The Rights Of Man

ERIN PIZZEY - HOW FEMINISTS DENY MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS SUPPORT

The wonderful Erin Pizzey wrote an article in The Daily Mail (link) describing how feminist fundamentalists actively campaign against support being given to male domestic violence victims. It explains how they are supported by politicians and some quotes from the article are outlined below. It is a wonderful tour de force.

In 1990, Harriet Harman (who became a Cabinet minister), Anna Coote (who became an adviser to Labour's Minister for Women) and Patricia Hewitt (yes, she's in the Labour Cabinet, too!) expressed their beliefs in a social policy paper called The Family Way.

It said: "It cannot be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life, or that the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion." It was a staggering attack on men and their role in modern life.

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For nearly four decades, these pernicious attitudes towards family life, fathers and boys have permeated the thinking of our society to such an extent that male teachers and carers are now afraid to touch or cuddle children.

Men can be accused of violence towards their partners and sexual abuse without evidence. Courts discriminate against fathers and refuse to allow them access to their children on the whims of vicious partners.

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I believe that the feminist movement envisaged a new Utopia that depended upon destroying family life. In the new century, so their credo ran, the family unit will consist of only women and their children. Fathers are dispensable. And all that was yoked - unforgivably - to the debate about domestic violence.

TEACHER ADMITS EDUCATION IS BIASED AGAINST BOYS

In a Daily Mail article (24/01/08) that does not seem to be on-line, Frances Child, a secondary school teacher admits that the feminisation of education has meant that boys are disadvantaged.

In the article, she explain how stripping competitiveness from sport and exams has damaged boys, that they are not suited to course based work and also how when in comes to play they are not expected to behave as boys.  No running around or playing with toys like tanks and guns.

As it comes from a female teacher, her views are extremely credible.

NEW BOOK SHOWS HOW FEMINISATION HAS DAMAGED BOYS EDUCATION

This site has raised the issue constantly about how the feminisation of education has blighted the educational chances of at least one to two generations of boys (link). The story is covered here (link) and (link).

In a new book,  Dr Leonard Sax has produced a book called Boys Adrift (link) which explains that boys are lagging behind at school because of a combination of lessons which suit girls better, over-exposure to video games and a decline in male role models.

Dr Sax, the US academic, is calling for single-sex lessons throughout primary and secondary school to allow boys to learn at their own pace. This site has called for single-sex lessons, single-sex schools and the re-introduction of O-levels to help boys achieve just like they used to.

The family court system of course has its part to play, as it seeks to take fathers out of their children;s lives especially when it creates an adversarial environment and a refusal to enforce child contact orders.

The current status of boys can be seen here:-

Again, when is the Government and the educational establishment going to do something about it?

When girls were behind they pulled out all the stoops but because it is boys, they do not care. Boys education is infected with political correctness and boys are bottom of the pile.

SEX DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION - BOYS PUNISHED FIVE TIMES MORE THAN GIRLS ALTHOUGH THEY MISBEHAVE AT THE SAME RATE

In ground-breaking research by Dr Jeremy Swinson, an honorary lecturer in educational psychology at Liverpool John Moores University has shown that boys are five times more likely to be told off in a primary school class than girls even though they are just as likely to misbehave.

They are also less likely to be praised or picked to answer a question, despite raising their hands just as often as girls.

As quoted in the Daily Telegraph (link), "The 'prejudiced' views of some teachers could be damaging boys' self-belief, it is feared, causing them to do badly at school. Dr Swinson said that this "prejudice" could explain why girls get better exam results than boys. "Perhaps some boys get disenchanted with lessons because they are being told off too much," he said.

This proves that the feminisation of education has damaged boys education. Already boys are far behind girls educationally since the move away from testing/exams (O-levels) to course based work (GCSE).

When is the Government and educational establishment going to do something about it?

The story is also covered here:- (link) and (link)

WOMEN-ONLY COURSES AND SPECIAL TREATMENT DAMAGING MEN

A report in the Daily Telegraph (link) stated "Men's chances of rising up the social scale in Britain have stalled because of greater competition from women and a slower rate of growth for top jobs, a study published yesterday reported. The research, by Oxford University, showed that upward social mobility has come to a halt despite Government reforms to tackle class inequality and offer opportunity for all.

Worse still for men, Labour's goal to promote "equality of opportunity" failed to mention that any increase in social mobility was likely to create as many losers as winners, with men losing out to the increasing number of women pursuing careers."

A link to the report's conclusions is here (link) and the authors were Dr John Goldthorpe and Dr Michelle Jackson from Oxford University.

One issue the report does not cover is the plethora of women-only training, management and leadership courses and whether this, alongside the feminisation of education that is condemning generations of boys to a life of under-achievement, is starting to have an affect.

These courses, normally promoted by senior women to give other women in their organisation an unfair advantage over men, or, by senior men browbeaten by the feminist fundamentalists/trade unions within their organisation, are a clear example of sexual discrimination in the workplace.

As ever, it treats people as if their gender is their primary trait so a talented and confident women gets to go on a women-only leadership course but an equally talented but shy man does not go on any course. Or the girl from Rodean goes but the boy from Brixton does not.

These academics ought to look into this as well.

BOYS EDUCATION IN CRISIS - FALLING MALE TEACHER NUMBERS AND POOR GCSE RESULTS

Two separate but inter-linking pieces of research were released just in the New Year.

The first research (featured in the Daily Mail - link) showed that "Fewer men are teaching in schools than at any time since records began and in one in ten primary schools there are no men on the staff at all. More than two out of three teachers are now women. Just 15 per cent of teachers in primary schools are men, down from 20 per cent in 1986. Men now make up 43 per cent of secondary teachers, down from 49 per cent in 1996 and 54 per cent in 1986."

