The Rights Of Man

NEWS UPDATE

Some feisty and 'testing' articles to report

Conservative Home - Prison for girls is not the answer (Claire Perry MP) Amazing piece of sexism rightly derided in the comments section of the piece but this is someone tipped for big things. Just another part of the movement that believes that justice should not be gender blind and that equality only means equality when it suits.

The Guardian - Harriet Harman, you're wrong - Conservatives make better feminists (Amber Rudd MP and Andrea Leadsom MP) Two more Conservatives hellbent on the gender war. Funny how these two benefited from Cameron's A-List which was hideously anti-male in stopping men from being able to become Conservative MP's.

Teaching Agency - Record numbers of men teaching in primary schools : Still very small and was covered in Men's Hour

Daily Mail - Our schools need tough guys teaching teenage boys, not feminised men (Kathy Gyngell)

Ministry for Justice - David Norgrove appointed Chair of Family Justice Board: What a disaster

Daily Telegraph - Father's rights breached by mother too 'upset' to let him see children (Tim Ross)

Department for Business Innovation and Skills - Women on boards (One year on)

Campaign for merit in business - A remarkable statement and more on Fighting Feminism

Scottish Government - £34.5m to fight domestic violence against women: and not a penny for men

Ally Fogg - We don't call it sexism

Always welcome any I have missed to be included in comments

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"Women experience an average of 35 incidents of domestic violence before reporting an incident to the police" - 31 years old and not even British

When Kier Starmer, the Director for Public Prosecutions gave a speech this week about the success in ending violence against women and girls he threw a token to those who feel the CPS pays lip service to supporting men and boys with regard to sexual and domestic violence. Perhaps he and his speechwriters read this site as he said this below when before he has said nothing:

"In recognising these dynamics the CPS does not neglect abuse directed towards men or perpetrated by women. Male victims receive the same access to protection and legal redress and the gender of the perpetrator does not make a difference to the CPS approach to bringing offenders to justice. All of our existing policies are gender neutral, and are applied fairly and equitably to all victims of crime and all defendants are prosecuted in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors."

They are still mere crumbs from the table.

One BBC report on the speech quoted him as saying "Most victims of domestic violence suffer in silence - Mr Starmer said a woman would on average be assaulted 30 times before she sought help." There is no evidence in any of the press releases that he said this.

However, being naturally inquisitive, I remembered seeing a figure often quoted that says " Women experience an average of 35 incidents of domestic violence before reporting an incident to the police."  Even the CPS have used it - but so does practically everyone else it would seem.

So is it true (it could be higher or lower) and more importantly, in the name of equality, what is the male figure?

After much hunting around the web and looking for the source (via Women's Aid and Refuge) the source is Jaffe 1982. So already this statistic commonly used today is actually 30 years old!

The source is Canadian academic Dr. Peter G Jaffe and the research paper is called An integrated response to wife assault : a community model.

Some sources say 1982 and others say 1984, but let's stick to 1982 if this is the one quoted by many. However, we know the research took place in 1981.

So here we have it.

A figure used in 2012 by a myriad of statutory authorities in the UK about the number of times a woman is assaulted before she calls the police is based on a statistic that is not only 31 years old it is not even based on British research - it is from Canada.

The figure could be higher - it could be lower - as it could be for men but there is no equivalent available. 1981 is pure Jurassic age when it comes to recognising male victims.

So here we have a one-sided statistics, used continuously to create and justify a one-sided position on domestic abuse (women are the only victims) and those who use it do not even bother to find an up-to-date figure let alone one that relates to Britain.

It says so much about those who believe their ideology must come before telling the truth and telling it in a balanced and equal way.

Any authority that uses this figure as if it is recent and from Britain is now instantly discredited.

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CLARE'S LAW - HOW THE GOVERNMENT ENTRENCHES DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MALE VICTIMS

At the beginning of the week, the government announced that it was to pilot Clare's Law in Gwent and Wiltshire - this is the scheme that places men and women who have (or have alleged to have) committed domestic abuse crimes.

As the BBC reported, Refuge claim it will make no difference because most perpetrators are not known to police and others state it will lead to false allegations. Of course, this will be the case and false allegations themselves are a form of domestic abuse. Also others such as the ManKind Initiative have said if it is to go ahead it should called Clare and Clive's Law and this has been covered on this site.

And this is the point about the institutional discrimination against men.

The law and the register applies to men and women, yet the government does all it can to purposely misrepresent this by omitting it - discrimination by omission.

Firstly, if you name something Clare's Law then automatically you are setting it out as only for one gender.

