The Rights Of Man

INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION AT THE EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

Just a quick post but if anyone ever wanted an example of the institutional discrimination endemic at the laughably titled Equalities and Human Rights Commission this is it.

The report 'The impact on changes in commissioning and funding commissioning women-only services' is paid for by the taxpayer to Cambridge Policy Consultants.

Its interesting reading as it looks at whether changes in funding and commissioning had a disadvantageous effect on women-only services.

While at face value the main area of discrimination would be the fact that there is not an equivalent report for men. It's worse.

The report (page x or page 14 of 100 if you look at it this way) explains how awful it is that some women's groups have to either open their doors to men or had to share funding to help support men's services. The complaint is that the law provides for services to disadvantaged groups but this is on the basis of women being placed at a disadvantage not in the context that men are group who may also need support hence why women-only groups are being asked to support them too. That is not recognised - men are swept under the carpet.

Complete bias but what do you expect from the anti-male Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

Posted by Skimmington

PS Debate on closing the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

PS PS Only three of its 14 governors are male - that's equality for you

HELP GRILL THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS ABOUT EQUALITY FOR MEN

Police and Crime Commissioners – English & Welsh Elections

On the 15^th November 2012, there will be elections for the Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales in the 41 regional constabulary areas. It is the first time we have the chance to influence who directs the local agenda for policing in our regions. Anyone who wants to know a bit more about the role of these individuals should follow this link

So will any of them know anything about Men’s Rights?

A small group of English MRAs are working together to make them aware of the issues, and to see if our process of making them aware gives us some feedback on their potential sympathies.

We are developing a series of 5 questions which will be sent to each candidate along with a letter introducing the idea of Men’s Rights Activism. These questions will require more than a yes/no response; they will be designed to make the person reading them think about their position on such
issues as the reciprocity of domestic violence.

How can English and Welsh MRAs help?

The minimum – get registered to vote. You can register to vote until midnight on the 31^st October.

 

Come over to AVfM forum and help us develop the questions and letter.

Contact us if you can help with getting together lists of candidates in your area collating responses. The more the better!

If you are “out” as an MRA and have any media experience, we might get lucky and need a talking head – would you be willing?

Vote. All indications are the expected turn out will be somewhere between poor and plain awful. So we have the chance to have a voice. If there are no good candidates, you can always exercise your right to deface your voting card. What matters is your participation.

 

YVES MERSCH SHOULD SUE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOR SEXISM

As the news emerged this week that the European Union were having to abandon their hideously sexist gender quota targets, the news had emerged that " a parliamentary committee - in a resolution passed by 21 votes to 12, with 13 abstentions - called on the European Council to withdraw the candidacy of Luxembourg's Yves Mersch for the ECB executive board. It said his appointment would mean that the board would be all male up until 2018."

Yes that's right, not because he has not got the skill, talent or experience, its because he is a man.

In this warped anti-male world we live in, people like sexist Sharon Bowles MEP believes to ban a man from a position because he is a man is equality (she is a main opponent of Mersch and wrote a sexist diatribe here). It's worse of course that people like EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding who desperately wants quotas live off the backs of us who work for a living - like all of the 'equality' industry.

The full story can be seen here (BBC, Reuters and Daily Telegraph)

But what should Mr Mersch do? Should just shrug his shoulders and get on with it, or is he brave enough to sue for sexual discrimination. Perhaps his wife and any daughters (if he has any) should encourage him because the discrimination being done to him is supposedly for their benefit of them as women.

 If he has any balls, he should sue, that's what he should do if he believes in equality.

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Editors Note - Running coverage from Mike Buchanan

 

WILL MEN HAVE TO FIGHT THEIR BATTLE FOR EQUAL PAY IN BIRMINGHAM

The landmark victory for female workers in Birmingham has played out against a backdrop of the usual radical feminist  man-hating.

 If you read the headlines and the way the story has been represented you would have thought
all of the men at the council got bonuses, whilst women did not. This is not true of course because it was about the roles not the gender.

Some women in the roles that qualified for bonuses would have got them, and any men in the non-bonus roles would not. But it has all been about women which is similar to previous portrayals. Will this men in a similar state as these men were in and will have to fight the courts for their equality!

 Any man undertaking the roles that the women won the claim for should also now sue but because of the publicity I bet many will feel the judgement does not apply to them when it does. And actually if you read between the lines of what the BBC said, it says 'mainly women' but then other media just say all women.

 As the solicitors who won the case, Leigh Day and Co,  have said they have 1,000 cases ready to go - let's see how many of them are men, have they tried to find male claimants or just woman and are they trying not to. Answers are needed.

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Other coverage - Guardian (Chris Benson), BBC and Daily Mail

NEWS UPDATE - THE CRACKS ARE STARTING TO SHOW

There has been a substantial amount of coverage on men's issues this past ten days and below is a summary of the main articles. The cracks are just starting to show in the war against men.

Employment and boardrooms

Mike Buchanan - Angela Epstein receives a Maggie and the coverage on Sunday Morning Live. Mike and friends have launched the Winston, Maggie and Harpy awards.

