Hot on the heels of the Mirror article published a few days ago, that tried to drum up support for outlawing misogyny as a hate crime, Sonia Sodha in yesterday’s Guardian opinion screed, also decided to have a go.

She seems to think that outlawing misogyny will somehow change the attitudes of boys who are being “groomed” into hating women by the far-right on the Internet.

Or, how about another interpretation such as this – with the amount of decent and accessible information now out there online explaining feminist and Social Justice ideas that have been spreading outwards from academia into our culture for decades, and doing so in an easy-to-digest format, and then exposing them for what they really are so that ordinary people can understand them – perhaps boys and young men (and many women, too) are finally starting to wake up to the realisation that feminist ideology has been telling lies and half-truths to everyone on an industrial scale for at least the last 40 years?

As I wrote in yesterday’s article on J4MB, classing misogyny as a hate crime is not a sensible idea.  And because so-called “incel attacks” are extremely rare (the only UK one cited in the article is Ben Moynihan, an autistic teenager), it would be a disproportionate reaction to do anything about it.

What feminists are going to have to realise is this – their political ideas more than ever are under scrutiny.  You don’t get away with characterising the relationship between men and women as one of oppression and subjugation for so long without getting the backlash.

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Leftie-tabloid rag The Mirror has published a pathetic attempt to drum up support for making misogyny a hate crime.

If such a move was actually enacted, it would give women special privileges in law, unless the law also included misandry.  But, the Mirror of course probably doesn’t know how to spell the word “misandry”, let alone having a clue what it means.

This is part of a continuing drip feed of media coverage from leftie sources to the effect that misogyny should be classed as a hate crime whereas misandry should not, based upon the idea that misogyny is a far more well known and more common motivation for crime, and that women somehow deserve a law because they’ve been historically oppressed, or some such logic.

But the problem is, to make misogyny a hate crime on its own without a corresponding law for misandry would be completely unacceptable for many reasons.

Even if you can make a feminist case and skew statistics to show that women receive more gender-based hate crime, and even if misandry is far less common than misogyny, that does NOT justify unequal treatment of men and women under the law.  It’s called “real gender equality”.

Additionally, such a law would likely embolden feminists to make any criticism of their ideological views (e.g. on social media) a hate crime and cause the police to have to deal with an avalanche of vexatious claims from offended snowflakes.

The thing is, actual violent criminality (such as murder and rape) that could be argued to be genuine misogyny are already rightly prosecuted, and these offenders are sent to prison.

And lastly, the left have got themselves into a mess with their own concept of intersectionality.  If, for example, a black Muslim woman is attacked in the street, how does anyone know for sure what component of that attack was motivated by her being a Muslim, a woman, or black?  Who makes that decision?

It’s all a grey area of course, which makes it much more difficult for the police and for everyone.  Perhaps the law is just fine as it is.

 

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Dan Bell of the The Men & Boys Coalition has written a timely article, again about male suicide, in the wake of World Suicide Prevention Day and the recent ONS statistics stating that the male suicide rate is the worst for 20 years.  The pandemic and its affects on unemployment are also likely to hit men hard in the coming months and years.

Again, as they point out, the narrative is often about blaming men themselves for not seeking help rather than taking the time to properly understand what is driving men to suicide in the first place.

Here is a thought – perhaps it doesn’t occur to our cultural and intellectual elites that men do not seek help as often, because that no one is really bothering to listen properly?  Perhaps they feel that the message constantly being sent to men in our culture might be “You are privileged and have all the advantages, so we don’t really care about you.”.

We need to stop saying ‘Why are men so useless at getting help?’ and ask ourselves “Why are we so useless at helping men?”

 

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As reported here, Sunderland University has launched a new Level 3 Male Psychology module.

Dr. Rebecca Owens, who sits on the BPS Male Psychology Section Committee, has developed the module, and it has support from the Male Psychology Network.

For those who may not know, the Male Psychology Network has a YouTube channel packed with interesting talks about male psychology from experts in the field, and if you have time, they are well worth a look.

The new module will be critical of concepts like “toxic masculinity”.  In January 2019, Dr. Owens wrote a good article on the SU website entitled “Gillette – The worst an ad can get”.

A course like this is badly needed with the vast majority of graduates in psychology now being women, who, with the best of professional intentions, may not understand how men look at the world or their perspectives.

With male suicide rates now at a 20 year high, it is vitally important that men are able to access quality mental health services run by professionals sympathetic to male needs, and it is NOT acceptable for this field to become drowned in gynocentrism.

Apparently this is the world’s first course specifically on male psychology, so it will be a drop in the ocean, nevertheless we wish Dr. Owens and Sunderland University every success with the course.

