The Rights Of Man

WHITSUN COVERAGE ROUND-UP

The past two weeks have been busy in terms of anti-male issues or debunking anti-male myths. Listed below is the some of the coverage.

The Times (Sue Palmer) - Who's to blame for the lost boys?

The Sunday Times (India Knight) - Having it all is a myth, girls

Daily Telegraph (David Green) - The Gender Pay Gap Does Not Exist

Daily Mail (Petronella Wyatt) - Man Flu? It we women who are the sickly sex

BBC - Fathers Cool on Parental Leave

ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY: ADVERTISING DOUBLE-STANDARDS AUTHORITY MORE LIKE! By ANDREW DAVIDSON

 

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority this week ruled that an advert depicting men as simple, lazy and incapable is acceptable. They said it did not cause ‘widespread offence’ even after 700 complaints.

The Daily Mail reported on the ruling concerning Homepride Ltd who are responsible for the advert for Oven Pride oven cleaner. The advert shows a man having a childish outburst after being told by a pregnant woman to clean the oven. He is then shown with a simplistic, contented expression while performing the task. This is closely followed by the tagline "Even a man can do it."

Homepride cite increaced sales to justify the acceptability of the advert and claim it was a comment on "natural gender differences". Whatever these "natural" gender differences are they do not specify. Perhaps they could make an advertisement commenting on "natural racial differences" to clarify the point. Homepride also invite women through their website to send in suggestions as to how they would "train" the man.

The ASA has a history of banning adverts it deems portray women in a negative light. Adverts portraying women as overtly consumer-driven, materialistic, vain, weak and sexualised have all been banned in recent years. However, adverts which portray men in negative ways are not banned, indeed those which which show violent physical abuse or suffering of men frequently inflicted or observed by women (often shown laughing at the man) have all been broadcast.

From the Barrs Irn Bru advert showing a man rupturing his groin doing the splits to the after two women throw ice cubes on the floor while he is doing a humiliating 'courtship dance', to numerous assaults and abuses of men in car adverts, including one where a man is thrown through a plate glass window,  have all been broadcast.

This begs the question, has the ASA been infiltrated by people with their own amti-male agenda? Men are now effectively second class citiznes in terms of representation in the media and this encourages the acceptability of violence and humiliation towards men, particularly in the home. Were the man to do these acts now broadcast across the nation, he would be arrested by the local Domestic Violence Unit and charged with criminal offences!

Have you seen an advert that portrays men in a negative light? Ask yourself "If that was a woman, would they broadcast it?". If the answer is 'no' - complain (link).

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. " - Edmund Burke

EDITORS NOTE - PLACE COMMENTS ON THE HOMEPRIDE SITE WHERE THEY WANT WOMEN TO SAY HOW THEY CAN TRAIN THEIR MAN AND SEE IF THEY PUBLISH THEM.

 

WHO IS STILL PEDDLING THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MYTHS EXPOSED BY RADIO 4's MORE OR LESS?

A short post was published yesterday outlined how BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme destroyed/decimated the myth that has been used for over a decade that "Domestic violence kills more women between 15 and 44 than anything else."

As the programme outlined (hopefully a more permanent link) this was from a News at Ten feature that stated this as the bald truth and one in which other journalists and bodies such as the Government regularly trot out. A Frank Fisher asked the programme to investigate its veracity and lo and behold the Office of National Statistics and the chief statistician from the World Health Organisation disowned it.

The most telling parts are about 1min 45 in but also at the end where academic Sylvia Walby who produces the statistical analysis on domestic violence figures for the Government/Home Office and is gender neutral (she with others always use the 1 in 6 men and 1 in 4 women will be victims in their lifetime) was asked by Tim Harford, the presenter:-

TH: Some of the people that we've talked to in the course of doing this piece have suggested that we shouldn't be questioning this rogue statistic; even though we know it isn't true, we shouldn't be questioning it because we know domestic violence is such a serious problem. Do you have sympathy with that view?

SW: I understand the view. It is difficult to be critical of something on such an important area. But I think we've gone beyond the basics. Everybody now knows that domestic violence is a serious problem, and now we need to know exactly the scale and shape of that problem. So we do need to be querying the figures and we do need to be improving them. And that means collecting new and better data.

Listening to Sylvia on the programme you could tell (she makes a sigh) that she knows the figure is also not true and she is an expert in analysing the official statistics on the subject. So if the ONS, the WHO and Sylvia Walby do not support this figure, who does?

However, look again at Tim Harford's question.

