The Rights Of Man

PARISH NOTICE: UPDATE FROM TOM MARTIN

Press Release – January 30^th, 2012.

 

Tom Martin v LSE's Gender Institute: Update

 

Tom Martin's sex discrimination lawsuit against Europe's largest gender studies department at The London School of Economics (LSE) has been delayed, a hearing now rescheduled for March 13^th. Tom has given an interview for a programme on satellite news channel Press TV on 'the future of feminism', which awaits broadcast, and also, has recently been invited to take part in a debate at University College London (UCL), on the prevalence of misandry in academia and society, a date not yet set. Tom invites all other press and media to contact him directly: [email protected].

 Tom thanks all 120 people from 9 countries who have now donated a total of £4013.25 to the legal fighting fund so far, and asks supporters to keep the donations coming in and the momentum going, by subscribing on twitter, facebook and youtube, and spreading the word in any other way they can for what could be a long, difficult, but ultimately game-changing awareness-raising and legal campaign.

 

VERY FEW WOMEN BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING DENIED PROMOTIONS - NEAR PARITY WITH MEN WHICH WON'T LAST LONG

Just before Christmas, one of our regular readers ('Groan') kindly pointed out the findings of the 2009-10 Citizenship Survey which had been sneaked out in the week before Christmas. Produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the 123 page report was entitled "Race, Religion and Equalities."

Paragraph 5.57 states "one per cent of people who had looked for work cited gender as a reason for being discriminated against when refused a job; and two per cent of employees cited gender as a factor in being discriminated against regarding a promotion.

"Males and females were equally likely to cite gender as a reason for discrimination in relation to being refused a job (in both cases 1%), while female employees were slightly more likely than male employees to cite gender as a reason for discrimination regarding promotion (2% of females compared with 1% of males)"

The key statitistics from this show three things.

Promotion - boardroom discrimination

Firstly, the anti-male Marxists feminists who bitterly complain against discrimination against women from the gender pay gap to promotion to boards and such like are out of step with what women actually think. Only 2% of women believe they are denied a promotion (1% men) because of their gender and 1% refused for a job because of their gender. 

Organisations like the 30% Club, Fawcett Society, Lynne Featherstone MP, and all the others are wrong when they say it is a disgrace that women are being discriminated against because women themselves do not believe so.

This organisations live in a fantasy world of male hatred where white fat upper middle class men are keeping the 'sisters' in the kitchen and on the shop floor. Women disagree with the 30% Club, Featherstone and everyone else who says it is a scandal.

These groups do not speak for women, they speak for female privilige for (upper) middle class women at the expense of men.

Equality Act

We know the Conservative Government had initial reservations about sections 158 and 159 of the Equality Act (2010) which allows employers to discriminate against people when it comes to training, filling jobs and promotions, however, they ended up putting it into law on 1 April 2011.

It means that while 1% of men and 2% of women claim they are being denied a promotion because of their gender, I would expect this to be reversed over the next five years and that there be a clear gap emerging and perhaps 5% of men claiming they are being denied a promotion because of their gender.

This will not only affect those men themselves but will also affect their wives/girlfriends, daughters, mothers etc, so this discriminations affects women as much as it does the individual man.

Sample Size

Following on from the above, the numbers of 1% and 2% are very small and could be classed as insignificant. Perhaps a lot of that is down to the fact there still remains broadly a gender split in the work roles that men and women undertake. Without wanting to be too broadbrush about it but it is hard for a male car mechanic to say he is being denied a promotion because he is a man when there are so few female mechanics. Likewise, a female primary school teacher may not be able to say she has been denied a promotion when there are so few male primary school teachers.

It means that while the figure on paper looks small, it's signifcance should not be under-estimated.

In conclusion, this report undermines those anti-male Marxist feminists who with every breath they take say that women are discriminated in the workplace, when women themselves say they are not. Secondly, the Equality Act 2010, will I predict, see a gap created where more men feel discrimated than women in work.

It is shame this report was buried but it is essential research nonetheless (thank you to 'Groan' for highlighting it).

