The Rights Of Man

THE BBC'S INCONSISTENT AND BIASED REPORTING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

One of the main complaints made against the BBC is its liberal left-leaning metropolitan prejudice, a charge that often the BBC admits.

One of the problems is that it means individual journalists are able to treat some subjects blissfully ignorant of the need for balance, they can just get away with it so long as it fits left-leaning prejudices.

On the issue of domestic violence, there has been some successes including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in February 2008 (link) and an interview with a male victim on radio 4 in August 2008.

However, they still fall into the politically correct left-leaning trap of only portraying victims as female and perpetrators as men.

Last week, for example, they made much comment with interviews on the new figures on prosecutions issued by the CPS (link). However, none of the broadcasts had a spokesman commenting on male victims and this on-line coverage (link) from Andy McFarlane shows that men are ignored. They even trot out the usual picture of a man hitting a woman and ignore the fact that two in five victims are men.

The BBC needs to get its act together and treat all victims equally and stop this gender bias. What do we pay our licence fee for!

MANKIND INITIATIVE RESPONSE TO CROWN PROSECUTION CONSULTATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The charity, The ManKind Initiative (link), has responded (link) to the Crown Prosecution Service's consultation (link) on domestic violence.

Essentially, the charity states that unless the CPS overhauls its policies, web-site and training then it is likely to be in breach of the Gender Equality Duty.

One of the scary things is that the CPS is meant to be gender-neutral and look at each case that it considers on its merits, however, it is difficult to have confidence in it when, for example, its domestic violence web-site pages (link) do not refer to male victims at all. It also only runs information campaigns for female victims.

In addition, the response also points out that the CPS cannot, by definition, be gender-neutral when its domestic violence policies fall under its Violence Against Women strategy. The charity believes that domestic violence has to be a stand alone policy area.

Look forward to the response from the CPS? 

SCOTTISH MSP AND SUNDAY HERALD HIGHLIGHT THE INSTITUTIONAL BIAS IN SCOTLAND AGAINST MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

Figures in Scotland's Sunday Herald (link) show there has been a 110% increase in the number of male domestic violence victims in Scotland. Police were called to over 6,000 incidents where men were the victims.

And as the article states "And while the Scottish government has spent tens of millions of pounds in recent years to support female victims of domestic abuse and violence, it has not directed a single penny to support men who suffer at the hands of their partner."

Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon also raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament last week .

Thing are bad in England and Wales but clearly worse in Scotland. This clearly another example of institutional sexual discrimination perpetrated against men.

The Scottish Government knows there is a problem but they CHOOSE to do nothing about it.

SACREMENTO VICTORY FOR MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS

The previous post described how in the US the notion of political correctness had overtaken constitutional rights of equality.

The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that California’s exclusion of men from domestic violence services violates men’s constitutional equal protection rights.

This was because a previous judge had ruled that "men are not entitled to equal protection regarding domestic violence because they statistically are not similarly situated with women."

The story is covered on Glenn Sacks' site here (link).

What is so bizarre is that the judges who are meant to revere the Constitution and Bill ofRights could come to such conclusions in the first place and that money had to spent to overturn this anti-male madness in the first place.

STIRRING UP HATRED AGAINST MEN - DALLAS TRANSPORT

Despite having a constitution that makes it clear that men and women are equal, the US spawns the most viciously anti-malepolitical correct propaganda in existence.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transport Service has been running an advertising campaign basically stating that every boy will grow up to perpetrate domestic abuse against women. It is vicious and has been condemned right across the US.

The campaign has been led by Glenn Sacks (link), a men's and fathers' issues newspaper columnist, radio commentator, and blogger. He is first rate.

There have been campaigns similar to this in the UK and with Domestic Violence Awareness Week on the horizon (25th November) all men need to be on their guard.

FAMILY COURT CAMPAIGN STARTS TO BEAR FRUIT

For years, the Kafkaesque family court system, has been getting away with gross injustices against fathers (mainly),their children and others. Social Services, CAFCASS and judges have basically been able to do what they like, as if they are above the law. This is all because of the secrecy of the courts.

Many groups such as Families Need Fathers, Fathers 4 Justice, John Hemming MP, Grandparents Apart and others have chosen different means to raise the issue, but they have lacked the full scale backing of a media group to open up the debate on open courts.

In the summer, The Times (link), took up the gauntlet, and their campaign, backed by others is now starting to bear fruit (link, link, link, link, link). The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, plans to announce changes to create more transparency and even Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division agrees.

Unsurprisingly, it is the vested interests of the social services department et al ho are not in agreement.

They don't want their attempts to 'play God' exposed.

ANTI-MALE EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION WILL MEAN SUPPORT FOR THE FAR RIGHT

The Chief Executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is a very quixotic character. He fronts an organisation that is anti-male with 85% of its employees being women. However, Trevor Phillips does stick his head above the parapet and raises issues that sadly no-one else could raise without being hounded and accused of being sexist or racist.

One recent issue was where he wrote to the health chiefs stating that they must make sure that they meet male health needs (link). Following on from the last post about the gender pay gap, he has warned that Harman's latest idea to discriminate against men (the bill she proposed to allow employers to discriminate against men in job applications) will lead to the further rise of the far right.

Featured in the Daily Mail (link), he argues that because of the coming recession, white working class men, if they feel they are being discriminated against by the politically correct, they will simply turn to the BNP.

If only Trevor could get his own organisation and the Government to listen more, but at least he is raising the issues.

GENDER PAY GAP HYSTERIA DESTROYED

For a decade at least now, the anti-male establishment hasused the gender pay gap in the UK to beat men and employers up - its all allegedly about discrimination in the workplace. Anyone who disagreed with campaigns from the anti-male Fawcett Society, the Labour Government, the TUC and others were shouted down. The media, always looking for an easy anti-male story, lapped it up (link).

At least in the USA they had Warren Farrell (link) highlighting how the gender pay gap is down to lifestyle choices, the family unit and how the gap does not apply across the board. There had been no equivalent in the UK, until now.

In a ground breaking monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs, J.R. Shackleton, Professor of Economics at the University of East London, comprehensively destroys the arguments of the politically correct.

In "Should We Mind the Gap?" (link), he finds that 'the free choice of men and women - as well as earlier educational choices and the choices they make regarding their domestic arrangements - are at the heart of differences in pay levels'. He states the 'it isn't appreciated what a crude statistical artfefact the gender pay gap is.'

It's conclusion is that the gender pay gap is not down to discrimination. It is down to women making a choice to bring up families and also that inequality exists within groups. He also highlights huge anomalies in the blanket 17% gap that the anti-male groups use to beat men and employers up.

For instance, he shows how that although married men earn more than married women, singlewomen, as they get older, earn more than single men. Or that, Black Caribbean women earn more than their male equivalent.

In addition, as more women choose to work in the public sector and pay in that sphere is generally lower than in the private sector, it is small wonder that there is a gap.

His clear insightful study, using official figures, completely and utterly destroys the arguments put forward by the Fawcett Society, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and the anti-male hystericspurveyed by Harriett Harman (she will be introducing more legislation soon on it). They even try and describe hisresearch as 'unhelpful', they know they have been found out.

Whenever, you hear them making the point, ask them whether they have read this research?.

Articles on the monograph can be here (Sunday Times, Sunday Times 2, Telegraph  and Daily Mail with debate).

Recent articles on the site can also be found here (1, 2,3 )