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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

CAMPAIGN AGAINST BIASED WEBSITE LEGAL AID ADVICE AGAINST HUSBANDS AND FATHERS BY THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE SUCCEEDS

Marilyn Stowe, ITV's This Morning's legal expert, revealed that the Ministry of Justice's legal aid family matters guidance on its website was only aimed at female victims and that only a father's responsibilities could be removed. They have now changed it.

Originally, it said:

 

  • When a child is at risk of abuse from a partner
      You can get legal aid to help with issues such as child contact or removal of a father’s  parental responsibility, but you must be able to give your solicitor some evidence that child abuse has taken place.

Now, it says:

 

  • When a child is at risk of abuse from a partner
      You can get legal aid to help with issues such as child contact or removal of a father’s or mother's parental responsibility, but you must be able to give your solicitor some evidence that child abuse has taken place. The word mother's has been inserted.

 I am not sure who complained or whether some civil servant saw the error of their misandric ways but at least it has been changed.

The problem of course is that it should not have been there in the first place and was probably there for months until a Dicky Souray (a twitter correspondent of Marilyn's saw it). Many male victims with children may not have felt the rules applied to them - being misled by government.

It shows that misandry and bias is deep seated and a cultural norm within the Ministry of Justice, and the person responsible is probably disappointed they been found out. It should not take complaints to get this changed, it should be fair and equal from the start.

Posted by Skimmington 

Posted at 23:05 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence, Family Law, Justice System | | Comments (10)

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Friday, 02 August 2013

HOW THE FEMINIST NARRATIVE TEMPLATE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MEN AND BOYS

This week, has been a landmark in showing how modern-day feminism (mutated from being an equality movement to one about gender supremacy and misandry) is actively denying both equality for men and boys through misandry but also even recognition that men and boys have problems to whether men and boys actually exist.

We have seen these issues as showing how the feminist man-hating narrative has become the mainstream view, the new normal, the standard view for Britain and its elites. Every issue that a woman faces is the fault of a man and/or only happens to a woman - so men get excluded from the story even through they also form part of the story.

We had at the start of the week the trolling story. As stated earlier this week, the lunatics trolling the MP's and campaigners do a great disservice to our cause, but the assumption of the feminist discourse readily picked up and accepted as Gospel by the media and the "elites" is that only women are trolled. Er, what about this then, on GQ (Telegraph, Independent). The professor in this story who says it is not a gender issue gets little traction all week.

Then there was a story on the introduction of application fees for employment tribunals. There was much anguish about the fact that this would be bad for low-paid women. It was if there were no low-paid men, yet 40% of low-paid workers are male! (Listen)

 The Evening Standard announced there was a summit on the lack of female engineers and a Parliamentary inquiry into whether science is institutionally sexist (I cannot find any news on this). But where is the campaign and the summit about the lack of male teachers, the lack of men in social services, healthcare, education etc. Er...there isn't one.

Mens Conference UK picked up on Marilyn Stowe's revelation that the Ministry of Justice's guidance on legal aid mentions husbands as perpetrators but not husbands and wives. The Ministry of Justice acting with pure unadulerated institutional discrimination against men. The rules are gender-neutral but the Ministry of Justice does not believe they apply in practice to men.

Continuing on the domestic abuse front, a Facebook message from Karen Woodall (Centre for Separated Families) stated "here's one for all of you interested in domestic violence.... Nick is training today for the DWP, he is not allowed to talk about violence against men or violence in separating couples in any way other than that which is ratified by the Coalition Government Policy on VAWAG by order of the HOME OFFICE - he also has two observers sitting in on the training to make sure he does not transgress this order (that's because they are nervous about my blog and my refusal to do as they ordered me to).   This is what your taxes pay for people...the state is most definitely controlling you and if you separate it will be Women's Aid and Refuge who rule your world."

Will the media point out in the Eddie Kidd story that men are victims too? (will Refuge's Sandra Horley spin this as self-defence?)

