The first International Conference on Men’s Issues was held near Detroit in 2014. It was hosted by A Voice for Men (AVfM), an American website, the world’s most popular website advocating for the human rights of men and boys. AVfM was founded by Paul Elam, a former mental health professional, in 2009. Paul Elam and Mike Buchanan were among the 18 speakers at the highly successful conference. Videos of all 18 talks are here.

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A lengthy piece in the Sydney Morning Herald… by a male journalist, for once. It’s a fairly balanced piece, but contains ridiculous assertions in some areas, including with respect to domestic violence, Paul Elam, and AVfM.

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Our thanks to John, 16, for this:

Hi Mike.

In recent weeks I have been exploring the injustices men face today on the internet. This is why I was so disgusted with the J4MB Wikipedia article. I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to hear no more on the issue, but in this email I would just like to express my support for you and your party. I used to edit Wikipedia – mainly music articles – so I know the frustration of having an edit reverted endlessly for no good reason (pure bias of the editor) while the editor cites the unhelpful gobbledegook that Wikipedia calls “guidelines”.

More importantly though, I think this case is an appalling example of how Feminists and the general Left refuse to take Men’s issues seriously, instead treating them with contempt and applying their own prejudices to a party.

I don’t suppose need me to tell you this, but Wikipedia is becoming less and less trusted by internet users, especially those of us who have had experience editing Wikipedia – so I wouldn’t attach too much concern to the matter.

It may interest you that Philip Cross is a habitual troublemaker on Wikipedia, and this article [J4MB: “Is GCHQ embedded in Wikipedia?”, by Craig Murray, author, broadcaster and human rights activist] may shed more light: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/03/the-astonishing-case-of-the-doppelganger/

[J4MB: The article starts –

“Once upon a time, being a leader writer for the Times implied Jupiter like vision and magisterial judgement, thundering out opinions that changed events across the globe. Astonishing that now it is done by the empty, bombastic Murdoch lickspittle Oliver Kamm.

On 7 February I published an article calling out Kamm for publishing a blatant and deliberate lie about me. The very next day, 8 February, my Wikipedia page came under obsessive attack from somebody called Philip Cross who made an astonishing 107 changes over the course of the next three days. Many were very minor, but the overall effect was undoubtedly derogatory. He even removed my photo on the extraordinary grounds that it was “not typical” of me. Edits to Wikipedia articles can be seen by clicking the “view history” tab top right. Here is just a sample of the record of “Philip Cross’” obsession with me. (graphic)

I don’t look at my own Wikipedia page, but was told about it yesterday. I therefore googled Philip Cross and was amazed to discover that he is allegedly an alias for Oliver Kamm attacking people online. Furthermore that Kamm has employed lawyers to threaten those who claim that he is Philip Cross, and by Kamm’s own account the Metropolitan Police have even warned off Neil Clark from saying Kamm is Cross. The Kamm/Cross affair was discussed on George Galloway’s show on Saturday.”

[J4MB: End of the Craig Murray article extract, back to John’s email.]

I would like to take this opportunity to applaud you for your work towards justice for what in the eyes of the media has become the lesser sex. I am a white male of 16 years, and it is a great reassurance to me as I turn into an adult that there are other people in the world who see the injustice feminism has caused, and continues to perpetuate. That you are so actively involved is even better.

I hope it means as much to you as it does for me when I say you have another supporter in me.

With warm regards,

John (London)

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A tip of the hat to Bettina for this. Good to see some quotations from Janice Fiamengo.

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Our thanks to Claire for alerting us to 20 revisions in the space of 44 hours (12:20, 24 July – 08:12, 26 July) to the Wikipedia page on J4MB. We’ve given up being bothered about Wikipedia editors’ assaults against us. For anyone with more time on their hands than we have, details of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ revision versions are here.

