What the feminist zealots really do want
A British Tory MP with Trump-envy, perhaps – Philip Davies gave a talk at a men’s rights conference to explain what spoiled bitches women are.
Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, delivered a 45-minute speech at the International Conference on Men’s Issues, organised by the Justice for Men and Boys party (J4MB).
Davies, who sits on the Commons justice committee, told the conference at the ExCel centre in London that Britain’s justice system was skewed in favour of women and discriminated against men.
He sounds nice.
Davies, a pro-Brexit campaigner who backed Andrea Leadsom for the Tory leadership, appeared alongside anti-feminist bloggers who have likened the activist Malala Yousafzai to Osama bin Laden and called single mothers “bona fide idiots”.
Thus demonstrating that they don’t know what “bona fide” means. (Hint: it’s not another word for “genuine” or “authentic.”)
J4MB is led and was founded by Mike Buchanan, a former business consultant who retired at 52 and launched campaigns such as the Anti-Feminism League and the Campaign for Merit in Business, which actively fights against initiatives to improve gender diversity in the boardroom.
After thanking Buchanan at the conference, Davies delivered a speech on “the justice gender gap”, arguing that the British justice system favoured women and discriminated against men.
“In this day and age the feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it,” he told the conference. “They fight for their version of equality on all the things that suit women – but are very quick to point out that women need special protections and treatment on other things.”
J4MB issues awards for “lying feminist of the month”, “toxic feminist of the month” and “whiny feminist of the month”, and promotes inflammatory articles on its website including a piece titled 13 reasons women lie about being raped.
Abusively misogynist, in short, like Paul Elam’s nasty outfit. It’s disconcerting to see an MP cozying up to them.
Davies has voted against equalities legislation, argued against equality targets in the workplace and once tabled a private member’s bill that would have repealed the Sex Discrimination Act 2002.
He once claimed that men struggled to be heard in parliament, a view for which he was publicly criticised by the Labour MP Jess Phillips.
Davies told the conference: “I don’t believe there’s an issue between men and women. The problem is being stirred up by those who can be described as militant feminists and the politically correct males who pander to this nonsense.
“It seems to me that this has led to an ‘equality but only when it suits’ agenda that applies to women. The drive for women to have so-called equality on all the things that suit the politically correct agenda but not other things that don’t is of increasing concern to me.
Trump envy.
Janet Bloomfield, a supporter ofWomen Against Feminism – a social media campaign featuring photos of women with pieces of paper listing reasons for rejecting feminism – also addressed the conference. She has called single mothers “bona fide idiots” who don’t care about their children’s wellbeing, and writes blogposts with titles such as “Why Don’t We Have a Dumb Fucking Whore Registry? Now That Would Be Justice”. She has dismissed the concept of “rape culture” as “a giant rape fantasy”.
So now, in a salute to his claim that “the feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it,” there’s a Facebook group of Feminists eating cake. It’s photos of women stuffing their faces with cake. WE WIN.
I’ve run across a Mike Buchanan over at HPFM. Sounds so civil and polite but says repulsive and simply factually incorrect things. Ally Fogg politely gives him the shaft every time. It’s all very British.
OT but what does bona fide mean then? The Google machine isn’t being helpful, since it seems to think that bona fide is a valid alternative to genuine or authentic.
Claire,
It means, literally, in ‘good faith’, although it’s often interpreted as ‘genuine or aurthentic’.
Ugh, Phillip Davies. I thought i’d escaped him this week as there was nothing about him in my local paper ( i’m sure the paper has a template for him and they just change certain words depending on what ever he’s babbling on about that week )
Anyway just a couple of nuggets that should tell you what sort of person he is.
He thinks people with disabilities should get paid below the minimum wage and he’s a member of the tax payers alliance.
I’m willing to bet he’s a big fan of Ayn Rand.
Sorry about the escape-thwarting. I hadn’t heard of him before (that I recall).
Claire & RJW @ 2 & 3 –
I think it just plain means “in good faith” (which is the translation). That of course can be another way of saying genuine or authentic, but that doesn’t mean it’s an exact synonym. A bona fide offer for instance is a genuine offer, so that works, but “bona fide idiots” does not.
It’s worth being exact about these things, because if you don’t, you just look pretentiously wrong. Janet Bloomfield is pretentiously wrong.
I think the first time i came across him in the local paper was when he was moaning about some book prize or competition that was just open to women so i find the above totally within his character.
I was being a bit jokey in my first comment but i really do think he’s a nasty piece of work.
I know, and so was I…although at the same time I really do wish I could just never hear another word from or about Donald Trump EVER AGAIN.
One of the many things that concerns me about Trump are his supporters. When he loses ( he wants to lose because he doesn’t want the responsibility but wants to be seen as the winner by rights) what are all those fired up fans going to do . Blood on the streets? I hope not but i can’t see all that violent rhetoric just fading out.
Oh, I know. I know.
It’s like the Bundy gang, only much much much more so.
It’s a nightmare, frankly.
Ophelia,
@ 6
It will probably soon become standard English. It’s not as annoying as the incorrect use of ‘refute’ and ‘begging the question’.
@9
Yes, the MSM assume that the public is interested in Trump’s latest outburst of verbal diarrhoea, I’m not.
#1
Hah yes, I was thinking the same thing, except that Mike Buchanan is not remotely civil or polite. While he doesn’t swear, he is almost always condescending, sneering, and scornful of any disagreement. He is especially disdainful of feminism, and doesn’t veil it in the slightest. In short, he is a fuckwit.
Also, Justice For Men And Boys is pretty much openly an MRA lobbying group.