The Rights Of Man

TOM MARTIN TO DEBATE NUS WOMEN'S OFFICER

The significance of Tuesday's debate on "Is Feminism is sexist?" gathers apace now that it has been revealed that he is debating Estelle Hart,the National Union of Student's Women's Officer. She has a NUS blog and had one before she became an NUS officer.

It is significant that the NUS Women's Officer is prepared to take part in the debate, especially when seen against their attitude towards Men's Officers and want them all to be scrapped.On the blogroll of the NUS blog (see link to Estelle Hart's link to NUS blog above) you will see there is an officer for every single type of person except for a heterosexual man.

It means the NUS see it as significant and that they can see the tide is turning against their unreasonable and unequal attitude towards, men's officers and equality in general. They have much to defend.

Good luck to Tom

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 Hattip to John Kimble

NEWS UPDATE

A few articles and news from the past couple of weeks:

Guido Fawkes: Some women are more equal than others - those able to pay for a place at this dinner are the very same wanting boardroom quotas and special treatment!

Daily Telegraph: Victory for divorced dads is a victory for children (Cristina Odone)

The Guardian: Question Time, QI and Mock the Week criticised (John Plunkett) - The BBC, part of the men-hating metropolitan elite, decide that because there are not enough female faces on certain comedy programmes it must be down to discrimination. No mention as to whether there is not enough good women to appear. It is no different to the calls for gender quotas.

BBC: Domestic violence charity wins grant to help men

The Independent: Female teachers accused of discrimation against boys (Richard Garner)

Men's Network: Government commits to tackle male inequality

Men's Network: February round-up

False Rape Society: Blackburn Rovers player to sue false accuser

Update - I missed one (thanks to John Kimble for pointing it out)

The Guardian: We need gender studies to battle inequality across the board (Triona Kennedy) As John says, the comments are worth reading. Our friend Triona has form she believes the education system is failing girls!!!!!!!!

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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 articles and news from the past week

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Westminster: The Men's Vote : Overall a good programme but the end debate was frustrating with the usual guff about patriarchy and also the fact that there are more men in power so of course men's interests are taken into account (Hopi Sen was irritating) so the discussion was based on the prism that anti-male feminism has placed on men - the people involved apart from Kelner and the presenter don't like men. It still remains a problem that few male MP's stand up for men's issues (a few honourable exceptions including Dominic Raab, Karl McCartney, Charlie Elphicke). 

Daily Telegraph - Divorced mums and dads could get legal rights to see their children (Christopher Hope) - Please do not let this glimmer of hope be snuffed out and the comments from Tim Loughton and Charlie Elphicke are fabulously robust with the latter's 'anti-dad sociologists and week-kneed judges' being a particular gem.

Sunday People - Michael Le Vell demands rape law change (Phil Cardy) - Covered in a previous post but here the Coronation Street actor speaks out about the hideous experience he suffered and why the law on anonymity must change. In the paper itself (not online), it covers the list of high profile men who have had this charge against them including Neil Hamilton, Matthew Kelly, Mick Hucknall, Craig Charles, Louis Walsh, Paul Weller and Quinten Hann. Lord Dale Campbell-Savours says the law has to change but ex-government (Labour) minister and voraciously anti-male Vera Baird and feminist researcher  (her words) Professor Liz Kelly want the law to stay the same. Male victims of false accusations are collateral damage to them.

Daily Telegraph - Boys raised by tradional family unit do better at school (Graeme Paton): The most signifianct part of this article is the piece towards the end about single-mothers having less warmth towards their sons than their daughters. What would be the feminist response to this but it is a real concern if this is true.

Daily Mail - Foul mouthed judge attacked justice system (Rebecca Camber): This unsavoury judge was the one involved here (see Terry Smith reference) and so it is welcome she has gone.

Daily Mail - Julie Dixon jailed for 23 years (Andy Dolan): Who says men cannot be victims? 

The Guardian - Tory Feminists (Gaby Hinsliff): That's all men need!

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HOME OFFICE ALIGNS FATHERS 4 JUSTICE WITH TERRORISTS GROUPS

If anyone has been watching the Channel 4 programmes under the umbrella of Black Mirror will understand what a scary Orwellian place the future could be. In an article for the Times Higher Education supplement it has been revealed that the Prevent anti-terrorism strategy has lumped Fathers 4 Justice under the same banner as terrorists.

