THE SHAMEFUL HYPOCRISY OF ANTI-MALE BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL

 A story that ran pre-Christmas but with further evidence of the hypocrisy of the anti-male establishment comes this time from Bristol City Council.

In December, they forced a sports club founded in 1894 in a deprived part of Bristol to change its name from Broad Plain Boys Club because unless it did so, it would no longer receive funding of £11,600 per year. This despite the fact that it holds sports evenings for girls.

The story was covered - (Bristol Evening Post 1, Bristol Evening Post 2, Daily Mail, Daily Express , Telegraph,

For centuries there have been boys and girls clubs (and boys and girls school etc) and as long as there is roughly the same service, there is no problem. The problem always comes when you have state funding because when you have an anti-male politically correct council like Bristol, then you open the doors to all sorts of political interference. In addition, this excellent Club should be cherished especially as inner city boys need help and as one commentator said, the Council can always help set a Girls Club.

The real hypocrisy though is the fact that Bristol Council provides funding and support to a number of women-only services:-

Bristol Women's Forum (site and Annual Report)- supported by Council officials and who have a formal role in scrutinising the council's policies. It is only open to women and there is of course no Bristol Male Forum.

Women Who Make A Difference Award (link) - no male equivalent.

Women-only swimming at the council's swimming baths (link and scroll 1/3 down).

Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Group (source Daily Express) - £30,494 a year. 

Bristol Pakistani Welfare Community, a group aimed only at women (source Daily Express) - £10,984 per year.

It is clear that Bristol City Council's demand for the Broad Plain Boys Club to change its name is not about being gender neutral, it is a shameful and nasty act of anti-male behaviour. If it was not, then it would not fund or support women-only activity and be proud of it.

Comments

[Nigel]

There is of course the Girl Guides