A piece by Peter Walker, political correspondent, in today’s Guardian. Predictably, the comments are disabled. An extract:

The Labour MP Wes Streeting said he was concerned that Davies would attend the event. “The International Conference on Men’s Issues is at best a gathering of insecure and sexist man-babies, but more worryingly it also includes speakers with a whole host of extremist views,” he said.

“Philip Davies should not be lending what little credibility he has on gender equality issues to such an event, and it’s time that more men in parliament called out sexism and misogyny directed at women.”

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Martin Daubney, a journalist and commentator on gender issues, spoke at our 2016 London conference. Our thanks to Geoff for this. We hope to see Martin elected to the European parliament. As Geoff says in his letter, interesting times.

My thanks to a female student, one of several who has already registered to attend our Cambridge talks, for this piece published in Varsity, a student publication, a few hours ago. Last Saturday I received an email from a female journalist on the newspaper – not the one who wrote the piece – giving me 24 hours to reply to some points apparently made in the open letter, I still haven’t seen the letter, but at least some of my response made it into the Varsity piece.

I’ve left some comments on the piece, and took this screenshot to prove it. We look forward to the event taking place at the venue and time stipulated in our legal agreement with the university.

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Along with Elizabeth Hobson, Jordan Holbrook, and others, I’ll be having lunch at The Regal, a JD Wetherspoon establishment in Cambridge, from 1:00 p.m. on 24 May, five hours before the start of our talks at the university. We’ll stay at The Regal for as long as we can, and plan to return there after the talks. We invite you to join us, whether or not you’ll be attending the talks.

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A piece in the new edition of The Spectator, print edition on sale tomorrow.

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Our thanks to Steve for this. Predictably, the mother’s prime concern is for her own self-fulfilment through work, rather than the wellbeing of her daughters (7,13). Extracts:

Ms Ramallo, from Galicia, northwest Spain, is to argue that the verdict “clashes head-on” with women’s rights to personal and professional fulfilment, and that the hearing gave unfair weight to the word of her ex-husband and her mother, the only witness to have been called.

The presiding judge, Carmen López, found that Ms Ramallo spent excessive time on business trips and conferences, rather than at home with her children, on the basis of testimony from their maternal grandmother, who had been on difficult terms with the mother for many years…

Ms Ramallo criticised the verdict as a “grievance to all women”, and claimed that she had fallen victim to a “social stigma” attached to high-achieving female professionals…

“As a mother, a woman and a citizen, I demand that nobody else in Spain may ever lose their children over the fact that they work and love their work,” she wrote…

“The patriarchy lives on, accusing educated, independent women, who have careers involving travel and professional responsibilities, and who also get divorced, of being bad mothers,” Ms Ramallo added.

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An interesting piece in The Atlantic, despite the feminist bias. From the publication’s Wikipedia page:

In 2016, the editorial board endorsed a presidential candidate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, for the third time since the magazine’s founding, in a rebuke of Republican Donald Trump’s candidacy.

The feminist bias of the article is evident from the strapline onwards:

Unlike other European far-right parties, Spain’s Vox thinks fighting women’s rights is the key to success.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this, a judge’s excellent response to Parental Alienation.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this. The feminisation of the medical profession since the 1970s has been a disaster for patients and taxpayers. Turns out it’s been a disaster for many women, too. An extract:

The BMA is calling for a shift in current workplace culture towards that of a supportive working environment, with better access to support services and an end to the feeling of stigma among doctors in need of help.

The majority of doctors consulted – 80 per cent – were at high or very high risk of burnout with junior doctors most at risk, the survey found.

Calls for “a supportive working environment” are common for professions which have been feminised, and are all but unknown for professions which haven’t been. Men recognize stress as an integral and unavoidable element in their work, while women don’t, leadong to demands the “workplace culture” be changed – which is generally shorthand for “employers must accept poor performance” and/or “employers must accept employees being unwilling to work long hours”. The constant but unstated implication is that workplaces must adapt to women, not vice versa. We cannot be surprised that a higher proportion of senior managers in the public sector are women, compared with the private sector.

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27 January, 2019, left to right:

Nostradormouse, Lynton, Jack, Richard, Rod, Ewan, Big Nose, Mike

Today was another sweltering day at Speakers’ Corner, as usual we had very good engagement with passers-by, and handed out plenty of leaflets. Four of the stalwarts were speaking:

Rod

Lynton

Richard

Nostradormouse

We invite you to meet us the next time we (and other MRAs and anti-feminists) will be at Speakers’ Corner, on Sunday, 5 May. As usual we’ll be meeting at a nearby cafe at 09:30 (if you’re known to us, contact me – mike@j4mb.org.uk – I’ll let you know the address) and we try to get to Speakers’ Corner by 10:30 – 11:00. We look forward to meeting you, whether it’s your first time there, or not. Over the course of this year we’ll be recording video footage of the MRAs who engage in public speaking, and engage with members of the public, for a video of our work there.

We’ll again be displaying large placards with the theme “Equal rights for men and women”, which you may recall was a key theme of the 2018 conference. We’ll be handing out the related leaflets, printed on both sides, here and here. And we’ll be protesting against the crime of Male Genital Mutilation, as we always do.

The largest placards (printed both sides) are more than a metre high, and cost about £30 each, but they’re very impactful and readable from a considerable distance, so…

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