At HEqual we’ve followed the story of Jess Phillips’ opposition to International Men’s Day very closely and a number of her most notorious tweets are actually replies to us. For those who dont’ know about this story, Jess Phillips MP laughed at he idea of discussing men’s issues in Parliament and insisted there shoudl be no debates on men’s issues until 50% of women were MPs! As most people know by now, the BBC and much of the rest of the media have been telling countless lies about this story and turning reality on its head. We’ve complained about the blatantly biased BBC coverage on Newsnight, the following article covers the various biases they’re shown and also highlights much more interesting and competently unreported realities about the misconduct of Jess Philips and her sexism against men.

1. The description of the BBC Newsnight programme on iPlayer and elsewhere states “Jess Phillips on Twitter threats”. For one thing there were absolutely no Twitter threats directed at Phillips and she even admits as such in the piece. We’ve seen and screen captured the comments in question as they appeared in their original form. The reality is that the material was posted on the news sub-section of the obscure Voat website. If one reads the actual content, there’s technically not a single threat contained anywhere within the text, only highly abusive and vile sexist comments. Also, the metrial was on a random website, neither of the comments was ever sent to Phillips. Therefore, the entire description of the Newsnight piece is incorrect and the media narrative of Phillips ever being sent anything of this nature is also demonstrably false. Furthermore, the comments were so unpopular on Voat that they were hidden from public view due to their low score and a special “unhide” button had to be clicked in order to access the material.

So in other words even this questionable community had still been decent enough to reject the material despite usually revelling in no holds barred comments. Almost no one would have ever seen the comments were it not for Phillips going out of her way to promote them on her Twitter account and were she genuinely worried about her children seeing them as she claims then obviously she would have simply reported them to Voat admins rather than use them as an excuse to play damsel in distress to deflect from her misconduct. Most Twitter “abuse” she mentions wasn’t abuse at all but factual description of the fact that she’s sexist against 49% of the people she’s supposed to represent. Calling out misandry and misconduct by blatant sexists is not abuse when it’s factually correct as is the case here.