The Rights Of Man

THE HIDDEN TOLL ON MEN

By ADRIAN ASHBY

Coincidentally published at the start of Men’s Health Week. Cancer Research UK published the results of the most comprehensive research into the risks and treatment of all major cancers. The results shocked the researchers themselves. Men are 70% more likely to die of cancers that are not sex specific (and 40% more likely if all cancers are included).

Health services have only recently started to even consider the need to direct efforts towards men. Though such research indicates that many lives would be saved if the Government and NHS made an effort to address men’s needs there is little in the way of  action.

Men are more likely to contract all forms of cancer (apart from those specific to sex) and very much more likely to die in all apart from Melanoma.

One big issue for men is that the vast majority are at work when the NHS and all its programmes are in full function. Few services are available out of standard working hours.

If the Government and the NHS were truly concerned about this issue, they would open surgeries up on a Saturday, but they largely do not. If the issue was the other way round, of course they would.

 

Media Coverage - Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph,BBC

HARMAN IS CAUGHT AGAIN DELIBERATELY DISTORTING THE TRUTH - GENDER PAY GAP

In Orwellian/New Labour/PC industry double-speak the mantra is 'if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.' Never more so, when it comes to perpetuating untruths by the Marxist anti-male feminists who continue to tell untruths about how discriminated against women are vis a vis men.

This site has already highlighted on three occasions this year, where such myths have been destroyed by the media, professors or statisticians (Recession and Depression, Recession and Jobs, Domestic Violence), now this time it is the deliberate misuse of the statistics on the Gender Pay Gap.

Sir Michael Scholar who heads up the UK's independent Statistical Authority gave Harriet Harman an official warning last week after he had previously protested about the her misuse of the gender pay gap statistics.

He said her office had been warned that including part-time workers in her calculations could be misleading but pressed ahead. They claimed that women were paid 23 per cent less, but Sir Michael says 12.8 per cent would be a more accurate figure.

Her and her acolytes in the Government, the laughably named Equalities Commission and the Fawcett Society do not care about the misuse of this or any other statistics so long as it positions women in a unfavourable light with regard to men.

The reason is that it acts as the lever to get more support for women at the cost of men and this can be seen by the Equalities Bill. That is the reality of the lies they use, they are not casual lies, they are lies used to justify more discrimination against men and more special treatment for women. Their lies trun into public policy.

What is so terrible about this propaganda war is that often the media just accepts what they say (though they are now being questioned more) but also that they won't accept the truth.

Harman and her acolytes continued to use this statistic in full knowledge that they should not. In addition, even when this latest issue was uncovered, the anti-male Equalities Commission (taxpayer funded and of course, they are public officials) said the statistical watchdog was wrong. They said "women representing over three-quarters of the part-time workforce, we believe this figure gives the fullest picture of the country's gender pay gap."

It proves that they are willing to peddle untruths so long as they can claim more victories in their war on men.

Coverage is here:- Daily Mail with readers comments, BBC, Mark Easton BBC, Independent, Daily Telegraph

COMPARE THE HYSTERIA OF THE GENDER PAY GAP WITH THE SILENCE ON THE GENDER EDUCATION GAP

Figures and analysis published by the Higher Education Policy Institute  shows that whilst 49% of girls are going onto university only 38% of men are.

The Gender Education Gap has been much commented upon on this site as all indicators show that at least two generations of boys have performed worse than girls, so much so, that GCSE/A-level results are seven years behind those of girls.

In addition, the site has long stated that a big part of the problem has been the feminisation of education which stemmed from the scrapping of exam based O-levels in 1998 with course-based GCSEs, more suited to female learning.

This point was made by the Institute's Bahram Bekhradnia in an article in The Guardian who said the exams are the "most likely cause" of an achievement gap between the sexes that starts at school but carries on into adulthood. The result is that men are less likely to go to university and less likely to do well when they get there.

However, the silence is deafening from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission who run to the cameras or the press to profess their anger about any statistic which may suggest that women are behind men on some issues. Also where is the Government who Gordon Brown said was if it was not about fairness, then it stood for nothing.

The Government, the Equalities Commission, The Minister for Equalities (Harriett Harman) and the Fawcett Society have dominated the airwaves for years on the gender pay gap and the new equalities bill. They cannot shout loud enough but there is nothing on the fact that boys are languishing behind girls at education. It only matters if it is the other way round.

Their silence is deafening and shows how sexist against boys/men these organisations truly are. If girls were underperforming boys in the same way, you would never hear the end of it.

Other coverage - The Guardian, BBC, The Times 1, Times 2, Daily Telegraph

WHY CAROLINE FLINT'S 'WINDOW DRESSING' RESIGNATION IS HYPOCRISY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

Peering through the political chaos and carnage in the UK over the last few days, one issue stood out - the reason why Caroline Flint resigned as a member of the Government.

When James Purnell resigned on Thursday she issued a statement the following day saying she backed Brown. When, during the reshuffle, she didn't get the post she wanted or wasn't promoted to being a full Cabinet Member, she resigned and in her resignation letter said:- "Several of the women attending Cabinet – myself included – have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing."

Two issues stand out.

Firstly, because Ms Flint did not get what she wanted (a promotion) instead of looking at it because Brown did not think she was good enough (though God knows what goes through Brown's mind), she accuses him of sexism, when he clearly is not (except against men). She waves the Ali G "Is it cos I black [insert - women]" excuse as an entitlement card. She just looks stupid and hypocritical as she waves the "I am a woman therefore I must have what I want". She does a good job mind in undermining the anti-male feminists (Fawcett Society, Harman et al) as it exposes their transparent and illogical arguments. 

