The Rights Of Man

PROSTATE CANCER SCANDAL IN THE NHS

It was revealed by the BBC in April that because of the government's waiting list targets, men with low risk prostate cancer where not receiving the right treatment. Instead of receiving radiotherapy they were given hormone therapy instead.

Oncologist Chris Hamilton described the system as "crazy" where cancer specialists move prostate cancer sufferers down the waiting list by giving them hormone treatment to make way for others with urgent need for radiotherapy. He believes that this affects around 8% of prostate patients, some 2,500 men a year.

Links to this story are found in these places and if you scroll to the bottom of the first link (The Prostate Cancer Charity) you can here the BBC coverage (Link - The Prostate Cancer Charity),(Link- BBC), (Link- Daily Mail) (Link - Daily Mail). 

This issue compounds the continuing scandal on the battle that men face to get proper treatment for prostate cancer, despite, all those years of paying taxes. For example, 11 of 25 NHS Cancer Network Directors do not have specialist prostate cancer nurses (link).

The cancer kills 10,000 men per year, receives ten times less funding per year than breast cancer. and patients report a poorer experience of their care than other cancer patients according to the National Audit Office (link)

The UK's Orwellian health care system is getting worse and on this cancer issue, it is clear that men, as ever, are seen as a low priority by the bureaucrats, officials and politicians. The fact their arbitrary waiting times are forcing doctors to give treatment which is not appropriate shows how the NHS no longer works and is actually harming people rather than curing them.

MINISTER FOR MEN : PLEASE SIGN GOVERNMENT PETITION

Back in 2004, Lord Northbourne called for a Minister for Men (link) and then the issue seemed to go away.

Not anymore though, a petition proposed by Claire Elliot has appeared on the government's petition web-site.

Please find the petition here - (link)

The petition states :- We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to restore equality for men by creating a minister for men.

In this era of single parents, divorce and blended families, the role and reputation of a man has been diluted to a point where he is severely discriminated against in almost all arenas.

I call on the Prime Minister to show true equality to men by creating a Minister for Men to reflect balance in Parliament as Ruth Kelly is currently the Minister for Women

Now that the Gender Equality Duty has come into effect, how can the government refuse?

There is always the scope to make a complaint about the government to the Equal Opportunities Commission  (link)!

Remember, there is also another petition on support for male victims of domestic violence (link).

BRITISH JUSTICE SYSTEM - ONE RULE FOR MEN AND ANOTHER FOR WOMEN

On Friday 20th April 2007, there were two equally shocking crimes but different criminal judgements.

A man was rightly jailed for four months after admitting organising dog fights at his home in Birmingham (link).

Appalling though, a mother who goaded her two toddlers to fight each other on video camera was only given a 12-month suspended sentence (link). This was along with her mother and two sisters.

This raises two points. Firstly, why the different types of sentences when any sane person would see that some form of custodial sentence had to be handed out to these women, especially when a man gets four months for arranging dog fights

Secondly, if it were men organising and filming such a horrific  event with their children I would bet my house on it that they would have gone to prison.

In a previous post (7th April 2007), the issue of not sending women to prison was raised by an unofficial Home Office review. It looks like it is being into practise. 

MALE GENDER DISCRIMINATION / MALE SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION BLOG NOW SIX MONTHS OLD

This blog, a platform for raising issues on male gender discrimination and male sexual discrimination in the UK, is now six months old.

Here's to another six months and thank you to those who have viewed or contributed to the site. More articles or news are, as ever, welcome.

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PARITY CONFERENCE : REPORT SHOWS AXING SPORT MAKES BOYS CLASSROOM REBELS

To quote the report in The Observer today (link)  "The government's failure to instill a sports culture in schools is to blame for the persistent educational under-achievement of boys, a new report warns.

"Games such as football and rugby can help to boost the status of less academic boys and motivate them in class, according to the report which explores why they lag behind girls academically.

"Oxford professor Ann Buchanan, the author of the report, "Barriers to Boys' Attainment", concludes that two hours of sport a week, the minimum recommended by the government, is inadequate."

The story continues that boys with active fathers do better than those without, especially when it comes to reading. This is no surprise of course, though the Family Courts system do not recognise the importance of a father to a boy's future. Even more so, when the Family Courts fail to  uphold contact orders when the mother refuses to allow the father access against previous court judgements.

Boys are already seven years behinds girls academically, they do not have enough sport which brings out the best in boys and also there are calls for boys to have better access to action books to stimulate them.

The PARITY conference tomorrow will address this and a number of other issues about boys under-achievement.

The message though is that education is so feminised that boys are losing out in a myriad of ways. Time for this research to be put into practise by the governemnt and the education authorities. Though, with women dominating education authorities there is a clear lack of built-in empathy.   

