Mike Buchanan

A very warm welcome to my Patreon page.In 2009, at the age of 52, I took early retirement from a successful business career to devote the remainder of my life to challenging the toxic ideology of feminism, which relentlessly seeks ever more female privilege regardless of the costs to men and children (boys in particular). Only 9% of British women (and 4% of British men) self-identify as feminists according to a survey conducted for the Fawcett Society, a feminist charity.&nbsp;I was the founder and remained the leader of the British political party&nbsp;<a href="http://j4mb.org.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Justice for Men &amp; Boys</a> (2013-23) other than the period of 10 months during which <a href="https://j4mb.org.uk/elizabeth-hobson-2-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Elizabeth Hobson</a> was the leader. Until we applied to the Electoral Commission for de-registration at the end of March 2023, for 10+ years J4MB&nbsp;had been the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys in many areas. Their rights have long been assaulted by the actions and inactions of the British state, almost always to privilege woman and girls.J4MB continues to be fully operational, just not in the organisational form of a political party.I organised most of the International Conferences on Men's Issues (ICMIs) held over 2016-2024, including two in-person conferences in London in in&nbsp;<a href="http://icmi2016.icmi.info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2016</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://icmi2018.icmi.info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2018</a>. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">J4MB YouTube channel</a> has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/playlists" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">playlists</a> of the videos of all the presentations at ICMIs to date (2014-24), the Messages 4 Men conferences (London, 2017-19) and the first National Conference on Men's Issues in the UK, in 2020, "Domestic Abuse is a Men's Issue, Too". I was the conference director of the online&nbsp;<a href="http://icmi2020.icmi.info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2020 ICMI</a> and <a href="http://icmi2021.icmi.info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2021 ICMI</a> and <a href="http://icmi2024.icmi.info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2024 ICMI</a> conferences.&nbsp;The video above is the speech I gave at the first International Conference on Men's Issues, hosted by Paul Elam of <a href="http://avoiceformen.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">A Voice for Men</a> in 2014, near Detroit.Our party's final manifesto was published in 2023 - <a href="https://j4mb.org.uk/2015-general-election-manifesto/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.In 2012 I launched&nbsp;<a href="http://c4mb.wordpress.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Campaign for Merit in Business</a>, in the light of numerous&nbsp;<a href="https://c4mb.wordpress.com/improving-gender-diversity-on-boards-leads-to-a-decline-in-corporate-performance-the-evidence/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">longitudinal studies</a> demonstrating a causal link between increasing female representation on boards, and corporate financial DECLINE. I presented the evidence to a House of Commons inquiry later that year.&nbsp;I created the website&nbsp;<a href="http://laughingatfeminists.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Laughing at Feminists</a> in 2020 and I still run it.&nbsp;This is an appeal for support to help me meet my living expenses, given that my full-time work for J4MB has effectively prevented me from engaging in paid employment since 2009.I have lived in the market town of Bedford, England, for the past 25+ years. You can email me at mike@j4mb.org.uk.Thank you for your support.

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