Will the media look at this story about this wicked mother and attack women, like they would attack men if it was the father who was at fault?

Plus of course the Co-Op bow to pressure and put men's mags in plastic covers because they have half-naked women in. When Hello etc have half naked or provocatively dressed women on their cover and sometimes men. Where are the feminists crying about this cover "The lost art of the handjob"!!!

There will be more and the site has already covered how feminism meant the media and the elites were more focussed on the membership of golf clubs than the number of men not going to university. The same has happened all week and what is so disappointing is that the media just do not question the facts or challenge the commentators so that modern-day radical feminism dominates the news agenda with no challenge, but they also do not challenge or even accept male related issues onto the agenda. Radio 4 had a section on feminism getting stronger, but when will they do the same on men's issues.

Glen Poole this week, set out his poll and it is more vital today than it ever has been to get some form of group up and running to put our case that men are discriminated against in every day society and that by shutting out men and boys  from the equality narrative and also acting with plain hypocrisy.

Modern-day radical misandrist feminism is a devastating barrier for men and boys. Their voice has been drowned out. 

Posted by Skimmington

 Ps I do like this article from Carol Sarler in case anyone has missed it.

 

Posted at 01:31 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence, Education, Employment, Justice System, Women-only | | Comments (8)

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Tuesday, 09 July 2013

SCOTTISH WOMAN AVOIDS JAIL BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN

Yes, that's right. It got sent to me over the weekend and thought it had to be shared. Sheriff Malcolm Garden did not send Marie Sim to prison because she is a woman but would have done if he was a man!

Posted at 09:10 in Domestic Violence, Justice System | | Comments (7)

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Wednesday, 26 June 2013

An email to the Symantec board

Almost two weeks ago i sent out an email to the Symantec board outlining my research into the Rulespace filter and requesting they either fix it or explain themselves. It's a significant document as it's the first time anyone has really got their attention, as a result of it they have now at least promised to "look to updating our policies and processes around the way we categorize web content". Whilst this is rather vague and hasn't yet led to any improvements, it is certainly a significant change on the previous three months of standing by the "hate" classifications.

Here's what I wrote:

 

Dear Sir

My apologies for troubling you with this email, let me assure you you would not be receiving it were it not for the outrageous failings of your staff in the Rulespace team.

I am writing to you to let you know of some uncomfortable truths about your Rulespace product. This internet filter contains a fundamental flaw which has resulted in some astonishingly sexist and inappropriate site blocks. As a result of this flaw, the product denies assistance to male victims of domestic violence simply because they are male. It denies support to fathers who have suffered miscarriages of justice. It silences political parties who campaign for nothing more than gender equality. Incredibly, it even blocks sites advocating on behalf of victims of sexual abuse.

If this wasn't all bad enough, there's worse to come. In addition to the blocking, the Rulespace filter's classifications smear each and every one of the sites mentioned above as a "hate site". So, right now, according to Symantec, to assist any male who is being beaten and abused by his wife is "hate". To help a father have a meaningful relationship with his own children is "hate". And should you dare to advocate on behalf of young male victims of sexual abuse, then yes that's hate too. Below are several example links:

http://dvmen.co.uk

http://toysoldier.wordpress.com
 

http://www.menaregood.com
 

http://j4mb.wordpress.com/
 



in total there are more than 100 inappropriatly censored men's human rights sites, all wrongly classed as "hate" spanning a number of different countries. Your staff have repeatedly told me and the owners of the sites that they stand by the "hate" definitions for all these resources. They've made it quite clear that the ridiculous definitions are no mistake and they appear to be perfectly happy with this gender discrimination, thus everything outlined above appears to be entirely deliberate. To compound matters further still, the filter actually fails to block all the most extreme anti-male sites, such as "The Society of Cutting Up Men manifesto" and those promoting the castration of all males, so whilst almost every voice supporting equality for males is silence by the filter, no amount of male hatred gets even the most extreme radical feminist blocked. If you are serious about reforming Symantec and turning it around then the misandric nature of the Rulespace product is something that really needs urgent attention.