But worse, the press release says:

• "Under the scheme women will have the right to ask the police whether a new or existing partner has a violent past": Wrong - it is women and men.

 

• Home Secretary Theresa May said: 'Domestic violence is a dreadful crime which sees two women a week die at the hands of their partners, and millions more suffer years of abuse in their own homes: Wrong - it is also one man per fortnight

The press release and obvious briefing over the weekend means the media follow this line so the Daily Mail , Daily Express and Daily Telegraph only mention men.

But the police don't share this view - the clip here from Gwent uses the term partner as does the Acpo lead on the Home Office press release. Sonia Poulton is sound in using men and women.

So why does the government in the same as launching a film aimed at male victims of forced marriage still refuse to recognise male victims of domestic abuse exist. They are sexist - what other logical reason could there be?

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NEWS UPDATE

A few more from this week:

The Guardian - Suicide on the rise in older men (Helen Nugent): Excellent comment from CALM who are not expanding their servcies for all men. The DoH comment does not recognise that 3 in every 4 who commit suicide are men - why can't they say it.

Fighting Feminism - Men's Hour: an endorsement from a radical feminist (Mike Buchanan)

BBC - Alan Halsall and Natalie Gumede on Corrie domestic abuse story

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NEWS UPDATE

A few recent stories and issues, and thank to those who have highlighted them.

BBC - Children with older fathers and grandfathers live longer (MIchelle Roberts)

BBC - Euro 2012 and football violence (Rebecca Cafe): The only example on this issue that has some balance with a male case study.

Daily Mail - Harvey Nichols spark outrage with 'disgusting' advertising campaign showing women wetting themselves (Deborah Arthurs): The adverts also show men wetting themselves but this is not in the headline or commentary.

Forbes (USA) - How some men are upending the domestic violence law to scam an advantage in divorce (Jeff Landers): Outrageous misandry and does Mr Landers think that a woman has never done this?

ManKind Initiative - Letter to NSPCC

Fighting Feminism - My Favourite Blog (Mike Buchanan): Kind words from Mike

Daily Telegraph - Police chief found hanged after sexism row : Never underestimate the power of these allegations

Men's Network - Public services failing men

The Guardian - The Paycheck Fairness Act (Naomi Wolf): Myths and deliberate mistruths about the 'gender pay gap'

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PMS - PUNISH MEN SEVERELY

I saw a girl (circa 21) today with a badge on her hat with the words "PMS - Punish Men Severely".

Looking on the web, there seems lots of these products available. They have obviously replaced the 'men are stupid, throw rocks at them' tshirts/mugs.

I wonder what the militant feminists who laugh at this would think if the genders were reversed and also it is just another way of demeaning men - some of whom who will actually be punished as victims of domestic abuse. It shows the hypocrisy of the militant girl power advocates.

You can buy merchandise on ebay, zazzle and a car sign on Amazon!

Here is a selection.

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NEWS UPDATE

Sorry, been a long Jubilee weekend (why don't the radical feminists hold up the Queen as a totem of 'girl power'  - is it because she is good at her job and just gets on with it without crying out for special treatment at the expense of men?) so here is a few to go on with. Will be looking at the boardroom issue in the next few days.

 Daily Mail - Men are the grimier sex (Tamara Cohen)

Daily Mail - STD fears as 70% of single women have unprotected sex  (Graham Smith) and the day before it was  sexually transmiotted disease the fault of men. Good spot by Ian about consistency.

Fighting Feminism (Mike Buchanan) - A small but important victory but then it looks like being snatched away.

Economic and Social Research Council - UK children need more male befrienders

Institute for Economic Affairs - The gender diversity delusion (Mike Buchanan) - Mike recommends reading the comments section.

Safer Lancashire - County Councillor David Smith pitifully and wrongly tries to justify why a publicity campaign on domestic abuse does not include men as well as women. 

Daily Mail - Dame Butler Sloss admits women have been chosen to be judges on the basis of their gender (Jack Doyle) - The cat is out of the bag just as it was here - proof that discrimination is now taking place against men in the boardroom and in the legal profession. But then Erica Rackley comes along in The Guardian stating that Butler-Sloss' comments are unhelpful - obviously because it uneermines the case for special treatment. Rackley has a book coming out - obviously will be a  diatribe calling for special treatment for women and therefore discimination against men.

BBC News - Are men really more unfaithful than women (Fiona Woods) Another myth busted

The Guardian - The men who do women's work (Kevin Powell)

As one commenter says about his statements that have no evidence behind them:

And as these males enter female-dominated occupations, sexism and gender privilege follow: men even earn more than women in these once-taboo fields for males."Wow. Any statistics on this one that anyone is aware of?"