While many people have many views about F4J, they are not terrorists and only adopted the tactics they did because the family law courts did not (and continue not to) uphold the law over child custody and allow children to have a meaningful relationship with both parents.

To put that on a par with terrorism shows the lack of understanding the Home Office have in thinking that all groups that do not kowtow to the 'system' must be placed in the same group even if some want to kill people like the terrorist groups.

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UPDATE FROM TOM MARTIN - COURT DATE ANNOUNCED FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

PRESS RELEASE: December 4^th, 2011

 Court date for man's £50,000 lawsuit against 'male-blaming' gender studies degrees at LSE

 A former student of the London School of Economics (LSE), who has filed a lawsuit claiming all five of its gender studies Masters degrees “exaggerate women's issues and recommend blaming men to justify ignoring men's issues”, will make his case at the Central London County Court, a hearing date now set for February 14^th, 2012.

 As reported by The Evening Standard , The Guardian (here and here), Forbes Magazine, The West End Extra, A Voice for Men, Men's Matters, and dozens of blogs and vlogs, Tom Martin's case has garnered a lot of public support, his legal fighting fund receiving £3055 in donations from ninety people in eight countries to date, but Martin says he now needs more donations, “Clerical errors by the court have caused a three month delay, so I now need a few thousand pounds more to continue devoting all my time in preparation for winning the case.”

 Director of LSE's Gender Institute, Dr Anne Phillips, told LSE's student union newspaper The Beaver “I find it almost surreal when [LSE's] Gender Institute is portrayed as representing 'women good, men bad'”, but Martin's website documents his method and analysis of texts in the opening compulsory unit for all gender degrees at LSE as evidence of “systematic male-blaming bias”, and argues the contract students enter explicitly rules out sex-discriminatory learning materials.

 LSE's defence now argue key texts are not compulsory learning materials, only “recommended”. Martin claims key texts are indeed compulsory, students explicitly told to read them in preparation for further discussion in seminars. LSE also argue texts are available for both women and men to read so therefore do not directly discriminate.

 Further, they argue a focus on women in gender studies is expected, claiming any bias or discrimination against men “plainly justifiable”. Martin says the prospectus did not warn of any discrimination or bias, nor seek to justify it.

 In a 2011 book (p10), Dr Clare Hemmings, senior gender lecturer at LSE, admits when “women's studies” became “gender studies” programmes, it signalled a rejection of biased, exaggerated female victim-hood perspectives in favour of greater inclusion, accuracy, and fairness for the field, but that subsequently, nothing changed. In 2008, Hemmings wrote that replacing the prefix “women's” with “gender” was a good way to ensure continued public funding and support.

 Another of LSE's key gender texts recommends ignoring men's studies in favour of “Critical Studies on Men (CSM)". According to various reports, many educational programmes around the world are similarly critical, from kindergarden up.

  Research shows negative stereotypes on men effect focus, performance, and health. With 59% of university degrees going to women and 41% to men, the gap widening, Martin hopes his lawsuit will encourage educationalists to improve their stories. He appears in a Youtube exposé, finding some LSE students justify bias against men, by citing discrimination issues they say women face, one student exclaiming “There's no discrimination against men!” her outburst replayed in slow motion then freezing as a 160 item A to Z list of discrimination issues scrolls by.

 Commenting on the February 14th court hearing date, Martin says “I think LSE's Gender Institute is planning an extra special Valentine's Day massacre for men's issues as usual, but people would prefer to see these gender studies industry representatives publicly renew their vows to gender equality, and make a serious effort to pick up the £50,000 tab too - loose change for LSE maybe, but not for the more than 900 other gender studies and women's studies departments worldwide who can avoid similar payouts by dropping the man-hatred, and incorporating men's equality debates without further deceit, delay, or excuse. Gender-developmental progress is much more attainable when considering both women's and men's issues. Equality is a two way street.”

 The university's press office can be contacted here. Tom Martin can be contacted here.

 

MEN-HATING TO GO ON NATIONAL CURRICULM

Wherever you turn there are legions of anti-male feminists coming out of the woodwork demonising men and calling for special favours for women and girls.

