The Rights Of Man

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

BOOK - FALSE ACCUSATIONS: GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT by NIK GREENE

After hearing Nik Green's story on Men's Matters, it was worth giving his book a plug. He has a website.

INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM AGAINST BOYS HAS LED TO THE GENDER READING GAP

The report today by the All Party Parliamentary Literacy Group Boys' Reading Commission and the National Literacy Trust is the first major piece of research work recently in the UK that has seriously looked at the gender reading gap.

In fact, there is hardly any research on the educational gap because academia and the establishment are not interested in men and boys only women and girls. It was therefore refreshing that this report was produced and also that it was led by politicians.The report pulls a lot of the statistics together and shows the journey boys are taking through their educational life so it is a good compendium of the latest statistics.

Some key facts include

• 59% of boys achieved an A* to C in English GCSE compared to 73% of girls
• 76% of respondents said boys in their school did not do as well in reading as girls
•  82% of schools have tried to tackle this issue

The report does give a view about what causes the problem whether it is parental interaction, the school environment and male gender identities.

Three issues stand out.

School system

Firstly, there is the point (Chapter 2, page 12), and the report is brave enough to say it (it should not have to be classed as brave but others are too scared to say it) that the feminised education system is working against boys. Whether that is because there is bias in marking, reading selection, lack of male teachers, national curriculum (exams versus coursework), boys not as interested in 'pleasing the teacher', the differences in reading materials being available and so forth.

All in all that is some list and when you combine them together - it is no wonder that boys are behind. What it clearly shows is the system is stacked against boys - it is institutionally sexist.

A comment on the BBC site from a mother (Catherine Beak) is worth sharing:

 I have both a daughter and a son. They are completely and utterly different in what they choose to read. Why do they push boys into reading books, if what they want to read is newspapers or sports magazine

I believe that it doesn't really matter what they read, as long as they do. My son is well above average for his reading and we just get him things that he's interested in.

Fathers   

Chapter three highlights the problems where fathers are not around to read to their children and that can harm boys reading. Perhaps if the family courts and CAFCASS believed in shared parenting then this could be avoided.

Policy Response

The conclusions at the end are an impressive list and are practical way that boys reading can be supported without damaging girls reading.

The subtext is clear though and this is the most shameful and disgraceful part as it shows the institutional sexism with in the system. Sexism by omission.

Basically the report is saying that the the education establishment, the Department for Education, Government more widely and all the other opinion formers have deliberately done nothing to investigate this problem that they have known about and then delivered policies to solve it. 

They still have no strategy to solve it. If the genders were reversed, there would be armies of people armed with case full of money and projects to deal with it. 

For decades boys reading has been damaged by a system that is not suitable or flexible for them, and as the report says, "while it is an international problem, we do not believe that it is simply biological or inevitable; girls are not more likely to be 'wired' as readers."

This report is an invaluable contribution and I hope its recommendations are taken forward. It has also served to show the institutional sexism within the education system in this country - which has been a blight on generations of boys.

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Media coverage - BBC (recognises the lack of action) , Daily Mail, Huffington Post

 

SAMPLE CHAPTERS - EXPOSING FEMINISM: THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR AGAINST MEN (SWAYNE O'PIE)

This book has just been published (11 June 2012) internationally, in both paperback and ebook editions (Kindle only). The Kindle edition is downloadable onto PCs and Macs using free-to-download software from Amazon. It’s also downloadable onto some e-readers in addition to the Kindle device. The content of the UK paperback edition, which has the title Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism is virtually identical.

 The book has 53 chapters, and the following material is being made freely available in this Download 120619 Sample chapters from 'Exposing Feminism':

 Foreword

Author’s Note

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Cultural Misandry: The Widespread Disrespect for Men

Chapter 2 – Why Would Anyone Want to Disagree with Feminism?

Chapter 9 – Who Are These Women Who Make the World Worse for Men?

Chapter 15 – For Feminism Success Will Never be Enough: ‘Forever’ Feminism

Chapter 20 – Feminism and Women’s Choices

Chapter 26 – Women Choose Low Pay and Low Status

Chapter 39 – Top Jobs for the Sisters: Can Positive Discrimination be Justified?

