The Rights Of Man

NEWS UPDATE

Just a few articles, including one following up from yesterday:

Daily Mail - Father falsely acused of being a paedophile by ex-wife tells his story (Jenny Johnson) - Proof of the power of the false accusation.

Daily Mail - Wicked women jailed for crying rape

ManKind Initiative - Sponsor Emily Spink at the Great North Run

Evening Standard - Feminist group plans cuts backlash (Anna Davis) - Did they see the GCSE results this week?

Financial Times - Why women are losing the battle for jobs (Liz Bolshaw) - Does the author of this actually look at the unemployment figures which show far more men are unemployed!

Daily Telegraph - Legal case stops expats moving children abroad (Henry Brookman)

BBC - Tubecrush site taking pictures of men on the Underground (Matt Cooke): Women are allowed to post pictures of men without their permission but not the other way - an everyday example of sexism against men in the UK.

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MORE SICKENING STORIES OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS

Despite the attempts of this government and the last to ignore the damage that false accusations causes men (this government bottled giving defendents anonymity unless found guilty and also have made it easier for men to be taken from their homes without court approved evidence on domestic abuse) more and more others in positions of power are fully aware of the problem.

This week, there has been two significant stories.

Firstly, there was the story of Patrick Clark who was unfairly sacked because of a false accusation by his former partner (covered by STV ) and won his case against his employer (a chairty) on the grounds of sexual discrimination and unfair dismissal. Worth reading the three comments on the STV story. 

The other story this week was sickening where a mother coached her daughter into making sex abuse claims against her father (Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail). The work of Victoria Haigh and also the female private investigator were shameful and for once British justice was balanced and fair to a man who was having his life ruined.

For all those who downplay the damage of false allegations and false accusations, these two powerful stories show why those who ignore the issue do so because they choose to. Why do those with such loud voices remain silent?

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GOVERNMENT FIDDLES WHILE ANOTHER GENERATION OF BOYS BURN

Today's GCSE results shows another generation of boys who have been betrayed by an education system that does not care about them, is content to see them relegated to second class citizen status and is happy to see them sacrificed on the altar of anti-male Marxist feminism.

Today's results which showed boys dropping further behind girls at the top grade, with just 19.6% of their exam entries awarded A* or A, compared with 26.5% for girls. The biggest gap since 1991 when it was 3.6%. For A* to C, the gap is 8.5% (66% boys and 73.5% girls). Subject by subject results are here.

The story is mirrored at A-levels (18 year olds), SATS (11 year olds), university and the professions.

The thing is that while this government acknowledges (BBC video - 2 minutes in) there is a problem of boys education (more so than its predecessors who purposely ignored it because it was a Marxist form of social engineering) they still do little about it as constantly pointed out by this site time and again (especially here).

Nick Gibb mentions that we need more discipline and better reading skills at primary school level - but it not enough. Many believe, as I do, that the ending of exam based O-levels (last taken in 1987) and moving to the female-friendly course-based GCSE's was the fundamental shift.

If the governement was serious it would allow both systems to co-exist and then at least boys could take exams that play to their innate strengths and girls to theirs.

That would be too radical though not just in itself but because it would trying to help boys achieve some sort of equality and we all know no one is interested in that especially the metropolitan elite.

There are some that state the move to end of course teaching may help, we hope so. The Guardian points out that course work has been dropped for Maths and this has seen boys outperform girls. It would unfair though to go back to a system that was boy-friendly but not girl-friendly - so why not have two types of exams.

The other point of course is that on a daily basis we hear about the gender pay gap or the gender boardroom gap but nothing about the gender education gap.

Why are the Ministers for Equality (Theresa May and Lynne Featherstone) so silent, why is Trevor Phillips the Chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission so silent and why is the cabinet member for education (Michael Gove) so silent? It is because they do not care about men and boys, they are content to see them shunted into life's sidings. After all, that is serving the needs of the anti-male establishment that run the country.

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Media coverage - A great synopsis on the BBC, general BBC coverage and Evening Standard.