Posted by Skimmington 

PARISH NOTICES

A few important parish notices

(1) Tom Martin's landmark case begins on 14 February 2012 at the Central London County Court. Anyone who can should give Tom support.

(2) New Male Studies: An international journal - first edition now published

(3) Fighting Feminism: A new website from Mike Buchanan

(4) Events listing - courtesy of the Men's Network, showing the growing activity in this sector now.

(5) Men's Network - win funding for cancer campaign

(6) Domestic Abuse conference - from the ManKind Initiative

(7) International Men's Day - new theme announced

Posted by Skimmington

MEN TELL THEIR STORIES - FALSE ALLEGATIONS AND DOMESTIC ABUSE

Sorry everyone, very much on the run this week but Monday saw an appalling story how about the effect on Simon Boswell who was falsely accused of domestic abuse and the appalling treatment at the hands of the police.

Tuesday, saw brave Ian McNicholl update his story (and the supportive help he had from police) and the appalling wait he is having to endure on the NHS to repair the damage inflicted on him. What's the betting that if Ian was called Irene he'd have been treated more quickly. What is so good about Ian is the fact that he wants more to be done to help other men come forward. His is not a story about him, it is about urging more to be done to persuade more male victims to come forward - men who make up one in three of all victims. There was also a follow up on his ex-girlfriend.

Wednesday, saw another story in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of Paul Roberts.

The comments on all stories are generally very encouraging because they show public opinion is shifting towards all victims of domestic abuse and not just female victims. Pity the authorities are still light years behind.

These stories must make the men-haters cringe because they undermine their view of men=bad, women=good. You never hear them talking about these stories, they would pretend they were never reported.

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CRISIS IN BOYS' EDUCATION CONTINUES - 54,000 FEWER APPLY FOR UNIVERSITY AND NO-ONE CARES

The crisis in boys education continues apace and the biggest scandal is that no-one in authority seems to give a toss about it. Certainly the government, who talk a lot about driving up standards and free schools, do not seem to be remotely bothered about the fact that far fewer boys do well at school than girls.

This is a subject covered extensively on the site and as we know it feeds through to the fact that young men get paid less than younger women and it is the first stage of the emasculation of men.

The latest UCAS figures show that, while the overall university applicant figures are down (due to £9,000 per year tuition fees!) UCAS received 54,000 less applicants from boys than girls. For 2012, 188,000 girls have applied but only a mere 134,000 boys have: ratio  of 58% - 42%.

What is shameful is the fact that the education system is clearly not working in helping boys make the most of their talent but what is even more shameful is the fact that no one seem to care or talk about it.

Boys are clearly suffering from the discrimination by omission syndrome - where is the coalition government's concern on this  when it can spend so much time and energy on women's issue it cannot be bothered on issues affecting boys. If girls were so far behind you would never hear the end of it.

The long term affect of having fewer boys going to university can not be underestimated not only for the future of boys/men but also the ending of equality in the UK and the fabric of the UK itself.

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS UPDATE

A few recent items and thanks to those who passed many of them on:

Roger Helmer MEP: Resignation update - Discrimination by the Conservative Party against a man 

The Independent: The man who was the target of Britain's worst stalker (Gerard Gilbert) - An old story but one not covered here before but certainly always worth forwarding whenever stalking in spoken in the context of women only.

Hull Daily Mail - Domestic abuse against men up by 30%

BBC News - Where women rule and men are suffragettes (Timothy Allen)

 Daily Mail - Woman's Hour psychologist who made false claim in custody battle is found guilty of misconduct.   (Chris Brooke)

The Guardian - We tell boys not to cry then wonder about male suicide (Ally Fogg) - Great stuff by Ally and his comment is most telling "As I've written before, attempts by men to address their own gender-specific issues are often greeted with hostility and disdain."

Daily mail - Why I'll never let my Ex's new girlfriend meet my son (Kelly Rose Bradford) - A record 1287 comments surely on this rant.

Daily Telegraph - New equality rules could cost companies millions (Louise Peacock) -  Equality is equality so why the moaning from the National Association of Pension Funds - surely not another body that thinks it is OK to discriminate against men.