In case you aren't aware, the issues that concern the men's human rights community include equal access to healthcare, equality in the justice system and family courts, the genital mutilation of children and and sexism in the education system. I'm not any sort of renowned businessman, though I do know it's poor business practice to attack and demonise an entire civil rights community based upon their gender, particularly one which is experiencing such rapid growth and media recognition. Given the demographic profile of your typical Symantec user, then In your case it would appear to be corporate suicide to be targeting this particular human rights group. Symantec have blocked and defamed over 100 legitimate organisations, all of whom have blogs and websites and are thus able to expose what's going on. I've contacted every single site owner on the list so your customers are almost certain to hear about this. Right now a video on the issue is receiving a very impressive amount of traffic on Youtube and it has already had coverage in a number of IT news publications and by civil liberties groups. O2/Telefonica are already losing significant numbers of customers due to Symantec's misandry, so I expect they'll be forced to switch to one of your competitors before too long if you don't fix this problem, as will other corporations using Rulespace. Quite simply, this issue is only going to get bigger and is not going to go away.

I therefore urge you to please either unblock these 100+ wrongly classified sites and give a sincerely apology for smearing the owners of the sites in such an horrific fashion for so long. Some sort of donation to a few of the victims may also be in order to help begin the process of restoring your company's reputation amongst egalitarian minded groups. please note that the unblocking of these sites will not be sufficient in the long term, and the discriminatory nature of the filter algorithms needs fixing to prevent future problems as new men's equality sites are established.

I think the core problem with the product is some confusion over basic gender equality issues amongst your staff. Communications I've had from Symantec and O2 suggest that the filter bars any criticism of feminism, with the implication being that to criticise feminism is somehow sexist and discriminatory and analogous to criticising females. Whilst criticism of a particular gender is inappropriate, the complete converse applies with feminism which is an ideology no less deserving of critique than Marxism, Communism or Capitalism. Any such political movements should be subject to unlimited critique and scrutiny in any free and fair society, and should be held accountable for their actions. The majority of men's human rights sites actually seek to expose hateful radical feminist ideas (e.g those of Valerie Solanas), yet under the Rulespace system, reality gets turned on its head, the hate groups become the good guys, and those exposing such gender-based hatred are silenced for daring to do so.



If you are not able to unblock the sites and insist on continuing to describe them as "hateful" then please answer the following questions:

1. What exactly is hateful about helping male victims of domestic violence? Does Symantec subscribe to the extreme radical feminist theories domestic violence in which the millions of abused men somehow cannot be victims and therefore do not deserve help? Where is there one single word on sites such as dvmen.co.uk

 
that is the slightest bit "hateful"?

2. Is it also Symantec corporate policy to deny assistance and support to any male employees who are domestic violence? (1 in 6 male employees) or do you only do this to your customers?

3. Does Symantec oppose the right of children to have a loving relationship with both parents following a divorce? If not why are you so vehemently opposed to so many of the leading egalitarian organisations campaigning for such things?

4. The Rulespace team regards as "hate" a site dedicated to advocating on behalf of abused boys, won't people come to the conclusion that Symantec protects child rapists?

5. Is it Symantec's corporate policy to interfere in the democratic process by silencing the voice of opposition political parties?

6. Give the almost blanket ban on sites advocating equality for males, would it be fair to say that Symantec opposes human rights for half the population of the planet including a majority of its own customers/users?



I do appreciate that Symantec took over Rulesapce in 2010 and therefore this is an inherited problem rather than one created directly by Symantec employees. However, there has been ample time to address this scandal and the reaction thus far to people's concerns has been completely unacceptable and appearing to condone misandry.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this email, I enclose the complete list of wrongly blocked/classified sites below.