Dr Helen Wight, president of the Girls' Schools Association  (there is no Boys' Schools Association that I can find) said (Standard and Telegraph) that girls should be taught about sexism because men secretly think their place in the home and only play lip service to equality. She has a son and a husband I wonder how they feel having a mother who sneers at them?

The problem is that people like Dr Wright think it is OK to come out with this nonsense and no commentators have the nerve to challenge them. This is someone who has influence and she wants to turn every girl at school into people who hate men because they think all boys and men hate and sneer at them.

When will this sexist man-hating nonsense end?

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PS If she wants to teach girls about sexism, this site may be a good start!

 

 

 

NEW EDUCATION CAMPAIGN TO BRAINWASH BOYS INTO THINKING HOW EVIL THEY ARE

Only yesterday the site highlighted Tom Martin's latest campaign update when it was discovered that a mysterious new organisation called the Astell Project is campaigning to have Women and Gender Studies placed on the national curriculum. They have an e-petition submitted  by Fawcett Society member,Triona Kennedy, who actually believes that England's schools are failing girls. She presented her case at a recent Fawcett members' day.

We could go on forever about the fact this is just another example of the war on men and boys and to brainwash boys into thinking they are bad and girls are good. Having it on the national curriculum would serve as a Marxist feminist reminder to boys that they will all physically abuse women, stop them getting on in life and when they boys grow up and become fathers they should not play a part in their child's life. All this while Triona and her friends rub their faces in the fact that so many more girls get better results than boys etc.

The point of raising it here is to highlight the onslaught on many fronts boys are under and that Marxist feminists like Triona Kennedy feel empowered to come out with some misandry (only 100 signed up for the e-petition though). The anti-male climate created by governments, the BBC/Guardian etc mean that Ms Kennedy feels it is perfectly reasonable to ask the question. The organisation was found because the epetition was being promoted on a Women's Aid newsletter sent to this site.

It also shows why Tom Martin's campaign is so important because Ms Kennedy claims it is 'women and gender' studies, when we know she is talking about 'women and women' studies - the only studying about men on her course would be how evil we men are.

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CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE IGNORES BOY'S EDUCATION

Looking at what happened at the Conservative conference last week, I was looking to see if there was anything as remotely anti-male as the usual stuff we get at a labour conference and the expected diatribe at the Lib dem conference.

There was the usual guff about needing more women in power by discriminating against men through A-lists, gender quotas and otehr artificial selection criteria favoured by the Conservatives. Obviously with articles like this from Jenni Rusell, it just keeps the anti-male momentum going.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary and Minister for Women didn't even mention the latter brief ion her speech.

One speech worth reviewing was Michael Gove's, the education secretary. Considering how far boys are behind girls you would feel there would be a section in the speech dedicated to dealing with this issue. Switch the genders and you would expect it.

But there was absolutely nothing on the subject expect for a bit of father-bashing: . "That's why we should emphasise that the most important job that any man can have is being a father. And that your responsibility to your child is life long. If you were there at your child's conception, you should be there for the rest of their life."

Some of the policies on discipline, increasing rigour and less emphasis on continual assessment, will bring some balance back to boys,

So the Liberal Democrat conference went in for grotesque man bashing and wanting to join Labour and the Conservatives in not wanting men in Parliament, Labour just banned men altogether and the Conservatives just ignore their problems altogether.

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TOM MARTIN ANSWERS BACK IN THE GUARDIAN

It is not often this site is charitable to The Guardian but fair's fair, they allowed Tom Martin to respond to Jonathan Dean's piece about Tom's case.

You are left though with a sneaky suspicion they thought he would shoot himself in his foot when he of course is to on his mettle to fall into that trap.

 As ever, the article is illuminating and so are the comments.

One thing I noticed in the comments was the lack of anti-male feminists coming to the fore to take Tom on. Maybe it is because they know he is right and also because that is not the sort of tactics they employ. They prefer to fight on their own territory rather than have a discussion with those who disagree with them (when do you see the feminists argue against Dr Catherine Hakim on her gender pay gap critiques).

Lastly, it is great Tom is taking this on and also in his article he linked through to this site (resulting in 365 individuals hitting the site) - hopefully many will stick around.

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