The Forgotten Man for filming and editing this (15:05).

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Our thanks to Paul for this. An excerpt:

But for most of the tribe, the ceremony remains deeply significant. They have always been open to outsiders witnessing Imbalu, and are beginning to open up to tourists.

“I found the ceremonies fascinating,” says Floris Burgers, 22, from the Netherlands, who saw them this season while working in the area. [Note: Floris is a man’s name in the Netherlands.]

The end of the article, after a gender switch:

For 19-year-old Sullaih and her family, a lot hinges on a successful circumcision.

Any sign of weakness or reluctance could mean she is forcibly circumcised or called a coward for the rest of her life.

As a symbol of family unity and an offering to the spirits of ancestors, a goat’s heart and lungs are pitched on a stick over the spot where Sullaih will become a woman.

The smell of millet beer is thick in the circle surrounding the 19-year-old as the surgeon readies his blade.

The crowd erupts as he begins to cut. She stands firm, her face unmoving. It is over in seconds.

After hours on her feet, Sullaih is at last allowed to sit at the centre of the crowd.

Blood drips at her feet where money is collecting.

Asked how she feels, Sullaih has only one word: “pain.”

But her suffering remains unseen.

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Our thanks to William for this (3:26). The Enforcer was the third film in the immortal Dirty Harry series.

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Our thanks to Ken for this piece in The Guardian. As we’d expect, it portrays a world in which all abusers are men, all victims women. An extract:

Responding to the revelations, Cris McCurley, a family lawyer in north-east England, said: “I have worked on hundreds of cases and the direct cross examination of victims by a perpetrator happens a lot. It is absolutely traumatising. We have got to get something in place to stop this, even if it means appointing a special advocate or even a law student to put the questions instead of the perpetrator.”

Cris McCurley works for the law firm Ben Hoard Bell. Her profile on the firm’s website is here. It starts:

Cris has specialist knowledge of Gender Equality, Domestic Violence, Honour Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriage (FM), Abduction, Trafficking, FGM and 21st century slavery.

Hmm, she’s missed the crime of MGM off her list. The following are sentences in her profile, with a clearly gendered aspect (in bold). The gendered aspect in every case relates to females. There are a number of sentences in her profile which may well be gendered in practise – e.g. Forced Marriage, Honour Based Violence – but we’ve given her the benefit of the doubt, and excluded those.

In March 2011 she gave written evidence to the Government’s Home Affairs Select Committee on the new strategy on tackling violence towards women and girls.

She made a series of recommendations in writing to the President of the Family Division as a result of this meeting and to the Home Affairs Select Committee concerning the changes the UK needs to make to meet its obligation under the CEDAW Objectives. [CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.]

Also in March 2011 Cris was delegated to attend a UN/CEDAW Women’s Resource Centre in Newcastle and further training is planned.

Whilst in Bangladesh Cris also visited many women’s NGO’s and saw first hand the work being done to promote CEDAW throughout rural and urban areas of Bangladesh and met with the team at A.S.K to discuss with them their shadow report to the 48^th session in Geneva.

Cris has also visited women’s projects in India, Cambodia and Vietnam. Cris has been asked to return to Bangladesh to review the effectiveness of the new Domestic Violence legislation when the law has been implemented over a period of time.

Law Society delegate/Shadow report writer to the UN/CEDAW enquiry, giving evidence at the UN in Geneva (2013) about access to justice and Legal Aid for victims of violence.

She has just submitted the Shadow report critiquing the Government’s response to the CEDAW determination for 2015 on behalf of the women’s sector.

Cris chaired the UN Special Rapporteur for VAW meeting in the North East on the 5th April 2014.

Cris is part of the 2016 MOJ/Law Society/Resolution working party into Legal Aid for victims of VAW. In 2015 she negotiated a change to the LAA financial regulations in favour of students. She was a witness in the successful ROW 2016 Court of Appeal case win over the MOJ to force a change to the LAA VAW regulations.

Cris is an accredited trainer in HBV, FM, DV and Abduction and is a Higher Rights advocate. She has just written the Solicitors Guide to working with FGM for Resolution.

Memberships and Panels

Cris is a member of a number of specialist advisory groups and professional panels including:

• National Domestic abuse panel of Resolution as a specialist in FM/HBV/FGM
• BME women’s Domestic Violence Network.( Co-chair)
• UN/CEDAW Shadow report writing working party
• International federation of Women Lawyers (International executive committee member- UK representative/executive editor)
• National Advisory Board member, Rights Of Women.(ROW)
• Abandoned spouses working group (Southall Black Sisters)

Conference Presentations

Cris has presented at many National and International conferences including:

• International Conference; Reclaiming the agenda DV and BME women November 2010. Conference chair and keynote speaker.
• Lecture tour of Bangladesh on women, violence and the law December 2010.
• IWRAW [International Women’s Rights Action Watch] – Western European delegate to International lawyers symposium on UN/CEDAW in Malaysia. June 2011.
• Conference on FM/HBV. Keynote speaker, together with the Home office FMU lead on Forced marriage, and member of the BME women’s DV network September 2013.
• FIDA International women Lawyers conference London September 2013.
• 1 Billion Women Rising North East February 2014.
• FIDA (Fed’ International Women Lawyers) Bangalore November 2014
• Inspirational women of Law Conference 2015
• IMKAAN/Rights of women Forced marriage conference 2015

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Our thanks to a supporter for this piece published by the Telegraph.

