Campaign for Merit in Business – C4MB – is run by the people who run J4MB, and is led by Mike Buchanan. Established in early 2012, it’s engaged with parliamentary inquiries, and the video of Mike giving evidence to a House of Commons inquiry – ‘Women in the Workplace’ – is here. C4MB has had exposure on national television and radio programmes, and Mike was interviewed on Daily Politics – video here. C4MB has been successful in halting the formerly popular narrative – employed by politicians in particular, including David Cameron and Vince Cable – which maintained that companies would become more profitable if they increased the proportion of women on their boards.

There’s considerable evidence – from longitudinal studies – which shows that when female representation on corporate boards is increased – for example through gender quotas, or the threat of them – corporate financial performance declines. This may be primarily an inexperience effect, rather than a gender effect. C4MB’s short briefing paper on the matter has the full Abstracts of five longitudinal studies, and links to them.

The government continues to threaten legislated gender quotas if FTSE100 companies haven’t ‘voluntarily’ achieved 25% female representation on their boards by 2015. The FTSE100 is on track to reach the target, almost invariably through appointing poorly-qualified women as non-executive directors, the tactic which did so much damage to Norwegian companies. It’s known from public statements by politicians that the 25% target is ‘only a major milestone on a longer journey’ and smaller companies will in time be required to appoint more female directors. In the spring of 2014 it was revealed that the FTSE350 is next in the ‘firing line’, and that the longer-term goal is gender-balanced boards, regardless of the shortage of suitably qualified women.

C4MB believes merit should be the sole basis for recruitment and promotion in the workplace, in stark contrast  to initiatives which seek ‘improved’ gender diversity in senior executive positions, including in boardrooms, regardless of individual women’s merit compared with their male peers, and regardless of impact on corporate financial performance. Those initiatives are an assault on meritocracy, they’re inspired and sustained by radical feminism – which has its roots in Marxism – yet they’re driven and largely financed by a Conservative government.

This post was originally published in 2015.

A Voice for Men is an American website, the most-visited and influential men’s rights advocacy website in the world. In February 2013 AVfM exclusively revealed the name of our new political party when they published an article – Let’s get political – in which we revealed some of our thinking behind launching a political party.

AVfM have published over 60 of Mike Buchanan’s articles, and a few of his media appearances, and they’re accessible here.

AVfM relentlessly and fearlessly relates the truth about assaults on men’s and boys’ human rights around the world, and ruthlessly exposes the lies told by feminists. We strongly recommend that you subscribe to the site (no charge).

If you read every article published by AVfM in the course of a month, and read the associated comments streams, you’ll understand better than 99% of people how the human rights of men and/or boys are assaulted in many areas, usually to advantage women and/or girls, and usually at the behest of feminists. 20 such areas were explored in our 2015 general election manifesto.

In July 2018, along with Elizabeth Hobson, our Director of Communications, and others, I contributed to a document whose contents I read out at the start of my conference speech – The Non-Feminist Declaration. It has already been translated into German.

We invite you to become a signatory. A list of early signatories is here. They include the writer James Delingpole and Paul Joseph Watson.

The Non-Feminist Revolution starts here.

We’re admirers of the Wikipedia project in general, but in relation to gender politics it’s strongly influenced by feminists and therefore – by definition – highly unreliable.

Wikipedia first published an entry on J4MB in April 2015, it was created by someone unknown to J4MB. Over the following two years, a number of additions and deletions were made in an effort to discredit and misrepresent J4MB. Anonymous editors who were keen to have the truth about J4MB made available on the site often had their contributions removed or edited, and in late April 2017 ‘anonymous’ editors were banned from editing the entry any further, so a number of errors and omissions remain.

On 23 April 2017 we posted a piece, Feminist manipulations of the J4MB Wikipedia entry. If you type ‘Wikipedia’ in the Search box, you’ll find more recent pieces.