Posted by Skimmington 

FEMINISTS END 'WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST' AND STILL MEN GET BLAMED

With the angst about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia two strands have been running.

Firstly the implicit male-bashing by some of the mediawho have latched onto the fact that a few men were trying to get off the sinking ship without letting women and children go first (some articles implied that men were pushing women and children out of the way but no mention made that some women were probably doing the same as well). One commentator on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday actually said you shouldn't prioritise anyone because the priority is to get everyone off quickly and picking up slows things down. Also if there was a family, it was vital the family unit stayed (including the father) together. 

Secondly, it has raised the whole debate about whether 'women and children first'  still applies. Well it used to and still in many minds it remains true but feminism especially modern day anti-male feminism, says it doesn't. And this is the ruling ideology. And remember this!

And of course, because the anti-male feminists only speak when it is on their terms, people like them are keeping their head down when the debate is raging. This is because they hypocritically want their cake and eat it/bread buttered on both sides.

They want equality but then still want privilege and special treatment for women, and undermine men whenever they can. What those who are calling for the return of 'women and children first' is that women are more important than men, so where is the equality there?

If people like Harriet Harman, Caroline Flint, Theresa May, Lynne Featherstone, every writer at the Guardian, Anna Bird, Katherine Rake etc really do want equality then they should be making comments that it is right that 'women and children first' no longer exists. But instead they stay silent because they want both equality and privilege at the same time.

This is the the clearest example of double standards of modern feminism and they are to blame for the ending of 'women and children first'.

Posted by Skimmington

Media coverage of issue (good debates in comments section) - Daily Mail 1, Daily Mail 2, Daily Express, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent

NEWS UPDATE

A few from this week -

Conservativehome - David Cameron wants to use boundary review to choose more candidates: More political discrimination against men like this is what he means.

Press Association - Abusers let off lightly, say Tories: The Conservatives in Scotland like MSP David McLetchie do not believe that male victims of domestic abuse exist in Scotland.

Irish Independent - Equality is the feminist right to whinge

Daily Mail - Taxpayers fork out thousands for paternity tests as mothers try to cash in on wrong fathers

Posted by Skimmington 

 

THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION (new extract) by MIKE BUCHANAN

Mike, who was featured this week, has kindly sent over another extract of the above book.

Download Excerpt from THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION

In summary from Mike - ‘The Equality Act (2010): the triumph of Harriet Harman’. The gender-related aspects of the Act are appallingly biased against men, yet attracted minimal coverage even in papers such as The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. It’s a perfect example of how militant feminists work ‘under the radar’ to pursue their agendas, never with a democratic mandate. You’ll never see details of feminist agendas appear in party manifestos; at best their intentions will be obliquely hidden behind seemingly innocuous terms such as ‘fairness’ and ‘diversity’. What it always amounts to is ‘jobs for the girls’. 

Posted by Skimmington

ERIN PIZZEY - THIS WAY TO THE REVOLUTION

The site has had a few kindly comments about the books it has been featuring. No excerpt this time but a book I have been reading is Erin Pizzey's 'This Way To The Revolution' .

A key part for me is how the "Women's Movement", despite the fact she set up the first refuge, have tried to disown her, discredit her and carry out all sorts of other unpleasantness - because she would not play along with all the men are bxstards line and all women are angels line.

The fact that Refuge do not even acknowledgeher existence speaks volumes about them and every day they refuse to acknowledge her is another day they are discredited. It is also worth noting (and I looked) that the Guardian and feminists and bloggers said nothing on the book - effectively no platforming her. How the sisterhood hate sisters they disagree with - she is the 'disappeared' from the feminist lexicon.

The other part is that without her, there would be no organisations supporting male victims of domestic abuse - No ManKind Initiative (who she is a honorary patron of), no Abused Men in Scotland, no Dyn Project etc and certainly no refuges/safe houses for men - though there is precious little which she still campaigns about. She has stuck at this issue and made it possible for them to exist and made it possible for support and recognition, however little and however grudging, for male victims of domestic abuse to exist.

Posted by Skimmington

One last note - this always brings a smile especially as it was such a great riposte to David Cameron for his tawdry comments on Father's Day last year.