What it shows is that Marxist anti-male feminists are using Orwellian Double-speak. They admit the figure is wrong but that does not mean that it should not be treated as fact and to challenge it puts you in the wrong, such is the PC Britain we live in.

So who are these people who told Tim Harford that the truth does not matter and that facts should not be questioned. It wasn't the Government because Tim would have said so (that would be story in itself), could it be either or both of the two leading charities that support female victims, or who else?

It is obviously people who have too much to lose to if the truth got out and someone who thrives on male-bashing (if it is the biggest killer, then those doing the killing are men)

As Big Brother would say YOU DECIDE.

 

FALSE RAPE VICTIM TO GET DAMAGES

A man who was falsely accused of rape is to be awarded damages through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. This is a first.

The poor chap who lost everything and the woman who was accused (Kirsty Palmer) got 10 months won a tribunal so he get compensation. This is a small victory and nowhere near makes up for his trauma. The Fawcett Society, going by their report (see Monday), obviously don't think she should go to prison.

The story was covered by the BBC, Daily Mail and Mirror.

Another false rape stories recently was in Sunderland. It shows that a tiny minority of women are prepared to use this against unsuspecting men without any regard to the consequences. It damages honest men and poor women who have been raped.

A new angle in Canada where a cabbie is suing four women who falsely accused him. Fortunately he had a video in the car which proved his innocence else he'd probably still be in jail.

ANOTHER ANTI-MALE MYTH DESTROYED: THIS TIME ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Been busy last few days but did not want regular readers to miss the destruction of a myth used by the Government and others that says the most common cause of death of women between their 20's to 44 was through domestic violence. It is used as a means to scaremonger about how violent all us men are.

It was on BBC Radio 4's 'More or Less' and may be only available online for a few more days. The link is here.

Will update this post later

BRITISH MEP ISSUES DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Liz Lynne, a British MEP for the West Midlands, placed a written declaration in the European Parliament wanting to make sure that cross-EU campaigns on domestic violence included male victims. It is basically the equivalent of an Early Day Motion in the House of Parliament where individual MP's can place a motion on a subject and ask others to sign up.

At least one British politician is taking it seriously, isn't about time someone did the same in the UK Parliament?

FAWCETT SOCIETY DO NOT BELIEVE IN EQUAL AND BLIND JUSTICE

Sometimes one never knows how to start a post and a good example of this is in reviewing this weeks tirade by the pro-women anti-male Fawcett Society over their report Engendering Justice where they accuse the whole British justice system of being institutionally sexist.

The basic premise is that too many women are being sent to prison and the reason for this is that the legal system is run as an old boys club because there are so few women working within it.

To be fair, they do raise worrying statistics about the level of self-harming amongst females in prison and of course, they are certain issues like this that show the prison system should improve.

However, the subtext behind all of it is that they want women to be treated more leniently than men for crimes they commit. The reason this is said is that nowhere in the report does it say that male criminals receive lighter sentences than women for the same crime.

In fact, it can be said that the opposite is true as a very early post on this site showed. Also far more community sentences are handed out to women than men in Crown courts (12,575 - men : 30,617 women) which suggests that with a prison population of 40,911 men : 3,123 women at face value judges are more likely to pass a community sentence than they would for a man. Though of course, the actual severity of the cases would need to be looked at and more men committing worse crimes (overall) than women.

The Fawcett Society have closed ears when it comes to increasing female violence (link).

The issue of childcare and child support is raised, however, this shows the inconsistency of organisations such as the Fawcett Society. On the one hand they do all they can to denigrate the family and proclaim that men are not needed (full stop) but then complain that women do not have people to look after the kids when they go to court or in prison. If they did not denigrate men so much then perhaps they might pause to think that perhaps the father could help.

Lastly, on the issue of the lack of women in senior positions in the legal system, they, like all proponents of the gender employment war, do not ask the simple questions. They don't ask whether women want a career in the senior ranks nor do they look at the progress being made. For example, there has been percentage increases in the number of police officers at every level since they did their previous research (First Report 03/04) and also a big increase in the number of High Court Judges (10% now: 5.7% in 03/04). In fact, the number of female applicants for QC positions have a success rate of 55% against a male success rate of 40%.

These things take time, but of course, the Fawcett Society does not do time (even though 63% of people signing up to the Law Society are now women) and with the disaster of the Equality Bill soon to be upon us they will be leveraging this to ensure that female candidates leapfrog male candidates for every position going. The legal system will be another target for the pro-women/anti-male witch-hunt.