Regards

John Kimble

 

Posted at 07:00 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence, Sexual Offences | | Comments (4)

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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

THE EXTREMISTS FEMINIST SITES THAT O2/SYMANTEC DEEM SUITABLE FOR UNDER 18'S

We've already throughly examined the types of men's equality sites O2 and Symantec pretend are hateful. They vary from those helping victims of domestic violence, to political parties and even ones highlighting the plight of male victims of rape and abuse. So what about feminist sites? are they censored too? Well the good news is that things are improving and since I started this campaign, some radical feminist sites have finally gained the "hate" classification such as the one run by Cathy Brennan. The only problem is that it appears to only be transphobic feminist sites that get automatically blocked at present, so really O2 and Symantec are still as ani-male as ever and radical feminists can continue calling for men and boys to be attacked and abused, just as long as they remember to keep their transphobia in check.

To see how bad the situaiton is lets take a look at some of the examples of anti-male groups and topics that O2/Symantec still deem suitable for under 18's (note - I will not be linking to such vile material so you'll have to Google the sites if you want to see them).

Femen - Violent feminist extremists who assault and seek to murder the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. A Femen logo shows a woman with a bloody sickle in one hand and a severed scrotum in the other and they also use the term "sextremism" to describe their work. Rulespace classes their site as "blogging" and in total I found all three Femen related sites were unblocked.

Femithiests - An extremist group who want to see a "new era of feminism". Their "solution" is the castration of all males via "International Castration Day". where "males of all ages will be brought to the public squares of their cities nude, to stand together in a circle, as they await castration by a woman known as "The Castrator", who will be a woman chosen from the public much like a juror. Girls of all ages will attend, lining the streets to cheer and applaud the males as they join the rest of civilized society." Three femithiest sites are currently classed as "hosting" or "blogging" though Symantec have partially blocked one domain following the mention I gave the group in the recent ISP Review article. 

Ending male violence blog - A prominent header to every page states the need for a "decontamination" of the earth and how this will be accompanied by a drastic reduction in the number of males. Classed as "news". Comments state: "Its a pity men are not raped more frequently by women"

SCUM Manifesto - A hate site paying tribute to Valerie Solanas and describing her as "my personal hero" is not blocked and classed as "non-profit". For those who aren't' aware of her, Solanas is the author the the SCUM Manifesto, arguably the most famous example of feminist hate speech. "SCUM" stands for "Society for Cutting Up Men", and it seeks to "destroy the male sex.", furthermore, Solanas also tried to murder men so she wasn't simply all talk. Some quotes: "Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit.", "To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo", "He [the male] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings". "The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."

I hate men - I decided to Google this term and found a site with this actual title. As expected, O2/Symantec do not consider it "hate". The message couldn't be clearer yet the Rulespace system is so useless and misandrist that it stills fails to pick up on it.

Andrea Dworkin - The official website of Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist openly hostile to men, is not blocked. She referred to women's sons as " the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman". and regarded men as "biologically inferior" and stated that to eliminate male violence one needs to eliminate the male species/race. The site is currently classed as "wedding". An additional unblocked Dworkin fan site has a "non profit" classification.

Brown Power - A Tumblr site which states "kill all men", "death to whites" "unless ur brown then get outta town".

My Misandry - "A tumblr website by misandrists for misandrists. It is a place for misandrists to feel free, express themselves and to meet other like-minded people" The statement on the first page reads "HELL YEAH KILL ALL MEN FUCK THOSE GUYS AND THEIR RAPE ORGANS", in fact a quick glance at Tumblr shows the whole place to be arguably the biggest hotbed of misandry on the internet. Perhaps there's sufficient grounds to block the whole thing as hate until the admins get their act together?

Sally Miller Gearhart - Famously said "the proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race". I'm not aware of any men's site suggest the female population be reduced to parity with men nevermind forcing them to become a tiny minority. Gearhart sells her books via her website so therefore benefits financially from O2/Symantec's failure to block her work.

