The Rights Of Man

WHY DID THE "BIGOT IN A BRA" THINK IT WAS RIGHT TO PEN SUCH AN ARTICLE?

The fallout from Esther Walker's article on Monday about "beastly boys" continues to rightly attract deserved criticism. The fact that it has had 1,446 comments so far speaks volumes and the condemnation from women (mothers of boys especially) is very heartening.

Peter Lloyd's critique "Bigot in a Bra" is devastating not just for what he says about the article but his articulation of the bias against men. It is good that the Daily Mail has someone on their books clearly standing up for male equality. He is suing Kentish Town Sports centre for these women-only swimming classes.

As regular contributor Brian said on Monday:

To make the point of the above comment really clear, replace the word "Boys" in the article with any of the following words and see the reaction:

Nxxxxx
Jew
Asians
Homosexuals
Girls

and ask why has this woman not been arrested or at the very least sacked?

As well as the issue Brian mentions there is the issue about the thought process in the midns of both writer and editor - similar to why advertising agencies and companies think anti-male adverts are Ok but they would never dream of running an anti-women advert.

Why did she think it was right to hold these views and then write about them and then why did the Daily Mail think it was Ok to publish them? it says a lot about modern-day feminism's view of men and boys.

Posted by Skimmington

MIKE BUCHANAN AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CAMPAIGNING FOR EQUALITY

Last week, we mentioned Mike was appearing at the Select Committee into Women in the Workplace. Please read his comments about it (here and here) and he kindly has supplied a link (1 hour 34 mins in) so you can watch the appearance. Must see TV and shows how sensible and responsible activism can succeed.

Posted by Skimmington

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA STILL UNDECIDED ON WHETHER ALL MEN ARE PAEDOPHILES OR NOT

Back in August you may have noticed a huge amount of international coverage and outrage of Virgin Australia's "all men are paedophiles" seating policy. The airline forced a firefigher of all people from his seat simply due to the fact he was guilty of the horrific crime of being male in the vicinity of a child he wasn't related to!

Thanks to Mr Muir sharing his experience and some excellent journalism from the likes of Bridie Jabour, Virgin Australia began a "review". I'm all for carrying out thorough assesments of any possible change in policy, but there's also such things as common sense, basic decency and gender equality, and one would have thought this would have to be the shortest and easiest review any company has ever had to undertake.

Alas this is not the case, and the "all men are paedophiles" policy remains in place whilst Richard Branston and his collegaues assess whether or not you, I and every single man out there present a serious risk to children every time we take a flight. Given the preference for seating chidlren with females, they will also be considering whether all the countless female child absues out there who murder, molest, rape and kidnap chidlren actually exist or not. Alternativley, perhpas Virgin Australia have discovered new evidence that all the Rose Wests, Myra Hindleys and Vanessa Georges of this world all suffer from chronic aerophobia and thus will never set foot on a plane?

I wish Virgin Australia the best of luck with these tricky question which has now taken them almost a quarter of a year. Given the fact that they're clearly struggling with this issue I do have my concerns about their ability to carry out other tasks. If they can't get this call right then I'm doubt they'd be capable of crossing the road, nevermind flying huge metal machines though the sky at hundreds of miles an hour.

Please share your thoughts with Virgin Australia on their blog and whilst they deal with this conundrum I'd advise you to chose an airline that knows their left from right, and right from wrong.

by John Kimble

INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION AT THE EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

Just a quick post but if anyone ever wanted an example of the institutional discrimination endemic at the laughably titled Equalities and Human Rights Commission this is it.

The report 'The impact on changes in commissioning and funding commissioning women-only services' is paid for by the taxpayer to Cambridge Policy Consultants.

Its interesting reading as it looks at whether changes in funding and commissioning had a disadvantageous effect on women-only services.

While at face value the main area of discrimination would be the fact that there is not an equivalent report for men. It's worse.

The report (page x or page 14 of 100 if you look at it this way) explains how awful it is that some women's groups have to either open their doors to men or had to share funding to help support men's services. The complaint is that the law provides for services to disadvantaged groups but this is on the basis of women being placed at a disadvantage not in the context that men are group who may also need support hence why women-only groups are being asked to support them too. That is not recognised - men are swept under the carpet.

Complete bias but what do you expect from the anti-male Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

Posted by Skimmington

PS Debate on closing the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

PS PS Only three of its 14 governors are male - that's equality for you

WILL MEN HAVE TO FIGHT THEIR BATTLE FOR EQUAL PAY IN BIRMINGHAM

The landmark victory for female workers in Birmingham has played out against a backdrop of the usual radical feminist  man-hating.

 If you read the headlines and the way the story has been represented you would have thought
all of the men at the council got bonuses, whilst women did not. This is not true of course because it was about the roles not the gender.

