The Rights Of Man

MOBILE PHONE COMPANIES ARE CENSORING AND DEFAMING MEN'S RIGHTS SITES

Recently a number of commenters here suggested mobile phone companies in the UK were blocking some of the best men's rights sites so I've taken the time to investigate this issue further.

I appreciate that sites supporting men's equality sometimes don't mince their words, but the peaceful, pro-equality message of the sites campaigning for civil rights of the most disadvantaged people in our society is crystal clear and it's rare to ever see any inappropriate views and certainly nothing worthy of blocking (other than quotes of radical feminists of course).

I discovered that O2, one of the largest mobile communications providers in the UK has a "url checker" allowing anyone to see their blocking policy for a particular site. Essentially they have 3 levels of classification a total block, a "default block" (whereby people can only access a site if you request all censorship be turned off) and then a parental block.

I've checked a number of perfectly innocent men's rights sites, and somehow the company have decided to not only censor them by default, they even go as far as classifying them as "hate sites". Victims of these smears include the excellent antimisandry.com, angryharry.com and theantifeminist.com Furthermore I am yet to find a single misandrist site blocked in any form despite their content clearly being much easier to classify as sexist and hateful. Even many of your average Mumsnet or Guardian posts/articles are far worse than anything you'd find at any of the above sites as are the utterances of your average "equality" minister. There are indications that T-mobile have the same polices as O2 and I personally use that comapny so tried all teh above sites on my phone. All 3 attempts had the sites blocked saying i needed to be over 18 to access them. Again, I was unable to achieve such a message when accessing any radical feminist hate sites.

We need to give these companies the benefit of the doubt for now and hope this is a mistake. For now I'd ask that people check as many sites as possible and email them to complain about their censorship. A third party campaign against mobile censorship has a reporting facility here and the open rights groups also address the issue.

Even the writers over at Biased BBC have also been victim of this censorship so there appears to be a clear pattern emerging in terms of the type of thought-policing going on here.

Update - as an afterthought I also decided to check the status of this very blog on the O2 checker even though we're clearly on the moderate, professional and cautious side of the movement. To my horror and surprise even this very blog is classes as a hate site in spite of how cautious we've been in the language used in articles and in the commenting policy. Not one single post here is remotely controversial or hateful. I wrote on this issue here as I thought it was a safe place guaranteed to be free form censorship due to our policies but we've still become victims. We're blocked on t-mobile too, so that's now four of the most popular MRA sites blocked by these companies by default. This really is quite disturbing.

Further updates will be added here as more censorship and defamation is uncovered:

- O2 and T-mobile blocking: hereticalsex.blogspot.com and counterfem.blogspot.com

by John Kimble

LATEST MEN'S MATTERS

The long awaited Mens Matters radio show is back on tonight (Tuesday) at 1900 BST which is 1800 GMT/UT

 

I am at last free of political constraints. This show stars Paul Elam of Avoice for Men Radio in the USA.

Mens Matters can be rheard live on Express FM 93.7, but for most people listen on line at:

 

http://www.expressfm.com/player/

 

When it is eventually transferred over to the Listen Again section of the Express FMs website you should be able to listen at your leisure on:

 

Listen Again: http://www.expressfm.com/player/od/

 

Kind Regards

 

James Williams

 

EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'S ASSESSMENT OF SPENDING REVIEW 2010 PROVES THEY BELIEVE EQUALITY DOES NOT INCLUDE MEN

We have all known it, but this time it is proven beyond doubt - the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) does not believe equality means equality for men as well as for women.

Here is the proof.

Due to political pressure from a number of groups especially the Fawcett Society, the ECHR carried out a formal equality assessment of the government’s 2010 Spending Review. It says in its statement:

"Public bodies, such as HM Treasury, were legally obliged at the time of the Spending Review to demonstrate that they had fully considered the potential effects of their decisions on women, ethnic minorities and disabled people, and that any decisions with an effect on these groups could be justified."

That is not true.

Public bodies have to consider men and women when making their decisions. That is the law under the Equality Act.

Such is the knee-jerk sexism and nati0-male feeling at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that they forget who the law applies to and feel they have no qualms about forgetting that men exist.

A classic case of sexism by ommission and institutional sexism.

This is why, although in theory the Equalities and Human Rights Commission should stand up for men and women - we know it institutionally opposes men. This is why it should be abolished because it is part of the anti-male institutional apparatus.

Perhaps, we should complain about to the Commission about its own sexism in this statement - which is in fact a breach of the very same Equalities Act that it is supposed to police.

Posted by Skimmington 

NEWS UPDATE

A few recent ones -

BBC Radio 4 Today - Thought for the Day (1hr 48 min 30 secs in - John Lamberton Bell of the Iona community) - The most abominable anti-male diatribe ever broadcast on national radio. Disgusting. Any man who follows this person is a fool - he hates you.

The Guardian - The NHS is failing gay and bisexual men (Rachel Williams)

Daily Star - The abusive wife who left me to die (Ella Buchan) - ManKind press release about Coronation Street

The X Foundation - Drag Race for charity

Realmenswork - A new website and group for men in 'non-male' industries: sound responsible activism

The Observer - Are men the second sex (Elizabeth Day): discussion about David Benatar's book. By the way this site used the term Second Sex regarding men way back in 2009.