SCUM Conference - in 2011 a group of radical feminists organised a "SCUM Conference" in Perth, Australia. One of the advertised objectives of this event was to "destroy the male sex". Neither of the blogs of the two feminist organisers/promoters of the event are blocked.

Die White Cis male - another Tumbler site, doesn't really need any more explanation does it?


Hopefully, as with previous examples I've highlighted, O2/Symantec will take action to block the above sites but that's not really the point. It's not my job to fix the Rulespace filter and police feminist hate. If O2/Symantec put 1% of the effort into targeting feminist extremism as they do in denying access to legitimate men's human rights sites then no doubt at least some of the above would have the correct hate classification automatically.

More on this issue later this week.

by John Kimble

Posted at 06:15 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence | | Comments (4)

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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

O2 AND SYMANTEC - EQUALITY FOR MEN IS MORE HATEFUL THAN STORMFRONT

Most of my posts this year have concerned the O2 and Symantec censorship scandal, some readers may becoming bored of the issue by now but I make no apologies for them in fact they'll keep coming until the censorship stops. To be honest, I've probably been rather two soft on these companies in the past and things are going to step up a gear from now onwards.

I keep learning more about the Rulespace filter by the day and I made a quite astonishing discovery recently. O2 and Symantec have two possible ways of blocking a site, it can either be classed as a "hate site" or be placed in the "hate" category, either way it gets censored and access is restricted.

Take a racist site such as Stormfront, O2's url checker shows us that it is in the "hate" category. The same goes for a site such as the National Coalition for Men, one of the oldest men's organisations in existence. However, in addition to it's place in the "hate" category, it also receives a "hate site" classification, something not found for Stormfront.org. So Stormfront is blocked once, yet a perfectly legitimate organisation such as NCFM.org is blocked twice over just for good measure, just to make sure it never gets seen.

A quick glance at Stormfront's forums soon reveals racistand derogatroy comments about Africans and Jews, whereas the top article on NCFM.org concerned the need to defend the concept of innocent until proven guilty. Despite this, O2 and Symantec are clearly saying a respected non profit organisation advocating for men's human rights and gender equality is worse than Stormfront, and more deserving of censorship and a "hate" classification. The Rulespace filter system is so misandrist or so flawed that it favours proud racists over  men's human rights advocates.

The list of sites deemed worse than Stormfront by these companies even includes dvmen.org, a site for male victims of domesitc violence in Colerado run by the Equal Justice Foundation. Also apparantly worse than Stormfront is mensdefence.org, the site of author and pioneering men's equality advocate Richard F Doyle.

Please remember to cancel your O2 contract if you haven't done so already and uninstall your Symantec software, in both cases there are quite a few cheaper and better alternatives out there anyway. Also don' forget to give the reason for your cancellation.

by John Kimble

Posted at 01:19 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence | | Comments (4)

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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

MEDIA OPENING UP TO THE PLIGHT OF MEN AND THE ATTACKS ON THEM BY ANTI-MALE FEMINISTS

The last month or so has been significant in at least raising a myriad of issues that:

  • discriminate against men and boys,
  • the hypocrisy of those feminists who claim to be about equality but actually do not want equality if it means equality for men and boys  - they want supremacy and special treatment, plus,
  • the mainstream media either covering these issues and/or letting commentators write about them.

On the latter, many people have been banging on the door but all of a sudden they have been let in - almost as though some editors are starting to see it?

As well as those articles and issues mentioned here, below are a few more from the past week:

Daily Mail - Women need to get angry with rape liars (Peter Lloyd) A clear consequence of unequal justice and an issue first covered here.

Daily Mail - Why it sexist to say part-time female doctors are a problem (Melanie Phillips) and the desperate atempt to backtrack

BBC - A million children growing up without a father - and Emlyn Jones on about 7:10. This report marks  a victory for CAFCSS, anti-male feminists, judges et al. So boys do not have fathers and there are no male teachers - so who in government is going to do anything - er...nothing...Minister for Equalities anyone?

