The carnage continues. The knife crime epidemic in our major cities is driven by gang culture, which is driven in turn by fatherlessness. Even Cressida Dick, the lesbian Met Commissioner, has admitted as much, whilst aiming to deliver gender balance in the Met (nobody even pretends this will be good for operational effectiveness or efficiency). And what do Conservative politicians, belonging to the former “party of the family”, have to say about fatherlessness, including it driving the knife crime epidemic? Nothing. Not a word.

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Elizabeth did a great job, the video (43:17) is here (on our YouTube channel) and here (on Paul Elam’s An Ear for Men YouTube channel). She gave what I think was the best verbal account yet of the recent Battle of Cambridge.

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Our thanks to RT for giving us copyright clearance to post this (video, 10:08) – recorded four days ago – on our YouTube channel. RT’s original link to the piece, along with its own commentary and comments from viewers, is here.

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In 2007 Vanity Fair published a celebrated article by Christopher Hitchens, Why Women Aren’t Funny.

Our thanks to the good people at UK Men’s Rights Action, our official supporters’ Facebook page, for this. An extract:

After consulting writers, producers, agents and performers, [J4MB: Not, of course, viewers, who don’t give a rat’s a*** about the gender of comedy writers, and nor should they] “the first thing I did was I changed my terms of commissioning,” she told Channel 4’s Diverse Festival in Bradford on Monday. “I won’t commission anything with an all-male writing team.”

Ms Schuster has launched a scheme called Comedy 50:50 to encourage more female comedy writers. She said female writers struggle because:

• It is difficult to compete for jobs with men who have more writing credits [J4MB: Oh dear, we can’t make life “difficult” for female comedy writers, by expecting them to compete with experienced comedy writers, most of whom are men. We need more white runners in the Olympics 100 metre sprint final. Black runners have been privileged for WAY too long, since at least Jesse Owens]
• They can’t find producers who “get” their voice and can develop their script to its full potential [J4MB: They’re probably not funny, then. If they were, why would their scripts have to be “developed”, presumably to make them funny / funnier? And who would have to do the “developing”, anyway? Men, probably, who’ll go uncredited.]
• They don’t thrive as the lone female voice in a writers’ room [J4MB: Possibly because they’re not remotely as funny as the men. Unfunny men would face a similar problem. Katherine Ryan would have no problem.]

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Enjoy.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:

Female prisoners could be given mobile phones and be allowed to live with their children to maintain family ties and help stop them reoffending.

All women inmates would get a handset to keep in touch with their loved ones day or night under the contentious plans being considered by Justice Secretary David Gauke.

Phones would not connect to the internet and prisoners could only call a small group of approved numbers.

Convicts would have to pay for the calls, with service providers being encouraged to offer them special deals.

And in a bid to help women convicts prepare for life on the outside, they could be moved to a ‘halfway house’ – which would not have bars on the windows’ – where they can live with their children.

The proposals, based on the justice model in Germany, follow a report by Tory peer Lord Farmer which emphasised the use of technology to boost rehabilitation among women criminals. But critics are like to regard the phone idea as fresh evidence that jails are becoming too cushy.

Some 3,900 women are in prison in England and Wales, about 5 per cent of inmates, and most have been jailed for low-level crimes such as shoplifting. [J4MB: You have to ask yourself, how many “low-level crimes such as shoplifting” would a woman have to commit in 2019, to get a custodial sentence? A custodial sentence is very much a last resort for women, unlike men.]

About 71 per cent of those released from a custodial sentence of less than a year reoffended within 12 months.

More than 60 per cent of female offenders have been victims of domestic abuse [J4MB: allegedly] and they are more than twice as likely as male inmates to have mental health problems. [J4MB: lie]

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27 January, 2019, left to right:

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

Mike Buchanan and other Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) and anti-feminists seek to visit Speakers’ Corner, London, on alternate Sundays, from approximately 10:30 onwards, and we stay for at least two hours, sometimes more. The next meeting will be on 30 June, we invite you to join us.

