HARMAN AND OTHER ANTI-MALE FEMINISTS EXPOSED FOR RECESSION UNTRUTHS

In February a post (link) outlined how Labour's Deputy Leader Harriet Harman, the anti-male movement and others were using the recession as an indirect way to attack men and an opportunity to call for more special treatment for women. It was almost as as if the recession did not affect men as well (and of course, their wives/girlfriends/daughters!). They said that women would suffer more than men and Harman said she would not let women become victims of the recession (link).

A number of key issues occurred last week.

The increasingly hysterical anti-male organisation The Fawcett Society launched a document 'Are women bearing the burden of the recession' (link) which called for gender quotas and described 'The collapse of financial institutions has vividly demonstrated how power in our major corporate rests almost exclusively in the hands of white men.' It deliberately says the recession is 'man-made' (link) which clearly shows the organisation is not being rational or objective but is actually at the forefront of attacks on men. It no longer tries to hide it.

A special summit from all over the country in key positions to 11 Downing Street for a session on 'Women and the Recession' (link).

There were debates, to celebrate International Women's Day and the effects of the recession on women, in both the UK Parliament (link) and Scottish Parliament (link).

Vitally, the official public statistics provider Office of National Statistics (link) produced a report which exposed the untruths of Harman, The Fawcett Society, The TUC and all those other anti-male groups.

 The ONS' published figures (link) that showed that:-

Redundancy rate (Oct to Dec 08) - 13.6/1,000 (men) and 6.6/1,000 (women)

Employment rate (Oct to Dec 08) - 1.0% fall (men) and 0.3% (women).

The ONS explain this could be due to more women being employed in the public sector which has not suffered in the recession.

The statistics completely and utterly demolish the untruths and the myths that the biggest victims of the recession are women. This gender war myth has been exposed because it was built on sand, there was no evidence.

The recession can no longer be 'captured' by Harman et al as a ruse to talk up women (at the cost of men) and demand special treatment for women. Both men and women are suffering in this recession.

This recession argument shows that the tactics of the anti-male feminists is that if you keep telling the same lie it will eventually become the truth.

We must work hard to expose it time and time again

Coverage of the ONS figures that exposed Harman are here:- (Daily Mail, People Management, Yahoo, Telegraph, This is London and FT). 

Comments

[Tom]

Excellent work on this article and on this website. You cut to the chase every time, and I will tell as many others about it as possible.

Thanks.

[John Kimble]

I spotted this lie too. Newsnight even did a piece on it about a week ago, though when they did the big interview with her they didn't really condemn her lies at all and just let her get off the hook.