BBC Three Counties - Mike Buchanan Discussion

The Independent - TOWIE attacked by domestic abuse charity (Daisy Wright)

News Statesman - Memo to Jo Swinson (Glen Poole)

Good Men Project - Can a man be a feminist? (Glen Poole)

Posted by Skimmington

 

Posted at 01:45 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence, False Accusations, Family Law | | Comments (7)

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Thursday, 06 June 2013

COUNCIL CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS DON'T PAY MEN UNIVERSAL CREDIT THEY MAY MAKE THEIR WIFE AND KIDS STARVE

As mentioned before, please keep subscribing to sites like Mike's, Glen's, Claire's and others to keep fully informed of everything going on as am busy elsewhere working.

I saw this one today (and here, where Dumfries and Galloway Council chief executive Gavin Stevenson, said: "The real issue about welfare reform is the impact it would have perhaps in rises in domestic violence if we start paying money back to men in families and individuals rather than landlords, and potential rises in debt homelessness even though we say we don't want it to get there."

Obviously Stevenson has some level of self-loathing to paint every single man in receipt of universal credit and living in a rented property as some sort of creature not to be trusted with money becuase he is at risk of using it to commit domestic abuse and control his partner. A case of everyday misandry.

Obviously, no men are victims of domestic violence in Dumfires and Galloway at the hands of a women I suppose.

Posted by Skimmington 

Posted at 23:23 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence | | Comments (1)

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Sunday, 26 May 2013

NEWS UPDATE

There have been some great posts on Mike Buchanan's Fighting Feminism site and Glen's Poole's Twitter @HelplingMen and FaceBook website, so here are a few links to other stories:

Good Men Project - Do men prefer feminism, football and Fight Club? (Glen Poole)

The Guardian - Let men criticise feminism (Dr Phil Goss) and Jack O'Sullivan's article

 Daily Mail -  Fathers to blame for childless women? (Peter Lloyd) and Melissa Kite's original article

 Daily Mail - Offensive feminist porn (Martha De Lacy)

Female-Based Gender Violence - DV Statistics (Robert Whiston)

A Voice for Men - Reasons for Cheer in the Men's Rights Movement (Glen Poole)

Daily Mail - Nick Ross on feminism (Nick Ross)

 

Daily Telegraph - 33 boys die in South Africa due to circumcision (Aislinn Laing)

The Guardian - Men get disorders too (Glen Poole)

 BBC - WRVS to allow men by dropping the W

PR Web - Unprecedented DV study shows women perpetrate as much as women

Posted by Skimmington 

 

Posted at 19:23 in Current Affairs/Political, Domestic Violence | | Comments (4)

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Thursday, 09 May 2013

NEWS UPDATE

As ever, here are a few below but keep checking the Fighting Feminism and Helping Men websites for UK based stories.

The Guardian - The other gender divide (Mona Chalabi) Very welcome piece but framed from a feminist perspective bizarrely ('It's difficult to deny that women suffer more than men as a result of their gender') - it is almost like an apology has to be written before the Guardian will accept anything about men.

 

 The Independent - Need knows no gender (Ally Fogg) Brilliant piece from Ally including coverage of Earl Silverman - a male equality hero. Plus Barbara kay article.

Men's Heath Forum - Men's Health Week

News Statesman - The uncomfortable truth about male suicide (Holly Baxter)

Voice for Men - Karen Straughan presentation brilliant presentation should be compulsory on any gender studies course

Karen Ingala-Smith - This thing about male victims proof beyond doubt that some people don't want to recognise male victims exist!

Hiromi Uehara - Piano Woman

MRA LOndon - Mumsnet discussion

 Newsletter - Ulster judge warns against positive discrimination

The Guardian - Feminism is not strong enough (Jill Filipovic)

Posted by Skimmington

Posted at 07:03 in Domestic Violence, Health, News Update | | Comments (6)

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