The Rights Of Man

STORIES ROUND-UP

There have been a number of stories and issues recently that the site has not caught up on. So instead of trying to, it is opportune just to list them.

General

Harman Less Popular Than Mandelson

Men - Depressed, Repressed and Objectifed

Domestic Violence

Beer Mat Campaign Only Aimed At Female Victims

Woman Bit Off Man's Tongue

False Rape Claims

BBC Personality

Bristol

Rochdale

Education

All work and no play - bad for boys

Boys results

Male Suicide

Wokingham Campaign

Fatherhood

Woman Can Name Anyone As Father

GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE RESEARCH ON SINGLE-SEX GIRLS SCHOOLS IGNORES THOSE WHO NEED THE HELP THE MOST

The Guardian reported on its front page yesterday (link) that research on behalf of the Good Schools Guide (link) had revealed that "girls are far more likely to thrive, get GCSEs and stay in education if they go to a single-sex school, according to new research, which reveals pupils who are struggling academically when they start secondary school reap the biggest rewards of girls-only schooling."

Nothing wrong with this per se especially as this site has long been an advocate of single-sex education to help reduce the effects of the feminisation of education that has destroyed the schooling and opportunities of at least two generations of boys (number of articles in education section).

But the key issue is that, relatively speaking, this research is actually just pandering to the usual sexism and lack of interest in the educational needs of boys.

This is because if the Good Schools Guide really wanted to be useful and help the debate on what school structures help pupils achieve the best results, instead of studying girls,the study would have been about boys (or both sexes).

It is boys who are five to seven years behind girls at GCSE level.

It is boys who go to university in far fewer numbers than girls.

It is boys who need the discipline of a single-sex school.

Unfortunately, the Good Schools Guide has produced research which whilst pandering to the Guardian (who are hardly going to write a pro-male/boys story), systematically fails to say anything of use. If they had conducted the research for boys (or both sexes), that would have been of use.

In the end it is just a PR stunt with no value except for highlighting that the under-performance of boys is deemed unimportant, even though they are the ones most in need of help.

FEAR OF MALE TEACHERS: A BYPRODUCT OF THE WAR ON MEN

The Daily Mail has long been the only newspaper in the UK who generally rejects the all-men-are-evil approach. They have some excellentwriters or accept contributions from the likes of Melanie Phillips, Erin Pizzey and Amanda Platell.

In this brilliantly written piece (link) by Carol Sarler, she highlights that one of the reasons behind the severe shortage of male teachers (article, report) is because some mothers have a negative view of men and also because they fear their children (especially daughters) will be at risk of some sort of sexual assault.

Ms Sarler rightly points out that it causes a real problem for boys who don't have fathers in the home so have no male role model. And of course, it effects men who want a career in teaching.

As posted before, the anti-male culture we live in has a myriad of victims. One post recently highlighted the issue on adoption (link) and now we have male teachers being unfairly put under the microscope. False accusations abound, which means when a man is accused of sexual assault etc on a pupil, his career is ruined and it is irrelevant if he is innocent. That is why there is an organisation called Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers (FACT) (link).

There are two ironies that always get overlooked as well.

Firstly, as the article says "When the NSPCC reported this week that the police estimate some 50 allegations a day of sexual abuse against children, they meant, overwhelmingly, abuse at the hands of family or of parents' friends."

Secondly, there have been many stories recently about female teachers having unlawful intercourse with their male pupils (link, link). All I hear is a vacuum of silence from those who think women=good, men = bad on this issue.

In education, as with so many other facets of life in Britain, the war on men is having a serious effect. 

2008 GCSE RESULTS SHOW HOW BOYS EDUCATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY FEMINIST EDUCATION SYSTEM BUT THERE IS HOPE...?

One of the key issues raised a number of times on this site (1, 2, 3 and see Education link) is how the end of examination based O-levels in the late 80's and the move to a coursework based system (GCSEs) completely changed the attainment success of the genders.

Now far fewer boys go to university than girls and the latest results show boys education is five years behind that of girls and they are simply struggling.

The 2008 GCSE results published yesterday (Table 2) how how acute the problem is.

Girls continue to outperform boys, particularly at the higher grades (A*-C); 69.9 per cent of girls achieved five or more grades A*-C compared to 60.9 per cent of boys (the same approximate figure for girls was in 2003/04 - five years ago). The gap was 10% in 2004/05 so in three years, it has closed by just 1%.

For five GCSE's or more including English and Maths, the percentages are 52.3% for girls and 43.2% for boys.

The argument consistently made is that because boys and girls are different, the one-size-fits-all education system is producing gender winners (girls) and gender losers (boys).