In conclusion, the British justice system is supposedly blind (hence the blindfolded scales of justice) and that both men and women are treated the same whether plaintiffs or defendants. What the Fawcett Society are really saying is that they want to blind to slip whenever a women is accused of a crime and for the eyes to tip them the wink.

PS read this hysterical rant in the Guardian at your peril (you have been warned!) and she is slaughtered in the comments section.

PSPS Here is an example of the type of justice the Fawcett Society is talking about.

IRISH JOURNALIST KEVIN MYERS NEEDS OUR SUPPORT

Back in April, the site highlighted a very articulate article in Ireland's Independent newspaper by Kevin Myers. This article created a new term - lifeboat feminism.

He also has wrote this month an even more perceptive article about the silence from Irish women's domestic violence charities over a case involving a male victim. This of course is no different here, as can be seen the silence from organisation's like Women's Aid and Respect to the case raised by Ian McNicholl in The Sun last week (link). Women's Aid said The Sun's use of Government statistics was selective.

The issue is raised because Kevin has circulated an e-mail where he says:-

2009/5/7 Kevin Myers writes:

Sorry to add to your burdens, and I am extremely grateful for your support, but I have just learnt that a major e-mail campaign against me is being organised on this issue

If you wish, I would be grateful if you would contact your like-minded friends – and their like-minded friends, and theirs also, and so on - and ask them to publicly agree with me at  [email protected]

Your choice, naturally 

The story was covered on Mens-Links.Net.

What this shows and in many ways to it reminiscent of how the current Government acts. If anyone has criticism, instead of looking at why they make criticism and whether it is legitimate, they instead personally criticise the critic and in some cases try to destroy them.

With so many vested interests and anti-male feminists who rely on public funding thinking they have such high status, anyone who threatens to undermine them or object to them is vilified and a witch hunt ensues. This type of Stalinist behaviour can be seen in Kevin's case.

He has had the balls to say what so many people think (male and female - just ask Erin Pizzey) and now he is a victim of hatred from people who we are supposed to think are nice.

Please write and support Kevin, we cannot afford for him to be a casualty in the war on men. 

 

WHY MEN SHOULD NOT BANK WITH SMILE

Another example to add the pantheon of gratuitous male-bashing is from the UK's Co-Op internet banking arm, Smile.

They carried out research with an accompanying press release (link) that says men are shallow and women are nicer.

As usual, there is no evidence of this from their research because all it says is that men would be happier if they had £1.25 million and women had £980,000. Also that women are 5% happier than men, 64% of women confirmed they where truly happy while only 59% of men did.

What is bizarre is that from this they draw a conclusion about shallowness and nice, even though the quote does not allude to it either.

It is no surprise that the press officer on the release is a woman who obviously thinks it is funny to write such a anti-male headline and obviously the men who read it before it was issued (it is presumed some men read it) just lazily shrugged their shoulders.

Such lazy male bashing is too common but this is a prime example of how easy people think it is to write this type of stuff and get away with it. They wouldn't dare write that women are shallow and that men are nicer.

If any man banks with Smile, they should withdraw their money and put it elsewhere.

Why would you bank with someone who thinks you are shallow?

ANOTHER HARMAN MYTH IS DESTROYED: THIS TIME ON RECESSION DEPRESSION

Yesterday's post highlighted that the UK's Minister for Women, Harriet Harman MP, said that "We [women] have to worry more than men and we are definitely worrying more about the recession than men are."

However, mental health charity MIND published a report (link) stating that "Men are struggling to cope with the emotional impact of the recession. Almost 40% of men admit to feeling low at the moment with job security, work and money playing on their minds."

Their report Men and mental health: Get it off your chest showed:-

• 37% of men are feeling worried or low

• Middle aged men are 7 times more likely than women to have suicidal thoughts

• Only 23% of men would see their GP if they felt low over a fortnight

• Men were only half as likely to talk to friends about problems as women

This, just like her other myth, subsequently destroyed by the Office of National Statistics' own figures (link) that the recession harmed female employment more than it did men, destroys her myth that women are worrying about the recession more than man.

With three times as many men committing suicide per year than women (link), the MIND figures come as no surprise but it shows how desperate Harman is in trying to keep her malevolent agenda going.

She bases nothing on facts, just myths to try and make out on each and every subject that women are more hard done by than men.

She has been proved yet again to peddling untruths.

Story covered also by the BBC and Daily Mail.

Hat-tip: John Kimble