The Rights Of Man

NEWS UPDATE

A few for the this week

The Guardian/Telegraph - Rise in suicides blamed on recession (Sarah Boseley),  Study links UK recession to 1,000 suicides  (Reuters) and the BMJ paper.

The research found that due to the recession:  Between 2008 and 2010, we found 846 (95% confidence interval 818 to 877) more suicides among men than would have been expected based on historical trends, and 155 (121 to 189) more suicides among women.

We have covered this before and firstly it shows that those anti-male feminists who decry the recession as hitting women worse than men are proven to be liars. Literally 846 men have died because of it.

Secondly, what is the public policy response - there is none. Politicians and public health practitioners continue to sweep it under the carpet because it is not men not women

The Independent  - Separating men and children is discrimination, plane and simple (Ally Fogg)

One comment is the comments section from Anteaus says it all "Reading this gives me a feel for what it must be like to be a black person in the deep south, and being told to get to the back of the bus. Same sick mentality."

Ally continued the debate on his website and is obviously carrying forward the story much covered in the site.

Bromley by Bow - Women for Work Programme co-ordinator wanted: Look forward to applying for the Men for Work Programme job especially as there are more men unemployed at the moment.

Belfast Telegraph - Campaign for ermergency housing for male victims (Anna Maguire)

Daily Mail - Mother of two jailed for false allegation (Daniel Miller): Another man put through hell.

Daily Telegraph - White males classed as minority at university (Julie Henry) and Telegraph comment: The result of 25 years of discrimination against boys in the education system.

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NOW VIRGIN AUSTRALIA THINKS ALL MEN ARE PAEDOPHILES

Some readers may have missed the news this week of Virgin Australia being the latest airline exposed as believing all men are paedophiles who cannot be trusted to sit next to unaccompanied children. This type of misandry in airlines goes back at least 12 years now and we've covered it plenty of times before, for example when British Airways were forced to withdraw the policy by equality hero Mirko Fischer.

Virgin say they are going to "review" the policy, but to m even that's unacceptable. I know it's sexist, as do readers, as do they, and when discriminating like this in such a disgusting and harmful manner then the only logical and decent action is to stop immediately and apologise. Some of the news coverage has been particularly good this time around, and it's interesting how the story has spread to different countries, so rather than say any more I'll simply share some of the links with you:

Original blog post that exposed Virgin Australia's misandry

Sydney Morning Herald (recommended)

Virgin Australia's second response

NBC

Stuff.co.nz

Boing Boing

Huffington Post UK

by John Kimble

BOOK - FALSE ACCUSATIONS: GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT by NIK GREENE

After hearing Nik Green's story on Men's Matters, it was worth giving his book a plug. He has a website.

LATEST MEN'S MATTERS

From James:

If you would like to spend a little time to listening to something other than the
Olympics then click on this link and listen to 52mins of the last Mens Matters
show.

http://www.expressfm.com/player/od/

The subjects covered are:

1) Male Circumcision - Dr. Ball talks about male circumcision from a medical
persepctive. This was produced and broadcast before the Mens Hour edition on BBC Radio 5

2) Nik Greene – author of a book called False Accusations

Nik Greene describes the horrors of what can happen after he is accused by his adopted daughter of rape whilst living in France. This interview reveals possible corruption in the British social services and medical profession. The natural father (not Nik) was said to have raped his daughter, but French
doctors found that she was a virgin. The man apparently still carries a mark against his name in spite of his innocence.

I have to rely on emails being spread to advertize these shows. Each show takes about 7 hours to produce and I don't get paid. Mens Matters always has the censor's knife hanging over everything that is uttered. The next show, which has been ready for broadcast for 4 weeks is a hard hitting critique of the domestic violence industry and the demonization of men which is key to generating the
cash.

Express FM have not said they will allow it to be broadcast at all, but it was unofficially scheduled for Tues 31st July at 1900 BST (= GMT+1)**

 

If you would like to support my efforts, I am not asking for money. I would appreciate supporting emails and calls to ExpressFM or any other media outlets who might be interested in taking on the show.

http://www.expressfm.com/about-us/contact-us/

Kind Regards

 James Williams

**Editor's note it - it did go out so will be on Express FM Iplayer soon

 

MOBILE PHONE COMPANIES ARE CENSORING AND DEFAMING MEN'S RIGHTS SITES

Recently a number of commenters here suggested mobile phone companies in the UK were blocking some of the best men's rights sites so I've taken the time to investigate this issue further.