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Our thanks to Stu for this BBC piece. So will the police/CPS now start prosecuting women who abuse men (e.g. denying fathers access to children, committing paternity fraud, instigating divorce for personal financial gain…) and/or make false allegations against men (rape, domestic violence…) leading to those men’s suicides, bearing in mind the male suicide rate is 3.5 times that of the female suicide rate, and suicide is the #1 cause of death of men under 50 in the UK? Of course not. And even if they did, the BBC wouldn’t report the cases.

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Enjoy. The start of the BBC article:

The UK’s top mermaids are gathering this weekend in Northampton [J4MB: How will they get there? Northampton is a long way from the sea.] to battle it out for the national Miss Mermaid crown. But just what is it that motivates someone to don a tail and morph into a creature that is half-woman, half-fish? [J4MB: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, presumably.] The BBC has dived [J4MB: very good] into this unusual world to find out more.

“Like most young girls growing up, I always wanted to be a mermaid,” says reigning Miss Mermaid UK, 25-year-old Grace Page, from Reading.

That’s strange. Most young girls want to be a mermaid? The head of Linda Serck – the authoress of the piece – will surely roll over this. It’s surely common knowledge (at the BBC, at least) that most young girls want to grow up to be engineers, physicists, mathematicians, FTSE100 finance directors, hod carriers…

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Our thanks to L, a doctor, for this. Once again, the state refuses to spend money on protecting the health of males, in this case boys. It’s a reminder that while prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer kills women, the two gender-specific national screening programmes are both targeted at women – breast and cervical cancers. L writes:

As a doctor, I’m appalled and disappointed. Had I not taken the red pill, I’d be shocked. Sadly, it was predictable. Glad I left the NHS.

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Earlier today we posted a link to a piece by Jeannette Kupferman. Danuta Gruca-McGill responded with the following. We thank her for her permission to reproduce her text, and for her agreement that we use her real name.

Hi Mike,

What a powerful piece of writing and thinking by Jeannette Kupferman against feminism and the difficult world it has created for us all. It should be essential reading for all teenage girls.

It never ceases to amaze me that the Feminist Movement managed to brainwash such vast swathes of women to the degree that they go against and are in denial about their natural instincts to make Motherhood and Family their priority.

I’ve never been a lemming, I’ve always been very secure in myself and I don’t give a damn that I live differently to so many women today.

I have lived my life according to my own instincts and not pressured by “group think” and feel totally at peace as I’ve lived a life true to myself.

But then again I’ve been lucky and it’s been possible as I’ve been supported by a decent male who agrees in this lifestyle choice.

My husband is an only child, a product of a working mother, at a time when most women didn’t work.

She was obsessive, worked long hours, came home, my husband was shoved off to bed at the earliest opportunity so then she could spend the evening obsessively house working.

He was a latch key kid, spent summer holidays on his own, lonely, and said he didn’t want his kids to go through what he went through.

I feel none of this working mother guilt and stress as I know I’ve “done right”  by the most important people in my world – my family.

The sad thing is there may be many women who desperately want to be at home with their children, but we’ve created a world where it is financially impossible for them to do so.

The harsh reality is so many women have to go out to work not through some feminist leaning but through sheer financial necessity.

Britain for decades has fallen in love with materialism and consumerism and that costs and has to be paid for. And the system we live in doesn’t want that to change.

Feminism tries to paint women such as I as tied to the kitchen sink and lacking in freedom, but I feel I’m the one who is truly free.

I can pick and choose what I do every day and in what order.

I can put in as many hours or as few hours in every day as I see fit.

I have total free rein in the most meaningful area of my life – as to everything that goes on in the home and the direction the family takes.

I don’t feel guilty that I don’t contribute financially as I accept that I contribute and am of value massively in a different way.

My work-centred husband would be doing exactly the same job whether I was working or not. And if you can live on one salary comfortably then why be greedy and put extra strain and stress on a family by the female being out at work as well.

Also I hear so many women having problems with pregnancies, childbirth and the menopause and I’m convinced it’s because they are so over stretched.

I’ve sailed through all of these and I’m convinced it’s because I’m so relaxed in myself as I’m living the life that women should really be living.

All the Best
Danuta Gruca-McGill

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Our thanks to Rick for this excellent piece.

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