The Rights Of Man

WANTED: UK'S WORST ANTI-MALE ADVERTS

Yesterday, I published the story about Hyundai and thought it would be good to publish a montage of Britain's worst anti-male ads.

If you have a link to the ad on Youtube or just want to mention it (and we can try and track it down) please list in the comments section.

Posted by Skimmington

THE BANK NOTE PETITION AND FEMINIST MCCARTHYISM - WHY DO THEY HATE MEN SO MUCH?

Feminist McCarthyism is poisonous strand of modern radical feminism that believes that every man is a secret women-hater and that every decision that is not pro-female is due to a cabal of men making decisions in smoke-field rooms to keep women in the kitchen.

It is a particularly noxious brand of feminist which is not pro-equality and is espoused by the Guardian, Fawcett Society, many in the government (Government Equalities Department especially) and a whole bunch of radical feminists who see conspiracies and women-haters everywhere.

The campaign and petition to ensure that a woman is on a British banknote has reached absurd levels of feminist McCarthyism. There must be some conspiracy behind the decision to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill?

There is even now a petition and the metropolitan elites and other outlets (Guardian, Huffington
Post) have got behind it. The Chancellor's Aide Amber Rudd MP as well...as reported in the Independent and Daily Mail.

The petition states "An all-male line-up on our banknotes sends out the damaging message that no woman has done anything important enough to appear." No proof anywhere of that at all!

The petition even tries to say the Queen does not count because she is hereditary.

But surely only a few can say that the Queen does not do a good job and also that means women as well. What McCarthyist feminists like those mentioned and  especially Caroline Criado-Perez of the Women's Room are really saying is that the Queen was not chosen by them so that doesn't count.

What the petition does is show is the absurdity of McCarthyite Feminism, how anti-male it is by seeking to place every decision that they do not agree with as being part of some patriachal conspiracy effectively portraying us all as women-haters. 

And it also shows how out of touch they are with normal women (and normal men). How many of the UK's 30 million women are going to sign this - hardly any - and the reason is simple - they do not see the sexism that the Mccarthyite's see because it is not there. The Empresses have no clothes

 Posted by Skimmington 

INNOCEAN EUROPE AND HYUNDAI'S SICK ADVERT AND THE CHANCE FOR REDEMPTION

One sure sign of the everyday institutional sexism that men face in today's society can be seen by the recently banned  advert created by Hyundai  and the laughable advertising agency Innocean Europe who said  they are "a company that espouses strong family values" (Innocean Europe is owned by the chairman and his daughter...)

Hyundai claim they knew nothing about it which is a lie. No company allows an advertising agency to produce and broadcast an advert (online or not) and no one at the organisation sign it off.

The sickest thing about the ad is not the ad per se, it is the fact that the creatives and executives at both Innocean Europe and Hyundai actually came up with the idea, then created it, then broadcast it. Did no one stop and say something. 

How could anyone come up with such a sick idea and think it was funny (and of course would they ever reverse the genders). Well someone did and it shows that people thought it was OK to do so. And these are not people without a brain (supposedly), they are running one of the world's biggest ad agencies and car companies.

With three out of every four suicides being a male and with both the Men's Health Week and International Men's Day being  about mental health and health respectively (and of course CALM), both Hyundai should sponsor these and Innocean Europe should create an advert for International Men's Day/Men's Health Week or CALM as a penance.

Posted by Skimmington

 

PS Read Holly Brockwell's open letter

 

THE HURDLES MEN FACE TO BE EQUAL by ANTHONY HUMPHRIES

From plenty of talking to and debating with various female colleagues and friends over the past few months it strikes me that the fight against misandry faces two major problems.

The first is that most of the general public fail to recognise that it even exists and that men face no inequality in the modern world. Further to this and possible more worrying is that they also still elieve that all the gender inequality in the world still happens solely to women. Both these things are a huge hurdle and that is why sites such as these and the direct action of certain individuals is so important to raise consciousness of what is really happening.

This really frustrates me when talking to women about it as, even when faced with hard evidence, they will not admit men face inequality in the modern world and claim that women are still the hard done too ones. 

A classic example of this is when I was talking to a female friend about domestic violence – as usual she trotted out that it mainly happens to women and that the official statistics back this up. When I pointed out that the official statistics were flawed and it was pretty well known that men faced as much, if not more, domestic violence then she dismissed this and said that the figures don’t lie and if more men faced it now , women still faced the majority of it and it was only a handful of cases the other way round!? 

Faced with this refusal to be open minded and accept the reality rather than what she had been told & chose to believe it is hard to convince anyone to change their minds.

The second major hurdle I think we face is that, if it is admitted that society is unequal against men now, then it is only payback for what has happened in the past and is therefore acceptable.  This view, which many reasonable women hold, in effect gives the modern women carte blanche to behave as she wants towards men without reproach and also the misandry prevalent in society is allowed to grow unhindered.  This use of the past also allows women to still play the victim role in society which allows them to behave as they do now.

I have to add that all the people I talked too were normal, reasonable members of the general public which is worrying as this would suggest the general public still swallow the anti-male feminist agenda
that is the norm at the moment.  

How to overcome these hurdles? I think we need to carry on as we are as I think inroads are being made despite the above. More raising of the issues on the internet and media and as much actual action as possible – also more people in government and high placed roles to fight our cause there.
It is a long road but we will get there in the end.

Posted by Anthony Humphries