The Rights Of Man

EQUALITY IN THE UK 2012 - A SPECIAL ADVISER FOR WOMEN BUT NO SPECIAL ADVISER FOR MEN

Earlier this month Laura Trott was announced as being David Cameron's special adviser on women  - to make him more women-friendly and see all policies through the prism of a woman. It is no surprise that Ms Trott is part of the Hampstead metropolitan elite.

Considering that the Conservative Party and its coalition party already have a Minister for Women (Theresa May), a slavishly anti-male Equalities Minister (Lynne Featherstone), a Government Equalities Department  who do not believe men exist ("We lead on issues relating to women, sexual orientation and transgender equality matters; we have responsibility across government for equality strategy and legislation") and an Equalities and Human Rights Department who remain philosophically wedded to everything pro-women and anti-male, you do wonder what more does he need.

And to be honest, having such an appointment continues the anti-male special treatment for women schtick running through the present government (Blue Feminism!) - all run by metropolitan elite upper middle class women who only want more special treatment to give them and their daughters even more of a leg up. It is not aimed at the average women, who not only wants to make a success of her and her daughters life but also wants to see their husband, brothers and sons succeed as well.

What makes it worse is that it is so gratuitously offensive to those women and also to men, because the government not refuses to have a Minister for Men and also to support men and boys on the inequalities they face but that is refuses to actually even want to engage on men's issues.

SPEThe issue pointed clearly out by the letter that was signed by nearly 100 organisations supporting men and boys across a wide spectrum shows how trivial the government sees men and boys. They do nothing on the savage problems in educational attainment for boys, the unemployment rate especially amongst young and older men, the problems associated with depression, suicide, domestic abuse and of course men's health amongst other things. The only area of progress is shared parenting.

If government truly believed in equality, if it really has to have a special adviser on women's issues it would have the same on men's issues. But of course, we know this government does not believe in equality.

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I couldn't bring myself to listen to it but others might  - you have been warned ;@)

MORE PEOPLE START TO QUESTION THE ANTI-MALE RHETORIC AND SPECIAL PLEADING

Last week David Cameron went to Sweden to learn more (and here and here) about to discriminate against men and end meritocracy in British business by ensuring there were quotas in British boardrooms – a subject raised many times on the site.

 As ever, we were in the land of fantasy where he asserted that "case is overwhelming that companies and countries run better if you have men and women working together at the top".

 This is classic Orwellian doublespeak -  tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth. There is no proof that more women in the boardroom leads to a better performing business. If that was the case, shareholders would be making sure there were plenty of women in the boardroom because it means higher dividends. They don't insist on it because they do not care what the gender is of the boardroom they only worry about having the best people there – no matter their gender.

 On a different but albeit more importnat subject, the latest unemployment figures were published. By the end of december 2011, there were 1.548m men unemployed, a rate of 9% - 89,000 more than a year ago. There are 1.123m women unemployed, a rate of 7.7% - 91,000 more than a year ago. All we ever hear is how the recession and the cuts are affecting women more than men.

The reason for raising these two issues is the fact that more and more people are starting to challenge the anti-male feminists and special pleaders who want women to have rights than men. Most are actually women.

Take Cameron's stance on boardroom quotas. Helena Morrissey a top banker said "In the UK it would be difficult for women to feel very much as an equal member of a board or as a senior manager if there was a quota.” Janice Atkinson-Small makes the point that no one is interested. The Institute of  Economic Affairs said "Proposals to force companies to increase the number of women on boards are extremely ill-advised. Imposing a mandatory quota would be yet another irritant to UK firms. Burdensome overregulation of this kind is not a driver of economic growth."

Dominic Raab MP was as sound as ever.

On the question of unemployment, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development came out and said women had not suffered anymore than men in the recession.

Both groups of people have suddenly found their voice and started to ask the questions that only readers of this site and a hardy bunch of other people have done for the past number of years in Britain.

Every time these assertions come up - the mantra has to be "prove it". Only then will we start to get the truth about the special pleading by special interest men-hating groups for more rights of women over men and also get to the truth that it is men who face the most disadvantage in 21st century Britain.

