Sponsored links

A Voice for Men

Humanist Counter-Theory in the Age of Misandry

SocFreeSpeech
You are here: Home / Featured / House of Commons debate on International Men’s Day

House of Commons debate on International Men’s Day

By 10 Comments

Last Thursday, along with a number of supporters, I had the pleasure of watching Philip Davies’s debate in recognition of International Men’s Day, from the public gallery of the House of Commons. Our thanks to a supporter for preparing this file (video, 1:22:43) of the proceedings. I’ve put some background under it, including a link to a commentary I’ve prepared, with timings – here.

Two of the most compelling contributions to the debate were from a couple of hatchet-faced feminists, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (SNP, Ochil and South Perthshire) and Paula Sherriff (L, Dewsbury). A couple of SNP manginas debased themselves, in a pathetic but surely futile attempt to curry favor with Mistress – Nicola Sturgeon – whose first act as First Minister of Scotland was to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet.

We look forward to next year’s debate.

Mike Buchanan

About Mike Buchanan

Mike Buchanan is a British men's human rights advocate who leads the political party he launched in 2013, Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them). He was a business executive for 30 years before taking early retirement in 2010. He's written nine books and is also a publisher. His last three books have been concerned with gender and gender politics, the most recent being 'Feminism: the ugly truth' (2012).
In 2012 he launched The Anti-Feminism League and Campaign for Merit in Business. He runs a blog demonstrating that men and boys suffer far more grievously from sexism than women and girls, The Alternative Sexism Project.

Main Website
View All Posts

Filed Under: Featured, Politics Tagged With: ,

Want to say goodbye to that crazy woman?

Buy the instruction manual here.

Support us by becoming a member

AVFM depends on readers like you to help us pay expenses related to operations and activism. If you support our mission, please subscribe today.

Join or donate

Sponsored links

Gynocentrism.com

Elsewhere on AVfM

  • Matthew Walker

    At least they are talking about it in Scotland, back here in the states feminism would even let it come up for debate on the congress floor.

  • hullviking75

    I saw this, or at least part of it. The way it was hijacked by feminist/mangina MP’s was a disgrace, but I suppose it was par for the course.

    • Mike Buchanan

      At least their misandry was there for all to see. Filibustering by feminist MPs at the end of the previous debate reduced the length of the IMD debate from 150 to 83 minutes.

  • j24601

    Securing a debate on the subject of International Men’s Day in the main chamber of the House of Commons is real progress in the cause of giving a voice to the issues facing males today. Congratulations and thank you Philip Davies for your perseverance in attaining this event.

    It was only to be expected that the the likes of Jasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Paula Sherriff and various male ‘regressives’ would take the opportunity in the debate to trot out their stale, hackneyed and increasingly rejected feminist dogmas like the idealogue totalitarians they are. Contributions from Colleen Fletcher and Margaret Ferrier where more constructive, but still were underpinned by the the dogma of feminism. Also, I personally object to a campaign with the title ‘It takes balls to talk’ referred to in the debate, perhaps its proponents would be equally comfortable with a campaign titled ‘It takes a womb to listen’!

    I look forward to next year’s debate and hope to see significant progress in the manner in which issues affecting men and boys are debated.

  • Mike Buchanan
  • napocapo69

    Who was the idiot raising the “wage gap” lie and the fact that men denied the vote to women.
    Fucking bastard.

    • Mike Buchanan

      It was one of several SNP (Scottish National Party) manginas. From the Hansard link I posted earlier:

      Richard Arkless (Dumfries and Galloway) (SNP)

      Despite the obvious sense of many of the contributions, I feel slightly uncomfortable with the subject of this debate. Although I recognise differentials in terms of suicide, the number of primary school teachers and perhaps even fathers’ residence rights, it is not women who caused misogyny, it is not women who caused the pay gap, and it is certainly not women who deprived women of the vote. Should we not be working towards equality, or am I just a man who cannot cry, or a feminist? I am not quite sure.

  • Rob

    Mike
    Thank you and the supporters for attending this and informing us.

    • Mike Buchanan

      Thanks Rob, our pleasure. We outnumbered the MPs on the government benches!

  • Mike Buchanan

    As if misandrous rhetoric from the Opposition benches were not enough, the Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Women and Equalities (for the government, before Philip Davies’s wrapping-up) made a number of ‘contributions’, most of which would have been applauded by the harridans at the Fawcett Society. An example:

    “I want to say a bit more about violence. I am hugely proud of the Government’s national strategy on violence against women and girls. We have made great strides, but there is a long way to go, particularly in tackling sexual harassment in public spaces and online misogyny. As my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley [Philip Davies] rightly pointed out, violence features in boys’ lives, too.”

    Well, it’s a good thing online misandry doesn’t exist, and that men are never victims of violence.

    Outrageous. Simply outrageous.

Advertisment ad adsense adlogger