As outlined in Dr Leonard Sax's book (link) boys need the competition and pressure of exams (0-levels) whilst girls are better at sustained work which comes with coursework (GCSE). Other issues include, of course, the falling number of male teachers in schools who provide sound role models and discipline. There should be a choice of examination systems so that boys can take O-levels and girls GSCEs (of course,if girls wish to take O-levels then fine)

In addition, there is growing evidence that all-boys schools can help and this article (Telegraph) about Lawrence Sheriff School shows what can be done to help boys reach high attainment levels.

The Conservatives have also mooted removing coursework (link) from GCSEs but that is more to do with stopping cheating but a by-product would be that it would help boys.

All together though, yesterday's results has meant that another cohort of boys has under-performed because the education system in the UK is biased against them and does not meet their needs.

THE SHAMEFUL HYPOCRISY OF ANTI-MALE BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL

 A story that ran pre-Christmas but with further evidence of the hypocrisy of the anti-male establishment comes this time from Bristol City Council.

In December, they forced a sports club founded in 1894 in a deprived part of Bristol to change its name from Broad Plain Boys Club because unless it did so, it would no longer receive funding of £11,600 per year. This despite the fact that it holds sports evenings for girls.

The story was covered - (Bristol Evening Post 1, Bristol Evening Post 2, Daily Mail, Daily Express , Telegraph,

For centuries there have been boys and girls clubs (and boys and girls school etc) and as long as there is roughly the same service, there is no problem. The problem always comes when you have state funding because when you have an anti-male politically correct council like Bristol, then you open the doors to all sorts of political interference. In addition, this excellent Club should be cherished especially as inner city boys need help and as one commentator said, the Council can always help set a Girls Club.

The real hypocrisy though is the fact that Bristol Council provides funding and support to a number of women-only services:-

Bristol Women's Forum (site and Annual Report)- supported by Council officials and who have a formal role in scrutinising the council's policies. It is only open to women and there is of course no Bristol Male Forum.

Women Who Make A Difference Award (link) - no male equivalent.

Women-only swimming at the council's swimming baths (link and scroll 1/3 down).

Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Group (source Daily Express) - £30,494 a year. 

Bristol Pakistani Welfare Community, a group aimed only at women (source Daily Express) - £10,984 per year.

It is clear that Bristol City Council's demand for the Broad Plain Boys Club to change its name is not about being gender neutral, it is a shameful and nasty act of anti-male behaviour. If it was not, then it would not fund or support women-only activity and be proud of it.

NEW BOOK - THE DECLINE OF MEN by GUY GARCIA

A new US book entitled The Decline of Men - How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future by Guy Garcia (link) was published late last year.

He is described by Wikipedia (link) as an award-winning journalist, novelist, and multimedia entrepreneur, specialising in multi-cultural consumerism and socio-economic trends. The book is described by publisher Harper Collins (link) as  "an eye-opening exploration of contemporary American manhood, The Decline of Men shows how men are struggling to redefine what being a man means in today's world. Their confusion has led to rampant male malaise, which has left many men feeling alienated and disconnected."

The ever excellent Amanda Platell is one of Britain's leading opponents of our anti-male society and in a brilliant article (Daily Mail) she "disagree(s) with Garcia when he says 'men aren't giving up - they're being run over because they're lazy and can't multi-task'". She says that "The feminists view the current state of play in the war of the sexes as a great victory - they feel it proves they were right and that women were smarter than men all along."

Her article gives examples such as if fewer girls were going to university, there would be an outcry, but because fewer boys go to university now, no-one cares. Well, we do have the most anti-male Government in the history of the UK!

Her article follows on a previous first class piece (link) about Kathleen Parker's "Save the Males". Compare Platell to the usual nonsense in The Independent from Sophie Morris (link).

These books are great for raising the issues and effects of the anti-male society we live in but we could do with a British equivalent.

 

BOYS' EXCLUSION FIGURES SHOW NEED FOR MORE MALE TEACHERS

One of the biggest sea changes in the last twenty years has been the lack of male teachers in schools (a subject well covered here link, link, link and recently in The Guardian). This is a problem when dealing with boys' discipline in school but also means there is a lack of male role models, particularly a problem when there is no father in the household.

One outcome of all of this is that boys quickly fall behind at school, not helped by a feminised education system. It means their discipline becomes shot to pieces.

The recently published figures (link) on fixed exclusions (in old money -'suspensions') not only shows that c75% are against boys but it is the volume that is of most concern, especially in the crucial years of 13-15.

 At 14, there are 69,740 (22.47% of schoool roll) male pupils excluded, a worryingly high figure.

