Our thanks to James for this link and our thanks to Piers Morgan for telling it like it is!

Our thanks to James for this link to a piece by Nichi Hodgson (who you may remember from getting James Whale removed from TalkRADIO).

The suggestion that women should practice hypergamy is rather dull and tired. However, what I find interesting is the suggestion that women should/claim that they are taking the initiative to begin romantic overtures themselves. I suspect that online training in such practices could well influence offline behaviour in women – and in an age of #MeToo where men are concerned about how it will be interpreted if they make the first move, it may be a welcome development.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Extracts:

Male victims of psychological abuse may be ignored by police because of an ‘unconscious bias’, campaigners say.

Female victims are more likely to be believed, says the ManKind Initiative, a helpline for male victims of domestic abuse.

Figures show that since a law against controlling and coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship was introduced, it was overwhelmingly used to prosecute men. [J4MB: As we and everyone involved in men’s issues predicted at the time the law was introduced, key proponents of the law including Women’s Aid.]

From December 2015 to March 2017, there were 4,246 allegations of coercive and controlling behaviour recorded, according to the Office for National Statistics.

A Freedom of Information request revealed that 272 people were charged with the offence. Of those, four were women.

Mark Brooks, a spokesman for ManKind Initiative, said: ‘The question is whether there is an unconscious bias in police and prosecutors when they apply or think about the coercive control legislation and if their biases are stopping them applying the law to male victims.

‘As we know, the perpetrators of controlling and coercive behaviour are incredibly manipulative individuals and they almost always make a counter allegation.’…

Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said male victims are less likely to call police. [J4MB: Hmm, now why might that be?]

But she added: ‘I am sure that women are equally capable of offending in that way [J4MB: In which case, out of 272 people charged with the offence, why were only four of them women?] and there are a number of horrific cases. Men are victims of domestic abuse and they deserve support.’

I’m inclined to think there’s a better explanation than unconscious bias. The conscious bias against men which we find in almost every walk of life, and in particular the criminal injustice system.

Enjoy (video, 28:04).

My thanks to Ken for bringing this rubbish in The Scotsman to my attention. Dani Garavelli, the “journalist” behind the piece, described me as a “vile men’s rights campaigner” in a piece about the odious, malicious, misandrous, narcissistic barrister Charlotte Proudman, in 2015 – here.

Much of the new article consists of an attack on Alex Jones, about whom I confess to knowing virtually nothing. I’ve never even watched one of his videos. The article is a predictably lazy attack on the “alt-right” (anyone to the right of Jeremy Corbyn, one suspects). The first extract, in which Ms Garavelli manages to include three qualifiers in one sentence (highlighted in bold):

Even as enemies of the alt-right were toasting the collapse of much of the social media infrastructure on which Alex Jones built his InfoWars empire, the man himself was settling into his new role as a “freedom of speech” martyr. Perhaps, as Mark Zuckerberg is said to have suspected, that was his plan all along.

Later in the piece, she absurdly tries to associate us with the alt-right:

Beyond the pursuit of clicks, there are two main drivers of the rise of the alt-right. One is a wilful misunderstanding of the concept of freedom of speech; the other is problem of “false balance”. The latter is rife amongst broadcasters. The producers of a news programme decide to cover, say, the poor rape conviction rates. They invite on a representative from Rape Crisis, but feel the need to “balance” that representative with someone who believes many women are “asking for it”, then treat the two views as if they are morally equivalent. This practice inflates the importance of fringe figures, such as men’s rights activist Mike Buchanan.

Anyone following this blog will be only too aware of how little coverage we get compared with feminists, whose narratives utterly dominate the mainstream media, and are very rarely challenged. I cannot recall ever having been invited by “producers of a news programme” to appear along with “a representative from Rape Crisis” for “balance”. I have never expressed the view – privately or publicly – that women are “asking for it” (i.e. rape), nor have I ever heard such a sentiment stated, or written, by any MRAs of even the slightest consequence. And the idea that “the two views” are treated “as if they are morally equivalent” is hogwash. Almost invariably, when I’m in a TV or radio discussion with one or more feminists, the presenter (almost always a feminist, whether female or male) will be hostile towards me, and indulgent towards the feminist(s).

I do, however, feel honour bound to point to a piece I generally point to when feminists write claptrap about rape, Janet Bloomfield’s 13 reasons women lie about being raped.

Ms Garavelli’s piece is so utterly woeful, she would surely feel right at home with Vice or Buzzfeed or 50:50.

I’ve posted a link to this blog piece in the comments stream (you don’t need to register to post comments). In case it’s removed, a screen save is here. Why not post your own comments there? Thanks.

Have a nice day.

My message to young men, in the age of #MeToo.

Bethany M Coston

A piece published yesterday. The start:

Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said last week that he’s deferring his acceptance of a major sociology award for six months, over what he called “rumors” about his professional conduct. And while Kimmel’s terminology was criticized as dismissive of his accusers, the harassment allegations against him circulating online and off were then anonymous.

But on Thursday one of Kimmel’s former Stony Brook graduate students put their (the student’s preferred pronoun) name behind a detailed account of what they called his explicit sexual talk, homophobia, transphobia and general “lack of respect” for anyone but cisgender heterosexual men. In an essay published in Medium, Bethany M. Coston, now an assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said now was the time to share their experiences.

Enjoy (44:54).

We’ve just added Paul Elam’s conference speech, “The Men’s Movement: Personal and Political”, to the conference playlist. There are two new elements compared with the version already on Paul’s “An Ear for Men” channel:

32:28 – Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson in London a few weeks before the conference (video) – this went down well at the conference
37:40 – Paul Elam’s appreciation for his Churchill award and associated items (audio)

A rare moment of feminist-honesty from Labour M.P., Stella Creasy: “Feminism is not about women, it’s about power.”

A useful clarification.