At the same time and well covered on this site (link), the Daily Telegraph reported (link) "Barely a third of boys in comprehensive schools are gaining the GCSEs they need to obtain a job or stay on at school."

The dearth of male teachers means there are less male role models in school to engender the competitiveness and discipline that boys need in school. This can be made even worse when there is no father at home as Michael Gove, Tory schools spokesman said: "Fewer male teachers means fewer male role models for boys who may not have one at home."

The Government, which is belatedly concerned about this issue, are not doing enough and years of the feminisation of education has damaged the life chances of boys up an down the country. Boys, according to the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), want to be taught by men (link) and they released a survey suggesting boys were more likely to disrupt lessons and neglect their work if taught by women.

More needs to be done, and remember, if it was girls being behind or there were fewer female teachers, then the Fawcett Society and Commission for Equality and Human Rights would be jumping all over this.

EQUAL RIGHTS CHARITY, PARITY, REVAMP WEB-SITE

Britain's only genuinely equal rights campaigning group, Parity, have revamped their web-site (link). It is first rate.

PARITY have been a trailblazing organisation fighting for equality. PARITY was first formed in 1986 as the Campaign for Equal State Pension Ages, a wholly voluntary organisation concerned with the equal rights of men and women. 

It has led where other supposedly equal rights groups like the now defunct Equal Opportunities Commission and other feminist organisations have hid away because they did not want to support genuine equality. They only support women's causes and nothing will change under the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

Through litigation in the courts applying European Union or European Convention law binding (by statute or treaty) in the UK, PARITY has instigated cases resulting in:

• equal qualifying ages for men and women - for exemption from NHS prescription charges (1995), for winter fuel payments (2000), and for local bus travel concessions (2003), and
• equal treatment for widowers and widows in survivors social security benefits and bereavement tax allowances (2000).

Their new web-site also includes sections on men's health, boy's education, sex discrimination, equal parenting and also male victims of domestic abuse.

DANGEROUS EVENT FOR BOYS : NEW CULTURE FORUM 24th SEPTEMBER

The New Culture Forum will be hosting an event on the evening of Monday 24th September. Please follow the link here (link) and the details copied from their site are below:-.

The event entitled The Dangerous Event for Boys : Has Education Become Too Feminised? will take place in at 6:30 for 7:00pm The Ideas Space, Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, Westminster , SW1P 3AY.

THE DANGEROUS EVENT FOR BOYS will address the burning issue of what the Daily Telegraph recently called ‘the crisis in British schools: the failure to educate boys.’

From the huge shortage of male teachers, to the replacement of competitive exams with risk-free coursework, the removal of boy-friendly content in politically-correct textbooks and the compulsory discussion of feelings, Britain ’s education system is said to overly favour the natural instincts of girls. No wonder, say the critics, girls now vastly outperform boys in our schools. Boys can only succeed these days by being… girls.

The runaway success of The Dangerous Book for Boys suggests boys still long to be boys. But in our schools, male characteristics are being reclassified as behavioural disorders. Is a unisex approach to teaching and a feminine bias in the classroom betraying Britain ’s disengaged boys? Or are boys and girls really just identical – and do boys need to grow up and get with the programme?

The Dangerous Event for Boys will also consider the wider implications for society of a feminised culture in which male role models are increasingly rare. If boys can no longer be boys, can men still be men – or is it just coincidence that men are now routinely portrayed on television and in adverts as thick and feckless?

Hal Iggulden is co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys, which has sold over a million copies.

Anthony Seldon is Master of Wellington College and a biographer of Tony Blair. He is the pioneer of Happiness Classes in schools

Ray Lewis is Founder and Executive Director of the groundbreaking Eastside Young Leader’s Academy

Sue Gyde has been teaching since the mid 1970's and has always been in the forefront of inclusive and interactive education. She is now Senior Advisor for Secondary School Improvement for one of the most successful boroughs in the country.

Spencer Drury is a teacher at Colfe’s, an independent boys school in South East London, and is Leader of the Conservatives on Greenwich Borough Council.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. We hope you can join us.

RSVP to [email protected] or [email protected]

BOYS EDUCATION BEHIND AT SEVEN

Following the series of examination results this summer, boys at school are behind girls at every level and in practically every subject. As the results show here in the Daily Mail (link), boys are behind girls at the first stage of primary school, including a massive 11% behind at writing.

BOW GROUP REPORT : THE FEMINISATION OF EDUCATION HITS BOYS

A key feature of this site has been the raising of the issue of how the feminsation of education has hit boys education (link). This trend has accelerated under this feminist anti-male government and shows why we need a Minister for Men.

Chris Skidmore has written an excellent report for The Bow Group highlighting the key statistics showing how decades of feminisation has proved costly for generations of men. The report availble on-line (link). It was also covered in the Sunday Telegraph (link) and (link).

The introduction states that the report is part of the Bow Group's Invisible Nation series, looking into groups whose situation is overlooked. Men certainly fall into that category.

The main findings of the report show clearly the damage that has been wrought, not just in terms of exams results but also in behaviourial matters. The main findings are:-

• 27% of boys- nearly 90,000 boys in total- do not gain a single good GCSE (a C grade or above);
• 21% of 14 year old boys have the reading age of a seven year old (level three or below);
• Only 21% of boys gain five good GCSEs including English, maths, science and a foreign language, compared with 31% of girls;
• Just 36% of boys stay on to take A levels, compared with 44% of girls;
• In the latest exclusion figures, boys accounted for 72% of all fixed period exclusions and 79% of all permanent exclusions.