The Trevor Phillips cat has been let out of the bag and it is an ominous sign for men.
Trevor Phillips, who is now chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) supposedly blew a fuse recently and threatened to quit because Gordon Brown's Cabinet does not have enough people who are female and/or from an ethnic background (link) and (link). Ignoring the latter issue and concentrating on the former which is what this site is about, Mr Brown lowered the number of women Cabinet members from eight to five.
Trever Phillips' outburst showed that he believes that filling gender quota's are a more important qualification for being in the Cabinet than ability.
Gordon Brown has picked the people he thinks are best for the job (including the first ever female Home Secretary link) but this will not do for the politically correct world that Trevor Phillips and his organisation inhabit (at taxpayers expense).
As Trevor Phillips, no doubt, will continue in this vein, there are two ominous signs for men.
Firstly, Trevor Phillips lumps all people into different victim groups (except men) so instead of treating people as individuals first, gender second, gender is more important. In Phillips' world a girl from Rodean (link) has less opportunity than a man from an inner city comprehensive.
Secondly, in pursuit of his gender quotas, it means he wants positive discrimination for women which means negative discrimination for men. He would want a man dropped from the Cabinet to be replaced by a woman solely because of their gender. This is sexist of course, but not in Trevor Phillips' eyes.
The CEHR, like it's predecessor the 'Equal' Opportunities Commission, can now be expected to give no support on issues surrounding forms of male discrimination, in fact, Trevor Phillips wants more of it.
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