A woman wins the Man Booker prize. A foregone conclusion.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Val McDermid, novelist, one of the judges – from her website valmcdermid.com

The feminist battle to make women appear superior to men in competitions where judgment is subjective continues apace, leading to female “winners” who cannot be taken seriously by anyone other than feminists.

Anna Burns has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The chances of a woman winning the prize – surely to be named the Woman Booker Prize for Fiction at some point, following a campaign by Caroline Criado Perez OBE – were always very high.

Four of the six books on the shortlist were written by women.

The chair of the judges, and the judges themselves, could hardly have been less representative of modern-day Britain. The chair is a man married to a man. Three of the four judges are women, including Val McDermid, a woman married to a woman. Jacqueline Rose is a feminist academic. The only male judge, Leo Robson, is the lead fiction reviewer for the left-wing New Statesman.

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Kleenex bins ‘Mansize’ tissues

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Our thanks to Steve for this. Utterly pathetic. An extract:

The BBC has approached Kleenex for comment, but the company has yet to respond.

However, in a statement given to the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for its parent company, Kimberly-Clark, said the firm was registering “a consistent increase of complaints on gender concern”.

He added: “Kimberly-Clark in no way suggests that being both soft and strong is an exclusively masculine trait, nor do we believe that the Mansize branding suggests or endorses gender inequality.

“Nevertheless, as we remain committed to developing the best possible products for our consumers and take any feedback extremely seriously, we decided to renovate our current product and update the product subbrand as Kleenex Extra Large.”

The Advertising Standards Authority – which regulates adverts in the UK – told the BBC it had not received any complaints about the product, but it was carrying out “a significant amount of work around gender stereotypes in ads”.

Plans include setting new standards on adverts that feature stereotypical gender roles or characteristics, and cracking down on those which mock people for not conforming to stereotypes.

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Marks and Spencer says it WON’T change the name of its ‘Mansize’ tissues after Kleenex bows to complaints

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Our thanks to Danuta for this. The end of the piece:

Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex, had responded to complaints on Twitter by a mother from Surrey, who complained her four-year-old son had been confused by the Mansize branding.

It said it would change the name in response to a ‘consistent increase of complaints on gender concern’. However, as critics ridiculed the trend for scrapping long-standing brand names on the basis of a few online complaints, M&S declared: ‘We’re not currently planning on making any changes.’

The moves by Kleenex and Waitrose led to a barrage of wisecracks on social media.

One Twitter user joked that Mothercare would be next on the hitlist, while another tweeted: ‘Have you complained about Mum deodorant not being just for mums?’

The piece has attracted almost 500 comments since it was posted earlier today. The most upvoted:

Good. That’s me converted to Marks and Sparks. We need to all get behind businesses that say enough is enough.

Agreed. I’m going to spend some money at M&S tomorrow. They sell some good men’s chinos for £19.99.

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SAS: Women allowed to join for first time (Who Dares, Whines)

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Kat Dixon

A picture in the BBC article. Make-up perfectly applied. That’s the ticket! What a pretty, pretendy soldier!

Our thanks to Nick for this. He writes:

Some nice girly smiles on those soldiers there then.

Good news.

We can all sleep safe in our beds.

Mark my words, more men than women will die, or be injured, as a result of this insanity. The only common sense in the BBC piece comes at the end:

However, retired officer Col Richard Kemp said the new policy would “cost lives”.

“My experience is if you have a team of men, even with one or two women, it could lead to divisiveness.”

“I am not blaming women, but anything that undermines that teamwork will cost lives.”

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Royal Marines find their living quarters reduced to put in female facilities… despite having NO women recruits

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Our thanks to Danuta for this piece from the latest Mail On Sunday. The start of the piece:

Royal Marines have complained that their living quarters are being reduced to make way for female facilities – even though they don’t have any women recruits.

Women’s washrooms and toilets are being built beside dormitories at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in Lympstone, Devon.

The renovations, which have left male recruits competing for space to store equipment and possessions, were given the green light despite the failure of female Royal Marine candidates to qualify for the corps’ 32-week basic training course.

To date, every female candidate to attempt the four-day Potential Royal Marines Course has failed.

