Our thanks to Jeff for this. A rare but welcome example of men showing solidarity in the face of ideologically-driven assaults on colleagues. An extract:

In a show of unity, the entire Minnesota football team boycotted practice and met with media Thursday night to announce that they were boycotting all football activities effective immediately.

Minnesota announced Tuesday that 10 football players — including two starting defensive backs — were suspended indefinitely in relation to a September sexual assault investigation. The Hennepin (Minn.) County prosecutor declined to charge any player with a crime, but the university has since begun its own investigation into the case.

Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner, receiver Drew Wolitarsky and tight end Duke Anyanwu spoke to media on behalf of their teammates Thursday night to announce that the boycott was their way of protesting the suspensions of their 10 teammates, whom they believe have been unjustly punished.

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A tip of the hat to HEqual for his dogged determination and critique of the BBC’s latest anti-MRA bias – here. Yesterday Philip Davies was interviewed by Jeremy Vine on his Radio 2 show, an outrageous example of BBC bias. We hope to post it on our YouTube channel in the next day or two.

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The odious Jess Phillips MP (L, Birmingham Yardley) – a particularly deserving Toxic Feminist of the Month – is a member of the Women and Equalities Committee to which Philip Davies is being appointed. So what did the Yardley Yob have to say about the news? For this we turn to the first article on the matter published by the Guardian – here:

Labour’s outspoken MP renowned for her feminist views, Jess Phillips said: “I’ll not be standing in the way of it. I have every faith that the intelligence and skills of those on the committee will mean he will have little effect, much like in the rest of his career.”

Hardly surprisingly, there are just two men on the 11-member Women and Equalities Committee, the official website of which is here. They are Gavin Shuker (L, Luton South) and the openly gay Ben Howlett (C, Bath). From the same Guardian article:

The Labour Party said that select committees were matters for MPs, while Labour MP, Gavin Shuker, announced the news and then added: “Just let that sink in for a minute.”

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Our thanks to Jeff for this piece on – what are the chances? – the BBC website.

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In the healthcare section of our 2015 general election manifesto (p.65) we proposed that hormone replacement therapy be made available on the NHS for men, as it has long been for women.

A tip of the hat to the Centre for Men’s Health for this, which includes a link to an interesting video on ITV’s This Morning.

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A tip of the hat to Mr Collins for this, just published. He includes the text of the lengthy email he’s sent his MP, and copied to Philip Davies (philip.davies.mp@parliament.uk).

If you’re unsure of your MP’s email address, you’ll find it here. It’s sorted in alphabetical order in column B i.e. ‘Surname, Forename’.

Douglas at antimisandry.com has also prepared draft emails, one for Conservative MPs, one for other MPs, here.

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[This blog piece was originally posted in 2016, we felt it was time for a re-post today, 1 August, 2023. Check out the comments including the lengthy and insightful ones from William Gruff.]

Finally, an article about Philip Davies’s appointment to the Women and Equalities Committee in the feminist-compliant Telegraph – here. Predictably it’s by Glen Poole, a feminist key player (along with Ally Fogg, Guardian journalist) in the recently-launched Men and Boys Coalition. You may need to register to view the piece, but it’s free and easy to do so. Extracts:

It’s hard not to laugh at the pantomime nature of this bizarre news, as the Eddie the Eagle of men’s issues proves himself, once again, to be the only MP willing and capable of going for gold and putting the problems facing British men and boys on the political agenda… [The only MP…? Has Poole not heard of Karl McCartney (C, Lincoln)?]

Can an MP who describes those concerned with women’s equality as “militant feminists and politically correct males”, seriously make a constructive contribution to this global agenda? It doesn’t seem likely…

I don’t wish to do Davies a disservice. In winning an historic International Men’s Day debate in parliament last month, he took a statesmanlike and politically astute approach, gaining the support of both male and female MPs from the Government and Opposition benches. So he is clearly a man who can play the game of politics to get what we wants.

Yet when it comes to gender politics, what he wants is confused. Davies is best described as an anti-feminist, a form of gender politics so lacking in independence, innovation and originality, that its primary raison d’être is not to advocate for men or gender equality for all, but to dogmatically oppose feminism…

When your starting point for engaging in gender issues is “I don’t know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want and what I don’t want is anything feminist”, well that’s just anti-political-correctness gone mad. [No, Glen, it’s your idiotic mis-representations of both feminism and anti-feminism which are mad.]

That’s not to say that feminism has all the answers and should be free from criticism… [Can anyone still doubt Poole is a feminist?]

Putting Davies on the committee to scrutinize the GEO is unlikely to change this approach and will probably cause the type of conflict and confusion that fuels the gender wars. The only sensible way around this absurd state of affairs is to ban Davies from the Committee – but not before a Minister for Men and Boys has been appointed with responsibility for leading on the Government’s work to tackle the “problems men and boys have”.

To ensure this work is carried out effectively, a new Committee for Men and Boys could be established and MPs of all parties, whether they are feminist, non-feminist or anti-feminist, invited to join Davies and work together to address the male half of the gender equality problem.

Poole surely knows that at this time there’s a snowflake’s chance in hell that the government will appoint a Minister for Men and Boys, or establish a Committee for Men and Boys. He is seeking to mock, downplay, and derail Philip Davies’s important and courageous achievements in the long struggle for men’s and boys’ human rights.

Predictably, Poole plugged his Men and Boys Coalition in the piece. I’m just surprised he didn’t plug his ill-fated Brighton conferences. Nobody mourns their passing, from what I can tell. I don’t think Poole has ever referred in his articles to the far more successful and important second International Conference on Men’s Issues held five months ago in London – attendees came from 20 countries – let alone the equally successful and important first one in Detroit (2014).

Poole is not only a blithering idiot, he’s a dangerous blithering idiot.

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Our thanks to Bryn for this. A new men’s refuge would be particularly welcome if it accommodated men as well as their children. To the best of my knowledge, not one refuge in the UK currently permits this.

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An insightful piece on AVfM, including some women’s extraordinarily hateful tweets about short men. But women are perfectly happy to partner with short men when they’re rich, as Bernie Ecclestone knows. His ex-wife Slavica, a former Armani model and the mother of his two daughters, is more than a foot taller than him.

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Three days ago we posted a blog piece which included links outlining the dangers of parliament ratifying the Istanbul Convention, the innocuous-sounding ‘Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’.

Our thanks to Douglas at antimisandry.com for the following:

Suddenly, the matter of the Istanbul Convention has come to an urgent point.

I have just discovered that this coming Friday, 16th December, a private members’ bill is going into second reading to enact the Istanbul Convention. Details here.

It is important that your MP knows to vote against this bill. Your MP can’t be expected to be informed about everything and an innocuous and helpful-sounding bill like “Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill 2016-17” is something few would object to unless informed.

The DAY AFTER TOMORROW your MP might vote for this, or fail to vote against it. Your earnest appeal to them not to be fooled by the pretty words and title and to vote DOWN this bill might be all that is needed to stop it.

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