If you want to learn anything about J4MB, feel free to email us for information (info@j4mb.org.uk).

This post was originally posted in 2019.

Brother K is a renowned American intactivist, and leads the organization Bloodstained Men & Their Friends. To the best of my knowledge, nobody in the English-speaking has been more successful in terms of getting people involved in street protesting against Male Genital Mutilation, across the English-speaking world. An example of their protesting, in Denver, Colorado, is here (video, 24:09). A common feature of their protests is the large number of female protesters.

A trademark of the group is wearing white overalls with a red stain in the groin area, and both their male and female followers adopt this “uniform” (the group campaigns for the end of ALL genital mutilation, both male and female).

Both Paul Elam and I wish to step up our MGM-related work, and with this in mind, I recently contacted Brother K. The following is the start of my email exchange with Brother K, reproduced here with his kind permission. We intend to start campaigning at Speakers’ Corner and elsewhere in the coming weeks, wearing the “uniform”, and promoting Bloodstained Men & Their Friends. I wrote:

Brother K, good evening. It’s been some time since we had an exchange, but I’ve long been an admirer of your work as reported at https://www.bloodstainedmen.com.

I lead the British political party Justice for Men & Boys http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com, since its launch in 2013 the only party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys on many fronts. Ending MGM in the UK has been our #1 campaigning issue for the past four years or so, our successes include informing Philip Davies MP about the subject, such that he later focused on MGM at the last International Men’s Day debate he hosted, in 2018, in which he outlined the illegality of MGM in the UK, and more besides.

We’ve long had a good relationship with Paul Elam and A Voice for Men (AVfM), founded in 2009 http://avoiceformen.com, and his An Ear for Men http://anearformen.com. Between us, we’ve hosted the International Conferences on Men’s Issues, of which there have been five since the first hosted by Paul in Detroit in 2014. There were presentations on MGM at the past four events, including by Tim Hammond and Steven Svoboda at the two London conferences. I can’t promise anything at this stage, but we plan to have at least one MGM-related presentation at future events, and there may be an opportunity for you to speak at the 2021 conference in North America (host city TBA).

Paul has asked me to pass on to you an offer of free advertising on the AVfM website (on the sidebar), and to start featuring your protest and other videos. I’ve copied him on this email, along with Gary Costanza (also cc’d), AVfM’s Director of anti-MGM Activism (Gary lives in California, Paul in Virginia). An example of Gary’s work, in relation to his database of “Known Genital Mutilators”:

https://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/known-genital-mutilator-dr-darius-bagli-of-sickkids-toronto-where-unsickkids-get-barbaric-treatment

We speak and campaign at Speakers’ Corner in London every other Sunday, and MGM is always a major theme, with placards, leaflets etc. With your prior agreement, we’d like to start adopting the Bloodstained Men “garb”, hopefully it will lead to more attention at Speakers’ Corner and beyond. I thought we could term ourselves “Friends of Bloodstained Men”, and start to include your URL in our leaflets and on our placards etc. We’re keen to do what we can to help increase your exposure. In the meantime, keep up the great work!

Brother K replied:

Mike, thank you for your kind letter and comments. I have followed your work in London, the protests and your arrest, the conferences, and your posts and videos, as well as Gary’s and Paul’s, including Paul’s powerful declaration on Facebook earlier this year, challenging men to deal with this issue. Bloodstained Men cannot endorse a candidate under the IRS rules governing non-profits, but given that qualification, we wholeheartedly support your work in the UK to stop this cruelty to boys, not only in the UK but around the world, and girls too, NOT a separate issue as the narrow-minded opponents of female circumcision have segregated genital cutting by gender to protect one gender only, and throw boys to the wolves. Absolutely use the bloodstained suits as you feel appropriate and helpful to your work in the UK.