We need to get more male teachers into school, revert back to 'O' levels for those that want them and of course, spend more time on getting boys education up-to-scratch.

PS Interesting the high volume of girls being excluded, never happened in my day 

ACADEMIC SAYS MEN WILL SUFFER UNDER HARMAN'S EQUALITY BILL

As the recession starts to bite and employment becomes tougher, Harriet Harman will be cementing the plans for her single Equality Bill which will allow employers to discriminate against men when it comes to recruiting people to the workforce.

Following on from comments made by Trevor Phillips who declared that such discrimination will provide extra support for the BNP because it will be the white-working class that will be discriminated against, an academic has also hit out at the plans.

Writing for Public Policy Review and covered here (Telegraph), Dr Catherine Hakim, believes that men will become the new victims of sex discrimination if workplace equality laws are strengthened further.

The Telegraph article quotes that she accuses 'feminists of peddling "myths" about the extra hours put in by women and their thwarted career ambitions to justify "futile and perverse" attempts to help them balance work and family life'.

This is important article for a number of reasons:-

Firstly, it is a woman defending men and the Fawcett Society et al cannot deal with it. She understands that the motivation behind this equality law is not equality but a way of legally discriminating against men. If a man is discriminated against it is his wife/aprtner, mother, sister and daughters who will also be discriminated aagainst.

Secondly, it ignores the facts that women are now more great inroads into what would traditionally be termed male occupations. This investigation in the Telegraphshows for example that 61% of trainee GPs are women, 63% of students enrolled into the law society are women and 79% of vets are women. What more help do women need.

Thirdly, Marxist anti-male feminists such as Harriet Harman are hell-bent on destroying men. When boys are seven years behind girls at school (the outcome of which is highlighted in the above), it is men that need help. If this carries on then Harman and her friends will have succeeded.

ANTI-MALE EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION WILL MEAN SUPPORT FOR THE FAR RIGHT

The Chief Executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is a very quixotic character. He fronts an organisation that is anti-male with 85% of its employees being women. However, Trevor Phillips does stick his head above the parapet and raises issues that sadly no-one else could raise without being hounded and accused of being sexist or racist.

One recent issue was where he wrote to the health chiefs stating that they must make sure that they meet male health needs (link). Following on from the last post about the gender pay gap, he has warned that Harman's latest idea to discriminate against men (the bill she proposed to allow employers to discriminate against men in job applications) will lead to the further rise of the far right.

Featured in the Daily Mail (link), he argues that because of the coming recession, white working class men, if they feel they are being discriminated against by the politically correct, they will simply turn to the BNP.

If only Trevor could get his own organisation and the Government to listen more, but at least he is raising the issues.

GENDER PAY GAP HYSTERIA DESTROYED

For a decade at least now, the anti-male establishment hasused the gender pay gap in the UK to beat men and employers up - its all allegedly about discrimination in the workplace. Anyone who disagreed with campaigns from the anti-male Fawcett Society, the Labour Government, the TUC and others were shouted down. The media, always looking for an easy anti-male story, lapped it up (link).

At least in the USA they had Warren Farrell (link) highlighting how the gender pay gap is down to lifestyle choices, the family unit and how the gap does not apply across the board. There had been no equivalent in the UK, until now.

In a ground breaking monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs, J.R. Shackleton, Professor of Economics at the University of East London, comprehensively destroys the arguments of the politically correct.

In "Should We Mind the Gap?" (link), he finds that 'the free choice of men and women - as well as earlier educational choices and the choices they make regarding their domestic arrangements - are at the heart of differences in pay levels'. He states the 'it isn't appreciated what a crude statistical artfefact the gender pay gap is.'

It's conclusion is that the gender pay gap is not down to discrimination. It is down to women making a choice to bring up families and also that inequality exists within groups. He also highlights huge anomalies in the blanket 17% gap that the anti-male groups use to beat men and employers up.

For instance, he shows how that although married men earn more than married women, singlewomen, as they get older, earn more than single men. Or that, Black Caribbean women earn more than their male equivalent.

In addition, as more women choose to work in the public sector and pay in that sphere is generally lower than in the private sector, it is small wonder that there is a gap.

His clear insightful study, using official figures, completely and utterly destroys the arguments put forward by the Fawcett Society, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and the anti-male hystericspurveyed by Harriett Harman (she will be introducing more legislation soon on it). They even try and describe hisresearch as 'unhelpful', they know they have been found out.

Whenever, you hear them making the point, ask them whether they have read this research?.

Articles on the monograph can be here (Sunday Times, Sunday Times 2, Telegraph  and Daily Mail with debate).

Recent articles on the site can also be found here (1, 2,3 )