The Rights Of Man

MEDIA FAILS TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE WHEN IT COMES TO SEXISM AGAINST MEN

As I pen this piece the top story on the BBC news website is about a Salford teenager who's been quoted £33,000 to insure his Vauxhall Corsa. This case came to light as a result of an earlier Daily Express article citing a different male teen, Daniel Grey, quoted £24,000 to insure his eleven year old Volvo.

Less wealthy young men faced with such an exorbitant cost of motoring either are priced off our roads or are forced to break the law, either by pretending the car belongs to their parents or by having no insurance whatsoever. And of course if they get caught uninsured or are found to have lied then any future premium rise once again creating a vicious circle of higher costs upon higher costs not to mention criminal convictions. Not only has ever media report on the matter failed to illustrate the above hardships endured by young men but they also fail to mention that such pricing is sexist and to become illegal. The media is so often keen to link even remotely related stories yet this golden rule doesn't' ever appear to apply stories about discrimination against men even when there is blatant sexism which has been proven illegal at the highest possible level. Just imagine if female or ethnic minorities had been the victims here, there'd be numerous piece int eh Guardian and articles full of over the top quotes from misandricc Labour Party MPs or Fawcett Society gender feminists. The only half decent coverage is from the Daily Mail who do at least note that young men are being "priced off the roads".

Talking of the Fawcett Societys it's incredibly blinkered of feminists to complain about women receiving a few percent less in wages compared to men (for entirely different work of course) without looking at other types of income/expenditure related sexism. For Jake Redshaw to drive to his part time job in a warehouse he's looking at spending £5,700 in insurance (the lowest price) even before he's thought about road tax, fuel or maintenance (or buying a vehicle). If Daniel is lucky enough to have a job then he fairs even worse facing a minimum payment of £12,00 for insurance.

Below are the remaining articles covering all the coverage of the story. Not one mentions sexism, the wider consequences of such pricing or even what the prices might have been for a female driver. In fact the only mention of gender is a quote for Jake's mother telling us what a risk young male drivers are as if they're all part of some homogenous group all equally incapable of driving safely.

Daily Express

Manchester Evening News

Daily Mirror

SCOUTS ASSOCIATION RIGHTLY ON THE WARPATH ABOUT CUTS

The Scouts Association  did a grand job last week of highlighting the impact the current Government;s cuts are having because of the increase in rents they are now facing from local councils. They have set up a website Don't Raise Our Rents and I would urge everyone to sign it. Another group not prepared to stand by and let boys/men be shut down.

This is not the place to discuss government cuts from a party political perspective but it seems clear from the campaign that local councils (as distinct from national government but connected nonetheless) have no feel for the importance of scouting, the impact it has in providing organised discipline for boys and the opportunity for gaining skills and learning the importance of teamwork and camaraderie.

When so mucc  being taken away from boys so they are left with a feminised education system that fails them, a family court system that shuts out their fathers and the constant bombardment of boys/men = bad, girls/women = good, the scouting movement gives them shelter and some hope.

Girls are also welcome to the scouting movement (it's not Cancer Research's Race for Life!) which of course is a good thing and something I am sure rankles with the feminist fundamentalists.

We need an increase in the scouting movement especially in inner cities but it seems that local councils are not interested about continuing to support them. How can the government on one hand say it believes in the Big Society and then see the Scouts Movement decimated in such a way.

A conspiracy theorist (which I am) would suggest that because the Scouting Movement is largely made up of boys, and as we all know they are the disposable sex, this is why it is happening. Councils would think twice if they aware undermining the Guides movement.

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Media coverage - PA, Guardian, BBC, Daily Mail

ARTICLES UPDATE

Sorry everyone...very hard to keep up at the moment. Here are a few must read articles for one or reason or other...

Daily Mirror - Saving the men who live in fear  (Louise Baty)

Evening Standard - I hate to say it but we need a quota to put girls on top (Chris Blackhurst)

Daily Mail - Judge launches stinging attack on Wren as fellow soldier she accused of rape is cleared (Tamara Cohen). Note everyone how the woman remains nameless but the two innocent men are named, forever having their names publicly available but she remains anonymous. That's equality in Britain today!

Daily Mail - Sexism is dead, say Most British Women (Steve Doughty). More analysis to come at a later date.

