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Today’s video is here (2:32).
Over a period of more than two years we’ll be posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.
Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).
Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.
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Interesting. Extracts:
“Atherton, a specialist respiratory nurse at Royal Preston Hospital, was spared from an immediate jail sentence due to her work on Covid wards during the pandemic, and having a vagina.”
We may have added a few words there, but they’re implied. Have you ever heard of men being spared from immediate jail sentences due to their work on Covid wards, or any other lame reasons? Nor us.
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I struggle to read much modern fiction because the publishers of fiction are staffed mainly by women and their output is designed to appeal mainly to women, principally by flattering them and portraying women as superior to men. The female characters are almost invariably smarter and emotionally savvy than the male characters. One has to go back some way to find the work of authors who depicted men and women honestly, I greatly enjoy reading anything by George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh… and in more modern times, Philip Roth.
One of my favourite authors was W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). I’m currently reading Of Human Bondage (1915), thought by many to be his masterpiece. The principal character is Philip Casey, an orphan with clubfoot (congenital clubfoot is the most common congenital malformation of the foot with an incidence of 1 per 1000 births).
When Casey is 20 he starts at an art school in Paris. A visiting (male) art professor visits weekly to critique the work of the students. One of the students is a bad-tempered 20-something woman who’s been studying at the school for over two years. The professor tells her that her work is utterly hopeless and no better than might be expected from a five-year-old child. He recommends that she give up art immediately and take up another interest.
The woman is very upset and disinclined to accept the professor’s assessment of her abilities. She asks Casey to come to her apartment to review what she considers the best of her work. He does so, and quickly realises it’s all appalling. He’s a painfully polite young man, disinclined to hurt anyone’s feelings. She asks his opinion of her work, the next section is an extract from the book, starting after he’s seen all the works put before him:
Philips was no more truthful than anybody else, but he had a great difficulty in telling a thundering, deliberate lie, and he blushed furiously when he answered:
“I think they’re most awfully good.”
A faint colour came into her unhealthy cheeks, and she smiled a little.
“You needn’t say so if you don’t think so, you know. I want the truth.” [J4MB emphasis.]
“But I do think so.”
“Haven’t you got any criticism to offer? There must be some you don’t like as well as others.”
Philip looked around helplessly. He saw a landscape, the typical picturesque ‘bit’ of an amateur, an old bridge, a creeper-clad cottage, and a leafy bank.
“Of course I don’t pretend to know anything about it,” he said. “But I wasn’t quite sure about the values of that.”
She flushed darkly and taking up the picture quickly turned its back to him.
“I don’t know why you should have chosen that one to sneer at. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I’m sure my values are all right. That’s a thing you can’t teach anyone, you either understand or you don’t.”
“I think they’re all most awfully good,” repeated Philip.
She looked at them with an air of self-satisfaction.
“I don’t think they’re anything to be ashamed of.”
[End of extract.]
Very few men are immune to lying to women to keep them happy. A lady friend recently gave me some of her homemade mayonnaise, saying it was “so much better than the rubbish sold in shops”. Let me tell you, if it were sold in shops, nobody would buy a second jar. It was terrible. Needless to say, I told her it was delicious. A hypocrite, moi? I just hope she doesn’t give me any more.
My first ill-fated wife, when she was a child, gave her grandfather a large bag of Pontefract cakes for Xmas. He said he was delighted because he liked them so much, so she duly sent him a bag every Xmas. But it became apparent one day that he didn’t like them, because when he died 30+ years later, a chest of drawers in his kitchen was found to contain 30+ bags of Pontefract cakes.
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Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:
“Johnson was also charged with shouting “go on, show us your boobs” at the official, which he denied. However, the panel were content that this “made no different to the appropriate sanction”…
Johnson has been banned from playing, coach or spectating for 32 weeks, although this does not include mid-week training. He has also been made to pay £125 in costs.”
A 32 week ban and costs? It’s political correctness gone mad!!!
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Our thanks to cp for this:
“My nephew (aged 25) visited at the weekend with his girlfriend. Both went to the same school. The topic of examinations came up, and his girlfriend recounted her French spoken GCSE from some ten years previously. She said that her teacher switched off the recording device many times during the course of the examination, coached her on pronunciation, and allowed retakes.
A straw poll with the young couple showed that this service was offered exclusively to girls.
The conversation progressed to University examinations, particularly the ‘groupwork’ which appears to have been prevalent during Covid, and where young women were the universal defaulters on what had been asked of them… getting lads to do the work for them, or simply not bothering to submit, and suffering no sanction.
The current dogma that women and girls are ‘amazing’ may actually deserve credence. I confess myself amazed by what they are getting away with, in plain sight. In times not so long gone, the ‘qualifications’ handed on a plate to such spoon-fed, mollycoddled refugees from reality could do little damage. They’d spend a couple of years in some sinecure until they could capture a high value man to have a family with.
Now, such women can’t afford to have a family. They won’t face the stark fact that two incomes are becoming a survival necessity, and have been brainwashed into believing that they can do anything. With their feminist ‘boss girl’ aspirations bolstered by their faux qualifications, they’re expecting to have 30 year careers in areas for which they are horribly unprepared to make any sort of positive contribution. The boys will have to take up the slack again, for little or no reward.
This isn’t a situation which can continue indefinitely.”
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