I appreciate that sites supporting men's equality sometimes don't mince their words, but the peaceful, pro-equality message of the sites campaigning for civil rights of the most disadvantaged people in our society is crystal clear and it's rare to ever see any inappropriate views and certainly nothing worthy of blocking (other than quotes of radical feminists of course).

I discovered that O2, one of the largest mobile communications providers in the UK has a "url checker" allowing anyone to see their blocking policy for a particular site. Essentially they have 3 levels of classification a total block, a "default block" (whereby people can only access a site if you request all censorship be turned off) and then a parental block.

I've checked a number of perfectly innocent men's rights sites, and somehow the company have decided to not only censor them by default, they even go as far as classifying them as "hate sites". Victims of these smears include the excellent antimisandry.com, angryharry.com and theantifeminist.com Furthermore I am yet to find a single misandrist site blocked in any form despite their content clearly being much easier to classify as sexist and hateful. Even many of your average Mumsnet or Guardian posts/articles are far worse than anything you'd find at any of the above sites as are the utterances of your average "equality" minister. There are indications that T-mobile have the same polices as O2 and I personally use that comapny so tried all teh above sites on my phone. All 3 attempts had the sites blocked saying i needed to be over 18 to access them. Again, I was unable to achieve such a message when accessing any radical feminist hate sites.

We need to give these companies the benefit of the doubt for now and hope this is a mistake. For now I'd ask that people check as many sites as possible and email them to complain about their censorship. A third party campaign against mobile censorship has a reporting facility here and the open rights groups also address the issue.

Even the writers over at Biased BBC have also been victim of this censorship so there appears to be a clear pattern emerging in terms of the type of thought-policing going on here.

Update - as an afterthought I also decided to check the status of this very blog on the O2 checker even though we're clearly on the moderate, professional and cautious side of the movement. To my horror and surprise even this very blog is classes as a hate site in spite of how cautious we've been in the language used in articles and in the commenting policy. Not one single post here is remotely controversial or hateful. I wrote on this issue here as I thought it was a safe place guaranteed to be free form censorship due to our policies but we've still become victims. We're blocked on t-mobile too, so that's now four of the most popular MRA sites blocked by these companies by default. This really is quite disturbing.

Further updates will be added here as more censorship and defamation is uncovered:

- O2 and T-mobile blocking: hereticalsex.blogspot.com and counterfem.blogspot.com

by John Kimble

FATHERS4JUSTICE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST MISANDRY AT MUMSNET

This week saw an interesting new campaign from Fathers4Justice. Matt O'Connor and co. launched a campaign against Mumsnet highlighting the way the company tolerates hate speech against men. In the bigger scheme of things this may seem a little petty at first, and the views on the site don't really seem much different to certain feminist politicians. However, Mumsnet is a significant corporation and surely the main reason the comments don't seem so bad is because we're so desensitised to people saying awful things about men as a group that even we barely notice it.

Mumsnet is classic gender feminist territory. Privileged, wealthy women with way too much time on their hands and often very little respect for the opposite sex. Readers of this blog will be particularly unsurprised to know the site's co-founder is married to the deputy editor of the Guardian, arguably the biggest publisher of misandric material and feminist propaganda country if not the world.

The site wouldn't really be of any significance if politicians didn't court it's readership in such a pathetic manner and attach such a exaggerated importance to a site which attracts a disproportionate amount of the worst women in society.

In addition to press adverts, Fathers4Justice have decided to "follow the money" and target Marks and Spencer, a sponsor of Mumsnet. They've already conducted a naked protest a the company's Flagship London store and burned their briefs. I feel the group should be commended for their courage and creativity and above all else their sense of humour, something surely even feminists cannot dispute is far more abundant in the men's movement. Seemingly never a day passes without us seeing pathetic, exaggerated and poorly thought out feminist campaigns, whether it be about "street harassment", underarm hair, or even men sitting on the train in a manner they disagree with! (yes really). It's therefore important to call out gender feminists and supposedly respected companies for fostering hate-speech and interesting how there appears to be such a marked double standard on the site with regards to sexism depending on the gender of the victim.

