Today’s file is here (12:21). A predictably hostile and scornful BBC feminist’s interview of a wonderful women, the director of The Red Pill, Cassie’s Wiki page here. The film has been availle to watch for free on YouTube for some time, here (1:57:46)

Over a period of more than two years we’re 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 (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related 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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Our thanks to Gerry for this (video, 17:09).

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Interesting (Times, £). The start of the piece:

“Thousands of men with incurable prostate cancer have been offered a “lifeline” as the NHS was given the go-ahead for a daily pill that slows the spread of the disease.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has reversed a decision to reject talazoparib, a drug made by Pfizer, which it said last summer was not cost-effective. It has now recommended the drug for about 2,400 men a year in England with advanced prostate cancer, and talazoparib will be available on the NHS from Friday.”

This follows the recent good news we reported about another life-extending prostate cancer drug (abiraterone) which will be offered to thousands in England, details here.

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Our thanks to Jeff for this. It’s an intriguing case. The start of the piece:

“A woman who was missing for 15 years was killed by her partner and buried in the back garden of their home, a court has heard.

Anna Podedworna, 40, denies the murder of Izabela Zablocka, who was 30 when she was reported missing in 2010, after moving from her native Poland to Derby.

Prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC told Derby Crown Court the two women had moved to the UK together and lived in Normanton.

Zablocka’s body was discovered on 1 June 2025, buried in the garden of a house in Princes Street, where the pair had been living, after Podedworna emailed Derbyshire Police to tell them her body could be found there, the jury heard.”

A later extract:

“Aspden said shortly after this call, Zablocka was murdered by Podedworna, who “dismembered Izabela’s body by cutting it in half with a large knife”.

He said police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a skilled butcher and her work involved “deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife”.

The court heard the body was buried in the back garden, before concrete hardstanding was then laid over the top.”

So Zablocka disappeared and it didn’t occur to the police to check the possibility that she may have been killed and her body might have been buried in the garden, possibly under some new concrete. Give me strength. The killing would have remained unsolved to this day if Podedworna hadn’t confessed to it.

Back to the article, this extract takes to the end of this blog piece:

“The court heard Podedworna, now of Boyer Street in Derby, emailed police on 21 May 2025 saying she wished to provide evidence.

The exchange culminated in her telling officers three days later that they would find Zablocka’s body buried in the garden in Princes Street, the jury heard.

Aspden said: “Now and for the first time, the defendant admitted that she had killed Izabela.

“However, now and for the very first time, she claimed that Izabela had died by ‘accident’ during a violent confrontation between them, and that during this violent incident she had done nothing more than defend herself.

“The crown’s case is that this new and freshly-created claim of self-defence was yet another lie by this defendant to try to conceal her guilt.”

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Richard Reeves describes himself as a feminist yet positions himself as an advocate for men and boys. It’s a ridiculous position because feminism is (as we all know) the pursuit of female supremacy and inevitably results in harm to men and boys (and most women and girls, come to that).

In 2022 Janice Fiamengo published an excellent article on her Substack channel, a critique of Reeves’s then recently-published Of Boys and Men. It was titled, Saving Men from Feminism in order to Save Feminism Is a Lousy Idea. An extract should give you a flavour of her piece:

“What is required, according to Reeves, “is a simple change in mindset, recognizing that gender inequalities can go in both directions.” While acknowledging that such a change will not be easy, Reeves calls on those he claims to be “the strongest advocates for gender equality, many of whom are on the liberal side of the political spectrum, to take a more balanced view.” Ouch. Here the woeful inadequacy – even incoherence – of Reeves’ blinkered perspective becomes sadly evident. While I heartily commend Reeves for his compassion for boys, his inability or unwillingness to admit that feminism and progressivism are the problems – not the solutions, as he suggests – is an all-too-familiar fatal flaw.”

Which brings me to Is there hope for gender equality? A conversation with Richard V. Reeves and Gloria Steinem. It’s just been published on the website of the innocuous-sounding American Institute for Boys and Men, of which Reeves is the President.

Against my better judgement I started to read the typescript of the discussion between Reeves and Steinem but gave up after this:

Richard Reeves: Yeah. Stephanie Stan Cheever’s work suggests a rise in zero-sum thinking. In other words: if one group rises, that must mean another group falls. So if you want women to do better, then it means you have to be indifferent to—or even celebrate—the struggles of men, because it’s like one or the other, right? And then the same the other way around.

And that’s not the spirit of the women’s movement that you’re the leader of.

Gloria Steinem: No, absolutely not.

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Our thanks to Eli for this (video, 21:26). Nicholas De Santo has described himself as the only pro-life comedian in the world.

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Today’s file is here (33:37).

Over a period of more than two years we’re 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 (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related 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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