See this blog's education section for further research and comment on education issues

MEN WORK AS LONG AS WOMEN, RESEARCH REVEALS

Contrary to the view constantly bombarded to people from the media, women's groups, politicans and the ultra-feminists, men work as hard as women. This is the conclusion research from America's National Bureau of Economic Research which found that across northern Europe and America, the total workload combining activity both at work and home is now shared almost equally.

Whilst women spend more time working in the home, men work longer at the workplace. As well as challenging the myth that women work longer, it also shows clear evidence that the gender pay gap is not about sexual discrimiation (as constantly stated by women's groups - EOC, The Fawcett Society etc) but because men spend longer at the workplace. Ergo, they earn more money!

In the UK, the research shows that women work 428 minutes per day against men who work 418 minutes.

The BBC (link) have a debate, a vote and a detailed article. At time of this posting, 62% of people agree that men work harder and 38% say women. There are 1,500 comments on the debate.

At last, there is research to debunk one of the anti-male urban myths which states that women work longer than men.

 

THIS MONDAY : PARITY CONFERENCE ON BOYS EDUCATION

PARITY (Link), the organisation campaigning for equality for men and women are holding a national conference on the persisting educational under-achievement of boys. The details for the 23rd of April conference and the necessary froms are available here :- Download parity_programme.doc 

WELSH REFUGE HAS TO DOUBLE BECAUSE OF A NATIONWIDE LACK OF SUPPORT FOR MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

The pitiful lack of refuges for male victims of domestic violence has been shown by the Montgomoryshire Family Crisis Centre (MFCC) now needing at least a five-bedroom house, nearly double the size of its current property, to support male victims. The BBC report is here (link).

The refuge they operate is one of only four refuges in the whole of the UK as opposed to at least 470 for female victims.

The lack of support for male victims across the UK is so acute they have received more than 100 enquiries from across the UK since opening the Powys refuge last year.

When is the government and when are local authorities going to do something to pro-activley help men?

Under the recently enacted Gender Equality Duty they have to help provide these services, and it won't be long now until legal action under the Duty is taken against them.

THE ORPHAN GRANDPARENTS

The Daily Mail (link) ran a spread on grandparents being the forgotten victims of bitter family break-ups.

The article is based on a grandmother, Pam Wilson, who was deliberately denied access to her grand-daughter after the divorce of her son from the grand-daughter's mother. There is a web-site www.gaguk.net for anyone interested further in this issue.

The story is all too familiar for thousands of people all over the country, especially fathers.

THE FEMINIST CASE UNDERMINED BY WOMEN

A survey by FHM Magazine further undermined the feminist agenda of turning men into women and women into men.

The survey covered here (link), (link), (link), (link) asked 2,000 men for their views on a number of issues including their role in family life. To quote the commentary:- 

Men no longer see themselves as the main breadwinners providing for their families, a survey shows.
A staggering 71 per cent say 'they'd prefer a 50/50 role with their partner sharing work, childcare and housework' - representing a sea-change in British society.They see their lives as very different from their fathers' and don't sign up to the idea men should be the only ones with a paid job while women bring up the kids.

Only 29 per cent say they'd like a more traditional role as the earner while their partner looks after the home, according to the FHM magazine survey of 2,000 men. An overwhelming 81 per cent of men believe 'society has tried to feminise men' and just over half say they 'now live according to women's rules' (51 per cent).

Often in workplaces, a common complaint from men is that family-friendly policies only apply to women and not men. The research confirms this view - Only 36 per cent of men say they have 'flexible hours', only 21 per cent can 'work from home when necessary' and only three per cent have access to a 'company creche/childcare facilities'. Companies are far less flexible in their approach to male workers. You never hear the equal opportunites/feminist movement champioing the rights of men.

The feminist/equal opportunities industry's view is that despite being part of a family unit, all women with children must stand on their two feet by going to work and not allow men to solely provide for their family. Their case is undermined by women themselves with many rebelling against this. 

The survey shows that having been urged by society to be 'new men' for the past 30 years and share the childcare burden men who already have a baby or young children say their partner 'now wants him to be the main breadwinner'. Half of men with a baby or young children say their partner 'now wants him to earn enough so she can be a full-time mother' (49 per cent), 38 per cent 'want him to earn enough so she only has to work part-time' and only 13 per cent of men say 'their partner wants to work full-time regardless of how much he earns'.

This survey also undermines the terribly biased conclusions of the feminist industry when they talk about the gender pay gap. They conclude that because that the average  pay for men is more than the average pay for women, this is down to discrimination. However, if some women are taking time out form their careers to look after their children in a family unit  with the man being the main breadwinner, it is no surprise that their pay is less when they go back to work. They will have lost out in gaining more experience and also promotion opportunities because they are not in the workplace. This is a situation the survey shows that many women are comfortable with.