Month: January 2017

‘The Red Pill’ in Brisbane: a heroine’s journey

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A tip of the hat to Peter Wright for this. Both the Brisbane screening and the Q&A (Paul Elam, Tom ‘Men Are Good’ Golden) clearly went very well, and we understand the Q&A will be posted shortly on AVfM, whereupon we’ll link to it.

We look forward to the screenings and Q&A sessions in Norwich this week. Barry Wright is the estimable man behind the Norwich screenings, having invested over £10,000 in the project, much of it spent on flight costs and other costs for the Q&A panel (Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Erin Pizzey, Dr RandomerCam, myself). His £7,500 fundraiser to help defray his costs has attracted £700 so far, if you can afford to make a donation – even a small one – you can do so here. Thanks.

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New blog software

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We’ve just transitioned from one version of the blog enabling software (WordPress) to another. The new version give us additional options, to better enable us to make some changes over time. Little will seem different to blog followers at first, but over time you’ll notice improvements e.g. the introduction of Disqus in the near future will enable you to edit or delete your comments, and you’ll be notified (by email) of people’s responses to your comments.

The blog’s URL has changed from http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com to https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wpcomstaging.com, the only change being shown in bold.

We have a backlog of pieces to post, and hope to get through them in the next couple of days.

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Philip Davies interviewed by the New Statesman

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A piece published two days ago by the relentlessly feminist New Statesman. The two hyperlinks below will take you to the same Guardian article. Davies clearly knew what he was getting into, but of course the feminist propaganda shines through at every opportunity. Excerpts:

Davies recently offended women’s rights campaigners by accusing “feminist zealots” of wanting women to “have their cake and eat it”, regarding equality. This was during a speech he made at a men’s rights conference hosted by the anti-feminist Justice for Men and Boys (J4MB) party (which hands out a “lying feminist of the month” award).

His view is that there should be equality “of opportunity”. Opponents feel this discounts the structural sexism and prejudice which put women and minorities on the back foot…

Davies does reflect that “it’s a lot harder for men stereotypically to share their feelings with people, men are sort of encouraged to bottle up their thoughts in a way that women don’t feel that pressure.” He pauses. “I don’t know.”

I agree with Davies on this – one of the few opinions he voices without his trademark cheery certainty. But many of the feminists he opposes would argue that men and boys struggle because they, too, are hurt by rigid gender expectations – which is an argument for why feminism would benefit everyone.

A few years ago I was libelled by Laurie Penny in her column in the New Statesman, after an interview in London. This may have contributed to my satisfaction when watching a video (6:04) of Professor David Starkey aggressively – but justifiably – haranguing Ms Penny at the Sunday Times ‘Festival of Ideas’ in 2012. Enjoy.

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John Bercow’s ASBO warning to Paula Sherriff MP

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Paula Sherriff is the ghastly Labour MP – she’d been selected as a candidate from an all-women shortlist, predictably – who won our November 2016 Lying Feminist of the Month award in recognition of lies she’d uttered whilst attacking J4MB during her speech in the House of Commons chamber, during Philip Davies’s debate last International Men’s Day.

Our thanks to HEqual for pointing us to this (video, 0:11). If we get a longer piece, we’ll replace this one.

A short piece by Steerpike in The Spectator is here.

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The Home Office is a week late in replying to our latest FOI request on MGM

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Last November we sent Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, an FOI request in relation to MGM. A month later, after receiving her department’s response, we posted a blog piece with the snappy title, “A Home Office contender for a ‘Most stupid response to a FOI request’ award (in relation to the legality of MGM)”.

We promptly send Amber Rudd a new FOI request, here. It consisted of this simple question:

Why are the police not bringing prosecutions against those who carry out non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, the infliction of bodily harm on minors without the legal capacity to give permission to that bodily harm, in breach of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861?

We received an email acknowledgement from the Home Office, which included this:

We will aim to send you a full response by 05/01/2017 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

Almost a week has passed since the deadline, and we’ve emailed the Home Office to point out the delay, but we’ve heard nothing back. We’ll keep posting weekly updates about the delay, until we get a response.

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