At last an MP in the House of Commons has stood up for men in this country and said that equality means equality for men and boys too.
Dominic Raab MP has certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons in his first class article on the Politics Home website where he declares that "We must end feminist bigotry".
He also declares that:
"From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal."
"Meanwhile, young boys are educationally disadvantaged compared to girls, and divorced or separated fathers are systematically ignored by the courts"
" Maybe it’s time men started burning their briefs, to put an end once and for all to what Emmeline Pankhurst used to call ‘the double standard of sex morals."
At long long last we have a British Member of Parliament not only making the case that equality applies to men and boys too but also pointing out the facts about the gender discrimination gap which is used as a way to berate men and ask for special favours for women. His attack on soft discrimination beloved by Harman, May and Featherstone is spot on.
He also raises general issues about male employment, education and family law and also makes the valid point that feminists, especially the extremists like Harman et al, intensely dislike in that men and women like each other and are inter-dependent. Attack men and you are attacking their mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, partners, or girlfriends.
Has he been reading this site, we ask ourselves?
As you would expect, especially when the idiots Andy Gray and Richard Keys put the cause back, it is not long before the usual anti-male suspects line up to attack Dominic Raab.
Harman says "Women still earn 20 per cent less than men, domestic violence claims the lives of women every week and women bear the brunt of poverty in the developing world." And a new campaigner, Nia Griffith, the shadow business minister, called on Mr Raab to "get real and stop being so self-pitying”.
We have all been waiting for years for just one MP to raise the issue about male inequality and that equality means equality for men and boys too.
In Dominic Raab MP, perhaps we have now found someone who will stand up in parliament and speak up for men and boys, as well as their mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, partners, or girlfriends. Let us all hope he sticks to it, all of the above are hoping he does.
Posted by Skimmington
Media coverage - Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard (plus comments), Daily Mail
"stop being so self-pitying"
I think we've found the new Harman. Someone finalyl stands up for men and she just comes out with insults.
The funny part is that has has "got real" and some people can't handle the truth.
Posted by: John Kimble | Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 00:47
The criticisms from the feminists do not stand up to scrutiny. Harman is, as usual, lying through her teeth and Nia Griffith (who the hell is she?) has nothing to respond with except insults.
The arguments have been won. We now need action.
Posted by: paul parmenter | Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 13:10
Can I make the suggestion that, regardless of their political allegiance, readers of this site should drop Dominic Raab an email thanking him and expressing their support?
It took a lot of guts to stand up and say what he did.
http://www.dominicraab.com/contact_dom.html
Posted by: Jon | Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 18:03
If only we had more MPs like Dominic
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 08 February 2011 at 02:17