It appears F4J are already have some success with numerous sexist comments already removed from the site. Guardian writers have already started criticising the campaign so that's surely as good an indication that they must be getting something right. It's all very well changing our anti-male laws and legislation but ultimately we'll never have equality unless attitudes change and this is perhaps the first campaign with that as the primary focus.

 

By John Kimble

MAJOR UPDATES ON TOM MARTIN

It's been a busy week or two in the news for men's equality issues. Mr Martin has been debating at University College London, had coverage in The New Statesman and even got to appear on Women's Hour on Radio 4! He performed especially well on Radio 4, you can listen to the discussion on sexismbusters.org. It was great to see Tom making use of thsi blog's research into the activities at the NUS and let a wider audience know of their sexist policies.

The bad news is that the case against LSE was heard on Tuesday and rejected by the judge. I'm not aware of the judge's reasoning at present and all is not lost as he has the chance to appeal, but I find it a baffling decision given the weight of the evidence against the LS, not to mention the fact that Mr Martin studied there beofre Labour's sexist "Equality" laws were introduced.

The publicity Tom has received and the resulting debates are a already a victory in themselves but it's a shame he's missed out on the bigger prize for now.

For me, the most interesting and revealing outcome of the above has been the reaction by feminists to the debates. Some of the treatment men's equality campaigners have been subject too is nothing short of outrageous. Regrettably I was unable to attend the debate, but there was much discussion on Twitter with one of the first comments coming from a feminist suggesting that Mr Martin and his friends looked "a bit rapey". I've seen gender feminists stoop to pretty low levels numerous times, but making false rape smears to silence dissent surely down there with the lowest of the low? I suppose it was quite a pertinent statement given that Tom went on to discuss the issue of false rape allegations and actually proves a point about the problem of our culture tolerating the most horrific smears against men. Then, of course, there's the incredible double-standard of feminists judging people on their appearances too!

A further feminist tweeter by the name of Sarah Lesniewski later went further, likening Martin to the perpetrator of one of the worst massacres in Canadian history and questioning his mental state. So in summary, dare to quesiton the more sexist aspects of feminism then you're basically a mass murdering, mentally deragned idiot and probably a rapist too. It goes without saying than none of these critics actually addressed the issues at hand and if people have to resort to such staggering personal attacks then it suggest we're the ones"winning the arguments". Voters in Walthamstow may also be interested to see which side of the debate their sexist MP chose to support. If LSE gender studies department is 1% as hostile, sexist and narrow minded as the gender feminists on Twitter then there most certainly be any doubt as to the outcome of the appeal.

I look forward to the upcoming documentary by Mr Martin covering his experiences over the last few months, though he has a lot to live up to given the quality of his previous efforts.

By John Kimble (contributing this post to keep things ticking over here, hopefully normal service from Skimmington will resume shortly).

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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MEN TELL THEIR STORIES - FALSE ALLEGATIONS AND DOMESTIC ABUSE

Sorry everyone, very much on the run this week but Monday saw an appalling story how about the effect on Simon Boswell who was falsely accused of domestic abuse and the appalling treatment at the hands of the police.

Tuesday, saw brave Ian McNicholl update his story (and the supportive help he had from police) and the appalling wait he is having to endure on the NHS to repair the damage inflicted on him. What's the betting that if Ian was called Irene he'd have been treated more quickly. What is so good about Ian is the fact that he wants more to be done to help other men come forward. His is not a story about him, it is about urging more to be done to persuade more male victims to come forward - men who make up one in three of all victims. There was also a follow up on his ex-girlfriend.

Wednesday, saw another story in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of Paul Roberts.

The comments on all stories are generally very encouraging because they show public opinion is shifting towards all victims of domestic abuse and not just female victims. Pity the authorities are still light years behind.

These stories must make the men-haters cringe because they undermine their view of men=bad, women=good. You never hear them talking about these stories, they would pretend they were never reported.

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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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