The cheering and laughter you can hear in the far distance is that of Russian and Chinese military chiefs. The same gender madness has long been poisoning and weakening the British Armed Forces. Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

The quote from the US army, “We have to figure out a way to make it fair to both genders” comes from this article. As Congress tells the military to fiddle with the current fitness test because typically female soldiers typically achieve scores 100 points lower than male soldiers and only a small percentage of the women actually pass. The most likely solution it seems is to give women an easier test and fiddle the results so that the scores appear equal. Now of course we’re familiar with this sort of thing in the UK in public services, and more recently our Army.

Way back in the early eighties two of my best friends were in the last intakes of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) with a minimum height requirement, to achieve the psychological effect of imposing presence enhanced by a very tall hat. Both of course were hurled into race riots, CND/Cruise missiles marches, battles with burly Miners and localised IRA terrorism with a full-on shooting turf war between West Indian drugs gangs. I sometimes reflect on this when coming across the current less-than-imposing GMP officers generally resembling scruffy refugees from some computer game. The two who missed protecting the Manchester Arena due to a long detour to the kebab shop were symbolic of the “service” today.

Of course what gets missed is that the standards are INTENDED to discriminate. Had I attempted to join,  both colour blindness and short stature would have meant I would have been discriminated against. I suspect colour blind people are still discriminated against.

And of course these are the bits that completely missed. What is good for the job? Surely it’s better for the public to have an effective police force and suitably formidable soldiers and strong firefighters able to use equipment. For there are many other jobs where height or strength are not important, and many that don’t require good colour vision.

And what a world where “being fair” involves fiddling figures to handicap those who actually meet the requirements of the job.

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An interesting interview (video, 44:31) by OnRecord. The full video description:

David Eggins and Denise Knowles, of Temper Domestic Violence are very experienced providers of Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes (DAPPs). Their small group DAPPs have a number of important features which maximise their therapeutic effectiveness, such as a small (up to 8) and fixed number of participants, techniques to promote trust and openness and a focus on the background and personal issues of the participants. They have studied the DAPPs which are used by CAFCASS and which are the only ones approved for fathers (never for mothers) in the family courts. They have found a massive, 70% (nearly three quarters) dropout rate. Of those who don’t dropout, a substantial number still fail. The participants who dropout are more violent than those who complete the programmes.

They explain what the problems are with the CAFCASS approved DAPPs. These include: Having greater numbers in the groups (sometimes 12); allowing new participants to join the groups mid-programme; basing the programme on the assumption that all domestic violence is driven by patriarchal assumptions of entitlement by men; a critical and blaming approach; lack of trust within the group; lack of therapeutic alliance with those running the group. There are so many gross inadequacies in the CAFCASS approved DAPPs and such a high failure rate that it is a terrible waste of resources and of no significant benefit to either perpetrators or to their past or future victims.

David and Denise work with both male and female perpetrators of domestic violence. They gave a presentation (video, 46:28) at our (online) National Conference on Men’s Issues last June, Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, too. The document associated with the event, including speaker details, is here, the videos playlist here.

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In the article Roman points out the reality, that males are still seen as where the responsibility lies. One of the common daytime adverts, amongst all those about funerals, incontinence pants and household products, is the one for life assurance. A 30ish young man, with wife and children in the background, is persuaded he should “protect” his family with life insurance in case he’s “not around”. Now in the many years I’ve observed this sort of advert the format is the same, and only once a few years ago did one version have a woman (it soon came and went). Of course it’s just an advert but encapsulates the truth as it was when a similar ad persuaded me 35 years ago to take out life assurance for my family. At least then it wasn’t toxic patriarchy. Both as individuals, and as a collective in the form of taxation, the buck stops with men. All too often men take their lives convinced they are of no use or have failed. Unlike women, men are tragically “successful” in their suicide attempts, no botched attempts as a “cry for help”. If women were as successful in their attempts there would be no “gender gap” in suicides.

Because of course if you feel responsible and are convinced everyone is better off without you, who will help you? Put simply women have “better help seeking behaviour” because they expect there is help to be sought, and someone to be responsible for their problems or at least to share responsibility.

And of course that’s the real problem with “mental health” that often there is a reality of pressure not amenable to just sharing. Perhaps what Ronan has picked up on is that nothing much has changed for young men now, all the same demands and assumption of responsibility (recent events illustrate once again that while women cannot be advised on personal safety nor take responsibility to be careful, men are on their own and have to look to themselves for safety) with nothing but literal and cultural barriers to fulfilling them. One need only consider the huge barriers to being a responsible father following divorce to see why divorce is literally deadly for so many men. Roman again:

“No matter what, there is still an idea that the man is the breadwinner of the family,” he says. “The man is the person that has to have a family, has to find the perfect person and be happy with them, have kids and help them financially.

“And sometimes that pressure for guys is too much.”

And the pandemic – and the financial toll that’s come with it – has an impact too, according to Roman.

“The pandemic has just accelerated everything,” he says. “It’s accelerated people’s depression, anxiety, fears. We’re living in a world now where it’s literally like ‘fear porn’ – how can the world be scared next?

“And for someone who is already going through something mentally, when you start hearing about job losses, people not even being able to put food on the plate for their family, that’s a serious thing that – especially [for] guys – is a tough, tough thing to take.”

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Enjoy (video, 5:15).

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Our thanks to Rod for this (video, 4:00).

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William Collins is one of the people engaged in the challenge to raise £500 for FnF Both Parents Matter Cymru. I’ve made a modest donation, as has Elizabeth Hobson, and I invite you to donate what you can to support them. Thank you.

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A hilarious piece published yesterday by Breitbart. I stopped paying for a TV licence quite a long time ago and haven’t missed watching live television since. I try to avoid any BBC output, as far as I can, other than their propaganda articles sent to me by supporters for publication here.

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It’s what men do. Please let me know (mikebuchananuk@gmail.com) when you come across stories of women who pull boys from impending certain death in the sea (or elsewhere).

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Our thanks to Nigel for this piece of BBC feminist propaganda following a sound judgment in the Court of Appeal. He writes:

Some good(ish) news. At a time when Parliament is again busy with thoughts of how to further traduce British justice by fixing the rules of evidence in sexual offence cases to get more convictions. The change in CPS policy forced by revelations a couple of years ago that 25% of such cases included the Police and CPS colluding in keeping crucial evidence from the Courts (and thence the defence). The rule change to mean both Police and CPS stop such practices has been found to be sound in this judgment, at much the same time as the usual suspects are lobbying the Justice Secretary, and he is agreeing, to much the same process of fiddling the evidence.

Of course behind this is the relentless pressure to increase the prosecution figures to support the wildly inflated claims of “rape culture”. With a couple of thousand cases in a population of at least 66 million, rape clearly remains a very rare crime.

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A piece published by Breitbart last month.

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