I am now retired, living in the UK, after a thirty-year career in industry. During this career, I published a couple of texts in my technical field, which, rather than mathematical affairs, are actually quite wordy. These projects reminded me of how much I had enjoyed writing as a child. I began producing social commentaries, humorous mostly, which I circulated amongst friends. On retirement I started a website, MonsBadonicus.co.uk, on which I showcase my writing. I write about the things that interest or intrigue me. There is a mixture of social commentary, science, art criticism, pensées, politics – and short stories to which I shall return. The name MonsBadonicus has no deep significance: when planning the website, I simply happened to be reading a book about Anglo-Saxon England. I saw, however, in the Battle of Mount Badon (AD c.500), a vague parallel in the present culture wars, and the way the British appear to be losing confidence in themselves as a nation. The same comment might also be made about the Anglosphere, and the West generally. I invested little effort in finding a conventional publisher: my political incorrectness is hardly likely to pass muster with today’s ‘sensitivity readers’ (read: censors). There are certain ideas and concepts (wokeism, identity politics, diversity, inclusion, equity, and . . . erm, feminism) that, being sacrosanct, are now shielded from criticism. I was a member of a well-known author’s association (I won’t name them) for twenty-five years. I left them because they’ve lost their way; they no longer believe that writers should be free to question and to criticise. Instead, writers must conform. Anyone old enough to have known the Soviet Bloc, will recognise this sort of society. My present project is ‘The Fairer Sex – Short Stories on Male Privilege’. (These titles are of course ironic, the subtitle also sarcastic). It was in about 2005 that, at work, I discovered two sheets of paper pinned to a noticeboard: ‘Discrimination against Men’. This was the very first time I saw ‘discrimination’ used with ‘men’. I had, in fact, already noticed some of these problems myself, and wondered why the mainstream media invariably ignores, dismisses, denies or excuses them. (I have not been personally affected, except in one case: in the male-dominated world of engineering, women engineers are preferentially hired and preferentially promoted – irrespective of competence. I have wondered whether there is a particularly advantageous ‘female’ way of designing an exhaust-gas recirculation valve. When I last looked, the laws of fluid dynamics were gender neutral.) For a long time, I greeted this anti-male discrimination with a shrug; what stuck in the craw, though, was the torrent of lazy, uncritical or partisan reporting in which women, never men, are portrayed as the disadvantaged sex. I therefore resolved to write about the derogation of men’s rights, and the damage that feminism is inflicting on society. The question was how to tackle it. This subject is already well-served in nonfiction (I have assembled about fifty texts), but no one appeared to have tackled it in fiction. I believe that fiction when properly marshalled is a very useful tool – it can poke and jab in ways and in places that nonfiction cannot. There is a YouTube channel, Dr Shaym, that gave me the idea. In his videos, Dr Shaym runs through a list of topics, ‘Questions to ask Feminists’. I therefore decided on the formula of ‘one topic, one story’). Note particularly, that I always do my research: to prove that my portrayals are realistic rather than fanciful, I provide my real-life sources under ‘endnotes’. I invite my readers to seek out this evidence for themselves. I have used my own list, rather than Dr Shaym’s; but currently I have fifty stories planned. At the time of writing (December 2023) I have posted twenty-three of them. Some are as follows. No. 7: Kangaroo courts in college campuses, and the consequent denial of due process to male students (‘Potted Plants’). No. 9: The sneakiness of the male feminist (‘The Cuttlefish Stratagem’). No. 18: The widespread lie that men perpetrate most domestic violence; and which the state shamefully assists in perpetuating (‘The Frying Pan’). No. 21: Women must not be treated as sex objects, but men can be treated as success objects (‘An Object Lesson’). No. 22: feminist emasculation of the military, and how this imperils our nation’s security (‘A Few Good Women’). No. 23: feminist agitation against male-only associations, but feminist defence of female-only associations (‘Men’s Sheds’). The short story (aside from science fiction and women’s magazines) is a form of writing that has largely disappeared. I find this paradoxical because, today, far fewer people are prepared to invest the necessary time in reading long novels, especially one of those sprawling Victorian tomes. The short story is ideal for today’s attention span. A reader of average ability will finish one of my stories in a few minutes. The stories are also entirely self-contained; there is no risk of ‘losing the thread’. Presently I plan to read my stories aloud, and use these recordings to start a YouTube channel. As with all writers, I am often asked where my ideas come from. Well, I have a simple formula: I just restrict myself to the things in life that irritate me. Whenever I do that, I find that I am never short of material. But I would handle unemployment quite well, I think, if feminists were to stop irritating me. Peter cufwulf@aol.com
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Great find. good reads.
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