The Rights Of Man

BOYS' EXCLUSION FIGURES SHOW NEED FOR MORE MALE TEACHERS

One of the biggest sea changes in the last twenty years has been the lack of male teachers in schools (a subject well covered here link, link, link and recently in The Guardian). This is a problem when dealing with boys' discipline in school but also means there is a lack of male role models, particularly a problem when there is no father in the household.

One outcome of all of this is that boys quickly fall behind at school, not helped by a feminised education system. It means their discipline becomes shot to pieces.

The recently published figures (link) on fixed exclusions (in old money -'suspensions') not only shows that c75% are against boys but it is the volume that is of most concern, especially in the crucial years of 13-15.

 At 14, there are 69,740 (22.47% of schoool roll) male pupils excluded, a worryingly high figure.

We need to get more male teachers into school, revert back to 'O' levels for those that want them and of course, spend more time on getting boys education up-to-scratch.

PS Interesting the high volume of girls being excluded, never happened in my day 

ASPIRE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MALE ENTREPRENEURS

Is there no area in life that this Government hasn't either ignored men or introduced measures that are deliberately anti-men.

In these times, small businesses and entrepreneurs find it difficult to get credit and access capital.

So to help, the Government has launched a fund called Aspire which is Government run £25m venture capital fund for women (link). £12.5m is bona fide taxpayers money which is matched by private sector investment. As reported in the Telegraph (link), the Government has realised that such a blatant anti-male fund would be discriminatory so men can apply but only if they meet other criteria such as having 30% women on their board. It would be good to have this tested in court as it is discriminatory come what may.

The bias is clear. It gives people cheaper access to taxpayer funded venture capital on the sole basis that they are women. This is discrimination and will give a woman a competitive advantage against a man especially if looking to start up similar enterprises.

Also with capital so tight, not allowing people equal access to it, shows how gender politics is more important than fairness.

Llastly, there is no evidence that women need a special venture capital fund because they cannot obtain access elsewhere. For example women run 700,000 companies; they now sit on 78 of the FTSE-100's boardrooms; they are more female millionaires than male millionaire's between 18-44 (47,000 women / 38,000 men. But hey, lets not put facts in the way of a bit of anti-male discrimination.

ANTI-MALE SOCIETY AFFECTS ADOPTION OF BOYS

When a society turns against a certain group the consequences can be far-reaching.

A good example of this, is a report (link) from the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (link) that shows that despite their help-line receiving as many calls from parents asking for help in dealing with boys and girls in their care, people would prefer to adopt a girl than a boy.

The research from the charity shows that this is due to the negative perception of boys and over half (53%) of the people replying to their survey felt that the media portrayed boys in an overly negative way.

David Holmes, chief executive of BAAF, said: "Too often anti-social behaviour, violence, crime and gangs are associated in our minds when we think about boys.

"We all need to remember that boys are children and young people first. The findings of this research concerns us as we are worried that some prospective adopters might be put off adopting boys because of negative perceptions.

"In reality there is little evidence to show that boys really are more difficult. We would urge people to remember that boys need adopting too."

The effect of the war on men shows that there is no corner of British society that is not affected and boys are potentially being left in care homes or shunted around solely because of their gender. A terrible terrible outcome.

The report was covered by the BBC (link)

DOMESTICE VIOLENCE AWARENESS WEEK 2008 - PLEASE REPORT FAILURES TO MENTION MEN

The 2008 Domestic Violence Awareness Week (as part of the Stop Violence Against Women campaign) starts on Tuesday 25th November.

If there are media features and local campaigns on domestic abuse or domestic violence that you see that do not feature the plight of male victims as well as those of women, please let this site know.

These examples of bias are worth publicising and one charity, The ManKind Initiative (who have produced up-to-date domestic violence statistics) wants to make sure they have a list so they can make complaints. 

SWISS AIR SHOW MEN IN NEGATIVE LIGHT by GRAHAM SLIGHT*

 Recently I have been a regular traveller on Swiss Air.

I am seemingly one of the few to watch the safety videos but got increasingly annoyed with the Swiss Air one for its glaringly obvious anti-male bias.

It features a cartoon family of man, mother and daughter who skips merrily down the massively wide aisles of a similarly cartoon aircraft. In this video it is the man who is seen sneaking off to the aircraft toilet for a smoke and setting off the alarm despite there now being more women smokers than men in the UK.

