Our thanks to Steve for this. Liz Jones admitted in an article published in 2011 that she’d tried (but failed) to become pregnant by using the contents of both her ex-husbands’ used condoms.

For a little light relief, we recommend Why engagement rings are a scam (video, 3:53).

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Yesterday we posted a link to a piece on the Electoral Reform Society’s calculation that 22 million votes at the recent general election were irrelevant, because of the dreadful ‘first past the post’ system. V comments:

The problem with democracy is basically that groups of people who fundamentally disagree with a state’s policies cannot secede from that state. As well as that, democratically elected politicians have limited incentive for good governance as they know they will not be around forever and so there is always the temptation to spend some of the state’s capital on rewarding their supporters, in other words it encourages bad husbandry and poor governance.

In the UK’s case (and in western Europe generally) democracies are in thrall to certain favoured groups such as feminists, LGBTQ, and environmentalists. This phenomenon bears a clear relationship to the collapse of traditional (sexual) morality, and traditional religion in general.

Democracies by their nature encourage collectivist solutions, and are merely a less drastic form of totalitarianism than communism or fascism.

One can see this in the massive growth of state spending since 1900. One could say the triumph of democracy in its modern form began in 1918 with Woodrow Wilson’s declaration that he wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and in doing so, broke up the essentially benign Austro-Hungarian Empire, symbolising the death of the monarchical principle. Democracies are now in a demonstrable state of decadence and are coming to their end.

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The ‘first past the post’ system is idiotic and undemocratic.

The Electoral Reform Society explain that 22 million votes were wasted at the election, and 0.0016% of voters switching their allegiance would have given the Conservatives a majority.

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Enjoy. Yes, the only reason for this blog piece was the headline, above.

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Our thanks to Stu for this. Extracts:

Revising its guidance for prosecutors, the Crown Prosecution Service said the impact of tweeting abuse can be as “equally devastating” as shouting it…

Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said online abuse can fuel “dangerous hostility”…

The new legal guidance and accompanying CPS public statements guide prosecutors deciding whether to charge suspects of offences motivated by hostility towards people of different races, religions, sexuality, gender and disability. [J4MB: Does this mean that only men can be charged with online abuse towards women? We know most online abuse of women is carried out by other women.]

Cases should be pursued with the same “robust and proactive approach used with offline offending”…

Hate crime is any criminal offence “which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice”. [J4MB: It’s perfectly reasonable for people to be hostile towards feminists online, damn near obligatory. Our blogs are hostile towards feminists. We’re driven by an understanding of these odious people, not prejudice.]

The difficulty is working out where the line is drawn between that and words that are simply offensive.

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My thanks to the supporter who’s pointed us to a link on Cassie Jaye’s website, the Q&A following one of the screenings of The Red Pill in Norwich seven months ago – here (video, 1:00:21). It’s had almost 150,000 hits.

I’m on the panel along with Cassie, Paul Elam, Erin Pizzey, Dr Randomercam, a couple of feminists, and a transgendered person. If you click on the footage at 52:24 you’ll see the indefatigable Patrick Smyth ask the final question of the Q&A. Cassie’s response is interesting – albeit frustrating to many of us, Patrick included – and she then goes on to explain why she no longer self-identifies as a feminist, which is also well worth catching.

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In January 2014 Julie Bindel lied about her involvement with a website which I’d mentioned in the course of my speech during a debate at Durham University, and while she later apologized to me privately in a phone conversation, she declined to do so publicly. The story is here. She was a particularly worthy winner of our Toxic Feminist of the Month award.

Bindel’s article The ‘sex worker’ myth is in the current edition of The Spectator, a magazine to which I’ve subscribed for some time. The article is absurd on so many levels, little more than a series of unsubstantiated anecdotes – without evidence, I’ll assume most were invented by Bindel – and rehashing of long-discredited feminist narratives. It spans two pages in the print edition, and includes one (short) paragraph on boys being prostituted, as a way to batter alleged ‘powerful men’. There is not one sentence on adult male prostitutes, because that would derail the feminist narrative in itself.

I’ve just emailed the magazine (letters@spectator.co.uk) and invite you to do likewise. The content of my email:

Sir: As a subscriber to your magazine, and the leader of Justice for Men & Boys http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com, the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys on many fronts, I am regularly appalled by the amount of absurd feminist narratives you publish. But to publish an article on prostitution by Julie Bindel, one of the most odious (lesbian) radical feminists of her generation, is beyond the pale. It would not be out of place in the New Statesman.

Might I suggest a non-feminist narrative on an important gendered issue, for a change? I’d be happy to write an article for you on why non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors – Male Genital Mutilation, MGM – is still not the subject of action from the criminal justice system despite being illegal (as the infliction of Actual Bodily Harm, probably Grievous Bodily Harm) under the Offences Against the Person Act (1861). No exemptions from the law are permitted on religious or cultural grounds.

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Our thanks to Bryn for this.

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We’ve just received comments on our blog piece from the QC Clinic, Coventry – qcclinic.contact@gmail.com. It’s a nonsensical response, full of inaccuracies, from someone who, let us remind ourselves, makes money from illegally mutilating male minors’ genitals. He will shortly be on the Directory of Known Genital Mutilators, and we’ll post a link to that.

While reading the comments you should be aware the police were very clear (in their discussions with us) that they were in touch with the 12-year-old boy, and his family, in Coventry. They explained the boy’s scheduled circumcision appointment had been cancelled, and why. They provided details of the case which we have not yet put in the public arena. We’ve pointed the QC Clinic to four of William Collins’s pieces on MGM:

Male Genital Mutilation
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits – Part 1
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits – Part 2
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits – Part 3

The QC Clinic’s comments:

Circumcisions are performed in hospitals all over the country for health reasons and many hospitals in the country perform circumcisions for cosmetic reasons. There are many civilised countries that have a large male circumcised population, for instance America (which boasts the most advanced medical research and medical facilities in the world) has an 80% male circumcised population. Our clinic is very well run we ensure best practice, everyone is consulted especially the patient. There are many long term health benefits that outweigh the disadvantages of getting circumcisions done.

If our clinics that are professionally run and work with all the authorities close down then we will be replaced by backstreet circumcision places, and only then will we be well within our rights to discuss circumcision and mutilation in the same sentence. So please, if you are truly concerned then think of the bigger picture people. Any protests are pointless as circumcisions are perfectly legal as long as they are performed by professionals, consulted and consented for.

Our clinic were the ones who in fact informed the police and child protection agencies (they were none the wiser) about a possible boy of 12 fearing circumcision, while you were too busy stiring up hate without knowing the facts, we were instead acting responsibly. The police initially thought there was a child of that description on our patient list but after contacting our bookings department they realised this patient wasn’t on our list.

We work very closely with all the authorities, and they are more than happy with the best practices and measures we take to ensure child safety. Our clinic is the most professional and patient centred clinic in the UK, we work with only NHS staff. We have qualified therapists and nurses on site. We do consent children and speak to them separately from their parents or family members just to make sure there’s no force or pressure.

If you are well and truly concerned for male justice you should be protesting against back street clinics and that don’t have all these measures and best practices in place. Thank you for your time and apologies for all this misunderstanding.

We look forward to protesting outside the clinic again.

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The latest excellent piece from Paul, prompted by an article by the odious Amanda Marcotte for Salon.com.

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