The Rights Of Man

ANTI-MALE SOCIETY AFFECTS ADOPTION OF BOYS

When a society turns against a certain group the consequences can be far-reaching.

A good example of this, is a report (link) from the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (link) that shows that despite their help-line receiving as many calls from parents asking for help in dealing with boys and girls in their care, people would prefer to adopt a girl than a boy.

The research from the charity shows that this is due to the negative perception of boys and over half (53%) of the people replying to their survey felt that the media portrayed boys in an overly negative way.

David Holmes, chief executive of BAAF, said: "Too often anti-social behaviour, violence, crime and gangs are associated in our minds when we think about boys.

"We all need to remember that boys are children and young people first. The findings of this research concerns us as we are worried that some prospective adopters might be put off adopting boys because of negative perceptions.

"In reality there is little evidence to show that boys really are more difficult. We would urge people to remember that boys need adopting too."

The effect of the war on men shows that there is no corner of British society that is not affected and boys are potentially being left in care homes or shunted around solely because of their gender. A terrible terrible outcome.

The report was covered by the BBC (link)

DOMESTICE VIOLENCE AWARENESS WEEK 2008 - PLEASE REPORT FAILURES TO MENTION MEN

The 2008 Domestic Violence Awareness Week (as part of the Stop Violence Against Women campaign) starts on Tuesday 25th November.

If there are media features and local campaigns on domestic abuse or domestic violence that you see that do not feature the plight of male victims as well as those of women, please let this site know.

These examples of bias are worth publicising and one charity, The ManKind Initiative (who have produced up-to-date domestic violence statistics) wants to make sure they have a list so they can make complaints. 

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.

INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY - CELEBRATE TODAY

In a post long ago (link), the site asked readers whether there should be a men's day in the UK and also what day that should be.

Little do the site know that 19th November has already been designated as International Men's Day (link).

It is already celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, India, Pakistan and now Australia.

As far as anyone is aware, there is no such event in the UK but clearly in 2009, there has to be.

BBC BIAS ON GENDER PAY GAP

In a post last week, the issue about BBC bias was on the issue of domestic violence (see previous post). This time it is on the gender pay gap.

In October, a publication by J R Shackleton which received a high volume of coverage (see previous post) highlighted that the gender pay gap was largely about lifestyle choice and not discrimination.

Yet when the latest figures are published, the BBC just stick to their left-wing politically correct assumptions and publish a story (link) that does not mention the alternative arguments. Instead, it gives a free platform to anti-male organisations such as the Fawcett Society and the Commission of Equality and Human Rights to berate men and companies.

The BBC are biased, what other reasonable conclusion can you draw?

ALEX SALMOND REFUSES TO ACTIVELY HELP MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN SCOTLAND

A post last week (link) outlined how Mary Scanlon MSP in the Sunday Herald had questioned the Scottish Government on why they provided no support for male victims.

This week, she directly asked leader of Scottish Government, Alex Salmond, about the lack of support for male victims in Scotland (link).

Instead of answering her reasonable question, he purposely chooses not to and just says that the majority of victims are women, that it is wrong regardless of gender and that he will keep the lack of help for men under 'review'. In other words, he intends to do nothing.

One of the weasel-type phrases that Governments use on this issue is to say that "domestic violence is wrong and every victims should be helped". However, there is a clear difference between what they say their policy is and the policy that is implemented. The latter of course, is to systematically ignore men. 

Last year, 6,000 men asked for help from the Scottish Police because they were victims of domestic violence. In choosing to purposely ignore them, Alex Salmond is not fit to ever claim that the Scottish Government treats its citizens equally.

For information - a one-sided story from Fife (link)

ONLY MAN NAMED IN LEWD BEHAVIOUR CASE

Here is another example of male bias (Hattip to Matt on www.Mens-links.net).

A Daily Mail report (link) on a couple who were arrested on a train for lewd conduct and yet it was only the man who was named. He was charged, the woman was not.

THE BBC'S INCONSISTENT AND BIASED REPORTING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

One of the main complaints made against the BBC is its liberal left-leaning metropolitan prejudice, a charge that often the BBC admits.

One of the problems is that it means individual journalists are able to treat some subjects blissfully ignorant of the need for balance, they can just get away with it so long as it fits left-leaning prejudices.

On the issue of domestic violence, there has been some successes including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in February 2008 (link) and an interview with a male victim on radio 4 in August 2008.

However, they still fall into the politically correct left-leaning trap of only portraying victims as female and perpetrators as men.

Last week, for example, they made much comment with interviews on the new figures on prosecutions issued by the CPS (link). However, none of the broadcasts had a spokesman commenting on male victims and this on-line coverage (link) from Andy McFarlane shows that men are ignored. They even trot out the usual picture of a man hitting a woman and ignore the fact that two in five victims are men.

The BBC needs to get its act together and treat all victims equally and stop this gender bias. What do we pay our licence fee for!

MANKIND INITIATIVE RESPONSE TO CROWN PROSECUTION CONSULTATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The charity, The ManKind Initiative (link), has responded (link) to the Crown Prosecution Service's consultation (link) on domestic violence.

Essentially, the charity states that unless the CPS overhauls its policies, web-site and training then it is likely to be in breach of the Gender Equality Duty.

One of the scary things is that the CPS is meant to be gender-neutral and look at each case that it considers on its merits, however, it is difficult to have confidence in it when, for example, its domestic violence web-site pages (link) do not refer to male victims at all. It also only runs information campaigns for female victims.

In addition, the response also points out that the CPS cannot, by definition, be gender-neutral when its domestic violence policies fall under its Violence Against Women strategy. The charity believes that domestic violence has to be a stand alone policy area.

Look forward to the response from the CPS? 

SCOTTISH MSP AND SUNDAY HERALD HIGHLIGHT THE INSTITUTIONAL BIAS IN SCOTLAND AGAINST MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

Figures in Scotland's Sunday Herald (link) show there has been a 110% increase in the number of male domestic violence victims in Scotland. Police were called to over 6,000 incidents where men were the victims.

And as the article states "And while the Scottish government has spent tens of millions of pounds in recent years to support female victims of domestic abuse and violence, it has not directed a single penny to support men who suffer at the hands of their partner."

Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon also raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament last week .

Thing are bad in England and Wales but clearly worse in Scotland. This clearly another example of institutional sexual discrimination perpetrated against men.

The Scottish Government knows there is a problem but they CHOOSE to do nothing about it.