The Rights Of Man

GENDER EDUCATION GAP SHOWS AWARENESS IS BUILDING

One of the most satisfying parts of running this site is when issues raised end up being discussed in the mainstream media or elsewhere.

There was great article in the Mail on Sunday by Winifred Robinson about the gender education gap, a subject raised here.

The issue is now being discussed more widely, even though it has been an issue for decades now, but action is needed, talk is cheap.

ABUSE OF GENDER PAY GAP STATISTICS CHALLENGED AGAIN

A week ago this site highlighted the fact that despite previous guidance from Sir Michael Scholar from the UK Statistical Authority to the Government that using the gender pay gap figure of 23% was wrong, the Women and Work Commission went ahead anyway.

Even though the media cover the story when Sir Michael originally queried it, the media, who do not fact check or connect things up, they still unquestioningly used the 23% figure again.

Now the row has blown up again with another letter(see 7th August) sent by Sir Michael, this time to Baroness Prosser.

The whole episode is covered by Mark Easton at the BBC.

One question remains though, does Sir Michael read this blog, so picking up on the issue that was previously raised on this site about the Women and Work Commission!

NEW BOOK - VENUS: THE DARK SIDE by ROY SHEPPARD AND MARY CLEARY

Roy Sheppard (former BBC TV and radio presenter) apprd and Mary Cleary (founder of Ireland's excellent Amen Project) have written a book on female predators called Venus: The Dark Side.

In addition, there is a youtube channel and also a dedicated web-site.

The book on how unscrupulous women do it. Helpful to men and fascinating to women, Venus: The Dark Side catalogues for the first time, how unscrupulous women attack innocent men, women (primarily mothers against daughters) and children; physically, financially, psychologically and even sexually. And in so many cases, they know how to get away with it. But how do you recognise their covert behaviour? How can you tell if she is preying on YOU?

Venus: The Dark Side is a practical guide on how to recognise the signs and provides detailed help and advice on what you can do (and NOT do) to extricate yourself from her clutches. Already described as Required reading for all young men today , the book also includes a Due Diligence Checklist to limit the risks of marrying one of these women. This checklist is equally valuable to women. With a UK divorce rate at 57%, anyone planning to marry would be well advised to study it.

 And what about the men who are already married to one of the women described in this book what can they expect when it comes to the divorce? The authors offer detailed protection strategies. 

 

HARRIET HARMAN HAS DAMAGED ANTI-MALE FEMINISM THIS WEEK BUT MUCH MORE NEEDED

Like so many things in life, the best laid plans of mice and (wo)men can often go seriously awry and this week may be a turning point in turning the tide back of anti-male feminism.

It will take a lot but now the cat is out of the bag, people, especially those supine male politicians who just sit there and take it like a a bunch of hen-pecked husbands, should have the confidence to challenge it. No man or woman taking on the legion of  - diversity officers, council officials, the Fawcett Society, the Equalities Commission and all those how actively support extra help for women over men -  should be scared no longer.

Just to recap, Harriet Harman was in charge of the Government this week as Gordon Brown is on holiday, and rubbing her hands with glee and after months of planning with her "sista's", she would use the window to plunge the knife in the backs of men. Who would stop her, such is male-bashing such an accepted part of modern Britain.

Firstly, she attacked men in the boardroom and said that men could not be trusted to run things by themselves and that Labour should always have a woman in one of the top the two roles. This was met by a tirade from John Prescott (former Deputy Leader) who can be quite effective when let off the leash, said she should shut up. The redoubtable Ann Widdecombe (Tory MP) also joined in. Infamously Harman then said if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, it would not have caused so much trouble. 

Then there was battle over shelved new rape laws, the national curriculum issue and then feistely says she is no shrinking violet as she tours the TV studios.

The whole incident has led to acres (literally) of newsprint but generally speaking she has been met with ridicule (only The Guardian and the pathetically laughable Times - must have had an anti-male feminist running the Leader Columns this week) especially from female commentators (Some anonymous female Labour politicians said her rampant feminism was like the Taliban!). Those men have written about her have tended to mock her but the implications of what she says and does are too serious for mockery.