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VERY FEW WOMEN BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING DENIED PROMOTIONS - NEAR PARITY WITH MEN WHICH WON'T LAST LONG

Just before Christmas, one of our regular readers ('Groan') kindly pointed out the findings of the 2009-10 Citizenship Survey which had been sneaked out in the week before Christmas. Produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the 123 page report was entitled "Race, Religion and Equalities."

Paragraph 5.57 states "one per cent of people who had looked for work cited gender as a reason for being discriminated against when refused a job; and two per cent of employees cited gender as a factor in being discriminated against regarding a promotion.

"Males and females were equally likely to cite gender as a reason for discrimination in relation to being refused a job (in both cases 1%), while female employees were slightly more likely than male employees to cite gender as a reason for discrimination regarding promotion (2% of females compared with 1% of males)"

The key statitistics from this show three things.

Promotion - boardroom discrimination

Firstly, the anti-male Marxists feminists who bitterly complain against discrimination against women from the gender pay gap to promotion to boards and such like are out of step with what women actually think. Only 2% of women believe they are denied a promotion (1% men) because of their gender and 1% refused for a job because of their gender. 

Organisations like the 30% Club, Fawcett Society, Lynne Featherstone MP, and all the others are wrong when they say it is a disgrace that women are being discriminated against because women themselves do not believe so.

This organisations live in a fantasy world of male hatred where white fat upper middle class men are keeping the 'sisters' in the kitchen and on the shop floor. Women disagree with the 30% Club, Featherstone and everyone else who says it is a scandal.

These groups do not speak for women, they speak for female privilige for (upper) middle class women at the expense of men.

Equality Act

We know the Conservative Government had initial reservations about sections 158 and 159 of the Equality Act (2010) which allows employers to discriminate against people when it comes to training, filling jobs and promotions, however, they ended up putting it into law on 1 April 2011.

It means that while 1% of men and 2% of women claim they are being denied a promotion because of their gender, I would expect this to be reversed over the next five years and that there be a clear gap emerging and perhaps 5% of men claiming they are being denied a promotion because of their gender.

This will not only affect those men themselves but will also affect their wives/girlfriends, daughters, mothers etc, so this discriminations affects women as much as it does the individual man.

Sample Size

Following on from the above, the numbers of 1% and 2% are very small and could be classed as insignificant. Perhaps a lot of that is down to the fact there still remains broadly a gender split in the work roles that men and women undertake. Without wanting to be too broadbrush about it but it is hard for a male car mechanic to say he is being denied a promotion because he is a man when there are so few female mechanics. Likewise, a female primary school teacher may not be able to say she has been denied a promotion when there are so few male primary school teachers.

It means that while the figure on paper looks small, it's signifcance should not be under-estimated.

In conclusion, this report undermines those anti-male Marxist feminists who with every breath they take say that women are discriminated in the workplace, when women themselves say they are not. Secondly, the Equality Act 2010, will I predict, see a gap created where more men feel discrimated than women in work.

It is shame this report was buried but it is essential research nonetheless (thank you to 'Groan' for highlighting it).

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MEN TELL THEIR STORIES - FALSE ALLEGATIONS AND DOMESTIC ABUSE

Sorry everyone, very much on the run this week but Monday saw an appalling story how about the effect on Simon Boswell who was falsely accused of domestic abuse and the appalling treatment at the hands of the police.

Tuesday, saw brave Ian McNicholl update his story (and the supportive help he had from police) and the appalling wait he is having to endure on the NHS to repair the damage inflicted on him. What's the betting that if Ian was called Irene he'd have been treated more quickly. What is so good about Ian is the fact that he wants more to be done to help other men come forward. His is not a story about him, it is about urging more to be done to persuade more male victims to come forward - men who make up one in three of all victims. There was also a follow up on his ex-girlfriend.

Wednesday, saw another story in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of Paul Roberts.

The comments on all stories are generally very encouraging because they show public opinion is shifting towards all victims of domestic abuse and not just female victims. Pity the authorities are still light years behind.

These stories must make the men-haters cringe because they undermine their view of men=bad, women=good. You never hear them talking about these stories, they would pretend they were never reported.

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CRISIS IN BOYS' EDUCATION CONTINUES - 54,000 FEWER APPLY FOR UNIVERSITY AND NO-ONE CARES

The crisis in boys education continues apace and the biggest scandal is that no-one in authority seems to give a toss about it. Certainly the government, who talk a lot about driving up standards and free schools, do not seem to be remotely bothered about the fact that far fewer boys do well at school than girls.