The silence of domestic violence - new website about a man's experience of DV and the family courts.

Thank you all to those who sent links over.

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BBC'S NEWSNIGHT DOES NOT BELIEVE TEENAGE BOYS ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

Seeing the horrific experiences that Taylah went through on Newsnight (34 minutes in) was quite distressing as were the experiences of Armanie  - who was victim during a same-sex relationship (How do Women's Aid and Refuge deal with that ideologically?). No one for any minute wishes to belittle their stories but what strikes anyone looking at the report is that it fails to mention domestic/partner abuse against teenage boys - whether in a heterosexual or gay relationship.

Troubling is the issue that the facts the BBC use throughout the video and also where they cover the story online are all from Women's Aid and the Home Office and only highlight female figures.

Certainly, from the British Crime Survey every figure for a woman has a male equivalent (see ManKind Initiative 21 key facts) so saying that 1 million women were victims in 2011 is fine  as a statistic (it was 1.2 million) but then deliberately choosing not to state that 800,000 men also suffered that year is sexist.

It is sexism by omission because the producers and researchers of the piece must have consciously chosen not to include male teenagers and male equivalent figures when the figures for women are from the same source and the same table (ManKind's source list indicate page 101 here). The BBC also say 30% of women have suffered from domestic abuse since 16 but so have 17% of men - again in the same British Crime Survey reports.

The statistics on the Newsnight report also refer to refuge and funding cuts. No one wants to see refuge cuts and women being turned away but there are hardly any refuges for men to be turned away from or services to be cut. That is never tackled.

Keeping on the statistics front - it was good that BBC raised the issue of teenage abuse but again as the British Crime Survey shows for 2009/10 - 12.7% of 16-19 year old women are victims of domestic abuse (7.3% partner abuse) but 6.2% (3.6%) of men are too in that age group - one in every three.

Why does the BBC not mention that?

The whole commentary on the piece was about support for female teenage victims. If Newsnight had not produced a sexist report it would have been about teenage women and male victims.

Male teenagers do not even get a look in (the Home Office's £2 million pound campaign about teenage partner abuse did not implore girls not to hit boyfriends, or girlfriends for that matter).

This is a continuation of a trend where the BBC and other parts of the media one minute ensure male victims are mentioned  - BBC Breakfast makes great play about it  (even the Guardian do here but the the Telegraph do not - even for the same story on legal aid), but then they take one massive retrograde step backwards.

Newsnight story was another classic piece of sexual and gender discrimination against men - this time male teenagers who are victims of domestic abuse.

You can tell the frustration from teenage boys or those men who were victims of domestic abuse when they were a teenager about not being included through the comments on the Radio 1 Extra piece. Those frustrations show sexual discrimination against male victims of domestic abuse is alive and kicking.

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NEWS UPDATE

Sorry everyone, likely to be away working this week so here are a few articles:

Girl Writes What - How feminism conned society

BBC News - Women only bus stop

Politics home - Women in Parliament (Nadine Dorries MP)

The Guardian - Male rape charity's hard-hitting campaign (Tracey McVeigh)

Irish Independent - Boy facing sex trial as court holds' Romeo and Juliet' law (Tim Healy)

Daily Mail - Male anorexia (Victoria Wellman)

BBC News - Male Y Chromosone extinction challenged

ManKind Initiative - Authorities must do more to help men come forward

Men do complain - Vigil at BMA

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OXFAM STILL SPREADING UNTRUTHS ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

After being offended by an Oxfam poster on a train telling everyone it was to support International Women's Day (offended because it would never support International Men's Day plus it is spending hard raised donations on this type of advertising), I thought it was worth having a look at what they say especially as this is a charity that is supposed to be "a global movement of people working with others to overcome poverty and suffering."

Firstly, it makes it clear that "Oxfam puts women's rights at the heart of everything we do." Obviously, the sons, brothers husbands and fathers of women do not matter. Plus what does this have to do with its aim to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam have form.

And then looking at a fact they are still perpetuating a complete myth and falsehood:

"In many countries, women are suffering horrendous domestic violence - the single biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide."

This has been proved to be a myth as cancer is by far the worst caused of death for women.

It also brings into question all the other figures they use and where they actually get the figures from. What are the sources especially where they state that two thirds of children being denied schooling are women. Where is the research for this and is it down to religion rather than poverty?

Oxfam has been warped by Marxist radical feminists from being an organisation helping poverty worldwide to one who dislike men.

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