VICKIE PRYCE SUCEEDS IN PROMOTING MALE EQUALITY BY ENDING SEXIST MARITAL COERCION ACT

Does Justice Secretary Chris Grayling read this blog? He may do as he announced in The Sunday Times (behind a paywall but the Guardian cover it) that he will end the Marital Coercion Act on the basis of being 'out of tune with gender equality' and 'not in keeping with the modern world.' A point made in February.

It was always of the greatest hypocrisy that such a liberal and 'progressive' such as Vickie Pryce was to try and use a sexist law to try and get her off from going to jail. Inadvertently, by bringing this to everyone's attention and if Grayling pushes this through, she will have succeeed in progressing the cause of equality for men and boys.

As Groan pointed out in his comments on a previous piece (his and MaleMids32 have been added in the comments section so not to be lost - and thanks MaleMids for highlighting) what will the feminists say about this. More so, who will speak out against the change in Parliament or elsewhere when it goes through. Who will show themselves to be hypocrites and anti-equality?

Posted by Skimmington

 

From MaleMids32

Ha! Looks like pressure from J4mb might be having an effect already!

 Just today it was announced in the Sunday Times that Chris Grayling is planning all of a sudden to scrap the law of marital coercion, because it is 'out of tune with gender equality' and 'not in keeping
with the modern world.'

 Wow, since when have Tory politicians been concerned with striking off anti-male laws?

Is it not the case they know that if J4MB gets it act together, they will harness the 'UKIP' effect and knock out all those weak, Tory marginals up and down the country?

  Well they're gonna have to do more than that if they want to win back voters' trust before election time! :-D

 

From Groan

 Now here is a test. How will the radical feminists respond to an obviously discriminatory and paternalistic law being scrapped. Support for Chris Grayling?

As with the few other discriminatory laws that were mainly swept away in the seventies this is another example not of "patriarchy" but the now outdated impulse to protect the "weaker sex"

 My own mother widowed young and with two sons to support fell foul of two such laws in the 1960s ;one with regard to mortgages and the other bank loans. Both had been put on the statute books to spare women the genuine horrors of Debtors Gaols by making husbands responsible for debts. This was in the mid sixties and these Victorian statutes were swept away in the seventies. Clearly these old statutes created problems for my mother( and indeed for husbands with profligate wives) but they were emphatically not some plan to subjugate women and actual barely lasted a century. What is more many such laws had their genesis and support from women's organisations of the time!!!

So good luck Mr. Grayling.

 

I wonder if this implies will spread to changing the legal definition of Rape. As in the USA where it is a crime men and women can commit. A bridge too far for this Parliament

Comments

[Jake Smith, Tower Hamlets]

It's not just the law of coercion either. Look at the way Vickie Pryce gets to stroll around a luxury 15th century mansion while Chris Huhne is banged up in Wandsworth jail!

http://news.sky.com/story/1065945/vicky-pryce-moved-to-pleasant-open-jail

FFS Where is the fairness in that!

[Phil richmond]

One thing's for sure we need a pro male party now more than ever. Was reading in the paper today that two thirds of girls achieve five good GCSEs and only half of boys.

Goes to show how feminized our education system is. Come on lads, we need to get this sorted out ASAP.

Phil

[IndependentThinker]

The Tories are nervous about J4mb right now because they are an unknown quantity. They could be very successful or they could have no effect at all. They simply don't know yet which it will be. I don't think anyone else does for that matter.

[barryb]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302223/Face-furious-husband-sign-shame-wife-Now-says-prefer-repossessed-stop-getting-anything.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

talking of law "Mr Baker said: 'I came home after one row and the house was stripped bare. Her and her family had taken literally everything, they hadn't even left me a teaspoon.

'The curtains were gone, the curtain rails were gone, even the plants from the garden had gone.

'I rang the police but there's nothing they could do because it was domestic.I thought I would put this sign up to show her that she wasn't getting anything."

Ah yes, if only he had a vagina, he could have made up all kind of stories and she woudl have been arrested on the spot.

[Dave]

IndThink - The thing about J4MB is that men now have an opportunity to enter a private booth and place a cross in a box and nobody would ever find out what they voted for. So the usual stigma associated with men not being able to speak their minds in front of other men, their wives, friends,family etc. for fear of being ridiculed will be eradicated. An interesting concept that Mike should use to his advantage, if. he's smart enough, which I think he is.

[barryb]

If J4MB are linked with AVFM, MRA london, Aimee Mcgee and certain other individuals, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. Mark my words.

Threat to the Tories? Get bloody real, only a threat to peoples donations and wasted time and trust.

[Paul F]

Mike is doing incredible work out there, and it's great to hear on his blog that the number of donations is rising (and increasing in size) all the time.

One minor concern I'd raise is as to whether he fully realises the power of social media to help get the message across and to spread those ideas.

For instance, during Obama's bid to become president his social media team were actually the biggest part of his staff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITa8FGTTnU

So that aspect is not just an add-on these days, but a vital part of the battle.

Ideally, I think you want to reach a stage where the message become self-perpetuating through social and media networks. That so you can reach people who don't listen to the radio for example.

(Mind you, it's true that things like Facebook and Twitter accounts need time and effort to set up, so perhaps some willing volunteers are required in that area as well. But there's enough passion and energy out there if you look in the right places.)

[Mike Buchanan]

IndependentThinker, Dave, and Paul F, thank you for your comments. We have a YouTube channel (link below) but could certainly help with support re Facebook etc. if anyone's an expert in social media?

http://j4mb.wordpress.com/youtube-video-and-audio-files/

BarryB, I've written and published three books largely about militant feminism, I've been working 70+ hours pw for over a year on my campaigns and more recently party-related matters, and I've had ten BBC radio interviews in the past four weeks. I earn precisely £0.00 pa for my efforts and I'm confident my workload and its associated income will ever change. Please enlighten us all with what YOU have done in relation to the MHRM in the past year (beyond sneering at MHRAs, obviously). You recently even sneered at our party's name, so again do enlighten us with your superior alternative (presumably you must have one, to have made such a comment?) If it helps, the party name must be no more than six words, the strapline likewise. Thank you.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS
(and the women who love them)

http://j4mb.wordpress.com