Sorry everyone for letting things slip the past three weeks- its been hellish at work. Hopefully things are better now. Anyhow, here are some latest news and thanks to those who have supplied them:
Mike Buchanan: Compendium of recent media interviews and his article on Politics.co.uk - Some of the opposition to Mike's comments show the sexism that in endemic against men.
BBC News (Kent): Rochester nightclub's cleavage stunt condemned - Free entry for women to the nightclub again even if somewhat unsavoury
BBC News: Male identity crisis not due to feminism (Diane Abbott MP)
BBC News: Boys suffer poor body image say teachers (Katherine Sellgren)
BBC News: Helen Grant Minister to overhaul community sentencing to make them more female friendly - More inistitutional bias, can you imagine the government looking at more male-friendly sentencing? Fuller interview in Independent and you can see this in action for Vicky Pryce.
A Voice for Men: Spanish Feminist Establishment is shaking
Daily Telegraph: UCAS men are becoming the disadvantaged group (Tim Ross)
Guardian: False allegations are few and far between (Kier Starmer) - Pure mischievous bias from the laughable misandric Directory of Public Prosecutions. Full press release here.
Daily Mail - Women lose out in pension revolution - As Groan says "Typical; reporting by the DM. Leads off with 'poor women' headline yet the actual story is rather different as the women concerned will still be able to claim their pension earlier than men in this age cohort. A fact never explained by the DM. Of course they will also, on average, enjoy a longer life."
Huffington Post : Female Tory MP's tell Cameron to appoint more women
Daily Mail - Butler Sloss apogises to F4J
For other good sources of news - please add Helping Men and Fighting Feminism to your favourites amongst others.
Posted by Skimmington
Welcome back! Thanks for putting the Spannish piece in as it is a warning to us in this country. In a relate piece,an interview with a Catalan Judge, she observed that the Gender Feminist Law (Socialist minister for women and "equality") was further made damaging to men by parts of the Judiciary and police forces still showing traditional favour to women as "saints" . A similar linkage to the push to keep women out of courts and prison in this country. Men and boys face a "double whammy" from the gender feminists and paternalistic attitudes that the "fairer sex" need lots of help.
Posted by: Groan | Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 23:12
Well done Mike in the interviews. Basic messages getting on Air. Hopefully further boosted by UCAS saying men are indeed disadvantaged in further education and this is the tip of an iceberg throughout compulsory education. An excellent piece and timely for JFM&B. Seems there really is a need for attention to men and boys even the Universities are starting to say it.
Posted by: Groan | Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 23:25
Having heard Mike Bs interviews I'm interested how just the figures on tax paying make one think a bit differently . I came across one of those "Sweden is wonderful "factsheets looking at it with different eyes the story is a bit different.
First of all over 80% of the people employed in the competitive Swedish private sector are men. Presumably contributing most of Swedens tax. And Sweden has one of the most gender segregated workforces. With women concentrated in the tax funded sector to a much greater extent than the UK for instance.
Interestingly 2/3 of all "sick days" are taken by women.
And while there is generous parental leave for men it's take up is low(not surprising as I expect Sweden's competitive industries need their workers working).
As in Britain a substantial part of the female workforce
works part time. This increases if the generous parental leave/flexible-working is considered as a lot of nominally full time workers are either not actually at work or on reduced hours.
Given this it is perhaps unsurprising that the time use data for Sweden shows men did more hours of work than women on average (time use counts all work paid and unpaid).
To sum up making the obvious wealth of Sweden is apparently men's job , and they work long and hard to do it! While Swedish women enjoy all the "perks"of the tax funded sectors.
Of course this also means that women are only 2% of executive board members. Not at all surprising if women form such a small percentage of those companies' workforce.
At the end of the sheet are Swedish men applauded for their hard work and altruism? Oddly no. They are complained about because they don't take more leave!
In the Uk too the tax funded sector is largely a female sector. One in which the average pay is higher than the private sector. But what proportions of the productive wealth creating sector is male? 80+%?Anyone got that figure ?
Posted by: Groan | Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 23:39