Daily Mail - Teacher who had sex with schoolboy is spared jail (no byline)

Straight Statistics - Standard recycles out of date figures on domestic homicides (Nigel Hawkes)

Daily Mail - How Facebook is turning women into stalkers (no byline)

Men's Network - Mens Mental Health Week

Dads on the Air (Oz) - Erin Pizzey interview

The Guardian - Where are the women directors? (Kerry Fox) - Spot John Kimble's comment

The Guardian - When Women are victims of growth (Jane Martinson)

The Telegraph - Another 'horrible' case for you Mr Loughton (Christopher Brooker) - child abduction by the state.

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CANCER RESEARCH UK STOOPS EVER LOWER IN ITS SEXISM AGAINST MEN

A great many people concerned with equality (not to mention cancer) have been deeply disturbed by the conduct of Cancer Research UK and their sexist Race for Life. I'm sure I don't' have to tell you that the race is a female only event where men are banned from taking part. We're not talking about mere segregation here with separate events for the two genders at the same time, it's a completely blatant exclusion of 49% of the population.

Until recently CRUK also ran a half hearted attempt at involving men called "Run for Moore" but quite frankly it was doomed from the start given the institutionalised sexism which runs throughout the organisation and the fact the event was clearly an afterthought rather than anything CRUK ever had any commitment to. This year the inevitable has happened and CRUK have abandoned any pretence of trying to involve men by giving up on Run for Moore completely.

If we had a more enlightened attitude to gender equality in this country then Race For Life would have long ago been declared illegal. Events in other countries aimed at appealing to women or focusing on mostly female cancers generally do not bother being so petty as to ban men. Regrettably one of Harriet Harman's last acts before finally getting kicked out of office was to sneak in explicit legalisation of Race for Life misandry in the "Equality" Bill, though such legislation is at least an acknowledgement that CRUK were previously on extremely shaky ground indeed with regards to their treatment of men over the last 15 years.

Not only is CRUK's sexist in it's fundraising activities of course, it also fails to fund research into male cancer sufficiently, instead spending far more money on female only conditions. There is now increasingly widespread awareness that our society's obsession with breast cancer is having a hugely detrimental effect on all other cancer suffers and it's now fair to say that men and pretty much anyone suffering from any less fashionable form of the disease is now effectively a second class citizen.

So many other people are doing so much great work in taking CRUK to task over their sexism and this has previously meant I've not bothered writing anything new about the organisation as quite frankly I didn't have much to add to my previous piece. Regrettably they have now stooped to a new low and spurred me into writing once again.

Incredibly CRUK have begun a campaign of objectifying men on their website as a way of promoting their sexist Race for Life events. Visitors to the website (mostly women of course) are invited to meet CRUK's "Race for Life hotties"  in the organisation's "E-male" app where they get to choose who they wish to perform for them. Women then gets to personalise the sex object of their choice with CRUK kindly inviting them to take ownership of him and "make him yours".  Visitors then finally get to see a video of "their" "hottie" stripping off his shirt and going topless (note I won't be linking to the content as I do not wish to promote sexism nor the charity concerned).

Now I want to make it clear I'm not some some prudish, anti-sex "Object" style fanatic here. I don't have any problem with sex or nudity and we live in a free society where men are woman are quite rightly able to parade around half naked and do whatever they wish with their bodies for whatever reason.  Sex sells and I accept that.

The CRUK campaign is certainly at the very worst end of the scale in terms of bad taste and the double standards of a lack of female "hotties" arguably makes things even worse. However the real reason such content is so objectionable is because it's a part of the wider campaign of genuinely harmful sexism and exclusion by a genuinely discriminatory organisation who really should be helping everyone. We're not talking about some random inconsequential top shelf magazine printing questionable content. CRUK is a hugely influential and powerful organisation, it's the UK's biggest cancer charity supposed to be responsible for finding cures for diseases that kill millions and helping countless cancer sufferers.

As we noted above CRUK has deliberately excluded men from it's biggest events for well over a decade now. It's then refuses to give sufficient funding to male cancers and ultimately fails to engage with men and get the interested in the issue of cancer, despite themselves admitting men are the biggest suffers of the disease and have the worst outcomes by some distance. CRUK now adds to its sexism by parading topless men all over it's website in something akin to a Nevada brothel style line up.

