I saw a girl (circa 21) today with a badge on her hat with the words "PMS - Punish Men Severely".
Looking on the web, there seems lots of these products available. They have obviously replaced the 'men are stupid, throw rocks at them' tshirts/mugs.
I wonder what the militant feminists who laugh at this would think if the genders were reversed and also it is just another way of demeaning men - some of whom who will actually be punished as victims of domestic abuse. It shows the hypocrisy of the militant girl power advocates.
You can buy merchandise on ebay, zazzle and a car sign on Amazon!
Here is a selection.
William Hague, today, was talking in parliament about Syria and remarked somewhere withing his speech that he was deeply concerned about the women and children who have been killed.
A truly remarkable and purposeful and covertlt surreptitious way of saying that men are disposable and don't matter.
When our leading politicians don't care, what chance do we have!
Posted by: Dave | Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 23:41
In all fairness to Amazon the product is being sold by a third party retailer. Amazon will be taking a very small cut, but it's not quite as bad as them actually sourcing the product and actively taking the decision to profit from misandry.
Anyway lets name other guilty parties. I found products at pugsters.co.uk too.
Zazzle allow people to write reviews so lets get to work and call them out on their hatred of men.
Posted by: John Kimble | Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 23:55
Update, looks liek zazzle may nto be totally guilty here either. They let third parties write slogans on t-shirts. The guilty third party who added the words is "hot_diggity_dog".
Zazzle may well be unaware of what has happened and hopefully will pull that product when informed of the hateful slogan.
People can either email them or post on their forums.
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/about/contactus
Be sure to quote the following:
"Do the Right Thing
We hold ourselves to the highest standard. We don’t compromise on our ethics for any reason, period. We embrace diversity of background and thought, treat each other with respect, and demonstrate integrity in everything we do. And we don’t think it’s cheesy to say so."
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/mk/welcome/first/ourvalues
Posted by: John Kimble | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 00:04
These items are a disgrace. If they don't believe there is violence against men and its all abig joke then cites some of the hundreds of studues which find otherwise.
One of the best papers I have ever seen on the internet about violence against men (recently updated) with hundreds of studies summaridsed;
REFERENCES EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Martin S. Fiebert
Department of Psychology,California State University
www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
Posted by: Bob | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 09:03
The CDC's figures not long ago Bob, shed even more light on the D.V myths too by showing just how much different kinds of violence where on men, some higher than women. Also other recent research like the myth of people trafficking in that 41% of victims were actually male (salvation army 2010).
I was just getting a link for you then but I discovered yet another web site for men censored by mobile carrier 3.
www.batteredmen.com
I think that kinda helps say it all.
Posted by: ian | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 12:32
Thanks Ian, great site for info there. None of that in the mainstream media for sure !
I like this quote from the site; "Battering is emotional and psychological, as well as physical.", never a truer word was said.
I remember seeing a study that found that the brain patterns of someone slapped and someone verbally insulted, to be indistinguishable from each other. Especially if the insult caused marked emotional distress.
My mate who's wife continually threatens him with being booted out and never seeing his kid might as well just slap him across the face. Not that she doesn't from time to time, but she says its only when he deserves it.
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 17:51