Parliament (Women and 'Equalities questions) - Debate on women on boards and Philip Davies MP stands up for equality and meritocracy.

Third Sector - FTSE boards view female third sector executives as toxic (Jenna Pudelek) More scaremongering without any factual foundation.

TUC - Black boys have experienced sharpest rise in unemployment during recession: The TUC proves itself wrong. 

Daily Telegraph - Female quotas 'negatively affect' business, says minister (Rowena Mason)

Daily Telegraph - Equalities Minsiter says women need to challenge themselves and play a wider role in society (Rowena Mason): What is significant here is that this and the above article show that some women are now challenging the myths and hypocrisy of quotas which we know are solely being advocated as a discriminatory measure against men, meritocracy and equality.

Daily Telegraph - Companies to be forced to publish gender audits of employees (Louisa Peacock): does this count for the public sector which is dominated by women? The comment in the Telegraph comments section sums it up:

"Yet more discrimination against my white English husband who supports his family and has never been unemployed in his life"

Feminism

Netmums - What does feminism mean to the modern women: The research showed that only 17% of women described themselves as feminists (though more young women did which shows their radicalisation), that modern-day feminism did not represent them and that 28% felt it was too aggressive with 17% thinking it was anti-male. This landmark research has had the feminists blogs apoplectic as it damages their whole reason to be. Coverage in The Express, Telegraph and Daily Mail

Politics

Guido Fawkes - Quota of the Day

The Times - We do not need a Minister for Women (Ruth Porter): Subscription only

Family Law

Daily Mail - Why I stole my children (Ian Gallagher)

Daily Telegraph - Female breadwinners losing out (John Bingham): Staggering hypocrisy of the "want their cake and eat it kind". Pannone can be added to the list of anti-male organisations in the UK.

Prisons

Parliament - Download Prison Sentence Inequality - UK Parliament 16 Oct 2012 (2) (Philip Davies MP) : Again the MP excels himself by bringing into Parliament the myth that sentencing is far harsher for women than men. The Men's Network summarises the story. Thanks you to James Williams for circulating far and wide.

False Accusations

Teeside Gazette - Middlesbrough man hounded after being cleared of rape

Health

BBC - Prostate cancer barcode tests: Unless there is 'compulsory' organised screening for prostate cancer on a national basis like there is for breast and cervical cancer then there can be as many tests as you like but until that is in place things will not progress as they should.

Hanna Rosin book - The End of Men

Daily Mail - Is the male of the species now redundant (Bev Mooney)

Daily Telegraph - Interview

The Guardian - Cardboard men (John Harris)

The Guardian - It's not the end of men (Ally Fogg)

The portayal of men

Daily Telegraph - The descent of men (William Leith)

Education

Daily Telegraph - Young boys stuggling to write their name (Graeme Paton)

Domestic Violence

One in Three Report - Gaps in services revealed

General

Daily Mail - Why men love bossy women (Cosmo Landesman)

Daily Telegraph - BBC to draw up top 100 female power list: More Opus Dei-like self-flaggelation from the Beeb.

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Thanks to those that send links over

LATEST JOHN TAYLOR COMPLAINT TO CANCER RESEARCH UK

Please find the link (Download CRUK CHMN 13th October 2012) to John Taylor's complaint to Cancer Research UK about Race for Life.

Posted by Skimmington

JOBS FOR THE BOYS

I was speaking to a male friend over the weekend who imparted an interesting story which sums up the predicament modern men find themselves in and how selfish and unreasonable the
majority of modern women are.

He had come home from work on the Friday as had his wife and both were shattered as they had endured hard days at work. No sooner had my friend sat down then he was ordered (not asked)
to take out the rubbish – as he was tired and didn’t see the urgent need he said he’d do it later or she could always do it if she was that bothered by it. Now to the main point of this tale , her reply , which was “I’m not doing it , it’s a man’s job”. 

As you can imagine this response confused my friend as in this age of equality there are supposedly no
such things as men’s and women’s jobs. When he pointed this out he was dismissed out of hand and his wife said if he was too lazy to do it she would get the next door neighbour over to help as he was a real man?! This sums up perfectly the attitude a lot of modern women have to equality between the
sexes.  They demand it and impose it when it works in their favour (that is, not having to do all the bad jobs round the house) but would not dream of accepting it the other way round.

As an example of the way this works we shall look at is the response my friend got when he pointed out he would do the bins (and check the car , mow the lawn, walk the dog and all the other ‘mens’ jobs) when she did the washing up and ironing and cleaning as they were ‘womens’ jobs.  She practically ripped his head off for being so sexist and unreasonable and expecting her to skivvy after him and his kids (it’s always his kids when she needs to make a point) all day when he was out at work enjoying himself. She expected , nay demanded,  the right to spend her days as she pleased as this was her right as a modern, independent woman.

And this sums up the hardship faced by modern man – we are expected to work all day to provide for
our family, come home and do all the jobs round the house and then lavish the last of our energy and attention on our spouse before collapsing into bed to do it all again tomorrow.