This isn't first such objectification of men by CRUK either, the organisation has history here as you can see from this breast cancer "awareness" video (warning it's even more tasteless than the Race for Life "hotties" videos ). Once again there is no corresponding video where a male figure of authority molests a semi nude female in the name of prostate cancer awareness.

These videos sum up the philosophy of CRUK and its Race for Life and shows just how sexist the charity has now become. Divisive environments only concerned with one gender or openly hostile the other no only alienate the other half the population, but can makes issues such as objectification more acceptable and therefore more likely. How on earth can men become concerned with cancer when all the messages about the subject in our society are delivered in bold pink writing accompanied blatantly sexist women-only rules and topless men presented as sex objects? Respected author Brian Clegg tells us that just because Race for Life is for a good cause, it doesn't' justify discrimination. Similarly, it doesn't justify tasteless objectification of those CRUK is already discriminating against in all their work either.

On a more positive note these videos do at least further prove all along what we've all suspected about CRUK. If it were in any doubt before, it's safe to say we're now clearly at a stage where the organisation is a lost cause. Please do not donate to such sexist organsiaitons instead support one of the many far better, charities and unfashionable causes out there who survive on tiny budgets without demeaning or discriminating against anyone.

by John Kimble

WHY NO CALL FOR GENDER QUOTAS TO FIGHT THE RADIATION AT FUKUSHIMA?

Watching the story unfold of those brave 180 men (Fukushima 50) fighting the leaks at the nuclear power station in Japan, I suddenly realised that I have no seen calls from the UN Women's Committee, the UK Government's Minister for Women or Harman, the Fawcett Society, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, The Guardian etc about the lack of women involved.

Where is the call to impose a gender quota or an 'A' List or positive action? 

Where is the PR campaign about this awful discrimination at the nuclear plant because there are no women amongst the '50' (all reports say they are only men, so please do not complain if a few are female)?

Many of us would not want women there but we are not allowed to say that. However the silence of the feminist fundamentalists shows not only do they not want women there either but it also highlights their hypocrisy because according to their orthodoxy they should be calling for equality and quotas. 

Society as a whole recognises that men do these types of job and that is the way of nature. Society also recognises that those who do these types of job get paid more. Normal men and women call that fair, feminist fundamentalists call it discrimination. 

The silence of the feminist fundamentalists shows they want gender quotas when it suits them, when it doesn't, they say nothing.

Let's all ensure our thoughts are with those brave men and their families.

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FEMINIST FUNDAMENTALISM AT THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS

Yesterday we ran a story about the problems some students had at the University of East Anglia because they fully understood what equality means but the vested interests of the Feminist Fundamentalist movement did not.

The story reminded me of a previous story about Olivia Bailey the then National Union of Student's Women's Officer who had produced a document called "I will win the arguments"  which had a section specifically designed to not just to stop anymore men's officers from being appointed on campuses but also to abolish those few in place. This document has moved from its last address and is now here (page 7).

However, digging around, I found a resolution that was passed at the 2010 National Union of Student's Women's National Campaign Conference. It is in the minutes of this year's conference that occurred at the weekend (there was no similar motion in 2011). The motion is on page 15 and is available via this pdf Download Motion no 803_Men's Officer.

The motion was crystal clear - it wants all existing men's officers to be scrapped, men's officers reinforce the advantages they have on campus (there are now of course less men than women on campuses because of Britain's failure to educate boys so who knows what fantasy advantages these are) and that men's liberation groups be banned but women's liberation groups be kept.

The hatred of men comes through loud and clear and the concern is, and as reviewed yesterday, that those who passed this motion and spoke up for it will soon be embedded into the political framework of this country at a national, local, pressure group (taxpayer funded of course) or quango level. Those feminist fundamentalists will take their student views and infest them into the body politic as they have done since the 1970's.

The power of the internet has meant here it has been exposed for the world to see. In times of yore, these motions would have been passed and no one outside those who went to the conference would know it.

The war against men is being started on campuses up and down the UK and the radicalisation of some women turns them into fundamentalists who despise and hate men and believe men are not equals,they are subservient.