Secondly, looking at the window dressing issue itself. The problem is that when you have gender quota's, all-women shortlists, positive action (no such thing, remember) or anything where women are promoted because they are women and not because of their ability, then it is window dressing.

That's what all-women shortlist operated by Labour are all about, it is not about having the best person for the job.

Brown has to have a certain number of women in his Cabinet/Government, else he gets attacked by anti-male Feminists. Organisiations like The Fawcett Society, the Equalities Commission, The Guardian/BBC and others would hang him or any political leader out to dry.

It is therefore extremely hypocritical of Flint and any other person/organisation who supports all-women shortlists and quota's etc to accuse Brown of window dressing when it is they who created the need to have the window-dressing in the first place.

PINK VIDEO SHOWS HOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST A MAN IS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE

The international pop star Pink's latest video for her song Please Don't Leave Me shows all what is wrong in the way that male victims of domestic violence are portrayed.

In the video which will have been broadcast all around the world, her boyfriend has an accident as he tries to leave her and she then keeps him hostage by carrying out extreme violence on him, including smashing his legs with a golf club. All in the name of popular entertainment.

In some ways it is similar to the infamous MFI advertisement where a man is slapped twice by a woman for leaving the toilet seat up (eventually banned by the Advertising Standards Authority) but in other ways the extreme violence is quite sickening.

If you had been a male victim of this type of violence from a girlfriend or wife, watching this video would be emotionally traumatic.

In addition, the outrage from the Equalities Commission, the Government and the Fawcett Society would be (rightly) deafening if the gender roles were reversed.

The final point of course, is what goes through the sick mind of Pink, her management and the production company in thinking that this culturally acceptable (it is not a horror movie).

They thought it was acceptable to portray a man being attacked by a wife/girlfriend so much so they thought it was OK to produce a pop video about it.

That is the barrier that male victims face, some people don't understand what the problem is. Pink certainly doesn't.

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SIR STUART ROSE CHALLENGES HARMAN ET AL OVER THE MYTH OF THE 'GLASS CEILING'

At long long last, a senior business person has has the balls to openly challenge Harman, The Fawcett Society, The Equalities Commission and anyone else who continually uses the the gender pay gap or the career 'glass ceiling' as a way to attack men (see number of posts in the employment section) For far too long men have lied back and taken it without a whisper of dissent, it has been female commentators who have been left to pick up the cudgels.

This week, Sir Stuart Rose, the Chairman and Chief Executive of Marks and Spencers said women had never had it so good and were able to bring up children and enjoy a successful career, if they wanted to. This not only challenges the glass ceiling but also the gender pay gap which studies, time after time, show that it is not down to discrimination but lifestyle choice.

The Equalities Commission who are currently carrying out a witch-hunt in the City will be particularly exercised by this.

What is also credible about Sir Stuart Rose is that not only is he a captain of industry but also that his record of promoting women (based on tehrio merit) is very good so what brickbats can be thrown at him? None.

Media Coverage including the obvious (yawn) backlash from the usual suspects can be found at:- Daily Mail, The Guardian, BBC, Daily Telegraph

FEMALE VIOLENCE FIGURES UNDERMINE MYTH THAT ONLY MEN ARE VIOLENT

The terribly sad story last week of model Danielle Lloyd being attacked by two women at a nightclub  brings into light the latest British Crime Survey figures that also emerged that showed that one in four violent attacks involve women. Women alone amounted to 13% whilst violence perpetrated by men and women together was 11%.

The key issues show that this worrying rise can no longer be swept under the carpet and the blame for violence can no longer be construed as being solely perpetrated by men. There are of course no known female perpetrator programmes so this will also need to be looked at and the question why not? raised.

As argued on this site, some of this violence will also be occurring in domestic relationships so the myth that domestic violence only affects female as victims will also be laid be rest.

In addition, there is no word from the Minister for Women, The Fawcett Society or others about this trend. Is it because they don't want to face the facts?

Media coverage - Telegraph

WHITSUN COVERAGE ROUND-UP

The past two weeks have been busy in terms of anti-male issues or debunking anti-male myths. Listed below is the some of the coverage.

The Times (Sue Palmer) - Who's to blame for the lost boys?

The Sunday Times (India Knight) - Having it all is a myth, girls

Daily Telegraph (David Green) - The Gender Pay Gap Does Not Exist

Daily Mail (Petronella Wyatt) - Man Flu? It we women who are the sickly sex

BBC - Fathers Cool on Parental Leave

ANOTHER ANTI-MALE MYTH DESTROYED: THIS TIME ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Been busy last few days but did not want regular readers to miss the destruction of a myth used by the Government and others that says the most common cause of death of women between their 20's to 44 was through domestic violence. It is used as a means to scaremonger about how violent all us men are.

It was on BBC Radio 4's 'More or Less' and may be only available online for a few more days. The link is here.

Will update this post later

BRITISH MEP ISSUES DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Liz Lynne, a British MEP for the West Midlands, placed a written declaration in the European Parliament wanting to make sure that cross-EU campaigns on domestic violence included male victims. It is basically the equivalent of an Early Day Motion in the House of Parliament where individual MP's can place a motion on a subject and ask others to sign up.

At least one British politician is taking it seriously, isn't about time someone did the same in the UK Parliament?