Our thanks to Martin for this, a piece in the Guardian. Oddly, no journalist is cited, and it’s ‘paid for by MQ: Transforming Mental Health’. Is this a sign of the financial pressures the ghastly rag is facing? MQ’s website is here.

One possible explanation for increasing rates of mental illness in young women is never admitted by government departments, nor in the mainstream media – the increasing pressure on women to act like men in terms of paid employment.

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We recently presented Harriet Harman MP with a Lying Feminist of the Month award in connection with her recent claim that she’d been sexually propositioned by a lecturer at York University, when she was a student. The man died 19 years ago.

Our thanks to William for this.

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Our thanks to Martin for this. The key element is an audio podcast (23:54) from the International Business Times. The male interviewer treats Julie Bindel – the winner of a Toxic Feminist of the Month award – as if she’s an objective commentator on social issues, rather than the vile feminist harridan she has been for 30+ years.

Martin writes:

Women have been practising prostitution since times immemorial. Prostitutes have followed  hordes of gold miners all the way to the Yukon, the soldiers of the Roman Empire, etc., always with the same motivation : to make money quickly and with relative ease.

Why should men be punished for paying for sex? In the natural order, males have to earn sex, while females try to offer it to highest bidders. Both types of behaviour are natural, even normal.

Prostitution has many forms, and not only the sex act itself.  Every time a woman waits for a man to pay for something, it is a form of prostitution.

If men are to be punished for paying, then women must be equally punished for receiving any form of payment, favour or gifts from men other than family members.

Either we do it equally, or we don’t do it at all.

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Our thanks to HEqual for this.

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Enjoy.

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Our thanks to Kevin for this, a particularly silly article in the Guardian in which Special Snowflake writes the following:

Last year, he [Philip Davies MP] spoke at a conference organised by the Justice for Men and Boys party, which is known for presenting petty “whining feminist” certificates to women’s rights advocates, and promoting inflammatory, misogynistic articles on its website such as one entitled 13 reasons women lie about being raped.

The hyperlink (in the article) takes the reader to an excellent piece by Janet Bloomfield, whose memorable London conference (2016) talk is here.

We’re disappointed Snowflake didn’t provide hyperlinks to her collection of J4MB awards:

• two Whiny Feminist of the Month awards (she was the inaugural member of The Whine Club)
• two Lying Feminist of the Month awards

If this odious narcissist didn’t exist, the world would be a less whiny, more honest, and altogether happier place.

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Our thanks to Elizabeth, who has just emailed this:

I have just discovered that, in Ireland, seemingly without an official announcement or any explanation , the ‘Minister for Justice, Equality and Women’s Rights’ recently became the ‘Minister for Justice and Equality’. The thinking, reportedly, remains the same, and a glance at the homepage for The Department of Justice and Equality reveals that their Gender Equality Division is working on (and consulting the public on) a National Women’s Strategy. However, the fact that they have felt the need to cover up their partisanship – and that this move hasn’t been publicised by the government – speaks volumes.

I have sent The Department for Justice and Equality a FOI request asking when and why this happened, but won’t hold my breath…

The name change is surely a recognition that an overt concern only for women’s rights is becoming untenable. It’s only a name change, however, and the covert concern for women only will continue. In the UK there are plenty of bodies with seemingly non-ideological titles – the Equality and Human Rights Commission being an obvious example – whose focus is overwhelmingly on “women’s rights”, or in plain English, the relentless extension of women’s privileges, and the inevitable resulting disadvantaging / emasculation of men.

I predict it won’t be long before the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons renames itself the Equalities Committee, following the recent appointment of the heroic Philip Davies MP.

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Ally Fogg is a mangina and a hack at The Guardian, and should need no further introduction to followers of this blog. From time to time (since the launch of the public consultation exercise for the J4MB 2015 manifesto) he’s criticised J4MB and myself, I’ve criticise his blog pieces, life goes on. His bio on his blog Heteronormative Patriarchy:

Ally Fogg is a UK-based freelance writer and journalist, whose day job includes a weekly column on Comment is Free at http://www.guardian.co.uk [where ‘thoughtcrime’ comments are routinely deleted by the paper, including comments on MGM] and miscellaneous scribbles elsewhere, mostly on issues of UK politics and social justice. This blog is dedicated to exploring gender issues from a male perspective, unshackled from any dogmatic ideology. [OK, righto!]

