One of the advantages of not having an anti-male PC Labour government (this isn't a party political point!) is that it allows a freer debate on issues without always being howled down as 'fascists' (as in my university days!) therefore allowing a much wider debate on things.
The think tank Civitas has always been radical which is why this site has always included some of their publications (see bottom right side bar). Last week, they published a pamphlet by Jon Gower Davies called Small Corroding Words (press release) which called for the abolition of Equalities and Human Rights Commission, a policy I believe in because it is anti-male and is infested with too many people sharing that view (it was hoped the coalition government may abolish it).
I have to read the pamphlet it yet (it is on order) but certainly the press release sets out clearly some of the problems that chime well with the site.
There is the issue of Assuming the Worse, where Civitas state the commission believes that any inequality is due to unfairness in Britain without looking at what is responsible for it. As we know, the critics of the gender pay gap lie about it by claiming it is down to discrimination in Britain when sensible people (including the vast majority of women) know it is about lifestyle choice. Anyone reading Catherine Hakim or John Shackleton knows that.
A Double Bind example can be seen with women where the Commission calls for more women to be in the boardroom by using quotas (discrimination in the workplace) but forget most women of a boardroom age have husbands/partners trying to get in the baordroom so want them to be stopped from making it (less income for the family unit including any wife/girlfriend/daughter).
The other issue I have is the complete ignorance by the Commission at looking at issues affecting men - suicide, unemployment, education, domestic abuse, family courts etc - and what causes the inequality.
At least with issues affecting women, they recognise them, even if they don't look at the causes and just lump it all in as discrimination. With men, they don't even get recognised.
Posted by Skimmington
The pick of the media coverage - Daily Express.
Sadly, but not suprprisingly the media have kept quiet about this revelation.
So soon after its inception the EHRC is being lambasted for exactly the same reasons as the EOC.
Now that men are starting to break the infiltration of feminists though voicing their opinions via the very channels the feminists have been careful to keep for themselves for so long, such as little publicised public reviews and questionnaires. It is everincreasingly difficult for the them to carry out their misandry without the glare of public scrutiny nor the presence of enlightened men to fight back and end their corruption.
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 18 August 2011 at 08:05