Bad hair days are making thousands of women late for work: More than one in ten admit to being tardy because they are having problems with their locks. Some don’t bother turning up for work at all.

I’m off to Speakers’ Corner shortly, I love getting up at 6 a.m. every second Sunday. It’s always well worth it, to be fair. Why not join us today, or next time we’ll be there, 29 March?

Our thanks to Mike P for this. He writes:

We need for more women in positions of crucial responsibility.


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ICMI19 talk: Mike Buchanan – “Feminism Sows the Seeds of its own Destruction”

Just published (video, 49:49).


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ICMI19 talk: Philip Davies MP – “The Battle Against Political Correctness in the UK”

I am pleased to publish the first talk from the Chicago conference, the well-received talk of Philip Davies MP, The Battle Against Political Correctness in the UK (video, 49:49). Normally ICMI videos are published much sooner after the events, please rest assured the delay has not been the responsibility of anyone connected with J4MB.


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Gerard Casey: After #MeToo (Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights)

Gerard Casey, 68, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin. Imprint Academic – the same company which published Steve Moxon’s excellent book The Woman Racket (2008) – very recently published Gerard Casey’s book, After #MeToo: Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights (258pp, £14.95 from Amazon).

The book – which cites Moxon’s book frequently – is an absolute delight, and should be in every MRA’s library. The chapter titles provide a sense of the scope of the book:

Fun with Feminism
Women at Work
The Patriarchy
Toxic Masculinity or Why Can’t a Man be more like a Woman?
#MeToo
A Fate Worse than Death
A Presumption of Guilt

Perhaps surprisingly, the book is laugh-out-loud at times. It’s so refreshing to see a prominent academic willing to tell some awkward truths about men and women, often with humour. We’ve added it to our long list of recommended books.

I asked Gerard if we might have an extract from the chapter on #MeToo to share with our supporters, and he kindly provided three – here and here and here.

The good professor has kindly agreed to be interviewed by Elizabeth Hobson and I for our video series Gender Matters, currently on hold because of a technical issue. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we record and publish that video.


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Julie Priest, 54, DWP benefit cheat, must pay back £20,000 of the £35,000 she swindled. Suspended sentence. £15,000 profit, and no punishment. Who says crime doesn’t pay? It does for women, at least.

Our thanks to Steve for this. Extracts:

Now Priest has been dragged back [J4MB emphasis: what a ridiculous figure of speech under the circumstances, written by a male “journalist”] to Plymouth Crown Court for a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Judge Paul Darlow ordered that Priest pay £20,000 within three months – the longest time possible.

He added that she would face seven months in prison if she did not pay.

Judge Darlow said: “I am sure it will not come to that.”


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Belinda Brown: The long march of men from the workplace

An excellent piece in today’s TCW.


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BBC could scale back output if hit by coronavirus

Our thanks to Stuart for some rare good news from the BBC, the prospect of less output. Zero output would be perfect. An extract:

The hearing at the House of Commons also covered a wide range of other programmes and issues:

  • Victoria Derbyshire Show – He [J4MB: Lord Hall, Director-General of the BBC] said the £3m budget for the BBC Two programme, which is being axed, is too much for an audience of 300,000, who are “more male and older than you might think”. [J4MB emphasis: Which surely explains why the programme is being axed.] But he said he hoped “Victoria herself and the journalism which they do will find a home on the News Channel and elsewhere around the BBC”. However, Derbyshire tweeted that those audience ratings “completely ignored” digital figures for stories that wouldn’t have been commissioned if the TV programme didn’t exist.

  • Diversity – Every key management group in the BBC will have two additional members as diversity advisors [J4MB emphasis: A job creation scheme for parasites.] by the end of March “to add actual diversity – BAME or it could be a disability or whatever”, he said.


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Divorce: A Feminist Fairy Tale | Live From The Lair

The latest gem (video, 16:35) from the inimitable Terrence Popp (Redonkulas). Usual warning with his videos, don’t watch it if you’re offended by occasional strong language. The section (from 6:20) on a recent divorce in the UK was inspired by the case we linked to in our blog piece Female lawyer gets £400,000 and half of £10m estate after she quit working to raise children.


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The Manchester conference has been cancelled

It is with great regret that I have to announce the Manchester conference, due to take place on 17 May, has been cancelled. The Covid-19 virus issue – described today by the World Health Organization as a pandemic, for the first time – has over the past few days impacted on speakers, attendees and organizers, to the extent that the event is no longer viable.

We shall shortly be emailing all those who were planning to attend the conference, and refunding ticket costs as soon as possible.

We’re sorry the event has been cancelled, but we really had no choice.


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Mexican churches attacked during Women’s Day marches

Our thanks to Geoff for this. It is regrettable (bit not surprising) to see a cleric believing the lie of “gender violence”. An extract:

On March 8, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City said that machismo or chauvinism is the source of the country’s growing violence against women.

“In Mexico there’s a machismo that has caused numerous femicides,” Aguiar said, using a term that has become common in the region to describe the violent murder of women by their male partners or ex-partners. “This is intolerable, and therefore, we not only want to show solidarity and accompany women who suffer violence, buy we also celebrate any initiative or public policy that helps to eradicate the harmful culture that invades us.”

The cardinal’s reflection was published in the weekly archdiocesan magazine, Desde la Fe.

He also wrote that humanity has an “incalculable and indefeasible” debt to women, and that putting an end to gender violence is not only an act of justice but a necessity because “the gift of femininity is increasingly urgent in the construction of the processes of humanization that are required in all areas of society.” [J4MB emphasis]

Aguiar is far from being the only bishop who voiced his strong support to women, and some even suggested that religious sisters join Monday’s national women’s strike, with the caveat that the Catholic Church as an institution cannot support some of the “rights” demanded by feminist organizations that go beyond ending violence against women, namely demands for legal and publicly provided abortion.

The Catholic church in Mexico most impacted by the feminist rallies was the cathedral of Hermosillo, in the state of Sonora. Some 80 faithful who were inside the church when demonstrators began attacking the building had to be evacuated by the national guard, leaving through side door and in small groups to avoid being attacked. Rioters broke the glass panes on the cathedral’s doors after a failed attempt to bring them down.

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