For many years non-feminist perspectives on rape have been re-cast as ‘bias’, perfectly reasonable attitudes re-cast as ‘myths’. For the first time in the UK, jurors will be selected specifically to increase the prospect of conviction, and specifically the conviction of men. The ideologically-inspired Sexual Offences Act 2003 dictates that only men can be rapists.

There must surely already be a huge number of justifiably angry men in British prisons because of convictions following false rape allegations. This proposal – if implemented – will add considerably to their number.

This development is inextricably linked in with the ‘rape culture’ myth about which we protested in October, outside the CPS and in Parliament Square, in support of The Forgotten Man and The London Group – video here (15:05).

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Our thanks to a supporter for this. Extracts:

BRISTOL — A Danbury woman accused of filing a false rape complaint against a man in Bristol has been granted a program that could allow her to elude a conviction.

Mercedes Testone, 21, was granted the Supervised Diversionary Program Tuesday at her hearing in Bristol Superior Court. Judge Richard Dyer, who OK’d the program, said she will get treatment for an “emotional disability” — the details of which were not disclosed.

Dyer made a ruling that Testone’s disability had a “substantially adverse” effect on her behavior and could have contributed to her allegedly making a fake rape story up.

If Testone is successful in treatment, her case will be dismissed on June 19, 2018…

A day after filing the complaint, Testone called police and said she no longer wanted to pursue it. Later in the day, police said, she called again and admitted she made the whole rape story up because her child’s father had not let her daughter spend the night with her.

I predict an increasing number of women not being held accountable for their crimes, due to ’emotional disabilities’. Why doesn’t the criminal justice system adopt a new system, to save time and money? At police stations, a lady doctor could confirm that criminals claiming to have a vagina actually have one, then they could be released, and any potential charges dropped.

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One of the supporters to whom I owe the most is Jeff, who has been relentlessly encouraging since before the launch of Campaign for Merit in Business in early 2012, almost five years ago, a year before the launch of J4MB.

Jeff is a terrific source of leads to articles, and recently sent me a link to a short opinion piece by Monique Svazlian Tallon, titled, “Four Reasons Why We’re Still Talking About Diversity on Boards”. Jeff writes:

I have not read anything more infantile and ridiculous about gender diversity on boards than this diatribe, Mike. The sense of entitlement from this woman is overwhelming……I do hope you have the time to respond to her.

An extract from the piece should help you grasp what a blithering idiot the woman is:

The business case for having more women on boards is clear. It has been shown that when there are two or more women on a board of directors, the organisation performs better on it’s ROI by 66%. If any other investment opportunity presented this kind of potential gain, businesses would have jumped. But they haven’t. Some say it’s due to a lack of understanding of the business imperative, others point to a pipeline issue or a lack of mentoring.

The daft woman clearly believes that the appointment of two women to a corporate board will increase ROI by 66%. She evidently considers this a causal link – ‘If any other investment opportunity…’ – rather than correlation, the latter not providing any justification for increasing female representation on boards. The causal link is probably the opposite to the one she assumes – more financially successful companies can better afford to indulge in social engineering initiatives e.g. increasing the proportion of female directors on their boards.

The evidence from major longitudinal studies could not be clearer. Increasing female representation on corporate boards leads to corporate financial decline.

More idiocy:

… male performance is over-estimated compared to that of women. Because women are held to stricter and higher standards, the odds of them progressing are lower.

More:

When men and women perform an act, men are given credit more often while women are judged more harshly.

More:

There is a general belief that women cannot be both good mothers and good performers, therefore women with children are less likely to be hired and promoted.

More:

Women have the unique challenge of having to choose between being seen as competent or being liked, walking a tightrope between being too nice or being assertive, which often puts them in a double bind.

Monique Svazlian Tallon is an American, she unfortunately moved to Europe in 2009 after forming Highest Path. She  is just one of countless ideologically-driven parasites (many of them are men) making a living out of developing and executing gender / diversity / blah blah blah initiatives in major companies. Her company’s strapline reads, ‘Developing 21st Century Leaders”. It should, more accurately, read, ‘Developing 21st Century Leaders With Vaginas’.

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