Ally is often accused of being a feminist lapdog and an anti-feminist quisling; a misogynist and a misandrist; a mangina and a closet MRA, and concludes that the only thing found in pigeonholes is pigeon shit. He can be contacted most easily through http://www.allyfogg.co.uk or @allyfogg on Twitter.

Anyone who accuses Fogg of being an anti-feminist, a misogynist, or an MRA, must surely be without the power of critical thinking, so is (ironically) probably a feminist too.

Time and again Fogg – in common with Glen Poole, another mangina – has denied being a feminist, yet his output leaves nobody in any doubt that he is. Fogg and Poole hold in common the ridiculous feminist position that male disadvantaging isn’t the natural and inevitable consequence of female privileging, claiming “it’s not a zero-sum game” or some such equally ridiculous guff.

I was interested to read at the start of one of Fogg’s recent blog pieces On the psychology of domestic violence the following:

Just before Christmas, Dr Ben Hine gave a public lecture in London entitled ‘Challenging the Gendered Discourse on domestic violence.’

The lecture is now online in two parts, totalling about 90 minutes, and if you are interested in the social psychology around domestic violence it is absolutely essential viewing. I’m a big fan of Ben & his work, we’ve collaborated in bringing together the Men and Boys Coalition and generally I think we couldn’t be much closer together on the same page, politically.

Dr Ben Hine is a psychologist, a publicly self-identifying feminist, and a fellow founding member of the Men & Boys Coalition, along with other manginas (including Poole). Hopefully one day Fogg and Poole will have the courage of their convictions and ‘out’ themselves as feminists, publicly. I don’t think anyone will be the least bit surprised, if and when they do. But in the meantime Fogg’s comment about Dr Ben Hine, that, ‘we couldn’t be much closer together on the same page, politically’, will have to suffice.

This morning Fogg published a new piece, Being Philip Davies. He refers to a debate in which Philip Davies spoke yesterday, and sneers at the heroic man in a similar manner to that used recently by Poole. The following caught my eye:

Despite Davies’s intervention, the motion passed. The nature of backbench legislation is that it is unlikely to become law, but in any case, here’s a very brief plan of action. Between now and the bill’s second reading on 24^th of March, I’ll get together with colleagues at the Men and Boys Coalition and suggest we write to Nusrat Ghani, offer our thanks and full support for this important measure, and ask her to ensure that the wording of the bill is explicitly inclusive of male victims. I would very much hope this is something on which we could trust to the support of LGBT charities and campaigns, and also the support of organisations working with victims of family and relationship violence, particularly in South Asian communities. If Ghani and other MPs do wish to explicitly exclude male victims from these measures, let’s put them in a position where they have to spell that out and justify it.

What we have here is a fairly clear example of where lobbying for male victims can be straightforward, winnable and the right thing to do.

I wish Fogg’s initiative well, but you have to wonder why he’s proposing to write to the MP on this particular matter, after saying himself that ‘The nature of backbench legislation is that it is unlikely to become law’. Is this just a token gesture, then, so the MP can go along with what he suggests, giving the impression of engagement, but having precisely no real-world impact? Writing to MPs on the deeply sexist nature of The Istanbul Convention would make far more sense, as others have done.

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Our thanks to Kevin for this. The description:

Donald Trump should be invited to make an official State Visit because he is the leader of a free world and U.K. is a country that supports free speech and does not believe that people that oppose our point of view should be gagged.

If you’re a British citizen, please join me in signing it, which will take only seconds. Thanks.

The target for requiring parliament to debate a petition is 100,000 signatures, and it’s already passed 220,000, in less than 48 hours. The motion will be debated 20 February.

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Our thanks to Jeff for this. The start of the piece:

A council manager was forced to quit his job after being bullied by a boss who regularly called him a “f***wit,” a tribunal heard.

Paul Bartle worked as adult safeguarding operational manager at Hull City Council but resigned in 2015 after working at the authority for 22 years.

Mr Bartle is now claiming constructive dismissal at an industrial tribunal.

Giving evidence, he said assistant head of service Clare Brown had bullied him for a decade without anyone doing anything about it.

“All I wanted was an apology. This woman made my life a misery for ten years,” he said.

“People were frightened to speak out about her behaviour because it was tolerated by the council.

“It got to the point where I would have to stop my car on the way to work in the morning because I was in tears, having panic attacks. I felt physically sick just walking into the office because I felt so utterly undermined and redundant yet it was my job to keep people safe in the city and I think I did that well.”

We wish Mr Bartle every success with his case.

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