Last night Iain Dale asked Boris Johnson, during the final hustings of the Tory party leadership, if he’s a feminist. His response is over 1:17:21 – 1:20:02 here. After describing himself as “absolutely” a feminist, he spouts nonsense about the education of girls in the third world, a matter which occupied him when he was Foreigh Secretary. William Collins wrote a piece about the issue at the time, World Education by Sex. It’s also covered in his excellent recently-published book, The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect.

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Enjoy (video, 27:00).

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If we needed reminding that Boris Johnson isn’t a social conservative, and is of a like mind with David Cameron on gender political issues – they were at Oxford University at the same time – it’s here. An extract:

At the hustings, Boris Johnson also described himself ‘absolutely’ as a feminist, to applause from the audience. He said: ‘A feminist is somebody who believes fundamentally in the equality of human beings and the equality of the sexes. [J4MB: No, a feminist is someone who believes in increasing female privilege at the expense of males, regardless of the harm that results to men, women, and children.] That’s what I believe.’ But he said he wouldn’t support all-women shortlists to increase the number of female politicians in the Tory party. ‘I’m not certain that introducing quotas, which are by their nature discriminatory, are the way to solve the problem,’ he said. [J4MB: There is, of course, no problem to be solved. At the last count, men outnumbered women 10:1 as prospective parliamentary candidates.  By this metric, women are considerably OVER-represented as MPs and peers.]

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Just received:

Hi Everybody,

First some news about the Sarah Jane Parkinson case. You may remember that Parkinson was sent to prison in January for false rape allegations she made against Dan Jones. I made a video with Dan and Sixty Minutes did a whole programme on her outrageous attempt to destroy Dan and his family.

The latest development is that Parkinson has applied for early parole and has requested she is transferred to the NSW Parole Board for administration, which means she will be close to her boyfriend, the crooked NSW cop who helped with her vicious campaign.

At the time of the parole hearing on September 3 she will have served only 8 months of her two-year non-parole period. As a result of her lies, Dan spent four months in jail plus three months home arrest and the family spent over $300,000 on legal fees defending their son.

The ACT Department of Public Prosecution has written expressing concern about her parole application, noting she has a history of manipulating the system. But I hope many of you will help alert the public to what is happening here. Canberra people can help by writing to local newspapers, lobbying MPs, and ringing radio stations.

It’s worth trying to get the word out through social media. Perhaps also write to the ACT Attorney General, Gordon Ramsay – RAMSAY@act.gov.au – who claims publicly to be working with the Jones family regarding compensation for wrongful imprisonment but fails to respond to any of their correspondence.

The Jones family has legal help to pursue Dan’s case for compensation, but no decision has yet been made in relation to the ex-gratia payment from the ACT Government.

Campus Tour – next stop UNSW

Finally, we are getting organised for my next campus talk – this time at the University of NSW. The Conservative Club, which is hosting me, has applied for a room for the event but the University seems to be stalling, as is par for the course with most of my campus talks. I am sure they are just hoping the whole thing will just go away if they delay the process long enough!

Anyway, we have put off the event, from late July probably until mid-September, so we can use media pressure to ensure this actually happens. In the meantime, we are advertising the event as “coming soon” – just to get the word out about what I am trying to do speaking on campuses. See the flyer below.

I hope some Sydneysiders will join us. We are going to need people to video any protests – it looks as if the activists are determined to try to make their presence felt. I’ll send through a PDF of the flyer when we have full details for you to circulate.

Battle with radio announcer over suicide prevention.

We’ve decided to put out a video of a radio interview I did last week, with Merrick Watts on 2GB, who decided to parade his feminist credentials by having a go at me over my criticism of the government’s announcement of a female National Suicide Officer. I nearly lost it over his inane virtue-signalling comments and wasn’t very happy with myself afterwards but many people have said it was most entertaining so we’re sharing that this week. Hope you enjoy it. Please promote it.

http://bit.ly/30CbMV0

Cheers, Tina

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Our thanks to M for this, relating to a 41-minute-long programme on MGM being broadcast on BBC1 from 10:35 tomorrow evening (18 July). From the BBC website:

Every year in the UK thousands of baby boys are circumcised for religious or cultural reasons. The practice, which involves removing a small part of their penis, is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world. But several European countries are considering a ban on circumcision, unless there are medical reasons for the operation to be carried out. Is it something we should consider banning here?