Bloodstained Men would be honored, Paul, to have a place on your website and in your work, and we certainly look forward to future collaboration on this issue, the fundamental right of a man to his own body, it’s unbelievable that we have to convince people of the cruelty of the human rights violation implicit in cutting off part of a child’s penis. I speak for James Loewen as well, his YouTube channel Bonobo3d, and for Bloodstained Men, that you may freely share and borrow any helpful content for your website and work.

Gary, we all appreciated your recent solo protest, and your video denunciation of this barbaric ritual that American doctors continue to inflict upon the most helpless victims of all, newborn male babies, and your compilation of the criminals doing it.

In short, Bloodstained Men firmly believes that the genital mutilation of children is THE fundamental human rights issue of the 21st century, affecting boys, girls and intersex, and we will work with you and your colleagues to eradicate this disease from our society so that children can grow up in peace, with normal bodies, and live normal lives as men and women have done throughout human history, with the exception of the fanatical genital cutting cultures that claim a religious mandate behind their obsession.

Please feel free to use the DIY resources on our website at BloodstainedMen.com to print up your own BSM infocards and the tutorial to make your own bloodstained suits, and to reference our website in your work.

I have CC’d this email to all members of the Bloodstained Men Board of Directors, with whom I consulted before writing it.

Let me know any way I can assist you on this issue.

Kindly,

Brother K

This post was originally published in 2019.

I’m posting this blog piece because from Sunday, 6 October, 2019, we’re going to continue campaigning against MGM, Male Genital Mutilation – non-therapeutic male circumcision – at Speakers’ Corner, London, but for the first time wearing white workwear with red patches over the groin, in common with the inspiring American group Bloodstained Men & Their Friends. We’ll be handing out new leaflets, and displaying new placards such as this. There will be links to this blog piece on both leaflets and placards, people interested in our message will readily find links here to information about MGM. A unifying theme of the new campaign will be:

If you love your son and understand the harm always caused by circumcision, you wouldn’t have him circumcised.

If you’re an expectant mother, or a parent planning to have your son circumcised, we recommend you first visit the website Your Whole Baby. You might want to watch this video (8:27) of an American mother who is very pleased she didn’t have her sons circumcised. She feels very sorry for mothers who agreed to have their sons circumcised, and later regret their decisions, when they’ve learned of the damage caused by the procedure – “Regret Moms”.

The foreskin, far from being a small flap of skin with no purpose, as many people believe – including most circumcised men – has many important functions. 16 of them are detailed here.

Our collection of materials about MGM is enormous, and it’s impossible to do it justice in one blog piece, but this should be a good start for people wishing to know more about this complex subject.

An introduction to MGM

William Collins, a British man, is the most important blogger on gender-related issues in the world, at his website The Illustrated Empathy Gap. His first article on MGM is here. His book The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect was published in June 2019, and it’s a tour de force. The section on MGM alone is 50 pages long.

Religious reasons for carrying out MGM

The two religions which routinely perform MGM on male minors are Judaism and Islam (Christians from parts of Africa also perform it). It’s common in the United States for cultural reasons, explored in the film American Circumcision, which is free to watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime. The most powerful religious arguments against MGM come from Jews and Muslims themselves. The Jewish case against MGM is here. The Muslim case against MGM is here.

What injuries does MGM cause?

The foreskin performs many functions, and over 90% of the Meissner’s corpuscles in the penis – the nerve cells which give men pleasure during sex – are found in the foreskin, and are therefore lost as a direct result of the procedure. For a more detailed review of circumcision harms we recommend a presentation by Tim Hammond, an American campaigner against MGM, Findings of 2012 Global Survey of Infant Circumcision Harm.

Does MGM deliver health / medical benefits?

At Speakers’ Corner and elsewhere, we find circumcised men – Muslim men in particular – convinced there are health / medical benefits from MGM. We refer people who believe there are benefits, to three pieces about the claimed medical benefits, written by William Collins – Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Video and audio pieces about MGM

Our playlist of 100+ audio and video pieces on MGM is here.