This is a subject covered extensively on the site and as we know it feeds through to the fact that young men get paid less than younger women and it is the first stage of the emasculation of men.

The latest UCAS figures show that, while the overall university applicant figures are down (due to £9,000 per year tuition fees!) UCAS received 54,000 less applicants from boys than girls. For 2012, 188,000 girls have applied but only a mere 134,000 boys have: ratio  of 58% - 42%.

What is shameful is the fact that the education system is clearly not working in helping boys make the most of their talent but what is even more shameful is the fact that no one seem to care or talk about it.

Boys are clearly suffering from the discrimination by omission syndrome - where is the coalition government's concern on this  when it can spend so much time and energy on women's issue it cannot be bothered on issues affecting boys. If girls were so far behind you would never hear the end of it.

The long term affect of having fewer boys going to university can not be underestimated not only for the future of boys/men but also the ending of equality in the UK and the fabric of the UK itself.

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NEWS UPDATE

A few recent items and thanks to those who passed many of them on:

Roger Helmer MEP: Resignation update - Discrimination by the Conservative Party against a man 

The Independent: The man who was the target of Britain's worst stalker (Gerard Gilbert) - An old story but one not covered here before but certainly always worth forwarding whenever stalking in spoken in the context of women only.

Hull Daily Mail - Domestic abuse against men up by 30%

BBC News - Where women rule and men are suffragettes (Timothy Allen)

 Daily Mail - Woman's Hour psychologist who made false claim in custody battle is found guilty of misconduct.   (Chris Brooke)

The Guardian - We tell boys not to cry then wonder about male suicide (Ally Fogg) - Great stuff by Ally and his comment is most telling "As I've written before, attempts by men to address their own gender-specific issues are often greeted with hostility and disdain."

Daily mail - Why I'll never let my Ex's new girlfriend meet my son (Kelly Rose Bradford) - A record 1287 comments surely on this rant.

Daily Telegraph - New equality rules could cost companies millions (Louise Peacock) -  Equality is equality so why the moaning from the National Association of Pension Funds - surely not another body that thinks it is OK to discriminate against men.

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FEMINISTS END 'WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST' AND STILL MEN GET BLAMED

With the angst about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia two strands have been running.

Firstly the implicit male-bashing by some of the mediawho have latched onto the fact that a few men were trying to get off the sinking ship without letting women and children go first (some articles implied that men were pushing women and children out of the way but no mention made that some women were probably doing the same as well). One commentator on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday actually said you shouldn't prioritise anyone because the priority is to get everyone off quickly and picking up slows things down. Also if there was a family, it was vital the family unit stayed (including the father) together. 

Secondly, it has raised the whole debate about whether 'women and children first'  still applies. Well it used to and still in many minds it remains true but feminism especially modern day anti-male feminism, says it doesn't. And this is the ruling ideology. And remember this!

And of course, because the anti-male feminists only speak when it is on their terms, people like them are keeping their head down when the debate is raging. This is because they hypocritically want their cake and eat it/bread buttered on both sides.

They want equality but then still want privilege and special treatment for women, and undermine men whenever they can. What those who are calling for the return of 'women and children first' is that women are more important than men, so where is the equality there?

If people like Harriet Harman, Caroline Flint, Theresa May, Lynne Featherstone, every writer at the Guardian, Anna Bird, Katherine Rake etc really do want equality then they should be making comments that it is right that 'women and children first' no longer exists. But instead they stay silent because they want both equality and privilege at the same time.

This is the the clearest example of double standards of modern feminism and they are to blame for the ending of 'women and children first'.

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Media coverage of issue (good debates in comments section) - Daily Mail 1, Daily Mail 2, Daily Express, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent

NEWS UPDATE

A few from this week -

Conservativehome - David Cameron wants to use boundary review to choose more candidates: More political discrimination against men like this is what he means.

Press Association - Abusers let off lightly, say Tories: The Conservatives in Scotland like MSP David McLetchie do not believe that male victims of domestic abuse exist in Scotland.

Irish Independent - Equality is the feminist right to whinge

Daily Mail - Taxpayers fork out thousands for paternity tests as mothers try to cash in on wrong fathers

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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.