Having witnessed years of neglect of men's' health I've been very pleased with the success of Movember this year, and it's excellent to see such issues finally getting some much needed attention. One new feature of this year's Movember is for airlines to places a moustache on their aircraft, not only do they look great, they really help raise awareness too.
Regrettably, there are still some very misandrist airlines out there who regard all men as untrustworthy child abusers and insist unaccompanied minors are only ever seated next to females on flights. One would have though that any airlines that hate men to this extent would have absolutely no interest, nor any right to have an interest in Movember, yet bizarrely Qantas have decided to take part.
Men's health isn't a simple, isolated issue where men simply go to the doctor more often or where research into cancer finally gets the funding it needs. It isn't even simply about exercise and healthy eating either. "Health" is inseparable from all other aspects of a person's life. To be healthy we need to have good mental health, home life, social relationships, self worth, and self esteem. Ultimately, just like anyone else, men need to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect.
Unfortunately, Qantas blatantly hates adult males and has no regard for their health whatsoever. As Lord McAlpine can now testify, to falsely brand a single man as a child abuser is a horrific crime, and such allegations clearly take a considerable toll on the health of the victim not to mention putting them at risk of violence. However, Qantas doesn't falsely smear one single male, but every adult male who steps on one of its planes. To openly operate a discriminatory policy suggesting all men potentially abuse children damages society and lives immeasurably. It fuels the unfair outcomes and sexist culture of the family courts, it contributes to the culture where men are unable to work as teachers or with children in other roles. It encourages further false allegations against males and the type of atmosphere where parks and other venues become no go areas for men. Above all else, it endorses the hatred of men we see from gender feminists and encourages their attacks on our society.
Simply put, false smears of child abuse against men damage their health. If Qantas cared the slightest for men (and children) they'd end their sexist seating policy immediately and apologise for their years of misandry. Instead, they pretend to like men, and paper over the cracks by painting a symbol of masculinity on their planes, a symbol their policies associate with mistrust and child abuse. Put simply, you can't claim to care about a man's health whilst simultaneously falsely branding him a child abuser. Ending such policies and admitting how hateful they are would arguably achieve more for men and their position in society in the long term than every penny raised by Movember this year.
by John Kimble
Hi John,
Good article, does anyone have a list of all sexist airlines still practising such discrimination?
Posted by: jh | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 15:24
Very compassionate, stuart. Trust you to try and make a joke about such a tragic incident. Why not tell the widower it is 'good news'? Or his surviving sons? :/
Posted by: Jon | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 17:43
Jh, a good starting point is here:
http://www.vcclan.org/forums/view.php?pg=airline_discrimination_table
Depressingly that's just the airlines that fly in or out of Australia.
Posted by: John Kimble | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 18:04
Stuart, the reason you think that showing basic human compassion to somebody is "c**** begging" is because you are an immature blowhard.
Really, how old are you? You come across as about twelve.
Now, run along.
Real MRAs are talking.
Posted by: Jon | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 22:05
It almost makes me wish there was a way to copyright moustaches so that we could forbid Qantas from using them.
Posted by: Tyciol | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 07:46
It would be better if they just stopped the misandry Tyiol.
Posted by: Bob | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 09:10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9692984/Nanny-jailed-for-crying-rape-after-one-night-stand.html
Another false accusing meat sack caught, 2 years is nowhere NEAR long enough. 10 years should be the norm.
Posted by: stuart | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 14:02
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236793/BBCs-Caroline-Thomson-handed-670k-redundancy-pay-lost-Director-General-job-George-Entwistle.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Not enough merit for the Job but have 640 grand so you don't start stamping your feet and claiming discrimination until you get what you want? What weak men we have among us.
Thank God I have never and woudl never pay for a BBC license, the tax on the people to pay for their own demise.
Posted by: stuart | Thursday, 22 November 2012 at 20:10
http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia.2202.htm
An excellent insight into feminism and it's Marxist contamination.
Posted by: stuart | Friday, 23 November 2012 at 13:25
Exellent article..:)
Posted by: Painter Decorator London | Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 06:25
Feminism in it's gender feminist form is indeed a heresy of Marxism. Kicked of by long time resident of Manchester ;Engels. He took his observations and since discredited theories about a pre historic matriarchal society (full of peace and pottery) and kindled a feminist strand that came most actively to the fore as Marxism itself was discredited by the Gulag and Cultual Revolution. By the fall of the Berlin wall and Chinas conversion to a state capitalist fascism Gender Feminism now emerges from the wreckage of Marxism as the only part of the faith left. I won't bore readers with it but Engels ideas are laughable now; but spawned a monster so clearly described.
Posted by: Groan | Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 23:44