So in terms of what has happened, clearly the power went to her head and bearing in mind the likely Labour defeat at the next General Election, she knew it was her last chance to make a stand with the burning flag of anti-male feminism. This week, with other politicians on holiday, she had the place to herself and she did more harm than good to her cause. Great.

Her anti-male extremism (too many people did not take her seriously last summer when she said if he she was PM, every man would rush to the airport) and the extremism of others has been exposed publicly but the policies in practice remain unchanged. So much much more needs to be done on the policy front where armies of diversity officers and others are putting the pieces of her anti-male policies in actual place on a minute by minute basis.

Editors Note - There have been so many articles on the issue this week (see Google News), so I have chosen the ones I like:-

Sun 1, Daily Mail - Steve Richards, BBC 1, Spectator - Rod Liddle, Daily Mash satire, Telegraph, Telegraph 2, Telegraph - Liz Hunt.

HARMAN'S NATIONAL CURRICULUM PLEDGE PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGES BOYS AND IGNORES 40% OF THE DV VICTIMS

Without wanting to jump on the anti-Harriet bandwagon quite yet - the week is still young, I think it is important to dwell on the issue raised in the Daily Mail today (an amazing 160 comments in the debate section) where they revealed that the Government has declared that as part of Violence Against Women strategy pupils as young as five will be taught about the evils of 'wife beating'. This is to form part of the national curriculum and as the article says, there will be nothing on violence against men.

The article is balanced and points out the fact that more and more women are being arrested for violence which is in addition to the point raised earlier this week that more mothers are violent towards their daughter than men are.

One of the issues worth raising is the fact that its underlying theme of telling boys and girls that all boys are violent towards women, the height of Marxist Feminist thinking,  will give all boys a guilt complex -  "Mummy, my teacher says I will be a wife beater when I grow up". How will any women form a relationship with a man if she thinks we are all wifebeaters. It is straight out of George Orwell and is designed to further psychologically undermine boys and men.

The other issue is that when 40% of victims of domestic abuse aremale, those men of the future as well as those suffering now, are purposely and hideously ignored by the Government. It is almost as if they do not exist.

Any course telling people, and certainly it is inappropriate for children to be indoctrinated at such an early age, should be saying that all violence is wrong but also any violence by a woman on a man is as equally as wrong as the other way around.

To only state one gender is completely factually wrong and is biased and shows clearly the anti-male, one-eyed nature of this Government and Harriet Harman. She really does want to grind men into the dust, from the age of 5.

NSPCC FIGURES SHOW GIRLS MORE LIKELY TO BE PHYSICALLY ABUSED BY THEIR MOTHERS

In yesterday's post, the NSPCC's Childline report (What Boys Talk To Childline About) on the increase in calls by boys was reviewed. However, there was one section that was worthy of a separate post.

On pages 10 and 11, the section on physical abuse revealed that:-

(1) Boys said that 39% of perpetrators were fathers and 28% mothers

(2) Girls said that 37% of perpetrators were mothers and 25% fathers

In terms of sexual abuse (pages 12-14):-

(3) Boys said that 21% of perpetrators of sexual abuse were fathers, 18% mothers (no figures for girl callers which is unfortunate as that would have added balance)

The reason why these figures are significant is two fold:-

Firstly, the anti-male domestic violence industry would have it that women do not attack men, only the other way around. All those that disagree are delusional, well, they are not. Violence against men also occurs in the mother- boy relationship as well as the wife-husband relationship.

In addition, it is worth noting how close these figures are. The ratio of 39% to 28% is 60% fathers/40% mothers).

The same is for sexual abuse, the ratio of 21% fathers to 18% mothers is 54%/46%, again much closer than the propaganda against fathers would suggest.

Secondly, the figures are significant because propaganda always show a father hitting their daughter when the facts show it is more likely to be the other way around. The most infamous is the Barnado's advert, the most complained about advertisement of last year (link) which shows a father repeatedly hitting his daughter.

So ingrained is the anti-male culture we live in, that charity's like Barnados and others who always show the man as the physical aggressor on girls can't be bothered about letting truth get in the way of another piece of anti-male stereotyping.

 

IS ANTI-MALE BRITAIN DRIVING INCREASE IN BULLYING?

One of the most disturbing news stories last week was the news from the NSPCC via their What Boys Talk About To Childline report that the number of boys calling their Childline has more than doubled in the past five years.