 

 

NEWS UPDATE

A list of recent articles and thanks again to those who have emailed them in:

Abused to the Accused website

Daily Mail - Women are happier and less stressed than overworked men (Graham Smith)

Daily Mail - Britain's generations of mummies' boys and daddies' girls (Martin Robinson) - The article says "Not wanting to settle down or marry is the other main cause, especially among men"- you can thank men-hating Cafcass and the biased family courts for that.

Daily Mail - NHS remove 'Dad' from pregnancy handbook (Sophie Borland)

The Independent - The future's not Orange (Robert Dex) - The future should look bleak for this 'celebrated'  women-only award but we all know there will be queues of organisations wanting to pick this up.

BBC Radio 5 - Men's Hour is back on

Spotify - Violence, Terror, Coercion, LOL - Idiots not taking the Coronation Street story seriously and well done to ManKind Initiative for having their phone number on at the end of the programme.

New Statesman - Don't jusge a book by its press: Second Sexism (Ally Fogg) - Ally Fogg is always worth reading and the comments are a 'delight' to read!

New Statesman - Why is male unemployment not an issue? (Alex Hern)

Irish Health - Male circumsicion is an assault: The campaign is growing

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THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION (new extract) by MIKE BUCHANAN

Mike, who was featured this week, has kindly sent over another extract of the above book.

Download Excerpt from THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION

In summary from Mike - ‘The Equality Act (2010): the triumph of Harriet Harman’. The gender-related aspects of the Act are appallingly biased against men, yet attracted minimal coverage even in papers such as The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. It’s a perfect example of how militant feminists work ‘under the radar’ to pursue their agendas, never with a democratic mandate. You’ll never see details of feminist agendas appear in party manifestos; at best their intentions will be obliquely hidden behind seemingly innocuous terms such as ‘fairness’ and ‘diversity’. What it always amounts to is ‘jobs for the girls’. 

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ERIN PIZZEY - THIS WAY TO THE REVOLUTION

The site has had a few kindly comments about the books it has been featuring. No excerpt this time but a book I have been reading is Erin Pizzey's 'This Way To The Revolution' .

A key part for me is how the "Women's Movement", despite the fact she set up the first refuge, have tried to disown her, discredit her and carry out all sorts of other unpleasantness - because she would not play along with all the men are bxstards line and all women are angels line.

The fact that Refuge do not even acknowledgeher existence speaks volumes about them and every day they refuse to acknowledge her is another day they are discredited. It is also worth noting (and I looked) that the Guardian and feminists and bloggers said nothing on the book - effectively no platforming her. How the sisterhood hate sisters they disagree with - she is the 'disappeared' from the feminist lexicon.

The other part is that without her, there would be no organisations supporting male victims of domestic abuse - No ManKind Initiative (who she is a honorary patron of), no Abused Men in Scotland, no Dyn Project etc and certainly no refuges/safe houses for men - though there is precious little which she still campaigns about. She has stuck at this issue and made it possible for them to exist and made it possible for support and recognition, however little and however grudging, for male victims of domestic abuse to exist.

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One last note - this always brings a smile especially as it was such a great riposte to David Cameron for his tawdry comments on Father's Day last year.

WHY BRITAIN HATES MEN: EXPOSING FEMINISM (Extract) by SWAYNE O'PIE

November last year saw the publiciation of Swayne O'Pie's book Why Britain Hates Men: Expsoing Feminism.

Swayne has kindly sent an extract for readers and this book comes highly recommended.

Download Extract from 'Why Britain Hates Men'

 

THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION (Extract) by MIKE BUCHANAN

Last week, the published an article by Mike Buchanan on gender feminism, this week we are publishing the introduction and first chapter of his book - The Glass Ceiling Delusion - perhaps apt bearing in mind today's report on the boardroom.

Download Introduction and first chapter of 'The Glass Ceiling Delusion'

 

GENDER FEMINISM: AN ASSAULT ON WOMEN? by MIKE BUCHANAN

As you know the site welcomes articles and thought pieces from its readers and commentators.

Mike Buchanan, writer of The Glass Ceiling Delusion, David and Goliatha and the forthcoming Feminism: Crones' Disease has penned an exclusive article on feminism.

I hope everyone enjoys the article and it is great to have a writer like Mike penning a thought piece like this for the site.

Download Gender Feminism - an assault on women

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