York Press - Student who made false rape allegation avaoids prison

Fighting Feminism - Some great articles from Mike Buchanan

Remember you have seen anything that has been missed whether general news or campaigns etc please let me know at trom_editor@talktalk.net

Posted by Skimmington

EDITORIAL POLICY REMINDER

Chaps (and chapesses),

A number of us have spent years getting this site to where it is - a respected place for commentary and discussion about male gender and male sexual discrimination.

The editorial policy is clear  - there is to be no anti-women nonsense on this site. Anti-feminism, anti-gender feminism and anti anti-male feminism is fine but not anti-women.

I have had to delete a number of comments recently because they were extreme/anti-women/full of expletives and I will continue to do so. If people have a problem with that, they can set their own site up.

I get why some may be angry, this is why the site exists, but this is no place to channel that anger against women. I like women for a start!

Let's get back to it guys.

Posted by Skimmington

QUEEN'S SPEECH - ONE STEP FORWARD AND ONE STEP BACK

From the scant detail available on the Queen's Speech it seems clear there is one step forward and one step back for male equality.

The one step forward is clearly the recognition of shared parenting under the Children and Families Bill. As stated by the BBC that "Ministers intend to strengthen the law to ensure children have a relationship with both their parents after family separation, where that is safe, and in the child's best interests. The government says it will consult shortly on how the legislation can be framed."

The news was welcomed by Families Need Fathers. 

The one step back is albeit a potential problem but it would naive to think it won't happen. This is in the Crime and Courts Bill. The government's briefing document (page 37) states: "Reforming the judicial appointments process to introduce greater transparency in the judicial appointments process and improve judicial diversity."

Well we all know what that means - an extension of quotas, special treatment and positive discrimination for women which means the end of meritocracy and the institutionalisation of discrimination against men. Just like in boardrooms up and down the country (due to covert and overt 'pressure'), judges will no longer be selected based on their talent, skills and experience, all that matters is their gender - and if you are a man and good enough - there is no guarantee you will pass muster.

One step forward and one step back and all involve the justice system.

Posted by Skimmington

FACEBOOK CAMPAIGN TO END UNNECESSARY MALE CIRCUMCISION

Hot off the press so to speak. This is the type of proper campaigning we need,

NEWS UPDATE

Here are a few news articles from the last week or so:

 The Guardian - Shared custody: why play happy families when it can be dangerous? (Ellie Mae O'Hagan) - Sometimes you do not know where to start but the first anti-male laughable myth was for the journalist to say that there is no evidence that family courts ar biased against men.

Daily Mail - Women are jealous of colleagues if they are attractive and get on with men (Deborah Arthurs): How does feminist patriarchy theory deal with research like this?

The Pink Paper -David Benatar Q&A

Bolton News - Two girls make up rape allegations

The Guardian - Hollande to fight sexism in French politics (Angelique Chrisafis): Looks like French men will be blocked from entering politics on a level playing field just like in Britain.

Malton Mercury - Open up Race for Life to men

This is Hull - Man calls for more help for male victim

Posted by Skimmington

BBC ARTICLE - JUST WHO ARE MEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

This is a very disappointing article.

Will review later but just wanted to highlight it to readers and thank you to those who have posted in the comments sections elsewhere.

Posted by Skimmington

WILL WE GET A WHITE WIDOWS CAMPAIGN IN BRITAIN?

One of the greatest casualties of economic downturns and recessions is the increase in depression due to financial hardship and the loss and/or lack of jobs and crumbling businesses.

This can lead to serious mental illness and sadly, to suicide. And this directly affects men more than women (more three times as many men commit suicide - 4,231 men and 1,377 women in 2010), though every suicide is a tragedy for those individuals and their families.

In Italy, there is a movement called The White Widows, those wives and partners of Italian men who have committed suicide due to the recession. This movement is putting the issue on the map so it is being openly discussed unlike in Britain, where male suicide is only a fringe issue when it comes to public policy and social recognition. Despite the best efforts of CALM, the Men's Health Forum and others, it is still a fringe issue. Why?

Partly, it is to do with anti-male anti-equality feminists who want to shut out any debate about the issue and all other male issues. The Fawcett Society (who laughably say they believe in equality - pure Orwell) launch lifeboat campaigns based on lies about female unemployment and child benefit, but would never launch a White Widows movement for women who have lost fathers, sons and brothers.

Also, more mainstream magazines and websites (Mumsnet) are so self-absorbed about themselves as are their readers that they never consider men and boys - even though they will have sons, husbands/partners and fathers.

Politicians as ever are cowed and infected by political correctness so don't say anything.

Women are the most powerful voice to ensure there is equality for men - this is why the White Widows campaign has had such an impact in Italy.

It is now time for such a campaign in Britain to highlight the plight of men who commit suicide because of the economic problems they cannot face.

And because the Male Equality Movement and Men and Boys sector believes in equality, we would be happy for a White Widows and Widowers campaign.

Posted by Skimmington