Their key findings included:-

Between 2002/03 and 2007/08, the annual number of boys counselled by ChildLine more than doubled, from 24,823 to 58,311.

The boy-to-girl ratio of callers has increased from one boy to every four calls from girls, to one in very two.

Bullying was the single biggest reason for boys calling.

Disturbingly, there was a high number of boys reporting sexual abuse and the number of boys ringing because they were depressed, lacked self-esteem or lonely had increased fivefold.

On the latter point, the seriousness of male depression is one that continually is overlooked not just because of the implications for the boys who call but also because I would suspect it is one of the main reasons for the increase in bullying being seen in schools and has lead to more calls.

Why is there an increase in bullying, perhaps it is because those bullies are also lacking in self esteem and I suspect this is in some part due to the lack of progress they make at schools with their exam results. Is it because of the general debasement of men in UK society that instead of finding ways to channel their testosterone into learning or being seen as role models, they take it out on other boys. There is no outlet for them and society, the media, the state and The Government do not seem to care.

Media Coverage - Google News

 

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WOMENS' COMMISSION GENDER PAY GAP MYTHS - SLAVISHLY LAPPED UP BY MEDIA

A 56 page report called Shaping a Fairer Future by the Women and Work Commission (no Men and Work Commission exists, of course) run by the UK Government's 'Equalities' Office.

The report essentially state that the gender pay gap is down to gender stereotyping in career choices promoted by schools.

Yet, as pointed out so many times on this site, there is a gender pay gap overall but:-

• Lifestyle choice (ie taking years out to bring up a family) is the biggest explanation of the gender pay gap as explained by the Office of National Statistics report in 2008
• Women and men earn the same wage until they reach their 30's (see above for reason) so it is not down to school career stereotyping
• Single women earn more than single men
• In landmark research by the Daily Telegraph, they showed that far more women are entering the professions than men.
• There is no evidence that women get paid less than men due to discrimination.

 An additional point worth looking at is the fact that in June, the Government were slammed by the UK Statistical Authority for using the figure of 23% for describing the gender pay gap instead of the more accurate 12%, yet the report still uses 23%. They ignore the truth.

The deliberate and sexist lack of intellectual rigour in reports like this just keep coming and one of the problems is that th British media, which as each year goes by, lacks serious depth, never challenges them. They just spew out the copy verbatim without looking at the above points, the evidence or points by academics.

In the myriad of articles, there is not one challenge to it in the news reporting or an alternative voice. The only article is by Jill Kirby of the Centre for Policy Studies in the Telegraph

MINISTER FOR MEN PETITION

The site has just been sent notice of this e-petition

SELECT COMMITTEE REVIEWS INTO EQUALITIES COMMISSION

Sometimes in life it is better to judge a person by their enemies and certainly this is the case in terms of the continuing furore about Trevor Phillips, the Chairman of the Equalities Commission.

Certainly, there is much to be said to be said for the criticism from the National Audit Office about their Annual Accounts (how can they moan about anyone else if they cannot even do this role with a £70 million budget employing 410 staff - 63% of whom are women). However, what a lot of the other criticism has been about is that the Commission has not paid a significant enough amount of attention to each person's hobby horse.

Whilst this site is rightly no friend of the Equalities Commission considering its 'conspiracy of silence' (also more generally) on men and male discrimination, it is worth looking at some of the criticism and who has been covering it.

Of course, it has been wall to wall coverage in the equality  movement's house newspaper The Guardian, where there has been 12 stories on the subject in the last week alone (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). To and fro the articles have gone, but not one has criticised him for doing nothing for men.

Other significant articles are here:- Daniel Hannan MEP, Daily Telegraph, BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph 2, Independent , Iain Dale.

In some ways it has been hilarious to watch all the world of the politically correct descend into hysteria, certainly with the Ashes rained off today it has been an amusing sideline trawling through the articles. Although, as pointed out, the backlash could be worse for men.

Amongst all of the hullabaloo, it is important not to lose sight that there will now be a two Select Committee investigations into the goings-on by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee and the Joint Human Rights Committee.

Whilst these have been announced to the media, there does not seem to be any press notices or calls for evidence. Whenever, there is a call for evidence, it is time to put in submissions about the conspiracy of silence on men.