We campaign against Male Genital Mutilation (MGM), a crime under the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861, being at least ABH, and almost certainly GBH. The party’s playlist of 90+ video and audio pieces relating to MGM is here, it includes footage taken at Speakers’ Corner.

We campaign for men and women to have equal rights, because women and girls have rights denied to men and boys in many areas. 20 such areas were explored in the J4MB 2015 general election manifesto. One of the “equal rights” placard designs is here.

If you’d like to know if Mike and others are planning to attend Speakers’ Corner on a particular Sunday, please contact us (info@j4mb.org.uk).

Members of The London Group are invariably present at Speakers’ Corner on the same days, some of them speaking on stepladders about men’s issues, feminism etc.

Our online photo album of images taken at Speakers’ Corner is here.

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Interesting. We wish the venture every success.

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For some time I’ve had a strict policy of not engaging in private exchanges with feminists, via email or otherwise. I can’t recall a private exchange with a feminist in the past 10 years which wasn’t a complete waste of my time. Feminism is, of course, a religion to most of its adherents. We should not be surprised, therefore, that feminists aren’t open to rational arguments and evidence bases which show their beliefs to be demonstrably false. I am, however, very keen on public exchanges with feminists, so as to increase the library of material showing their true colours. Occasionally I publish email exchanges, without divulging the identity of the Loony Tune in question.

I don’t receive many emails from feminists these days, I guess they’ve realised that it’s futile to contact me. But of the feminists who do email me, most are in the “but I’m a good feminist!” camp. They object to our challenges of feminism – quite ignoring the fact that feminism has been a cornerstone of the Establishment for decades – and say that we should collaborate with “good feminists” in the pursuit of gender equality. I had such an email yesterday morning, from ‘J’:

Dear Mike,

I have come across your website, and have been quite interested. I am a Feminist, but I am not of the “Radical feminist” Woman’s (sic) Lib, school of thought. I believe in equality for all, and unlike some feminists, recognise that there are also uneven area’s (sic) concerning men. Even if there are perhaps more concerning women, it does not mean that those concerning men are of no importance.

I have read some of your articles and manifesto, and whilst you have some valid points, you do scrape the barrel a bit for “Oppression”. I dislike the feminist’s (sic) insistence on “Oppression”, as it was not what feminism and equality was (sic) ever about from my prospective (sic). However, it seems that you have hooked onto it a bit. For example, your section on men’s interests being “Underrepresented” in parliament is far stretched (sic), as there are still many more men than women in parliament.

Also, why are you so opposed to all feminists? I agree with your opposition to radical feminism, but do you really have to ostracize all Feminists? Some, like myself, would be willing to look into issues where men are affected by inequalities as well as women.

I am willing to be open minded, and would collaborate with “MRA’S” if it meant that we could achieve greater equality for everyone. I am currently not involved in any organisation, and I am talking more generally than personally. I was just interested to hear your views on this.

Many thanks for reading this Email,

(Name redacted)

Now I could have spent an hour or two critiquing her email in detail, but I’d simply have been typing out what I’ve typed out countless times before. So I limited myself to replying as follows:

(Name redacted), thank you. You write:

“…your section on men’s interests being “Underrepresented” in parliament is far stretched, as there are still many more men than women in parliament.”

You seem to miss the point that male MPs no more advocate for men, than female MPs do. While both male and female MPs advocate for women.

Please point me to examples of non-radical feminists campaigning on men’s issues.

In our manifesto we explore 20 areas where the human rights of men and/or boys are assaulted by the actions and/or inactions of the state, almost always to privilege women and girls. Please inform me of the areas in which the state assaults the human rights of women and/or girls specifically. I don’t know of any. Women and girls in the UK belong to a very privileged class. So what exactly are non-radical feminists fighting for, in the UK in 2019, if not yet more female privilege (along with radical feminists)?

Have you watched The Red Pill? It’s available to watch for free on Amazon and Netflix. Happy to continue an exchange after you’ve watched it.

Best wishes,

Mike Buchanan

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Our thanks to Richard for informing of us of the press release issued by FNF Both Parents Matter Cymru three days ago. Good to see a link to piece by William Collins, 332 Child Homicides.

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