BBC MENTION MALE UNEMPLOYMENT SHOCKER

Juts a quick aside, the latest unemployment figures showed that the number of unemployed women increased by 21,000 on the quarter to reach 1.05 million, the highest figure since the three months to May 1988. Much attention was lavished on this - despite the fact that there are nearly 1.5 million unemployed men. An issue covered before.

However, maybe the BBC look at this site as many of their bulletins caveatted the announcement of the female figure with a 'we should mention more men continue to be unemployed than women!

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ANOTHER VOICE OF SUPPORT FOR ABOLISHING THE 'EQUALITIES' AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

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.

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The pick of the media coverage - Daily Express.

NEWS UPDATE

A few from this week including those on fatherhood and the riots.

The False Rape Society - The prosecution of false rape accusers "must be stopped," says Lisa Longstaff (Pierce Harlan): A superb dissection of Lisa Longstaff from UK against rape who cannot deal with the fact that some women who falsely accuse men are letting down women who are raped. The anti-male feminists cannot bear to think of blaming other women.

Daily Telegraph - Absent fathers have a lot to answer for(Christine Odone): Pure misandry from Odone, certainly worth reading the comments in the debate section.

Male Health - Men who circumcise are breaking the law

Daily Mail  - Britian's liberal intelligentsia have broken every social virtue (Melanie Phillips)

Daily Mail - Divorcee wins £4.3m even though she did not work for it

OPen Markets - Gender quotas spread in European boards (Hans Bader)

Guardian - Feminist summer school (Lizzy Davies): Training for a new generation of men-haters

Guido Fawkes - Harman is Gangsta Mutha #1

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SIGN UP TO THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEN AND BOYS

The brilliant Men's Network have now opened up the booking for the first ever British conference on men and boys.

I would urge everyone to attend. We cannot just stand back and complain, we should all support this and show that we are not going to stand back anymore.

 

SMOGS ARE NEW ANTI-MALE STANDARD BEARERS FOR BRITAIN'S ANTI-MALE SOCIETY

A consequence of the strident anti-male feminism of the last three decades, fuelled by an the political platform given to them to it by anti-male Labour government and then an anti-male coalition government, is the seeping into the wider British consciousness that it is OK to say men/boys=bad, women/girls=good.

The elites have created an atmosphere where it is OK to say men are rubbish with impunity.

The rise of Smug Mothers of Girls (SMOGs) can be seen as a direct consequence (Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Telegraph 2) where basically a group of women/mothers do not want boys and just want girls and when they have them they swagger with superiority.

This is exactly what the Fawcett Society, Harriett Harman, Theresa May, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and the legions of anti-male feminists want. The distaste and dislike for men and boys is starting to go mainstream and some stupid mothers are grasping it with both hands. No longer is it confined to the political metropolitan public sector elite

What do their husbands/partners think? Probably too busy working and contributing to the gender pay gap, which they then get attacked for, no doubt. 

SMOGs are a new breed of anti-male standard bearers giving new energy to the vilification of men and boys. What is the difference between this chauvinism to that the feminists complain about?

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NEWS UPDATE

A few articles from the last week or so:

Daily Mail: Battles of the sexes: Men start to share housework (Claire Ellicott)

Daily Mail: Mother wins right to more compensation from ex-husband's crash compensation

Daily Mail:  Liz McColgan charged with beating up her husband (James Beatson) - Let's see if this just gets buried unlike Rihanna etc

Men's Health Forum: Blue September

Home Office: Break the glass ceiling - More berating of business to encourage them to discriminate against men with some very dubious figures (Recent figures show that companies with more women on their boards were found to out-perform their rivals with a 42 per cent higher return in sales, 66 per cent higher return on invested capital and 53 per cent higher return on equity.)

Swedish news in English: Men allege sexual discrimination at Swedish police academy

The Guardian: Feminism is back (Lizzie Davies) - Amazing how people can write and believe this

Huddersfield Examiner: Woman making false rape claim jailed 

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SIGN THE E-PETITION ON RAPE DEFENDENT ANONYMITY

Peter Gordon has created an e-petition calling for anonymity to be granted to rape defendents as set out in the coalition governement's mainfesto. An issue they u-turned over.

Please sign it here.

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