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ANNOUNCING HEQUAL - AN EXCITING NEW EQUALITY CAMPAIGN

Hi everyone, apologies for the lack of posts recently from Skimmington and myself, I'm sure he'd appreciate some contributions from readers to help keep the site going if anyone can help out.

You'll be pleased to know that I've been keeping myself busy and can now proudly now announce a new equality campaign called "HEqual"

Launched on International Men's Day, HEqual aims to really make a difference in standing against sexism and genuine discrimination.

By “genuine” discrimination we mean anything that is indisputably unfair and causes real harm. While certain feminist groups supposedly campaigning for equality are concerned with men’s seating positions on public transport, or forcing them to sit down when urinating, we’ll be taking on the other less important issues that appear to have slipped their minds, such as say gaining recognition for hundreds of thousands of male victims of domestic violence.

Rather than covering news, discussion and debate, HEqual is going to be totally focused on activism, exposing discrimination and ultimately on defeating it. Everything written on the site will be there for a purpose, and I can promise some really interesting projects on the horizon so you're going to want to stay tuned.

You can find out more about at Hequal.wordpress.com

Be sure to read about our first victory in forcing Cancer Research UK to finally recognise Male Cancer.

Twitter users can follow us on @HEqual_UK and please and if you haven't followed The Rights of Man by now then you should add @RightsofManUK too.

 

by John Kimble

NEWS UPDATE

A few in the last few days - thanks to those who forward them

Men's Matters - The latest from James Williams, now on YouTube

Bedford Today - Leader of new party to stand in Bedford

Daily Mail - We fought for equality so we why do greedy wives sponge off of ex-husbands (Liz Hodgkinson)

Huffington Post - Interview with Peter Lloyd (Claire-Louise Meadows)

A Voice for Men radio - Erin Pizzey

BBC Men's Hour - Mental health (12 May 2013 episode)

The Guardian - Is university lad culture causing a rise in feminist societies (Emily Hilton) - Emily is obvioulsy a wannabe rising star of "telling untruths enough times they turn to facts". Get this: "Frustrated by sexism and misogyny on campus, increasing numbers of students are setting up feminist groups at their universities.". What misogyny? For every seven people who go to univeristy these days, four are women and three are men.

Posted by Skimmington 

NEWS UPDATE

As ever, here are a few below but keep checking the Fighting Feminism and Helping Men websites for UK based stories.

The Guardian - The other gender divide (Mona Chalabi) Very welcome piece but framed from a feminist perspective bizarrely ('It's difficult to deny that women suffer more than men as a result of their gender') - it is almost like an apology has to be written before the Guardian will accept anything about men.

 

 The Independent - Need knows no gender (Ally Fogg) Brilliant piece from Ally including coverage of Earl Silverman - a male equality hero. Plus Barbara kay article.

Men's Heath Forum - Men's Health Week

News Statesman - The uncomfortable truth about male suicide (Holly Baxter)

Voice for Men - Karen Straughan presentation brilliant presentation should be compulsory on any gender studies course

Karen Ingala-Smith - This thing about male victims proof beyond doubt that some people don't want to recognise male victims exist!

Hiromi Uehara - Piano Woman

MRA LOndon - Mumsnet discussion

 Newsletter - Ulster judge warns against positive discrimination

The Guardian - Feminism is not strong enough (Jill Filipovic)

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS UPDATES

There has been a few recently and a few sent over:

Some new UK sites:

   Justice for Men and Boys (political party)

    Helping Men (Glen Poole)

   Cornwall Community News (some strong articles on here)

 

A Voice for Men: Interview with London MRA (25 minutes 45 seconds in)

South Wales Argus: Man found not guilty

Cambridgeshire Police: Domestic abuse against men podcast (a first perhaps)

Daily Mail: Men should be afforded anonymity in rape appeals says High County Judge and I agree (Peter Lloyd) and the original news item. John Cooper QC is happy for innocent men to be named though as is Lisa Longstaff of course. Men are collateral damage.

Miss Alisa Place: We can't fix domestic violence if we pretend 40% of victims are not there (Alisa Valdes)

BBC: Project highlights everday sexism against women

Daily Telegraph: Divorced fathers have a hard time (Jonathan Agnew)

Daily Telegraph: Council makes toilets gender neutral (Victoria Ward)

Daily Mail: Judge says conspiracy of silence in place about the value of fathers (Steve Doughty)

BBC Women's Hour: Jenni Murray laughs as wife admits cleaning toilet with ex-husband and toothbrush before he used it (19 min 30 secs in)

The Ignored Gender: Misandry and the Superbowl

Marie Claire: No Men allowed,the rise of the women-only club

Daily Mail: I should not have lied (Janine Yaqoob)

Evening Standard: Labour women-only shortlist (Joe Murphy)

MRA London: Site banned by Norton

The Guardian: On male privilege (Richard Seymour)

Posted by Skimmington 

NEWS UPDATE

A few from the last week or so

BBC - What jobs are male and what are female (Mark Easton): An old one from last year that I had not seen before.

Fighting Feminism - An attack by the V Spot (Mike Buchanan)

Daily Mail - Bring on quotas for women says TUC chief (Anna Edwards)

Daily Herald - Scotland lacking in male primary school teachers (Andrew Denholm)

Evening Standard - Soho restuarant continues trend in women-only bars (Emer Martin). Unless this is a private members club then KC’z Bar general manager and entrepreneur, KC Gates, will be breach of equality laws. See pubs and clubs section here.