The legal position on MGM in the UK 

Performing MGM in the UK is a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, being at least Actual Bodily Harm, and almost certainly Grievous Bodily Harm. However, the criminal justice system, to its eternal shame, declines to bring prosecutions against the criminals performing the procedure. It also stops people bringing private prosecutions of individual circumcisers.

Psychological denial

It’s understandable, but regretable, that circumcised men are resistant to understanding how they’ve been injured (always physically, sometimes psychologically) by the procedure. Religions and cultures brainwash circumcised men into thinking the procedure has been beneficial for them, so naturally they wish to have their own sons circumcised in turn. We believe that the damaging procedure will stop when enough men and women are better informed about the damage caused by MGM, such that they will naturally refuse to have their own sons circumcised.

Ethical considerations

There is a huge body of literature concerning the ethics of MGM. Virtually all of it points to the practice being unethical, in part because mutilation of the genitals is carried out on a minor unable to understand the operation – there cannot be informed consent – and in part because the individual may later reject the religion of his parents, and maybe adopt a different religion. One of the most outspoken ethicists is Brian D Earp of the University of Oxford. One of his earlier papers, from 2014, was Female genital mutilation (FGM) and male circumcision: should there be a separate ethical discourse?”.

Our protests at Speakers’ Corner, London

Every second Sunday we campaign against MGM at Speakers’ Corner, London, we invite you to join us. Details here.

Bloostained Men and Their Friends

The American group Bloodstained Men & Their Friends engage in street protests against MGM. An example of their campaigning, in Denver, Colorado, is here (video, 24:09). A frequent feature of their protests is the large number of female protesters.

Known Genital Mutilators

A Voice for Men is a website run since 2009 by Paul Elam, a renowned American Men’s Rights Advocate (MRA). Gary Costanza is his organization’s Director of Anti-MGM Activism. He runs the website Neonatal Cutting and maintains a directory of Known Genital Mutilators (KGMs). Many of the people exposed as KGMs are British, all of whom are criminals, because carrying out MGM is a crime against the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

Questions on MGM? Seeking further information?

Please feel free to contact me (mike@j4mb.org.uk, 07967 026163) if you wish to discuss MGM or any of the many other men’s issues about which we’re concerned.

On our YouTube channel we have a playlist of our video interviews of people with interesting things to say on gender issues, including feminism. The videos to date:

• Paul Elam
• Professor Gerard Casey, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, University College, Dublin
• Janice Fiamengo, former Professsor of English, University of Ottawa
• Tom Golden
• Dr Warren Farrell
• Mallory Millett (sister of the late Kate Millett, a radical feminist who tried to kill Mallory many times)

This post was originally published in 2013.

My thanks to a highly valued supporter (and donor) for pointing out to me that 2013 is the centenary of the publication of a remarkable book, The Fraud of Feminism, written by Ernest Belfort Bax (1854 – 1926), a British socialist journalist and philosopher. The Wikipedia entry on this man is here, the book here.

The opening of the Introduction:

In the following pages it is not intended to furnish a treatise on the evolution of woman generally or of her place in society, but simply to offer a criticism on the theory and practice of what is known as Modern Feminism.

By Modern Feminism I understand a certain attitude of mind towards the female sex. This attitude of mind is often self-contradictory and illogical. While on the one hand it will claim, on the ground of the intellectual and moral equality of women with men, the concession of female suffrage, and commonly, in addition thereto, the admission of women to all professions, offices and functions of public life; on the other it will strenuously champion the preservation and intensification of the privileges and immunities before the law, criminal and civil, in favour of women, which have grown up in the course of the nineteenth century.

The above attitude, with all its inconsistencies, has at its back a strong sex-conscious party, or sex union, as we may term it, among women, and a floating mass of inconsequent, slushy sentiment among men. There is more than one popular prejudice which obscures the meaning and significance of Modern Feminism with many people. There is a common theory, for instance, based upon what really obtained to some extent before the prevalence of Modern Feminism, that in any case of antagonism between the two sexes, women always take the man’s side against the woman. Now this theory, if it ever represented the true state of the case, has long ceased to do so.