To make matters worse, there is an evacuation of the aircraft and the man is shown abandoning the concept of women and children first and has exited the aircraft on his own leaving his wife to carry the daughter down the escape slide to safety. It is only the women who is shown caring about the child’s safety by putting on the child’s oxygen mask and life jacket. When they evacuate into the water once again the daughter is carried by the mother down the slide.

 Then to cap it all the mother is shown in one aisle seat with her daughter in the middle seat with the man set apart from them as though on the other side of the aisle as if not part of the family.

*name changed to protect privacy of author

ACADEMIC SAYS MEN WILL SUFFER UNDER HARMAN'S EQUALITY BILL

As the recession starts to bite and employment becomes tougher, Harriet Harman will be cementing the plans for her single Equality Bill which will allow employers to discriminate against men when it comes to recruiting people to the workforce.

Following on from comments made by Trevor Phillips who declared that such discrimination will provide extra support for the BNP because it will be the white-working class that will be discriminated against, an academic has also hit out at the plans.

Writing for Public Policy Review and covered here (Telegraph), Dr Catherine Hakim, believes that men will become the new victims of sex discrimination if workplace equality laws are strengthened further.

The Telegraph article quotes that she accuses 'feminists of peddling "myths" about the extra hours put in by women and their thwarted career ambitions to justify "futile and perverse" attempts to help them balance work and family life'.

This is important article for a number of reasons:-

Firstly, it is a woman defending men and the Fawcett Society et al cannot deal with it. She understands that the motivation behind this equality law is not equality but a way of legally discriminating against men. If a man is discriminated against it is his wife/aprtner, mother, sister and daughters who will also be discriminated aagainst.

Secondly, it ignores the facts that women are now more great inroads into what would traditionally be termed male occupations. This investigation in the Telegraphshows for example that 61% of trainee GPs are women, 63% of students enrolled into the law society are women and 79% of vets are women. What more help do women need.

Thirdly, Marxist anti-male feminists such as Harriet Harman are hell-bent on destroying men. When boys are seven years behind girls at school (the outcome of which is highlighted in the above), it is men that need help. If this carries on then Harman and her friends will have succeeded.

INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY - CELEBRATE TODAY

In a post long ago (link), the site asked readers whether there should be a men's day in the UK and also what day that should be.

Little do the site know that 19th November has already been designated as International Men's Day (link).

It is already celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, India, Pakistan and now Australia.

As far as anyone is aware, there is no such event in the UK but clearly in 2009, there has to be.

BBC BIAS ON GENDER PAY GAP

In a post last week, the issue about BBC bias was on the issue of domestic violence (see previous post). This time it is on the gender pay gap.

In October, a publication by J R Shackleton which received a high volume of coverage (see previous post) highlighted that the gender pay gap was largely about lifestyle choice and not discrimination.

Yet when the latest figures are published, the BBC just stick to their left-wing politically correct assumptions and publish a story (link) that does not mention the alternative arguments. Instead, it gives a free platform to anti-male organisations such as the Fawcett Society and the Commission of Equality and Human Rights to berate men and companies.

The BBC are biased, what other reasonable conclusion can you draw?

ALEX SALMOND REFUSES TO ACTIVELY HELP MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN SCOTLAND

A post last week (link) outlined how Mary Scanlon MSP in the Sunday Herald had questioned the Scottish Government on why they provided no support for male victims.

This week, she directly asked leader of Scottish Government, Alex Salmond, about the lack of support for male victims in Scotland (link).

Instead of answering her reasonable question, he purposely chooses not to and just says that the majority of victims are women, that it is wrong regardless of gender and that he will keep the lack of help for men under 'review'. In other words, he intends to do nothing.

One of the weasel-type phrases that Governments use on this issue is to say that "domestic violence is wrong and every victims should be helped". However, there is a clear difference between what they say their policy is and the policy that is implemented. The latter of course, is to systematically ignore men. 

Last year, 6,000 men asked for help from the Scottish Police because they were victims of domestic violence. In choosing to purposely ignore them, Alex Salmond is not fit to ever claim that the Scottish Government treats its citizens equally.

For information - a one-sided story from Fife (link)

ONLY MAN NAMED IN LEWD BEHAVIOUR CASE

Here is another example of male bias (Hattip to Matt on www.Mens-links.net).

A Daily Mail report (link) on a couple who were arrested on a train for lewd conduct and yet it was only the man who was named. He was charged, the woman was not.