The Rights Of Man

HAMPSHIRE SOCIAL SERVICES CASE SHOW HOW ANTI-MALE VIEWS INFEST SOCIETY

In a story revealed by the UK's Daily Mail (link) earlier this month, it is clear how constant male bashing and the undermining of men shows itself in reality. Every day it happens in the family courts system and by no means are social services immune. It was also covered in the Daily Echo (link)

The story of how Hampshire Social Services staff causally believed that a child could be a victim of shaken baby syndrome because the father (of course) was male and a soldier is quite sickening.

The problem is that these people in Hampshire's Social Services department are immune from any scrutiny or accountability. The councillors running the council should be on the case but there will met a Berlin Wall protected by a code of Omerta.

The people making this comment should be sacked, but they would only find a job elsewhere and would probably be snapped up. I wonder if they thought their own fathers must have been violent because they were men.

MEN'S HEALTH WEEK : 15TH TO 21ST JUNE

The Men's Health Forum's annual Health Week is being held this year from 15th to 21st June.

They are holding local and national events and a link is available here (link).

BEN BRADSHAW, LABOUR HEALTH MINISTER, PROVES NHS DOES NOT CATER FOR MEN

In a previous post it was mentioned that you should not make jokes about politicians because too many get elected. A particularly sick joke can be made about the comments made by Ben Bradshaw MP, Labour Health Minister, who claimed that there was a health bonus in higher unemployment rates because it would mean that more men would see their doctor, because they had the time.

There has been much commentary in the UK media on this, rightly so (Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Sun, The Express). However, it misses one crucial point, it proves the National Health Service adequately cater for men.

Everyone in the UK is forced to pay taxes for the health service and therefore the health service should be available for everyone, man or woman, when they need it at a time that suits them.

What Ben Bradshaw is effectively admitting is that the health service and GP surgery opening hours are not suitable for the working man because he cannot get a 'heath check' because he is too busy earning his and his families' upkeep. This is because the health service and GP opening hours are based around what suits them and not their paying customers who are forced to pay the taxes. This is wrong.

What Bradshaw should be saying, and of course he won't as he is a member of the most anti-male Government in the history of the United Kingdom, is that the opening hours of GP surgeries and other parts of the health service, should change or be modified to fit around the working lives of men.

He has it the wrong the way round and health checks should be made available for men all week round. But that would mean equality.

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

PROSTATE CANCER BREAKTHROUGH - GOVERNMENT MUST DELIVER

The Daily Telegraph reported (link and link) yesterday that all men over the age of 50 could be tested for prostate cancer, the disease that kills 10,000 men per year (with 35,000 per year suffering). This was an international study that suggested screening could save thousand of lives.

The excellent Prostate Cancer Charity has had much to say (link, link and link).

To be fair, there were warm noises by the Government. They announced they will formally ask the UK National Screening Committee to review the evidence and the Chief Medical Officer has contacted all GP’s in England.

They cannot dare delay because they don't delay elsewhere as can be seen by the sad case involving Jade Goody where they are looking into reviewing the age for routine screening for cervical cancer.

That is correct of course, but the Government cannot delay in seriously studying the breakthrough on men.

Men (and their mothers, wives, daughters and sisters) will not accept any obfuscation or penny pinching.

WHEN WILL THE GOVERNMENT END MIXED-SEX WARDS?

The Government announced (link) that it plans to penalise hospitals that still continue to have mixed-sex wards. Some 15% of hospital trusts still use at least one open-plan mixed-sex ward.

This blight, despite their promises (it was a 1997 manifesto commitment, some 12 years ago!) and the fact (link)they are 'rattled' by it, little progress has been made (link).

Dr Anthony Halperin, from the Patients Association, said the government had not given the full facts, with 30% of all wards sharing toilet facilities. Men and women find that very embarrassing, and it nullifies having single-sex wards." He said mixed-sex wards were about keeping beds occupied all the time, and were simply a "question of cost".

The Conservatives have said it is a priority for them but this scandal, despite all the promises and tax increases, cannot continue. 

THREE REAL-LIFE CASES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AGAINST MEN

Whenever anyone hears claims that domestic violence and domestic abuse does not occur against men or is not that serious, then these, amongst many cases should be sent to the non-believer.

News Shopper

Bury Free Press

Metro

The Bury one is disturbing because the sentence is an absolute joke. Can you imagine the outcry if it was a man who had thrown a knife at a woman for not cleaning the kitchen properly!

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.

HOW LONG WILL MALE ANOREXIA BE IGNORED BY GOVERNMENT

The list is endless when it comes to issues where the specific needs of men are purposely ignored because of the anti-male Government etc.

Now new figures reveal that 137 men in England with the most severe case of anorexia saw specialists in 2007. Special hospital appointments increased by 32% to 1,700 from figures obtained by the Conservatives and featured in the Mail (link).

Now the Government has the statistics it not needs to look at what services/information are made available to help these men but importantly they must make sure that statutory agencies (especially the NHS and GP surgeries) do not dismiss those men who are suffering solely because they are men. This is what happens when it comes to domestic abuse when male victims are ignored as a matter of routine.

Watch this space.

SAVE THE MALES - NEW BOOK ON THE PLIGHT OF MEN IN TODAY'S WORLD

American columnist Kathleen Parker's book "Save The Males" has now been published in the UK (link). It was also the subject of a two-page article in the Daily Mail by columnist Amanda Platell (link).

After decades of subjugation, there is an ever increasing library of books on the plight of men. As ever, a well recommended read.

UPDATE 4th AUGUST - Book with debate featured in The Sunday Times (link)