An interesting development. The estimable ladies behind the initiative are named in a response when you scroll down the page. We wish them well.

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Our thanks to E for capturing this excellent piece (44:58), first broadcast 11 days ago. Over 15:06 – 26:32 there’s a studio discussion with Ian McNicholl, a former victim of extreme domestic violence, and an Honorary Patron and Ambassador of Mankind Initiative. At the 2013 National Conference for Male Victims of Domestic Violence, Ian gave a talk which reduced many in the audience to tears. Our blog piece on the matter is here. I hope to attend next year’s conference.

Mark Brooks is the Chairman of Mankind Initiative, and his interview on the programme is over 26:33 – 29:18. You can make a donation to his charity here.

It would be something if the BBC had programmes like this on its higher-audience channels, such as Radio 4. We are of the view that the BBC broadcasts pieces like this so that when challenged about their lack of coverage of female perpetrators and male victims of domestic violence, they can point to such pieces, however vanishingly rare they are compared with their pieces on male perpetrators and female victims. The expression ‘a drop in the ocean’ comes inevitably to mind.

In January 2014 we made our first official complaint to the BBC, in relation to their breach of 50+ editorial guidelines during a lengthy Newsnight piece about domestic violence. Our complaint was contemptuously rejected – in part because the BBC could point to some pieces on male victims – as was our subsequent appeal. Details here.

We have many more pieces on BBC anti-male bias on our Key posts page.

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Our thanks to Stu for this. He writes:

I’d heard women are capable of multi-tasking, but this is the first example I’ve come across in a while.

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Our thanks to Tim for this. Excerpts:

Six babies have been infected with herpes after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted regulations on the the controversial Jewish circumcision ritual, health officials said.

The ancient Orthodox Jewish practice known as metzitzah b’peh, requires a mohel, the person performing the circumcision, to suck blood from the baby’s wound…

Doctors found the newborn had been infected with herpes simplex virus-1, more commonly known as oral herpes (HSV-1). The baby boy was hospitalized for two weeks and is now recovering.

The ultra-Orthodox ritual has become controversial because of the health risks to infants as mohels are not even required to be tested for herpes…

Leaders in the Orthodox group had argued that the regulations violated their religious freedom…

Health officials said the ritual has been linked 24 cases of herpes since 2000. Two of the infants who were infected suffered brain damage and two died.

These barbaric violations of the genitals of 8-day-old baby boys are also happening in Orthodox Jewish communities in the UK. We invite you to join us at our forthcoming anti-MGM protests, details here.

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Our thanks to Jeff and others for this. The start of the piece (on the BBC):

A female judge’s warning that drunk women are putting themselves at greater risk of rape was “victim-blaming”, a police commissioner has said.

Judge Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to “drink themselves into the ground” but their “disinhibited behaviour” could put them in danger.

The remarks would stop victims speaking out, Toxic Feminist of the Month Northumbria PCC Vera Baird said.

But the judge said she did not think it was wrong for a judge “to beg women to take actions to protect themselves”.

Francis Fitzgibbon, Criminal Bar Association chairman, said it was “sensible” for women “to be educated to know there are predatory men out there”.

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Our thanks to Tony for this, an example of a woman abusing her privilege. A man of the same height and build, acting in a similar manner, would probably have been knocked unconscious.

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Laura nails it. The piece was published on TCW four days ago, on the eve of International Whiners’ Day, and the comments section is now closed. I do wish TCW would introduce auto-notification of new blog pieces.

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Our thanks to Sean for this. Extracts:

Speaking at the Retail Week Live conference on Thursday, he (John Allan, Tesco chairman) said: “If you are female and from an ethnic background and preferably both then you are in an extremely propitious period.

“For a thousand years men have got most of these jobs, the pendulum has swung very significantly the other way now and will do for the foreseeable future I think.

“If you are a white male – tough – you are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.”

These days I’m embarrassed to admit I spent my 30-year career as a business executive, such is the idiocy and complicity of the senior executives in FTSE350 companies and elsewhere who’ve enthusiastically embraced feminist demands for more women on boards.

Regular followers of this blog will surely need no reminding of the evidence (five longitudinal studies) compiled in 2012 by Campaign for Merit in Business demonstrating a clear causal link between increasing female representation on boards, and corporate financial decline. That evidence has never been challenged by proponents of ‘more women on boards’.

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David Baddiel is a blithering idiot. Excerpts:

Held on International Women’s Day, Intelligence Squared brought together a fantastic panel of speakers to discuss “Feminism Is for Everyone”.

BBC newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis chaired the event, from the outset clarifying the discussion was not to be focused on the merits of feminism as such – taking equality as a given aim – but rather the inclusivity of feminism and how the so-called “fifth wave” has played out in our current climate…

David Baddiel made light of being the representative of his gender in the discussion: “I think I’m here to prove this is the inverse of another BBC panel show…” The comedian, actor and writer brought a natural humour and contrasting insight, highlighting the inherited understanding of what it means to be a man as not only damaging to women’s position in society but men as well: “Suicide is still the biggest killer of young men in the UK. [It’s the biggest killer of men under 50.] Working class men particularly – they don’t feel they have a way of expressing themselves.”

For him, crucially important is a toxic prevailing paradigm where mainstream media (cringing that he used Trump’s term, though unavoidable) is selling itself on images of women, feeding a stereotyped idea of a what a women should look like: “Everywhere you look, we are faced with a one-dimensional woman designed to sell you something – we don’t notice this enormous objectification of women everywhere.”

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Our thanks to Stu for this. Excerpts:

In mitigation, Michael Garvey told the court the “mischief happened because discipline had broken down in the prison system”…

During sentencing, Judge Nicholas Dean told her: “It does seem to me, on the face of it, there was reluctance (to get involved with Dobson) partly because of the risks if detected, partly because you knew that you were being manipulated yourself.

Just another example of a judge not according women moral agency.

Can anyone seriously doubt that the feminisation of the prison service has contributed to the breakdown of discipline? Or that the amount of drugs, the number of mobile phones etc. being smuggled into prisons is another consequence? Every time we see video footage of disruption by prisoners – drug-fuelled or otherwise – the male officers rush to the situation, with the female officers being careful to arrive later. As with the police, women are paid the same as men, but take fewer risks. It will inevitably be the same if and when women serve on the front line in the Army, putting men’s lives at risk, as well as their own.

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