 

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A few days ago, the BBC released a documentary (now available on iPlayer, for those who are still bothered to pay a TV licence) called “I Am Not A Rapist” – link to watch the documentary here.

The film covered the experiences of three men, including that of Liam Allan, a widely publicised case of a rape accusation that collapsed in court, when it came to light that an ex-girlfriend had pestered him with some 40,000 text messages that told a different story.

Liam has since founded a project called Innovation For Justice which seeks to expose failings of the Crown Prosecution Service.

A response has since been published on HEqual, largely praising the documentary, and saying that this effectively breaks a 20 year cover up.  HEqual states in their article that they have lobbied the BBC to properly report suicides that are brought about by false rape accusations.  They note that both the BBC and the left-wing rag the Guardian have a very poor record on reporting suicides that were caused in this way.  I wonder why? – yes that was a rhetorical question.

Notable statistics broadcast by the documentary state are the following:

Since 2016, 1419 men under investigation for rape or sexual assault have died ‘untimely deaths’.

A minimum of 1,500 men are falsely accused of rape per year.

However, the independent researcher and writer Steve Moxon has expressed his view that the official 8% false accusation rate is likely false, and that privately, police who deal with the reality of these cases on a day-to-day basis know that the rate of false rape allegations is far higher.

Hopefully, this documentary will serve to counter a feminist narrative that false rape accusations are extremely rare, and that one of the recognised reasons why men commit suicide is because they are the targets of abuse by unhinged partners who think that they can get away with it.

 

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We have a target of 120 speakers for the conference, and we’ve just had confirmation of the 100th speaker – Alex Crosbie, a much-loved Glaswegian vlogger, “6oodfella”. His YouTube channel is here. A list of the 100 confirmed speakers, along with their talk titles, is here. Next week Alex will be the first interviewee for a new video interview series, Comedy Matters, on Mike Buchanan’s website Laughing at Feminists.

Speaker slots at the conference are running out, so if you have a potential interest in submitting a video, don’t delay in contacting Mike Buchanan (mike@j4mb.org.uk).

Finally, a reminder that Mike will be hosting the second men-only video meeting on behalf of Regarding Men tomorrow, Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Mike tells me the first one went very well, and he hopes to host the weekly meetings for a long time to come.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this link to a Guardian interview with Pauline Harmange.

With only 450 copies made in the initial print run, the 92-page essay ‘I hate men’ written by Pauline Harmange has attracted attention far beyond the actual degree of interest from people inclined to read such material. This despite having been published in a language most people in Great Britain can’t read or speak.

Despite the crass title and highly questionable politics of the author, any self-respecting free-speech advocate should flinch at the idea of banning a book. Bans frequently serve to conjure interest where none had previously existed. The threat of legal action against the book from a government official is therefore asinine.

Owing to the print run having sold out, this writer cannot access all what Harmange has to say, leaving just an interview conducted by The Guardian. Harmange is clear in her thoughts: “If we are heterosexual we are encouraged to like men, but we should absolutely have the right not to like them. I realise this sounds like a violent sentiment, but I feel strongly we should be allowed to not love them as a whole and make exceptions for certain men.”

The problem here is not that such a text exists—everyone should be allowed to state their politics, however ridiculous they may be—but that The Guardian and the media as a whole has been so reluctant to criticise the content. Had a man titled an essay ‘I hate women’ it can be asserted safely the assembled press would have thrown a collective fit. Double-standards are at play. Elsewhere, The Telegraph opened the comments section on its story about the book published on the newspaper’s website, but the broadsheet seems very selective on doing so for stories which do not conform to the accepted narrative.

It is worth remembering the political winds are very much in favour of misogyny being made illegal, probably under hazy and ill-defined terms, in many countries across the Western world. Certainly, that is the case in the United Kingdom. Soon it could be a crime to take this text, replace the word ‘man’ with ‘woman’ and become a prisoner. Supporters of Harmange should remember this point when considering the legal direction this country is travelling in.

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Video (1:40:42)

Don’t forget that the Split the Difference ‘Walking for Men‘ event is happening in London this Saturday, I hope to see you there!

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Part 1, Introduction (14:07)

 

Part 2, Who is hardest to redpill? (21:28)

 

Part 3, Down the Rabbit Hole (17:38)

 

Part 4, What’s at stake (18:40)

 

Part 5, Finale (22:18)

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Anureet may indeed be a feminist, but the article the author has written for SheThePeople is genuinely valuable.

Anureet notes the lack of evidence for draconian sex-crime punishments deterring such crimes and criticises feminist lobbying that seeks to “remove the crimnal” rather than “remove the crime”. It is also pointed out that, given that the majority of rapists are known to their victims, heavy-handed legislation may indeed dissuade victims from approaching the police (a point accurately explored by Germaine Greer elsewhere).

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