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Hundreds of female protesters block road in Parliament Square to voice pension concerns. Arrests: 0. Mike Buchanan blocked the same road to protest against the lack of prosecutions for MGM. Arrests: 1.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2018:

Our thanks to Ian for this. Hundreds of women from the campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) – which should more accurately be termed Women Against State Pension Equality, because that’s what they’re actually complaining about, having the same retirement age as men, after many years of having an earlier retirement age – stopped the traffic in Parliament Square, the same place I stopped traffic for a much shorter time on 1 June 2016, protesting against the CPS / police not prosecuting the criminals who carry out MGM – video here.

One of the supporting organizations at the event was “BackTo60”, which I think we can safely assume is a keen supporter of state pension inequality.

One notable difference between WASPI stopping the traffic, and me stopping the traffic, was that none of the women were arrested, while I was. Indeed, the women received public support from mangina MPs including Stephen Morgan (Labour, Portsmouth South). The creep tweeted this:

Good to join @solent_waspi during the @WASPI_Campaign_ rally today in Parliament Square. I will continue to stand with campaigners to fight state pension injustice #notgoingaway

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“Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky”

A piece just posted by Elizabeth Hobson on Justice for Men & Boys:

Man gazes at city, complacent in misogyny.

New classic Guardian article by Leslie Kern (author of the new book ‘Feminist City’) proves yet again that feminism ruins everything, including geography.

She’d have “happily written a grad school essay about this then turned my attention to more pressing matters”, had “the sexism of the city ended with architectural symbolism” – but, apparently, women city-dwellers specifically have to worry about their safety when jogging at night… I hate to agree with Germaine Greer but she was right when writing in ‘On Rape’ that “It is a nonsense for our daughters to be more frightened of penises than our sons are of guns or knives.” In 2019/20 there were approximately 7.89 thousand rape offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police in London. In 2019/20 the number of knife crime offences recorded in London reached almost 15.6 thousand. Neither rape, nor knife crime are entirely gender-specific crimes, of course – though I suspect that concerns over personal vulnerability to such crimes probably are more gender-specific… But the city is not a space where anyone can waltz along carefree assuming they cannot be victimised because they were lucky enough to be born a certain sex and the propagation of the myth that men can and do can only breed resentment.

For the record, this Wikipedia page ‘List of tallest buildings designed by women’ is a handy reference for women-architects who clearly suffer internalised misogyny. J4MB salutes them!

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Wimmin, wimmin everywhere (BBC drama)

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in September 2018:

An interesting piece by Margaret Ashworth, for TCW. You only have to look at one evening’s BBC TV schedules to see that the BBC is a broadcaster run by women, for women. Last night I happened to click on BBC2 and caught the final 10 minutes of a 150 minute long programme which included live coverage of England v Wales, the wimmin’s teams. That’s 10 minutes I’m never going to get back. 12-year-old boys could have trounced both teams, and they’d have drawn a bigger crowd.

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Bobbie Jillions, 34-year-old mother of two, creates rose gold vagina casts in bid to give women more confidence in the bedroom

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in September 2018:

Daily Mirror caption: Life caster Bobbie Jillions (Image: Kennedy News and Media)

Daily Mirror caption: She’s hoping to start organising parties where groups of friends can have it done together (Image: Kennedy News and Media)

Our thanks to James for this. Extracts:

A mum is making rose gold casts of women’s vaginas in a bid to give them more confidence in the bedroom.

Bobbie Jillions, 34, has been inundated with requests after launching her rather unusual idea, and she hopes it will get woman talking about their private parts.

She even believes it could save lives, by giving women the confidence to go for smear tests.

Bobbie, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, said: “I’m hoping my casts will make people feel more confident talking about their bits and pieces. The human body shouldn’t be a taboo subject.

“I hope this will encourage women to be more open and comfortable with their bodies.”

The single mum-of-two has plans to launch casting parties where friends can get together over a bottle of wine and have their bits moulded…

“The vagina casts were actually designed to be in a bedroom. They make a fantastic Valentine’s Day or Christmas gift if people are looking for something a bit different.

James writes:

The narcissism just doesn’t relent. I think I’ll do one of these for my dick and give it out to people as a birthday present. See what reaction I get.

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