I spend some time most days posting comments in response to articles in media outlets including The Times, The Spectator, Substack, Unherd, Quillette. It’s a productive way to introduce more people to our materials. The comments attract both support and challenges, the latter usually from feminists.

Last Monday The Times published an article (£) by Melanie Phillips, Assault on masculinity has only created cavemen. I posted a number of comments and one feminist genius replied with:

“Mike, you’re traumatised by a failed relationship. Please get professional help with your residual anger. It’s not good for your health.”

Later she posted this:

“Kyle Clifford.”

I replied with this:

“Thank you for giving me the perfect opportunity to write about the gender accountability gap.

I assume you’re implying that Kyle Clifford’s murder of three women says something about the nature of men as violent, in contrast with the peaceful nature of women. This is an old feminist tactic – presenting the worst of men as representative of men, while presenting the best of women as representative of women. A few thoughts:

The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project (PASK) was published in May 2013 in the journal Partner Abuse and is the most comprehensive review of domestic violence research ever carried out. This unparallelled three-year research project was conducted by 42 scholars at 20 universities and research centres.

A key numerical result from the PASK review was:

“Among large population samples, 57.9% of intimate-partner violence (IPV) reported was bi-directional, 42.1% unidirectional, 13.8% of the unidirectional violence was male-to-female, 28.3% was female-to-male.”

Women cause men’s deaths in ways including denying them access to their children, a major driver of the high male suicide rate.

So you imply a man responsible for killing three women says something about men. But you ignore the millions of British women who’ve killed 10+ million unborn children since the 1967 Abortion Act. Of course the reality is hidden behind such feminist euphemisms as “reproductive rights” and “bodily autonomy”. That’s the gender accountability gap.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS”

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