Journalist Adnan Sarwar was circumcised by his Muslim parents as an infant, and now he has questions about the operation and its safety. He begins his journey at an Islamic circumcision clinic in the East London Mosque. Dr Mohammad Howlader tells Adnan that, with the procedure unregulated in the UK, he wants to provide a safe clinical environment for children to be circumcised in. Adnan is astonished to discover that circumcision is an unregulated procedure in the UK and meets barrister James Chegwidden to find out what the legal position is. According to James, the law says any interference on a person’s body without their consent is an assault and that parents can only consent to surgical operations that are in the best interests of the child. And yet in practice thousands and thousands of male infants are being circumcised. So where is the balance to be struck between the rights of a child and the parents’ right to express their beliefs?

Adnan talks to his own mother and father about his own circumcision as a baby. They tell him they did it because Muslims believe it’s a commandment from God. This leads Adnan to Saleem Sidat, an Islamic scholar, to find out why it’s so important in the faith. Saleem tells him the circumcision of boys is a religious symbol encouraged by the prophet Mohammad out of respect for Abraham – a prophet revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But Saleem says there is nothing in the Qur’an requiring the circumcision of boys.

The other faith that routinely practices circumcision is Judaism. Dr Jonathan Romain MBE, a Rabbi and a leading Jewish scholar, tells Adnan that circumcision is mentioned in the Jewish holy book, the Torah. It’s seen as one of God’s commands and integral to the faith.

But even in Judaism there are people who are fighting against it. Dr Jenny Goodman, a psychotherapist, believes that the circumcision of boys is a feminist issue.

Adnan also looks at the medical evidence given in support of male circumcision. He meets a leading urologist, Dr Gordon Muir, who says that while there is evidence that circumcised boys are marginally less likely to develop urinary tract infections, such infections are rare and treatable with antibiotics. He also believes that while the majority of circumcised men have no complaints about the procedure, there is a small risk of very serious harm, with a small number of deaths in the European Union every year from non-therapeutic circumcisions.

It’s a debate that sees Adnan pulled both ways. He realises that this isn’t just a debate about cutting a piece of skin. It’s taken him to the frontline of a battle being fought between religious and cultural traditions, and secular norms. Deciding where the line should be drawn in this case will be a very difficult challenge indeed. [J4MB: It shouldn’t be remotely difficult. Minors should be protected from this butchery. Carrying out MGM is a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and no exemptions to the law are allowed for cultural or religious reasons. The legal position, at least, is that simple.]

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Enjoy (video, 48:18). Steve Brule, the producer of Fiamengo Files, joins the usual cast of Paul Elam, Janice Fiamengo, and Tom Golden.

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We’re looking forward to the speech by Philip Davies (C, Shipley) at the Chicago conference. He remains, to the best of our knowledge, the only elected politician in the English-speaking world advocating on behalf of the human rights of men and boys.

Our thanks to Douglas for this:

Philip Davies received a written reply yesterday (16 July 2019) to why there are no representatives for men or fathers on the Family Justice Review Panel.

Philip Davies:
“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria was for the selection of people to join the review on how the family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences announced on 21 May 2019; whether one of the criterion was equality of gender representation; for what reason that selection did not include representatives of fathers or men; and if he will make a statement.”

Paul Maynard, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice:
“The members of the panel established to gather evidence on the protections provided by the family courts in cases involving domestic abuse and other serious offences were appointed for their expertise on the issue. The panel includes the pre-eminent academics; senior judiciary; Women’s Aid to represent victims; the Chief Social Worker and the Association of Children’s Lawyers to represent practitioners. The panel will launch a public call for evidence open to all individuals and organisations, and is considering other mechanisms for gathering the full range of views on the issues.”

Very rarely does anyone indicate anything on the TheWorkForYou website as to whether the question was answered. Notable is that there are three people (so far) who have said that Maynard did not answer the question.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2019-07-05.273769.h

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In 2012, the year before the launch of J4MB, I spent a good deal of time on my blog The Anti-Feminism League, but since the launch of this blog in 2013, I haven’t spent time on it. In March 2012 I posted a piece titled We need to talk about The Rt Hon Matthew Hancock MP. It was prompted by a supporter emailing me this:

There’s an article by Matthew Hancock MP today in the Times which will make your blood boil…page 37…..the man should get a ‘Creep of the Year’ award let alone a ‘Toady’. He cites percentages of this and that which purport to show that adding women to boards improves corporate performance. His view is that there is “overwhelming evidence” to show that more women on boards grows businesses, which is startling and infantile at the very least (as well as being utterly wrong, as we know from the Norwegian experience). Then he adds in the usual sneering manner that anyone who doesn’t share his bigoted views is a Luddite….what a slime ball.

I duly presented Hancock with a Toady award. Do check it out, the image of the toad is something special.

Around the middle of last month a story about Hancock’s socks came to my attention, but it’s taken me time to get round to posting on it. A Daily Mail piece on Hancock’s socks is here.

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A piece by Caroline ffiske for TCW.

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Our thanks to John for this (video, 17:08).

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