An interesting piece (£) in today’s Sunday Times. The bottom line (ahem)? The PSA blood test is a far better indicator of possible prostate cancer than a digital rectal examination (DRE). In the same paper, here, Jeremy Clarkson speculates that doctors carry out DREs and cup testicles while men cough, purportedly to check for hernias, for their personal enjoyment.

In my view all men should get a PSA test carried out twice annually. If your GP refuses – or offers a DRE instead, buy a test on Amazon, after watching Andy Johnston demonstrates the use of a prostate cancer test (PSA) (2022).

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Today’s video is here (2:57).

Over a period of almost six months we’re posting links to one video daily from the comedy channel of our associated award-winning website, Laughing at Feminists. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

You might also be interested in the 700+ videos on our YouTube channel, which includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ), from the other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

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Yesterday we posted a piece titled New ‘1984’ Foreword Includes Warning About ‘Problematic’ Characters. Our thanks to cp for posting these comments in reply:

“1984 was published in 1949. The Wikipedia entry on ethnic GB population of the time states this: “In 1950, there were probably fewer than 20,000 non-white residents in Britain, almost all of them born overseas.” Thus, it is highly unlikely that Orwell would have felt any fundamental oversight in not introducing topics which spoke to race and ethnicity as part of the fabric of his novel.

As for the ‘misogyny’ which Ms Perkins-Waldez speaks of, the most famous line is actually an acute observation. “It was always the women, and, above all, the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies, and the nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

This tendency is one of the main reasons that modern society so resembles the dystopian nightmare pictured by Orwell in 1949. Post WW2, women were leaving behind the domestic sphere, making incursion into business and commerce, politics and jurisprudence, bringing female values with them, and finding fault in men for being there.

Now, as in the novel, we all must pretend, pretend, pretend, toe the Party line, follow the Narrative, or risk cancellation. Perhaps be banged up for a time under the watchful eye of Two-Tier Keir, less of a Big Brother than a Big Girl’s Blouse, useful idiot to his feminist Cabinet. We must listen to the endless complaints of Ms Perkins-Waldez and her ilk, determined to see the world through a lens of irrelevance while they attempt to sully the reputation of works which they barely understand.”

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Our thanks to cp for this, published in 2020. An extract:

“Beside helping many soldiers, woman had something else good about her; self awareness.. she said that her fellow females aren’t capable of love and describes the toxicity of the female nature very well.”

In 2018 Simon Webb, a historian, published a video (11:37) on Florence Nightingale. His video description:

“In this episode we untangle the legend of the famous ‘Lady of the Lamp’ with the often grim reality. During her stay at the hospital in Scutari, far from saving countless lives and establishing the foundations for modern day nursing/ hospital practises. It has been alleged that during her management of the hospital, there was a surge in deaths [J4MB emphasis] due to her poor understanding of the transmission of germs and sewage systems.

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Esther Vilar is a German-Argentine writer, now 89, most well-known in our circles as the authoress of an extraordinary book published in 1971, The Manipulated Man. The third edition was published in 2008.

I believe it was in 2021 that Amazon ceased selling the English-language edition of the book, although other retailers continued to stock it (I believe some still do). The good news is that the book has just been published, with a new translation from the original German, as The Tamed Man, and it’s available on Amazon, the paperback selling for £10.99, the Kindle ebook at £5.99. Sadly it doesn’t include the small amounts of additional material penned by Vilar for the second and third editions of The Manipulated Man.

The description on Amazon, which doesn’t mention that the book is laugh-out-loud funny at times with its (refreshingly) honest descriptions of women:

“The Tamed Man – A Critical Look at Hidden Power in Relationships

Half a century after its first publication, this book remains essential reading for anyone seeking to question dominant narratives about power between the sexes.

In The Tamed Man, German-Argentine psychologist Esther Vilar presents a surprising and controversial analysis that challenges the conventions of contemporary thought. Far from the usual discourse, Vilar argues that in modern societies, it is not women but men who are the truly oppressed—trapped in an emotional and social system that conditions them from seduction to subjugation.

Through clear, sharp, and uncompromising language, the author explores how—according to her view—women use sex, affection, and emotional manipulation as tools of control, shaping a silent yet effective form of domination that defines the male role in work, relationships, and everyday life.

Republished in an era marked by political correctness and ideological conformity, The Tamed Man does not seek to provide easy answers but rather to provoke bold and critical reflection on power dynamics between men and women. Its message remains as uncomfortable as it is necessary: if we truly want to understand the complexity of human relationships, it’s time to dare to look from another angle.

A classic that continues to stir debate. A book that leaves no one indifferent.“

The book is free with Kindle Unlimited, for which you’ll require a subscription. The subscription entitles you to up to 20 eligible Kindle Unlimited titles at any time. Amazon.co.uk currently have two subscription offerings, a free trial of 30 days, or two months for £3.99, thereafter £9.49pcm.

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Our thanks to Tom Caulfield, our Technical Director and an expert astrophotographer, for this (video, 1:55).

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Give me strength. The start of the piece:

“The 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell’s novel 1984, which coined the term “thoughtcrime” to describe the act of having thoughts that question the ruling party’s ideology, has become an ironic lightning rod in debates over alleged trigger warnings and the role of historical context in classic literature.

The introduction to the new edition, endorsed by Orwell’s estate and written by the American author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, is at the center of the storm, drawing fire from conservative commentators as well as public intellectuals, and prompting a wide spectrum of reaction from academics who study Orwell’s work.

Perkins-Valdez opens the introduction with a self-reflective exercise: imagining what it would be like to read 1984 for the first time today. She writes that “a sliver of connection can be difficult for someone like me to find in a novel that does not speak much to race and ethnicity,” noting the complete absence of Black characters. [J4MB: Maybe because the book says nothing about race or ethnicity?]

She also describes her pause at the protagonist Winston Smith’s “despicable” misogyny, but ultimately chooses to continue reading, writing: “I know the difference between a flawed character and a flawed story.”

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