Posted by Anthony Humphreys

GENDER QUOTA DEBATE ON SUNDAY MORNING LIVE

For anyone who may have missed it - Mike Buchanan was on Sunday Morning Live yesterday on the subject of female quotas on boards. Not only did Mike debunk those who want sexism against men, so does Angela Epstein in a powerful video. Must have had the anti-male feminists choking on their muesli.

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CHERYL COLE THE LATEST IN A LONG LINE OF FEMALE POP STARS GUILTY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

If one issue in our times illustrates the terrible double standards faced by men, it's that of domestic violence. A prominent and topical issue is the differing ways violent and abusive pop stars are treated depending on their gender. For example, it seems barely a day goes by without some feminists condemning Chris Brown for domestic violence, and we even have a campaign of feminists vandalising CDs highlighting artists who allegedly beat women.

At the very same time we've seen female abusers openly admit to their violence and even commit it on camera, yet the media never see it as notable and certainly not wrong. This same attitude is found in the rest of society, such as in the police and justice system.

The latest major female artist to admit to domestic violence is Cheryl Cole, but you won't see any headlines condemning it. The Daily Mail has the information under a headline about her injecting vitamins into her rear end, so it's clear that domestic violence by famous women against famous men is less newsworthy than such a practice (if your'e interested, apparently the injection didn't even have much of an effect anyway). The Mail do at least report the information though, stating she admitted "shaking him, kicking him, scratching his face, pushing and shoving him like I was a lunatic". The Sun newspaper reports more details such as the following admission "I hit him in the face — I couldn’t help it". So there we go then, Cheryl Cole not only commits domestic violence against her husband, she seems rather unapologetic about the whole thing and it appears somehow she is so dangerous and out of control she is unable to stop herself from such acts and it is the victim's fault.

Just imagine if a male singer female in such a way, we'd never hear the end of it, particularly if he also had a history of violence. If I've I've missed anyone, particularly feminists,  or a domestic violence charity condemning her then perhaps someone can add ti to the comments section, I certainly can't find anything though. All the media reports appears to do is portray her as the victim and allow her to excuse and give the impression violence by women is entirely justified in cases of infidelity.

Remember, unlike with cases that often hit the headlines form time to time, we aren't talking about mere, unproven allegations of domestic violence here and one persons' word against another's. Cheryl Cole has admitted to her crimes in her book and is making money off such material. Given her previous conviction, perhaps the police should have a read of it?

Anyway, for the benefit of those adding stickers to CDs of artists who commit domestic violence, here's a few you seem to have missed:

Cheryl Cole
Whitney Houston
Rihanna
Amy Winehouse
Mary J Blige

Quite an impressive line up, I wonder how many albums they've sold combined? The last individual on that list even has a domestic violence centre named after her (and I don't mean one for male victims as recompense for her crimes).

by John Kimble.

 

Update, thanks to "TDOM" in the comment section for pointing out the following important detail I missed:

According to Cheryl, Ashley's mistress was quoted on the internet stating "The girl said Ashley had been so drunk he couldn’t walk straight — that he was incoherent and that he was vomiting during the sex."

This indicates that this was not just an affair, but that the woman sexually assaulted him. in many jurisdictions, being incapacitated by drugs or alcohol means that he could not have consented to sex. So not only was he sexually assaulted, but he was beaten by his wife for being sexually assaulted.

ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY BELIEVES ADVERT ON POISONING MEN IS ACCEPTABLE

Last month, this site highlighted the Old Jamaican ginger beer advert that felt poisoning a husband was acceptable.

Steve who is a regular on the blog has now had a response after he complained (thanks Steve for sending). The response shows a complete disdain for male victims of doemstic abuse and violence against men in general. The bottom line is if the ASA recieved a complaint about a man posioning his wife - they would find against it and have it banned - but because it is men - well, they don't count.

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Thank you again for contacting the ASA.  I’m sorry to learn that this ad has caused
you concern.

Our Code says that ads should contain nothing that is likely to cause serious or widespread offence. 
The ASA bases its judgments on the content of the ad and the medium, audience, product type and prevailing standards in society.

Complaints about offence often require difficult judgements but we don’t intervene where advertising is simply criticised for being in poor taste.  Apart from freedom of speech considerations, even well-intentioned and thoughtful people will have different and sometimes contradictory opinions about what constitutes ‘bad taste’ or should be prohibited.  We can only act if the ad, in our judgement, offends against widely accepted moral, social or cultural standards.

We recently referred your complaint about this ad to the ASA Council, the final arbiter concerning decisions relating to breaches of the UK Codes of Advertising.  An ad might be in breach of the Codes by, for example, being likely to cause serious or widespread offence, being materially misleading or risking or causing significant harm.  The Council considered the ad and your complaint but concluded that there were no grounds for further action on this occasion.

While the Council understood that the theme of the ad might have been distasteful to some viewers, it did not consider it likely to be interpreted as condoning or making light of domestic violence or that it was likely to cause serious or widespread offence or undue distress.

I realise this may disappoint you, however we’ve passed on your complaint to the advertiser (without revealing your identity), so they’re aware of the concerns that have been raised.

Thank you again for contacting us with your concerns.  Our website, www.asa.org.uk, contains information about the ASA and the work we do.

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