Some women in the roles that qualified for bonuses would have got them, and any men in the non-bonus roles would not. But it has all been about women which is similar to previous portrayals. Will this men in a similar state as these men were in and will have to fight the courts for their equality!

 Any man undertaking the roles that the women won the claim for should also now sue but because of the publicity I bet many will feel the judgement does not apply to them when it does. And actually if you read between the lines of what the BBC said, it says 'mainly women' but then other media just say all women.

 As the solicitors who won the case, Leigh Day and Co,  have said they have 1,000 cases ready to go - let's see how many of them are men, have they tried to find male claimants or just woman and are they trying not to. Answers are needed.

Posted by Skimmington

Other coverage - Guardian (Chris Benson), BBC and Daily Mail

NEWS UPDATE - THE CRACKS ARE STARTING TO SHOW

There has been a substantial amount of coverage on men's issues this past ten days and below is a summary of the main articles. The cracks are just starting to show in the war against men.

Employment and boardrooms

Mike Buchanan - Angela Epstein receives a Maggie and the coverage on Sunday Morning Live. Mike and friends have launched the Winston, Maggie and Harpy awards.

Parliament (Women and 'Equalities questions) - Debate on women on boards and Philip Davies MP stands up for equality and meritocracy.

Third Sector - FTSE boards view female third sector executives as toxic (Jenna Pudelek) More scaremongering without any factual foundation.

TUC - Black boys have experienced sharpest rise in unemployment during recession: The TUC proves itself wrong. 

Daily Telegraph - Female quotas 'negatively affect' business, says minister (Rowena Mason)

Daily Telegraph - Equalities Minsiter says women need to challenge themselves and play a wider role in society (Rowena Mason): What is significant here is that this and the above article show that some women are now challenging the myths and hypocrisy of quotas which we know are solely being advocated as a discriminatory measure against men, meritocracy and equality.

Daily Telegraph - Companies to be forced to publish gender audits of employees (Louisa Peacock): does this count for the public sector which is dominated by women? The comment in the Telegraph comments section sums it up:

"Yet more discrimination against my white English husband who supports his family and has never been unemployed in his life"

Feminism

Netmums - What does feminism mean to the modern women: The research showed that only 17% of women described themselves as feminists (though more young women did which shows their radicalisation), that modern-day feminism did not represent them and that 28% felt it was too aggressive with 17% thinking it was anti-male. This landmark research has had the feminists blogs apoplectic as it damages their whole reason to be. Coverage in The Express, Telegraph and Daily Mail

Politics

Guido Fawkes - Quota of the Day

The Times - We do not need a Minister for Women (Ruth Porter): Subscription only

Family Law

Daily Mail - Why I stole my children (Ian Gallagher)

Daily Telegraph - Female breadwinners losing out (John Bingham): Staggering hypocrisy of the "want their cake and eat it kind". Pannone can be added to the list of anti-male organisations in the UK.

Prisons

Parliament - Download Prison Sentence Inequality - UK Parliament 16 Oct 2012 (2) (Philip Davies MP) : Again the MP excels himself by bringing into Parliament the myth that sentencing is far harsher for women than men. The Men's Network summarises the story. Thanks you to James Williams for circulating far and wide.

False Accusations

Teeside Gazette - Middlesbrough man hounded after being cleared of rape

Health

BBC - Prostate cancer barcode tests: Unless there is 'compulsory' organised screening for prostate cancer on a national basis like there is for breast and cervical cancer then there can be as many tests as you like but until that is in place things will not progress as they should.

Hanna Rosin book - The End of Men

Daily Mail - Is the male of the species now redundant (Bev Mooney)

Daily Telegraph - Interview

The Guardian - Cardboard men (John Harris)

The Guardian - It's not the end of men (Ally Fogg)

The portayal of men

Daily Telegraph - The descent of men (William Leith)

Education

Daily Telegraph - Young boys stuggling to write their name (Graeme Paton)

Domestic Violence

One in Three Report - Gaps in services revealed

General

Daily Mail - Why men love bossy women (Cosmo Landesman)

Daily Telegraph - BBC to draw up top 100 female power list: More Opus Dei-like self-flaggelation from the Beeb.

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Thanks to those that send links over

LATEST JOHN TAYLOR COMPLAINT TO CANCER RESEARCH UK

Please find the link (Download CRUK CHMN 13th October 2012) to John Taylor's complaint to Cancer Research UK about Race for Life.

Posted by Skimmington

JOBS FOR THE BOYS

I was speaking to a male friend over the weekend who imparted an interesting story which sums up the predicament modern men find themselves in and how selfish and unreasonable the
majority of modern women are.

