The Rights Of Man

EQUALITY BILL CONSULTATION DATES

For anyone interested (we all should be!) in the travails of the Equalities Bill, the Government's Equalities Office has announced some dates for open consultation meeting.

Details available here.

Hattip - John Kimble

STORIES ROUND-UP

As is now becoming increasingly common, there is such a volume of stories and issues to cover it is difficult to keep up. However, please find below links to issues stories of interest that have not been covered in the last six or so weeks:-

False Accusations

There has been a deluge of false accusation coverage in the newspapers, it is concerning because the power of the false allegation is increasing all the time, to the detriment of the men falsely accused and of course, the women who are genuinely attacked:-

Basildon, Essex

Shropshire

Aberdeen

Durham

Berkshire

Thurrock, Essex

Jarrow, Durham

Advertising

Why men is ads are dumb?

British Men Make Best Husbands

Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph

Have You Turned Your Man Into a Hermaphrodite?

Judith Woods

Men Held for Playing Football With His Children

Daily Mail

President Obama

His betrayal of the working class male

TEENAGER CALLS FOR A MINISTER FOR MEN

Reece Wilkes, a teenager from North Yorkshire, has written to a number of politicians including Lords and Lady's asking for a Minister for Men, especially as there now has been a Minister for Women for 12 years.

His letter is available Download A Minister for Men ( For The Rights of Man)

It has been covered by his local newspaper, the Northern Echo.

Mark Brooks, Chairman of the ManKind Initiative charity called for a Minister for Men earlier this year. New link to previous articles on this matter here.

"TRAITOROUS" WOMEN PREFER MALE BOSSES

When Ms Harman launched her tirade  against male bosses last week, the Journal of Financial Economics published research (which you have to pay for unfortunately) by Daniel Ferreira, of the London School of Economics with Renee Adams of the University of Queensland that showed that women in boardrooms can wreck a company.

The study of 2,000 boards and as reported in the Daily Mail said that "Employing more women in the boardroom can wreak havoc on the financial performance of companies, fresh research suggests. Two academics found that female directors were more likely to 'meddle' with boards and get rid of male chief executives who are not up to the job. However, their more ruthless approach could produce unexpected results and be 'bad for a company's coffers.' "

Essentially the research was saying that women make a good impact in struggling companies but can damage those which are performing.

As readers of the site know, this is not an anti-women site, but the research is certainly an antidote to the "all men bad, all women good" approach by Harriet Harman and others like the Equalities Commission and the Fawcett Society. 

Full coverage at Google News with the Times article being a highlight.

However, the most striking research to certainly nail the lie that male bosses are worse than female bosses is from OnePoll. Their research showed that women prefer working for male bosses!

Their research showed that 2/3rds of women prefer male bosses because they are better managers and less prone to moods like women. Also they found female bosses felt threatened by other women at work.

When I heard the story today I could hear the wailing and tears from the Fawcett Society and Harman Towers at the traitorous women for suggesting they prefer male bosses.  

Seriously though, these two pieces of research are another nail in coffin of the myth that Harman and others have been peddling.

Coverage - Daily Mail

 

ABUSE OF GENDER PAY GAP STATISTICS CHALLENGED AGAIN

A week ago this site highlighted the fact that despite previous guidance from Sir Michael Scholar from the UK Statistical Authority to the Government that using the gender pay gap figure of 23% was wrong, the Women and Work Commission went ahead anyway.

Even though the media cover the story when Sir Michael originally queried it, the media, who do not fact check or connect things up, they still unquestioningly used the 23% figure again.

Now the row has blown up again with another letter(see 7th August) sent by Sir Michael, this time to Baroness Prosser.

The whole episode is covered by Mark Easton at the BBC.

One question remains though, does Sir Michael read this blog, so picking up on the issue that was previously raised on this site about the Women and Work Commission!

HARRIET HARMAN HAS DAMAGED ANTI-MALE FEMINISM THIS WEEK BUT MUCH MORE NEEDED

Like so many things in life, the best laid plans of mice and (wo)men can often go seriously awry and this week may be a turning point in turning the tide back of anti-male feminism.

It will take a lot but now the cat is out of the bag, people, especially those supine male politicians who just sit there and take it like a a bunch of hen-pecked husbands, should have the confidence to challenge it. No man or woman taking on the legion of  - diversity officers, council officials, the Fawcett Society, the Equalities Commission and all those how actively support extra help for women over men -  should be scared no longer.

Just to recap, Harriet Harman was in charge of the Government this week as Gordon Brown is on holiday, and rubbing her hands with glee and after months of planning with her "sista's", she would use the window to plunge the knife in the backs of men. Who would stop her, such is male-bashing such an accepted part of modern Britain.

Firstly, she attacked men in the boardroom and said that men could not be trusted to run things by themselves and that Labour should always have a woman in one of the top the two roles. This was met by a tirade from John Prescott (former Deputy Leader) who can be quite effective when let off the leash, said she should shut up. The redoubtable Ann Widdecombe (Tory MP) also joined in. Infamously Harman then said if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, it would not have caused so much trouble. 

Then there was battle over shelved new rape laws, the national curriculum issue and then feistely says she is no shrinking violet as she tours the TV studios.

The whole incident has led to acres (literally) of newsprint but generally speaking she has been met with ridicule (only The Guardian and the pathetically laughable Times - must have had an anti-male feminist running the Leader Columns this week) especially from female commentators (Some anonymous female Labour politicians said her rampant feminism was like the Taliban!). Those men have written about her have tended to mock her but the implications of what she says and does are too serious for mockery.

