The Rights Of Man

WHY DOES CANCER RESEARCH UK NOT ALLOW MEN TO TAKE PART IN THE RACE FOR LIFE IF IT IS WORRIED ABOUT FALLING NUMBERS OF RUNNERS

Cancer Research UK's Race for Life, sponsored by Tesco, is concerned the number of women taking part this year is 10% down, a staggering 200,000.

The answer is very simple, allow men to take part (here and here).

Watch Cancer Research UK struggle to give a coherent answer. Pity the BBC did not ask the question why they don't allow men to take part.

It is such a shame that they won't give up on playing gender politics and end their discrimination against men. It means both men and women who have cancer or want to support loved ones lose out.

Incidentally the figures on their website show they spent £41 million on breast cancer (12,000 women sadly die per year) research and £19 million is spent on prostate cancer research (10,000 men sadly die per year). 

 Posted by Skimmington 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL STATE PENSION AGES

Later this year Parity will effectively be celebrating its 25th anniversary and John Taylor kindly sent over the history of the Campaign for Equal State Pension Ages (CESPA) which latterly became Parity. It is a fascinating read. Please read it here - Download History of CESPA _Parity. 

One of the key lessons is the fact that discriminated men should use equality laws to fight for equality. We saw what happened with British Airways and Eversheds last year when men went to the law.

The campaign by CESPA which supported and gave encouragement to men to ensure they received equality when it came to state pensions age (coming eventually) and a raft of other equality issues linked to retirement (especially bus passes and winter fuel payments). Without these men, this discrimination would still be occurring.

Posted by Skimmington

Editiors note - the story of this brave lad (Chris Whitehead) shows why putting your head above the parapet is important.

MEN'S HOUR BACK ON RADIO 5

Sorry for the lack of posts recently (always happy to publish other people as you know), been busy at the coalface though this is self defeating as I will have been contributing to the gender pay gap no doubt.

Plus, and this will apply to most readers, we have to work and undertake our campaigning for equality in our spare time, while the feminist fundamentalists do it because they paid to in their roles as public 'servants' or in taxpayer-funded charities like the Fawcett Society.

Anyhow, I am glad to see that BBC Radio 5 did not treat their last year series of Men's Hours as a one off. It is now back on.

Posted by Skimmington