PARISH NOTICES - MEN'S MATTERS AND DOMESTIC ABUSE AWARENESS WEEK

Two parish notices:

(1) Men's Matters on Express FM 

The latest broadcast of Men’s Matters, presented by James Williams, is being going out live on Tuesday 22^ndNovember at 1900 GMT on 93.7 ExpressFM. Most listeners do not live in Portsmouth (England) but can listen on line. To listen in live click on: http://www.expressfm.com/player/

If you are unable to listen at this time, the program does get moved to Listen Again after a few days which can be played at anytime. You can hear it by clicking on Listen Again on: http://www.expressfm.com/player/od/and then select the Mens Matters icon.

The show lasts barely one hour but is the only one of its kind in the UK. The only advertising it gets is through people like yourself passing it on so if you can, please tell people about it.

This edition includes an interview with Tom Martin who is suing the London School of Economics for £50,000 of damages for sexism against men. He says the course he undertook had been was misleading in its advertising, and breached the Gender Equality Duty Act. Listen to his exclusive interview. May be we all could learn something by his action? There is also an American contribution from the Tom Leykis show in Los Angeles concerning the distressing affects of single parenting.

(2) Domestic Abuse Awareness Week

 

Today was the the start of the above and eagle eyed readers are encouraged to point out any examples where the police or councils run or support events during the week that only raise the issue about female victims, and not female and male victims.

This is not only the usual discrimination but also places the authority in danger of breaching the Public Sector Equality Duty. Here is one by Crimestoppers (a charity) so the Duty does not apply.

 

Posted by Skimmington

Comments

[Tom Martin]

The editors at Express FM edited out my website address, for updates and donations to the all important fighting fund: sexismbusters dot org

[Jon]

Access Tom's link easily by clicking on his name in the "Posted by:" section above.

Hi Tom,

Best of luck with the court case. Did Express FM give any details why they censored the web address? Is it usual practise?

[Jenny]

I've just written to Ann Scott of CrimeStoppers asking why they seem so unconcerned about male victims of DV.

I expect to be fobbed off with some crap about how only women suffer from DV but we'll see. She might not want to tell a woman to "go F*** yourself" ;)

[Tom Martin]

Hi Jon,

Regardless, I will edit just the interview section into an MP3 file and hot it on my website, sexismbusters dot org, then tell everyone in a press release, along with some exciting news about a court date which I just got today.

The Rights of Man readers will be the very first to know.