Long-term followers of this blog will be aware that Philip Davies MP became interested in men’s issues after being told that women were treated more harshly than men by the criminal justice system – an old feminist myth, of course. He instructed the House of Commons library to provide him with data on the issue, thereby learning that the truth was quite the opposite – men are treated FAR more harshly, particularly in sentencing terms. Anyone with any doubts on the issue would do well to read William Collins’s The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect (the ebook costs under £5.00).
Philip went on to make a name for himself in men’s rights circles by impressively defying Jess Phillips (at the time a recently-elected MP) and hosting the first debate in the House of Commons to commemorate International Men’s Day. The debates have continued to this day. Philip gave well-received speeches at a number of ICMIs from 2016 onwards.
During one of our meetings, Philip mentioned that he’d raised the issue of the anti-male bias of the criminal justice system with Michael Gove, at the time (2015-16) the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. He told me Gove was not only aware of the bias but approved of it.
Now it is beyond doubt, of course, that Secretaries of State for Justice – the feminist ones, in particular – know of that anti-male bias, and approve of it. But I have yet to encounter anyone else who has personally witnessed an admission by a cabinet minister to that effect.
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