The powerful female sex union spoken of, in the present day, exercises such a strong pressure in the formation of public opinion among women, that it is rapidly becoming next to impossible, even in the most flagrant cases, where man is the victim, to get any woman to acknowledge that another woman has committed a wrong. On the other hand it may be noted, that the entire absence of any consciousness of sex antagonism in the attitude of men towards women, combined with an intensification of the old-world chivalry prescribed by tradition towards the so-called weaker sex, exercises, if anything, an increasing sway over male public opinion. Hence the terrific force Feminism has obtained in the world of the early twentieth century.

The start of the final chapter, ‘The Indictment’:

Feminism, or, as it is sometimes called, the emancipation of woman, as we know it in the present day, may be justifiably indicted as a gigantic fraud – a fraud in its general aim and a fraud alike in its methods of controversy and in its practical tactics. It is through and through disingenuous and dishonest. Modern Feminism has always professed to be a movement for political and social equality between the sexes. The claim for this equalising of position and rights in modern society is logically based upon the assumption of an essential equality in natural ability between the sexes. As to this, we have indicated in the preceding pages on broad lines, the grounds for regarding the foregoing assumption as false. But quite apart from this question, I contend the fraudulent nature of the present movement can readily be seen by showing it to be not merely based on false grounds, but directly and consciously fraudulent in its pretensions.

It uniformly professes to aim at the placing of the sexes on a footing of social and political equality. A very little inquiry into its concrete demands suffices to show that its aim, so far from being equality, is the very reverse – viz. to bring about, with the aid of men themselves, as embodied in the forces of the State, a female ascendancy and a consolidation and extension of already existing female privileges. That this is so may be seen in general by the constant conjunction of Political and Sentimental Feminism in the same persons. It may be seen more particularly in detail, in the specific demands of Feminists. These demands, as formulated by suffragists as a reason why the vote is essential to the interests of women, amount to little if anything else than proposals for laws to enslave and browbeat men and to admit women to virtual if not actual immunity for all offences committed against men. It’s enough to consult any suggestions for a woman’s “charter” in order to confirm what is here said. Such proposals invariably suggest the sacrificing of man at every turn to woman.

ManWomanMyth nails it (video, 13:00).

ManWomanMyth was a highly influential British vlogger who published videos over 10+ years up to 2015. He is no longer active, sadly. Details about his work, and a link to our playlist of his 130 videos, are here.

ManWomanMyth (MWM) was a highly influential British vlogger who published at least 130 videos on his YouTube channel during the 10+ years leading up to 2015, when the channel was taken down. MWM is no longer active, sadly, but we know he’s pleased his work remains valued by MRAs worldwide. Fortunately some MRAs had taken copies of the content before the channel was taken down, which is why they remain available on YouTube and elsewhere to this day.

Individual “mirrors” usually contain some videos which have been pulled for alleged copyright infringements, and none of them contain all of the output of MWM. The most comprehensive developed before now is (we believe) this, but it excludes five important videos on “misandry and intimacy”, and others. The original posted videos attracted huge numbers of views, the re-posted videos fewer. They deserve many more.

We recently set ourselves the task of publishing a new J4MB playlist with all the known output of MWM, and that playlist (130 videos) is here. Most of the videos were drawn from the aforementioned “mirror”. If you know of any videos we’ve missed, please let us know, and we’ll add them immediately. Thank you.

If you haven’t seen any of MWM’s output before, we recommend you start with Female Supremacy (12:59). It starts with a clip from a decidedly un-PC Two Ronnies sketch, the likes of which the BBC would never make today. The occasional flashes of humour in the videos are welcome. A video on the iniquity of men and women winning the same prize money at Wimbledon starts with, “Game, Set, and Snatch”.