So in terms of what has happened, clearly the power went to her head and bearing in mind the likely Labour defeat at the next General Election, she knew it was her last chance to make a stand with the burning flag of anti-male feminism. This week, with other politicians on holiday, she had the place to herself and she did more harm than good to her cause. Great.

Her anti-male extremism (too many people did not take her seriously last summer when she said if he she was PM, every man would rush to the airport) and the extremism of others has been exposed publicly but the policies in practice remain unchanged. So much much more needs to be done on the policy front where armies of diversity officers and others are putting the pieces of her anti-male policies in actual place on a minute by minute basis.

Editors Note - There have been so many articles on the issue this week (see Google News), so I have chosen the ones I like:-

Sun 1, Daily Mail - Steve Richards, BBC 1, Spectator - Rod Liddle, Daily Mash satire, Telegraph, Telegraph 2, Telegraph - Liz Hunt.

HARMAN'S NATIONAL CURRICULUM PLEDGE PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGES BOYS AND IGNORES 40% OF THE DV VICTIMS

Without wanting to jump on the anti-Harriet bandwagon quite yet - the week is still young, I think it is important to dwell on the issue raised in the Daily Mail today (an amazing 160 comments in the debate section) where they revealed that the Government has declared that as part of Violence Against Women strategy pupils as young as five will be taught about the evils of 'wife beating'. This is to form part of the national curriculum and as the article says, there will be nothing on violence against men.

The article is balanced and points out the fact that more and more women are being arrested for violence which is in addition to the point raised earlier this week that more mothers are violent towards their daughter than men are.

One of the issues worth raising is the fact that its underlying theme of telling boys and girls that all boys are violent towards women, the height of Marxist Feminist thinking,  will give all boys a guilt complex -  "Mummy, my teacher says I will be a wife beater when I grow up". How will any women form a relationship with a man if she thinks we are all wifebeaters. It is straight out of George Orwell and is designed to further psychologically undermine boys and men.

The other issue is that when 40% of victims of domestic abuse aremale, those men of the future as well as those suffering now, are purposely and hideously ignored by the Government. It is almost as if they do not exist.

Any course telling people, and certainly it is inappropriate for children to be indoctrinated at such an early age, should be saying that all violence is wrong but also any violence by a woman on a man is as equally as wrong as the other way around.

To only state one gender is completely factually wrong and is biased and shows clearly the anti-male, one-eyed nature of this Government and Harriet Harman. She really does want to grind men into the dust, from the age of 5.

WOMENS' COMMISSION GENDER PAY GAP MYTHS - SLAVISHLY LAPPED UP BY MEDIA

A 56 page report called Shaping a Fairer Future by the Women and Work Commission (no Men and Work Commission exists, of course) run by the UK Government's 'Equalities' Office.

The report essentially state that the gender pay gap is down to gender stereotyping in career choices promoted by schools.

Yet, as pointed out so many times on this site, there is a gender pay gap overall but:-

• Lifestyle choice (ie taking years out to bring up a family) is the biggest explanation of the gender pay gap as explained by the Office of National Statistics report in 2008
• Women and men earn the same wage until they reach their 30's (see above for reason) so it is not down to school career stereotyping
• Single women earn more than single men
• In landmark research by the Daily Telegraph, they showed that far more women are entering the professions than men.
• There is no evidence that women get paid less than men due to discrimination.

 An additional point worth looking at is the fact that in June, the Government were slammed by the UK Statistical Authority for using the figure of 23% for describing the gender pay gap instead of the more accurate 12%, yet the report still uses 23%. They ignore the truth.

The deliberate and sexist lack of intellectual rigour in reports like this just keep coming and one of the problems is that th British media, which as each year goes by, lacks serious depth, never challenges them. They just spew out the copy verbatim without looking at the above points, the evidence or points by academics.

In the myriad of articles, there is not one challenge to it in the news reporting or an alternative voice. The only article is by Jill Kirby of the Centre for Policy Studies in the Telegraph

MINISTER FOR MEN PETITION

The site has just been sent notice of this e-petition

SELECT COMMITTEE REVIEWS INTO EQUALITIES COMMISSION

Sometimes in life it is better to judge a person by their enemies and certainly this is the case in terms of the continuing furore about Trevor Phillips, the Chairman of the Equalities Commission.

Certainly, there is much to be said to be said for the criticism from the National Audit Office about their Annual Accounts (how can they moan about anyone else if they cannot even do this role with a £70 million budget employing 410 staff - 63% of whom are women). However, what a lot of the other criticism has been about is that the Commission has not paid a significant enough amount of attention to each person's hobby horse.

Whilst this site is rightly no friend of the Equalities Commission considering its 'conspiracy of silence' (also more generally) on men and male discrimination, it is worth looking at some of the criticism and who has been covering it.

Of course, it has been wall to wall coverage in the equality  movement's house newspaper The Guardian, where there has been 12 stories on the subject in the last week alone (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). To and fro the articles have gone, but not one has criticised him for doing nothing for men.

Other significant articles are here:- Daniel Hannan MEP, Daily Telegraph, BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph 2, Independent , Iain Dale.

In some ways it has been hilarious to watch all the world of the politically correct descend into hysteria, certainly with the Ashes rained off today it has been an amusing sideline trawling through the articles. Although, as pointed out, the backlash could be worse for men.

Amongst all of the hullabaloo, it is important not to lose sight that there will now be a two Select Committee investigations into the goings-on by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee and the Joint Human Rights Committee.

Whilst these have been announced to the media, there does not seem to be any press notices or calls for evidence. Whenever, there is a call for evidence, it is time to put in submissions about the conspiracy of silence on men.