He had come home from work on the Friday as had his wife and both were shattered as they had endured hard days at work. No sooner had my friend sat down then he was ordered (not asked)
to take out the rubbish – as he was tired and didn’t see the urgent need he said he’d do it later or she could always do it if she was that bothered by it. Now to the main point of this tale , her reply , which was “I’m not doing it , it’s a man’s job”. 

As you can imagine this response confused my friend as in this age of equality there are supposedly no
such things as men’s and women’s jobs. When he pointed this out he was dismissed out of hand and his wife said if he was too lazy to do it she would get the next door neighbour over to help as he was a real man?! This sums up perfectly the attitude a lot of modern women have to equality between the
sexes.  They demand it and impose it when it works in their favour (that is, not having to do all the bad jobs round the house) but would not dream of accepting it the other way round.

As an example of the way this works we shall look at is the response my friend got when he pointed out he would do the bins (and check the car , mow the lawn, walk the dog and all the other ‘mens’ jobs) when she did the washing up and ironing and cleaning as they were ‘womens’ jobs.  She practically ripped his head off for being so sexist and unreasonable and expecting her to skivvy after him and his kids (it’s always his kids when she needs to make a point) all day when he was out at work enjoying himself. She expected , nay demanded,  the right to spend her days as she pleased as this was her right as a modern, independent woman.

And this sums up the hardship faced by modern man – we are expected to work all day to provide for
our family, come home and do all the jobs round the house and then lavish the last of our energy and attention on our spouse before collapsing into bed to do it all again tomorrow.

Posted by Anthony Humphreys

NEWS UPDATE

Sorry all, maybe away a bit, so here are a few

BBC Radio 4 and 5 - Women's and Men's Hour

Telegraph and BBC (et al) - Male politicians getting it wrong on rape and  Louise Mensch MP calls for female justice miniser (Louise Mensch MP): Firstly, we have a female Home Secretary/Minister for Women and a female Minister for Equalities. Secondly, this is sexist anyway as it is saying that a man could not possibly take rape/sexual assualt seriously.

Lastly, Mrs Mensch's hypocrisy (who is retiring as a MP) knows no bounds as she said it was right for the Sun to print the Prince Harry photo's. While that is an article for another day, but would she be happy with the same pictures of Zara Phillips or Princess' Eugenie or Beatrice were published like this. Breathtaking stuff. Not helped though by people like Galloway!

The Guardian - Pale, male and stale (Vera Baird): Failed politician who was Harman's henchwomen in the last givernement calls for special treatment and sexism against men who have the temerity to want to be a crime and police commissioner. She is the Labour candidate in Northumbria - heaven help the men there if she gets elected. The police will not be allowed to arrest a women and all men will be arrested just for being men.

 Prostate Cancer UK - Royal Mail chooses Prostate Cancer UK as charity of the year.

Irish Times - Men seeking help rises by one third (Amen)

BBC - Women-only art exhibition

Daily Mail - Wife calls for chnage in law over husband's sperm

Posted by Skimmington

THE BAD BOYFRIEND CLUB by ANTHONY HUMPHREYS

An interesting development  has come to my attention regarding a new television programme fronted by Peter Andre entitled ‘The Bad Boyfriend Club’. It may seem a trivial thing to some people as it is presented as a lighthearted show but if you probe deeper into the message it portrays it is most disturbing to men.

As I understand the premise is that Peter Andre takes men that have been identified as bad boyfriends by their female partners and changes them, supposedly for the better, so they
return as new men ready to cater to their girlfriends every whim and command.

I find the underlying message this sends out to the audience deeply worrying as the basic implication
is that all boyfriends (or indeed men in any relationship regardless of if they’re engaged, married etc..) are useless until they are trained in how to behave by women. It is also interesting to note that the methods used to modify the men's behaviour are mostly painful and humiliating (such as waxing).

Yet again no chance is wasted by the modern female dominated media to subject men to unacceptable behaviour they are not comfortable with but are forced to endure.  It also implies that men should not have their own independent mind and should instead live their life on standby ready for them to be given a command or job to complete, entirely at the woman’s discretion.  

I think that the programme also has an equally powerful message for any women who watch in that it informs them they are a superior gender to men (otherwise why would men need teaching how to behave and why would they be the ones to do it?). It also reinforces the prevalent negative image of men in modern society that we are stupid, knuckle dragging Neanderthals who are nothing without a woman to improve us.      

If you add all this together then it is a toxic cocktail of a programme that very cleverly and subtly
continues the war on men.  If anyone doubts this I would recommend you watch ‘The Bad Girlfriend Club’ that comes on prime time television this week – oh hang on that programme doesn’t actually
exist as you would never be allowed to make or air it would you?!!   

Posted by Anthony Humphreys