Enjoy (video, 34:36).
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Our thanks to Sue for this (video, 8:14).
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Our thanks to Tim for this message from Channel 4:
Channel 4 are looking for contributors to discuss their circumcision in an intimate documentary film about men, their bodies and life experiences. It would involve a filmed interview where you would be able to share your story and your thoughts on a wide range of issues affecting men. By allowing men, often reserved when talking about their body, sex life or personal experiences, to tell their story in their own words we hope to say something important and unique about what it means to be a man in 2019.
You can contact us to find out more at:
men@bbprod.co.uk
tinyurl.com/menc4
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A tip of the hat to Philip Davies for this. All the more impressive, given he’s teetotal.
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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 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 11 August, we invite you to join us.
We had a particularly good reception yesterday, with Rod, Richard and Nostradormouse on great form. A few photos from the day (the first two of Rod, the final two of Richard):
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.
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.
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.
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Just received:
Hi Everybody,
An extra email this week because I really need help from my volunteers. The feminists are on the move again and we need to stop them.
They are up in arms at the move by the Federal Government to provide some counselling for couples dealing with domestic violence. A tiny $10 million out of a budget of $328 mill, which is the latest raft of funding adding to the huge cash cow which supports the domestic violence industry. This includes ongoing funding for the male-bashing Stop It At The Start television campaign which has already cost $30 million.
See this Guardian article showing all the lobby groups lining up to try to put a stop to the couple counselling. You’ll see they all promote the usual feminist propaganda, claiming domestic violence invariably involves dangerous men controlling their partners and suggesting couples counselling puts women at risk.
I’ve long argued that we are enabling the feminist capture of government policy by failing to challenge the persistent lobbying of this tiny minority group. This is a classic example. The government is finally making the right move in giving some funding to start to properly address this issue – after having wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on domestic violence money spent mainly on advertising campaigns to demonise men and boys, blaming misogynist attitudes for the entire problem. But unless we get moving the wicked witches will win again. The Guardian article makes clear they intent a ferocious scare campaign to try to get the government to back down.
So come on, people. Get active and write to relevant Ministers, your MP and to the Prime Minister and support this move to properly address one of the real issues at the heart of this problem. If you all wrote one letter we could really support the government and persuade them to stick to their guns. Here’s some of the basic information you will need to make the argument that this is a sensible move:
There is strong evidence that most violence begins early, with couples at the start of their relationships reacting to conflict with two-way violence. Years ago, Professor Kim Halford and colleagues from the University of Queensland conducted a series of studies which focussed on couples at the start of their relationships, newly-wed couples and couples expecting a child together. Even with these early relationships about a quarter of the women admit they have been violent towards their partners – just as many as the men.
Professor Halford, who is one of Australia’s leading family relationship experts, points out this evidence means it is really important to help couples learn to deal with conflict without resorting to violence. He makes the point that one of the strongest risk factors for a woman being hit by a male partner is her hitting that male partner. “It’s absolutely critical that we tackle couple violence if we really want to stop this escalation into levels of violence which cause women serious injury.”
It’s nonsense to suggest that couples counselling will put women at risk, as this article by Maccollum and Stith makes clear, provided there are exclusion policies making sure no member of the couple is coerced, that there’s not ongoing mental illness, nor history of severe violence or weapon use. Avoiding couple counselling mean we are not addressing the patterns that lead to violence, leaving men and women trapped in conflicted relationships without the tools to find other ways of dealing with marital stress, and putting women and children particularly at risk. Here’s another review and meta-analysis of this subject which suggests couple therapy can significantly reduce domestic violence.
In fact, there are some good relationship counsellors across the country already doing this work. You may remember Perth counsellor Rob Tiller who was forced out of his job with Relationships Australia last year, after he posted my article on domestic violence on his personal Facebook page. I made a video with Rob at the time when he talked about working successfully with violent couples helping them learn to deal with conflict. Unfortunately, Relationships Australia, one of our peak counselling bodies, proudly promotes feminist policies on domestic violence which means couples are often refused help in these circumstances.
This is only one aspect of a proper comprehensive approach to tackling family violence, which would include support services for male victims of violence and their children and targeting at risk groups like people with drug and alcohol problems and mental illness. Such targeted approaches are being trialled overseas, with significant success.
Let’s hope this small move by the government is a sign that they are willing to deal more effectively with this major social problem rather than simply supporting the male-bashing feminist domestic violence industry. But this won’t happen if we sit back and let the feminists bully the government into backing down.
Here’s some addresses you can use to lobby on this issue, as well as your local MP:
Minister for Families and Social Services, Hon Anne Ruston: senator.ruston@aph.gov.au
Minister for Women, Hon Marise Payne: Foreign.minister@dfat.gov.au
Prime Minister: https://www.pm.gov.au/contact-your-pm
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A tip of the hat to Brother K, and his group Bloodstained Men & Their Friends, for this.
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Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:
At least 35 servicewomen have had to be airlifted from Royal Navy ships after discovering they were pregnant, it has emerged.
The female sailors were all removed from duty after unknowingly conceiving children while on duty or on shore.
We need more women in the Armed Forces, but preferably not ones with a tendency to unknowingly conceive children.
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Our thanks to Guido Fawkes for this.
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William Collins recently published a piece concerning the Family Justice Panel, a body consisting of 11 members – 10 of them women, including radical feminist academics, a senior executive from Women’s Aid, and a male High Court judge who takes guidance from Women’s Aid. He’s just emailed me an update, and it’s reproduced here with his permission:
Mike,
You may recall I blogged on the membership of the Family Justice Review Panel recently (http://empathygap.uk/?p=2913) and linked to a letter from the National Manager of FNF-BPM Cymru to Paul Maynard, under-secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice. It was requested that a representative from FNF-BPM Cymru be invited onto the Panel in order to:
– Represent the perspective of men (balancing that of Women’s Aid);
– Represent an organisation that is a DV support service for men;
– Provide Welsh representation on a panel looking at the operation of Family Justice in both England and Wales.Yesterday FNF-BPM Cymru received a reply. I have added the following to my blog post, which is self-explanatory…
Added 26/7/19: A response to the National Manager of FNF-BPM Cymru’s letter to the Under-Secretary of State, Paul Maynard, was received today. Readers will be unamazed to hear that an FNF-BPM Cymru rep has not been asked to join the Panel. Instead, the Minister informs us that reps from Welsh Women’s Aid and Respect have been added to the Panel. The Minister closes his letter with “I hope you find this response reassuring”. As a lady volunteer with FNF-BPM Cymru put it “”Reassuring” ????? What a muppet, not a clue”.
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Justice for Men & Boys 