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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

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Groan

You do well to expose this. It is an old tactic called "no platform". The intemperate tone and jargon illustrates the point you make perfectly.

John Kimble

Yet another exclusive on this blog, really good stuff.

To be fair the feminists do have a point here in a small way. There shouldn't be a men's officer just as there shouldn't be a women's officer. There should simply be one person responsible for gender equality representing all groups. A men's officer only becomes necessary when no one else bothers to represent men (or when they begin campaigning against men)

Have to say I found the following line from the motion opposing men's officers to be most interesting:

"They often promote activities that are detrimental to the women's cause, whilst claiming to offer help/support to men"


I wonder what other types of officers that type of argument might apply to? Perhaps there is even one particular type of officer on campus so full of hatred and dishonesty that they even actively oppose the possibility representation for the opposite sex?

John Kimble

It really troubles me that this hateful motion passed. Lets read some more:

"We must fight against the existence of men’s officers"

Almost sounds like a threat, as if they are some sort of inferior beings in need of extermination. Note how they're not fighting against their arguments or points but against their very existence.

"As men’s officers have no real campaigning role, that makes their role simply symbolic"

I think the gentleman who was the subject of yesterday's post mostly debunked this bs.

Skimmington

I agree John with the point that we should have Gender Equality Officers not an officer for each gender but we all know getting rid of women's officers is nigh on impossible. Unfortunately.

ZimbaZumba

Could you make the URL's for your pages smaller it is awful trying to link this on YouTube, Reddit etc.

This is the link for this page.

http://therightsofman.typepad.co.uk/the_rights_of_man/2011/03/yesterday-we-ran-a-story-about-the-problems-some-students-had-at-the-univeristy-of-erast-anglia-becuas-ethey-fully-understood.html

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