The Badger Belles in question being myself and Natty Kadifa… We’ll be talking about Philip Davies’ raising of the MGM issue in Parliament, the #MeToo allegations against Neil deGrasse Tyson and Italy’s reform of child custody laws.
You can tune in live in half an hour or watch later here.
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Enjoy (video, 12:36).
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Our thanks to Steve for this. The debate starts at 15:00:45 with Philip Davies’s introduction, and his initial statement on MGM (and FGM) covers 15:11:10 – 15:14:30.
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A video (2:31) made in collaboration by myself and The Glass Blind Spot.
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I’m a modest donor to Paul Elam via his Patreon account, on his An Ear for Men website. He’s just emailed this to his donors:
I wanted to get this note out to my patrons. My video, “You Can Spot a Borderline From a Mile Away” has been removed from YouTube for “violating community guidelines.” The video, with almost 700,000 views, was my most popular. In it, I used info directly from the DSM-IV on Borderline Personality Disorder to help men spot women with this malady. Apparently, that is not information that YouTube wants you to have.
I have filed an appeal, but of course I expect nothing to come of that. There are dark days ahead, I’m afraid.
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Our thanks to Nigel for this. Scandalous, but long predicted. Nigel writes:
Women successfully get Judicial review of the equalisation of pension age because it “constitutes a gross injustice and is discriminatory”. The fact that for 60 years it was directly discriminatory against men isn’t, it seems, an issue.
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Enjoy (video, 23:52).
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[Update: The video of the 90-minute International Men’s Day debate is here. The debate starts at 15:00:45, and Philip Davies’s initial statement on MGM (and FGM) – the transcript of which is below – covers 15:11:10 to 15:14:30.]
Excerpt from the Hansard record of yesterday’s International Men’s Day debate in the House of Commons, from Philip Davies MP’s opening address:
I also want to touch on male circumcision: male genital mutilation. According to a barrister’s opinion, carrying out circumcision on males when there is no medical need—non-therapeutic circumcision—is a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, being at least actual bodily harm if not grievous bodily harm. [J4MB emphasis] In 1983, Lord Hailsham, the then Lord Chancellor, said of female genital mutilation: “in the case of a minor under the age of 16, there is no possibility that consent is any defence at all. A minor under the age of 16 is not able to consent to the commission upon her of a criminal assault. Neither parental consent nor the consent of the minor would be any defence at all, and if the parents did such a thing, or instigated such a thing or participated in such a thing, it would only render them liable to criminal penalties, too.”—[Official Report, House of Lords, 21 April 1983; Vol. 441, c. 677.]
When I put it to the Government in 2016 that female genital mutilation was already illegal before specific laws on the subject were introduced, they agreed that it was. When I then put to them the position regarding boys, they took a different line. They quoted Sir James Munby, who was the president of the Family Division of the High Court, in a case of January 2015: “Whereas it can never be reasonable parenting to inflict any form of FGM on a child, the position is quite different with male circumcision. Society and the law, including family law, are prepared to tolerate non-therapeutic male circumcision performed for religious or even for purely cultural or conventional reasons, while no longer being willing to tolerate FGM in any of its forms.”
As the former barrister who I mentioned earlier also said, it would require a parliamentary override for male circumcision to be legal, and that has never existed. No exemptions to the law of the land are permissible for religious or cultural reasons. [J4MB: our emphasis] The Ministry of Justice went on to say that there was no doubt that female genital mutilation could have a physical and psychological impact on women, and also said that some girls die as a result of the procedure, which is absolutely correct. I do not pretend to be an expert in this field, but I believe that boys have also been reported to have died following a circumcision, and I have seen accounts of the physical and psychological impact of circumcision on men.
I understand that the position of the NHS is that the risks associated with routine circumcision, such as infection and excessive bleeding, outweigh any potential benefits. I am mentioning all this because I believe it should be on the record, not least because of the very different approaches to male and female genital mutilation.
The Government said back in 2016 that they had no current plans to change the law in relation to male circumcision. Given everything I have said, there may be no need to change the law to bring about a change in male circumcisions. However, I would be particularly interested to hear from the Minister on that point.
Now the illegality of MGM is on the official parliamentary record, for the first time. Our thanks to Philip Davies, whose courage knows no bounds.
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The debate in Westminster Hall will be broadcast on Monday 3rd December, you can watch here.
If, like me, you can’t wait that long, the Hansard Record is here.
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Patrick Graham, a victim of false rape allegations, gave a well-received presentation at the latest ICMI – here. We’ve just received the following email from him:
Hi Mike,
We are on target to premier our film in Cardiff (innovation of justice conference) on February 16th and now we have the trailer polished up and ready to be publicised. The aim is to awaken people to the number of men accused, and the damage it does – this as a tease to the eventual film which will also include some powerful messages from, ally, Ann Widdecombe and segments designed to take the legs out from under any feminists arguments. It includes some damning testimony and evidence from two women, one a delightful 72 year old nun whose treatment by her employer has led to the closing down of a children’s hospice and the loss of 60 jobs, as the public saw how the False Accusations were used by the charity to exclude her…
This is the trailer – this is what we need help with getting spread far and wide, and repeatedly,
https://youtu.be/6XBH0l9o13kMatt Day and myself have sweated blood to get this film shot – and we will now be hunkering down to editing over the next 2 months.
The trailer needs to be pushed to go viral using every trick in the book, but contacts such as yourself, who have YouTube channels with a good audience, we are particularly keen on having first use of the trailer and to mirror and promote the film.
We have just started pushing this on Twitter and are getting some good reactions from influencers we know in the legal field.
The MRA groups of course we hope will be keen to push it further, – and I trust that you can judge for yourself, who will most likely get the message and pass it on…
All the best
Patrick Graham
Please do what you can to spread awareness of the trailer. Thanks.
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