BBC3: How this feminist (Cassie Jaye) found herself sympathising with the men’s rights movement

Our thanks to Nigel for this, on the BBC3 website. BBC3 was available as a terrestrial channel until last year, now it’s only online. The article is about Cassie Jaye and The Red Pill, the writer has made every effort to not display sympathy or empathy with Cassie or recognize the men’s issues raised by the film. An extract should convey the sneering tone of the piece:

She interviewed 44 people over three and a half years, from the most extreme men’s rights activists (MRAs) [Who might they be, one wonders? And what does ‘extreme’ mean in this context, anyway?] to prominent feminists such as Katherine Spillar, the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine.

“I thought that it would just be these ridiculous frumpy guys going around with picket signs saying ‘men are oppressed’.”

There are, in fact, a lot of frumpy guys going around with picket signs in The Red Pill. [OK, so men should talk about their issues, then they’ll get sympathy, right? Ha.]

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Mother, 30, who throttled her baby daughter with a pair of knickers just minutes after giving birth in her bathroom is spared prison

Our thanks to Sam for this. Extracts:

A new mother who throttled her baby daughter to death with a pair of knickers within minutes of giving birth in her bathroom has been spared jail.

Gintare Suminaite, 30, killed her child, the product of a secret affair with a fellow Lithuanian, at the bedsit she shared with her boyfriend on April 5 last year.

Last month, the defendant, from Bognor Regis, West Sussex, denied murder but admitted infanticide as she was mentally disturbed by the effects of giving birth…

Following her arrest, Suminaite said she strangled her baby but did not know why…

She said she did not know why she did it as she had no mental problems.

The judge’s account in the article ends with this:

‘At the time of giving birth your were in a state of extreme anxiety and panic amounting to a temporary impairment of the balance of your mind.’

The more obvious explanation for her murder of the baby, that she had tried to hide the evidence of her affair, appears – from the newspaper account, at least – not to have been considered. The woman didn’t even have to appear in court in person, and needless to say she complied with an unwritten rule for women being charged with offences, copious weeping:

The defendant, who appeared in court by videolink from Bronzefield jail, wept throughout the hearing.

Women are above the law to a degree unfathomable to men. It is unimaginable that if it had been a man who had killed the baby girl – the baby’s father, perhaps – he might have walked free from the court? What value does the sentence place on the baby girl’s life? None. Any woman reading about the case – and similar cases – will know she can murder her new-born baby, and not serve a prison sentence.

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Sarah Sands, feminist editor of the London Evening Standard, to become the new editor of BBC Today

Sarah Sands has been the editor of the London Evening Standard since 2012, and anyone familiar with the rag will know it trots out feminist narratives as reliably as The Guardian.

The BBC is becoming ever more tightly controlled by feminists. Accordingly, it’s been announced Ms Sands will become the next editor of Today, the BBC’s flagship morning news programme, broadcast on Radio 4 from 06:00 – 09:00.

An extract from a piece in The Guardian:

Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music. She is understood to have beaten four women on an all-female shortlist. [our emphasis]

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Tom Golden: Gynocentrism and the forces on men

A tip of the hat to Tom Golden, an American therapist and speaker, for this (video, 12:43).

Tom’s website is Men Are Good, the associated YouTube channel is here. He gave a presentation at the first International Conference on Men’s Issues, held in Detroit in 2014. Videos of all 17 presentations, including my own, are here.

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First male sexual abuse service Clinic26 opens in London

Of the 20 areas we covered in our 2015 general election manifesto, where the human rights of men and/or boys are assaulted by the actions and/or inactions of the state, the lengthiest section (7 pages) was devoted to sexual abuse (pp.31-7). An extract from the first of the seven pages:

Few women are held accountable for sex offences, including those women who sexually abuse children. It’s known from a major American survey (details below) that slightly over 25% of sex offences are committed by women against men (with no male accomplices).

We would therefore expect the male/female ratio of people charged with sex offences to be a little under 3:1. In the UK, in 2013, the ratio was 146:1.

Our thanks to Jeff for some good news, the opening of the first male sexual abuse clinic in London.

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Public Health England: a tax-funded neo-temperance campaign group

I seldom drink alcohol these days, but I was interested in a piece written by Chris Snowdon of the Institute of Economic Affairs. It’s a good example of how organizations with seemingly reputable names – Public Health England, in this case – corrupt public discourse and political processes, in part because journalists in the mainstream media fail to challenge the organizations adequately, and mindlessly repeat the content of their reports, press releases etc.

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