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CAMPUS RUMPUS OVER GENDER EQUALITY OFFICER AT UEA

This site recently was forwarded an email outlining the experiences of a student at the University of East Anglia in Norwich after he had called for a debate on having a Gender equality Officer at the student union. They currently have a women's officer ('surprise surprise as Cilla Black used to say) but no men's officer.

His experience is laid out clearly in his blog where 'surprise surprise' the accusation of misogyny is causally cast about as a fascist stick to silence debate.

This site has covered this type of issue before: Hull, Manchester and Oxford. Kentkept there's after a failed attempt at abolition though "the National Union of Student's Women's Movement has a problem with this."

As we know from experience in the UK and of course in the USA, hatred of men is a constant theme with many women becoming radicalised on campus (gender studies anyone?) to then go out into the wider world to preach the Marxist Feminist Gospel of women=good men=bad. They end up in governement as politicians or senior civil servants, enter quangos like the Equalities Commission or local authorities/police forces as oxymoronically called 'diversity officers'.

The experience in the University of East Anglia is a salient reminder of the danger.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY SHOULD BE RENAMED "INTERNATIONAL MEN BASHING DAY"

Every year when International Women's Day comes around in theory it should be a day of celebration of the achievement of women and the qualities they bring to us all. Similar to Mother's day (and Father's Day of course) men and women from across the UK should be encouraged to raise a toast to women. Instead, you are left with the acrid stench of anti-male hatred and discrimination.

The reality is that the day is increasingly hijacked (I am not sure whether it was ever thus) by Marxist feminists and others who hate men. It is not a celebration of women it is used to bash men, to say that all the barriers that women face are down to sexist men and if women ruled the world, the planet would be perfect.  It is used to campaign for more rights for women over men - it is not about equality.

Organisations like the Government, Women's Aid, Fawcett Society and the Guardian (of course) plan their PR around campaigns and adverts all with an underlying anti-male bias. It is not always in your face but you are left in doubt what the underlying message is: Women = good, men = bad.

For men, Tuesday was a day to keep your head bowed as you read every newspaper and watched the TV or listened to the radio knowing that your female colleagues at work, mothers at the school gates and  female friends will be seeing, watching and hearing the same. It really is uncomfortable.

You wonder what goes through their minds when you interact with them. Is it the normal "Hi, how's things" or do they really want to say "Hi, you fascist misogynist who's stopping me advancing in my career, ia a sex pest and thinks I should be at home with the kids and the kitchen." That's what the anti-male feminists want them to think.

As it was the centenary this year, there was more of this than usual and of course, with International Men's Day due for 19th November this year, it will be interesting to see what level of attention that receives from the same organisations. Silence, I expect but that is equality for you.

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Some of the low lights of this year's campaign include:

Guardian - Women only day, Manifesto for 21st century feminism, Why feminism must not lose its bite, How rapidly things change

Government and the Labour Party: the shockingly anti-male Yvette Cooper

The Equalities Commission who do nothing to support equality for men

Oxfam ad - very anti-male (why would a man donate to them after reading this)

James Bond ad (and Daily Mail)- even says women get paid less for doing same job as men. That is not true, completely unproven. This is run by a new umbrella organisation called EQUALS.

Telegraph - Women are only equals for one day per year 

House of Lords

And a great post on Quiet Riot Girl

STILL NO EQUALITY IN THE RACE FOR LIFE

Last year John Kimble wrote a great article about Cancer Research UK and its Race for Life which bans men from participating - an event this year sponsored and promoted by Tesco.

John Taylor who has been campaigning for over a decade to make the event gender neutral and in the name of equality allow men to participate. In this letter (Download CRUK and its discriminatory race for life _Mar 11_) he gives a summary of recent events in his quest for equality.

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THE TRIPLE WHAMMY FACED BY A MALE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

There was an hour devoted to male victims on BBC Three Counties (see here from 1 hour in). The most striking interview was from Ray (about 1hr 30 mins in) where he described the abuse he suffered from and the fact that the police tried to prosecute him!

Not only does his story show the power of the false allegation but also the knee jerk sexism that still occurs in some police forces where the man is always guilty. It also shows the awfulness of the family courts where this man has lost contact with his son.

Perhaps all those who celebreted International Women's Day this week should be made to listen to it and be asked what they think.

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