Genevieve Lhermitte, 56, Belgian mother who slit the throats of her five children aged three to 14, is euthanised at her own request 16 years to the day after murders shocked the country

A tragic case. More children who are killed by a biological parent are killed by their mothers than by their fathers. In the UK mothers are very rarely prosecuted for infanticide, the killing of children under the age of one.

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Why women lie about rape (and why a former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is denying having told the truth to a feminist “professor” about the matter)

William Collins reveals in his remarkable book The Empathy Gap – the ebook edition costs only £4.32 on Amazon – that 77% of the rape claims women make to the police are false allegations. He used just two official statistics to arrive at the figure.

In 2014 Janet Bloomfield, a wonderful Canadian anti-feminist MRA, wrote the insightful article, 13 reasons women lie about rape.

An article in the Mail today about Sir Stephen House, a former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, privately spoke the truth about most rape ‘victims’ to a woman, and of course now has to deny the matter.

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Audio / video #66 from our Laughing at Feminists comedy channel: Jimmy Carr on Women – Live at the Apollo (BBC One, 2007)

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Audio / video #66 from our archives – Mike Buchanan’s discussion with Roz Hardie, Classic Hits 4FM (Dublin) (2015)

We’re linking daily to selected audio / video files from our YouTube channel. Today’s file is here (audio, 1:01:35). It remains one of my favourite radio interviews.

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Love Island hit by hundreds of Ofcom complaints from furious viewers over ‘toxic femininity’ row and Movie Night drama which left male contestants in tears

Our thanks to Eli for this. The start of the piece:

Love Island has been hit by more than 300 Ofcom complaints over ‘toxic’ behaviour from the female stars.

I couldn’t be less interested in the story but it reminded me of Karen Straughan’s talk at ICMI16, Toxic femininity (video, 45:16).

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Samantha Smith, 56, stabbed her boyfriend 29 times before trying to saw off his head with a bread knife. Press release being issued.

Our thanks to Ed Bartlett of the Washington DC-based Coalition to End Domestic Violence for a press release titled, Why Won’t Feminist Groups Acknowledge That Women Are Equally Likely to Abuse?

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Audio / video #65 from our Laughing at Feminists comedy channel: Bill Burr – Motherhood Isn’t The Hardest Job (2016)

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Audio / video #65 from our archives – Mike Buchanan and Bea Campbell on BBC Radio (2015)

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