It’s that time of year again, the annual gathering of manginas in London – here.

Our thanks to James for an embarrassing piece in The Guardian, titled, “The ‘masculine mystique’ – why men can’t ditch the baggage of being a bloke”.

The celebration of International Men’s Day in London last Sunday was inspirational, and we’ll be publishing photos and videos in the coming days. In the meantime, we invite you to enjoy this (video, 27:01).

Our thanks to Martin for this, a piece about sex robots in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday. An extract:

Last month The Mail on Sunday became the first newspaper to experience Harmony 2.1, the latest version of a sex robot Matt McMullen has been working on since 2014.

Harmony has 30 different faces to choose from, 16 body types, customisable breasts from AA to triple F, 19 different nipple types from ‘perky’ to ‘puffy’, and 11 different types of genitalia.

The robot has 18 different personality types from happy to sensual, shy to talkative.

It is modes such as ‘shy’ which most concern critics, who cite another sexbot as a blatant invitation to ‘normalise’ rape.

Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project, said creating a robot willing to have non-consensual sex [J4MB: As opposed to creating a robot unwilling to have non-consensual sex, you daft trout?] ‘is to risk normalising rape but giving it a publicly acceptable face’.

‘We should no more be encouraging rapists to find a supposedly safe outlet [J4MB emphasis] than we should facilitate murderers by giving them realistic blood-spurting dummies to stab.’ [J4MB: Women being raped and people being killed would apparently be preferable outcomes for this moronic woman.]

This is the narcissistic who the headmaster of Eton College deems suitable to give a talk about gender issues to the pupils.

Realdoll should create a Laura Bates lookalike sex doll, with a marching personality – whiny, 24/7/365. Hmm, I wonder what sales would be like?

If you want to attend tomorrow’s mini-conference, but have yet to order your ticket, you don’t have long left – and there are now only 7 tickets remaining. You can order your ticket(s) here (£16.52 including Eventbrite commission). I hope to see you there and/or during the preceding march, in Trafalgar Square. It should be a great few hours, we’ll be bringing banners, placards, bodycams, leaflets…

Our thanks to Martin for this. Extracts:

ATLANTA — Two nurses lost their licenses after a television station persuaded courts to unseal a video secretly recorded by the family of a man who died in their care…

But WXIA-TV said the nurses didn’t surrender their licenses until this September, [J4MB: almost three years after the man’s death] after it sent The Georgia Board of Nursing a link to the video the nursing home fought three years to keep secret.

The nurses included a nursing supervisor who told attorneys that, when she learned Dempsey had stopped breathing, she rushed to his room and took over CPR, keeping it up until paramedics arrived. The video shows that nobody was doing CPR when she arrived, and she did not start immediately.

After being shown the video, she told the attorneys it was an honest mistake, based on her normal actions, the station reported.

An interesting opinion piece by David Walsh, chairman of Men’s Voices Ireland.

Our thanks to Jeff for this piece in The Guardian, published a week ago. It was written by a female journalist, what are the chances? Extracts:

Simon Henderson, who took over the elite public school in 2015, told the Guardian that efforts to prepare its pupils for the modern world now included LGBT-awareness education and talks by the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates. [J4MB emphasis]

“I’m very keen that we are very aware that as an all-boys school there’s a responsibility for young men to be gender-intelligent,” he said…

Arguably, Eton – with its tailcoats, boarding houses and idiosyncratic traditions – may find it harder than others to adapt. In addition to the 1,300-strong all-male student body, just 20 of the 180 teaching staff are women and there are no plans to admit girls.

To that end, Henderson is trying to build more meaningful links with girls’ schools. He wants to increase the number of female teachers, as well as ethnic diversity, and he emphasises the broad diversity of visiting speakers, among them an Old Etonian whose subject was coming out as gay while a pupil at the college.

An excellent piece. It starts:

You heard it here first folks, the dumbing down of parental alienation has already begun in the UK, with the announcement in the Guardian yesterday that CAFCASS are trialling ‘intense therapy’ for parental alienation cases.  This ‘intense therapy’ is being proposed alongside punitive measures such as the ‘permanent loss of contact with a child’ and a training course is being flagged as the solution to the problem.  Sarah Parsons, assistant director of CAFCASS is quoted as saying “We are increasingly recognising that parental alienation is a feature in many of our cases and have realised that it’s absolutely vital that we take the initiative. Our new approach is groundbreaking.”

Groundbreaking.   I will let that word sink in for a moment.

This ground breaking initiative, which is based upon something called the high conflict child arrangements cases handbook, is little more than a cut and paste project in which CAFCASS have decided to claim the PA space for their own.

A later extract:

After years of denying its existence, after well over a decade of aiding and abetting the complete erasure of parents from a child’s life, here come CAFCASS, pronouncing that they are ‘increasingly recognising that parental alienation is a feature in some cases’ and waving their new project and their high conflict pathway training. A training which has all the features of the same kind of ingrained bias and lack of understanding that has been the fault-line in this government funded body from the start.

On the basis of absolutely no consultation with experts in this field, a cut and paste document produced in house, complete absence of the most up to date research, no mention of any of the expert evidence which exists, this ‘groundbreaking’ announcement is welcomed by Families need Fathers, who once again are seen to be appeasing a body with disproportionate power, which has made a misery of their members lives for far too long.

I understand that individual branches of FnF do excellent work, but the central organization is just one of many in a variety of fields which kowtow to feminist organizations (often state-run, as here) which attack men (and sometimes their children too) ruthlessly and relentlessly.

Our thanks to James for this piece in The Guardian. Given that the majority of social workers and CAFCASS staff are women, and given that judges are reluctant to enforce contact orders where women are the resident parents denying access – in itself a form of parental alienation – it’s difficult to be optimistic that a significant number of mothers could lose their children to their fathers. Extracts from the piece, in the opposite order in which they’re presented (the journalist is a woman, predictably):

Jerry Karlin, the chair and managing trustee of Families Need Fathers, said Cafcass’s new approach was “very welcome news”.

“The demonising of a parent has long been recognised as damaging the child not only at the time of separation, but reaching into his or her adult life,” he said. “Parental alienation is identified as the single biggest issue [J4MB emphasis] among those who come to FNF seeking help.”…

UK judges are increasingly recognising the phenomenon. One wrote about a case where she was forced to transfer residence to re-establish a relationship between a child and an alienated parent. “I regard parental manipulation of children, of which I distressingly see an enormous amount, [J4MB emphasis] as exceptionally harmful,” she said in her summary…

Sarah Parsons, the assistant director of Cafcass, said: “We are increasingly recognising [J4MB emphasis] that parental alienation is a feature in many of our cases and have realised that it’s absolutely vital that we take the initiative. Our new approach is groundbreaking.”