The Rights Of Man

EYES STARTING TO OPEN OVER THE PRACTICAL IMPACT OF HARMAN'S EQUALITY BILL

Now that our favourite Government Minister, Harriet Harman, has got her Equalities Bill (link) up and running in the UK Parliament, the practical impact of its policy to stop men from being treated as equals in the workplace is starting to be shown.

It is not helped of course, that she is now off the leash and gone into full-on male-bashing mode. You see, she blames maleness, for the collapse of the banks and as now so many are nationalised she wants to use the pro-women laws in the Bill to, as the Daily Mail put it, 'put women in charge of the banks'. No problem in theory with having women (or anyone) in charge of banks so long as they are suitably qualified.

But Harman's Law is not about this, it is about letting someone from one gender (women) being able to leapfrog above other people (men) up the career ladder solely based on gender. Just how fair it is for a man who has dedicated himself to a career to then be denied that opportunity because he is a man? It is wrong and morally so.

Also having been found out to be misleading everyone with her previous campaign saying the recession affected the employment of women more than men, she has turned her attack more generally. She said "because women generally remained homemakers, the recession caused them to fear not only for their own jobs, but also for their husband's, for their children's futures, and for elderly relatives. We have to worry more than men and we are definitely worrying more about the recession than men are."

There is not single shred of evidence to base this on and if she thinks that men are not worried to the same extent (or more) than women then she is just wrong. Patronisingly and desperately wrong.

Harriet Harman will do anything she possible can to attack at men. Why does she dislike us so much?

Other coverage is here:- Daily Mail, This is Money, Express, Telegraph

WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Last week marked another landmark period of coverage on male victims following the burst of coverage earlier on this year (see March/Feb here).

Ian McNicholl came forward and reported the traumatic situation he found himself in which led to his ex-girlfirend being sent to prison for a lenient seven years.

The coverage was broken on the front page of Britain's biggest selling daily newspaper The Sun (1, 2, 3) and also featured an interview on BBC Look North. The case was also covered by This is Grimsby and the Yorkshire Post.

In addition, the Sunday Express had a large feature and there were features in Scotland's Herald newspaper (1, 2).

Lastly, and apologies for missing this, but Liz Lynne MEP also had an article in the Birmingham Post.

What this shows is that the media are still starting to take this issue seriously and see it as an area where equality is not present. If it newsworthy enough to be on the front page of The Sun then there is enough evidence to show that the Government can no longer with any credibility claim that it 'the vast majority of cases are against women'.

CAMPAIGNER BRANDS MANY FEMINISTS AS BEING ANTI-MEN

Campaigner Erin Pizzey hit out a few weeks ago in the Daily Mail.

Pizzey, who has never described herself as a feminist, fell out with many in the women's movement because she did not share many of their views.

The middle-class Christian said many feminists were obsessed with destroying men and marriage and said for many it was like a 'born again' religion.

The article is here for anyone that missed it.

NUMBERS OF VIOLENT WOMEN SOAR - MUST BE A LINK TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?

The UK Government published figures this week that showed a total of 88,139 women and girls were arrested for violence against the person last year - the equivalent of 241 arrests a day.

It was up from 87,140 in 2006/07 and more than doubled the 37,100 arrested in 1999/00.

The story was covered in The Telegraph. This issue was covered on the site last year(link), and surely with this number of women being arrested for violence some of it will also be happening in the home. If some women get violent after drinking too much, why would this not happen in the home.

The reason for raising it is that any naysayers who say that men cannot be victims or are in such a minority that they are not worth bothering about, are wrong.

FEMALE PAEDOPHILIA TACKLED BY THE BBC

The BBC chose last week to tackle one huge taboo subject (link) - that women can also be paedophile's.

This is NEVER spoken about even though their have been some stories where female teachers have had sex with under-age boys.

The section where people can put comments is particularly sad.

The key section is outlined below:

Steve Bevan, who for nearly two decades has run a support group for male victims of all forms of sexual abuse. Out of 18 men currently getting individual and group support, five say they were abused by women, three of them exclusively so.

Over the years we've had lots of men abused by mothers, sisters, aunties and baby sitters," says Mr Bevan.

"It's hard enough for adult men to admit abuse but to admit to abuse by a woman is even harder because it challenges their masculinity, it challenges their sexuality.

Congratulations to the BBC for raising this story and perhaps we may start to get some balance and recognition for those who are victims. It's a long way behind recognition of the plight of male victims of domestic abuse but at least it has been raised.

MEDIA CONDEMNATION FOR HARMAN' S EQUALITIES BILL

A week since the ironically named Equalities Bill was published and covered here (link and previous links here, here and here), there seems to be universal condemnation (especially from women) on a number of issues. The additional coverage is listed at the bottom but the issues are:-

(1) It is anti-male and unashamedly so;

(2) It is anti-business;

(3) The gender pay gap is down to lifestyle choice and not down to discrimination.

Harman's colleagues in the UK Government, which seems to be rotting further each day, seemed to be able to resist her when she put this forward. It is interesting to note none of them seemed to be rushing to support her publicly. Is it because they are embarrassed, do they support it or they so in hock to the anti-male PC brigade to say anything?

What will the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats do? Will there be enough labour MPs who could help to vote it down like they did on this week's Gurkha Bill.

There is no way any sensible person could possibly vote for this swingeing anti-male legislation surely? Thank the Lord the laughable Fawcett Society do not run Parliament, they don't think it goes far enough! (link)

Progress will be analysed as it wends its way through Parliament.

Further Coverage:-

Express 1, Express 2, Express 3, Express 4, Express 5, Express 6

Mail 1, Mail 2, Melanie Phillips Mail 3, Edwina Currie Mail 4

Telegraph 1, Charles Moore Telegraph 2, Telegraph 3, Telegraph 4,

Minette Marrin Times 1

Guardian 1, Guardian 2

CALL FOR A MINISTER FOR MEN

This site's most popular ever post (link) was two years ago when a Minister for Men manifesto was published (see left).

This week, Mark Brooks, posted an article on the hugely popular independent Conservative web-site, Conservative Home, outlining why one is needed. It sparked off a fair old debate.