Daily Telegraph - Government failing female entrepresneurs (Emma Barnett): More pleas for special treatment and discrimination against men. This time from Labour MP Seema Malhotra.

Amazon - Review on The Highway Rat (Tony Iqeq)

A Voice for Men - Interview with Erin Pizzey  

Daily Mail  - Diane Abbott MP says feminism destroyed the family (Tim Shipman)

The Observer - UK's top firms more male-dominated than FTSE rivals, new data reveals (Simon Goodley)

Daily Mail - Bias in the justice system (Peter Lloyd)

Daily Mail - John Leslie says false allegations destroyed my life

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS UPDATE INCLUDING ANNOUNCEMENT ON MEN'S POLITICAL PARTY

Hi everyone - thank you for sending through new stories and reporting the broken link (restored hopefully below).

I haev also caught up on the debate on the comments in teh comments section about Mike Buchanan's announcement of a political party and the Daily Mail article so have updated this post with the news.

The Guardian - Education is leaving boys behind (Ally Fogg)

Daily Telegraph - Women's unwelcome Xmas present (Jo Swinson - Minsiter for Women and Equalities): As expected, anti-male feminists do not like equality unless it benefits women. Note Minister for "Women and equalities" - no mention of men. Not sure what to make of this  from actor David Webb

Daily Telegraph - Stuntman's wife charged with domestic abuse 

Daily Mail - Amy Winehouse's ex hits out at false rape accusation (Mark Duell)

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS ARTICLES

Hi Everyone

A couple of things - first as you know sometimes my work and other activities mean I am unable to keep up with posting which sometimes leaves the site looking a bit outdated. It means many readers link new articles or news in the latest post. I think this does those who kindly do that a grave disservice because they want to start a debate but I cannot keep up.

One way around this is to go back to A-level days ( I would have said O-level but only those of a certain vintage would know what I meant!) and if I post something like "GENDER PAY GAP NEWS - PLEASE DISCUSS", due to a news item then readers can comment away.

Happy for comments on this and here are some latest news articles anyhow - in no particular order:

The Guardian - Why do so few men take gender studies courses (Jane Martinson): An amazing article when gender studies should be renamed men-hating studies. The front of it.

Lords Select Committee - Women on Boards report

Daily Express - We are the battered husbands (Sadie Nicholas)

Daily Mail - BBC News snubs economist becuase he is a man (Tom Kelly)

The Independent - Movember, why would a woman grow a moustache (Rita Amin)

Daily Mail - Met Police could be sued for promoting women (Martin Beckford)

Daily Mail - Men are better at multi-tasking (Mark Prigg)

The Guardian - It's time to break the glass ceiling (Viviane Reding): Reding desperately wanting sexism

Men's Network - German government funds men's conference

Daily Telegraph - French minsters attend sexism classes : There is a women's ministry. These classes sound like sonme Opus Dei-like self flaggelation!

The Guardian - Female experts wanted (Caroline Criado-Perez)

The Guardian - Government reforms place domestic abuse victims at risk (Alexandra Topping): Men not mentioned.

The Guardian - Boardroom quotas are dangerous (Zoe Wood)

Equalities and Human Rights Commission - Equality Advisory Service launched

Business Insider - F4J want Asda advert banned (JIm Edwards)

The Guardian - Judge wants poistive discrimination for female judges (Owen Bowcott) Lord Sumption, another sexist judge

CBBC - Should Guides just be for girls

Ally Fogg - Reconciling feminism with the Men's Movement

The Guardian - Gender discrimination is banned, car insurance and annuities (Patrick Collinson)

Daily Telegraph - Male presenters on Today too aggressive

Daily Telegraph - Girl Guides are the ultimate feminist organisation

Sunderland Echo - Vera Baird pledges to not bother about male victims of domestic abuse

The Guardian - Men to blame for not going to Doctors (Jamie Doward): Always men to blame

Reddit - British male nursery teacher speaks out

Daily Mail - Women winning gender pay war

Daily Mail - 20% of primary schools have no male teachers (Laura Clark)

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS UPDATE - THE CRACKS ARE STARTING TO SHOW

There has been a substantial amount of coverage on men's issues this past ten days and below is a summary of the main articles. The cracks are just starting to show in the war against men.

Employment and boardrooms

Mike Buchanan - Angela Epstein receives a Maggie and the coverage on Sunday Morning Live. Mike and friends have launched the Winston, Maggie and Harpy awards.

Parliament (Women and 'Equalities questions) - Debate on women on boards and Philip Davies MP stands up for equality and meritocracy.

Third Sector - FTSE boards view female third sector executives as toxic (Jenna Pudelek) More scaremongering without any factual foundation.

TUC - Black boys have experienced sharpest rise in unemployment during recession: The TUC proves itself wrong. 

Daily Telegraph - Female quotas 'negatively affect' business, says minister (Rowena Mason)

Daily Telegraph - Equalities Minsiter says women need to challenge themselves and play a wider role in society (Rowena Mason): What is significant here is that this and the above article show that some women are now challenging the myths and hypocrisy of quotas which we know are solely being advocated as a discriminatory measure against men, meritocracy and equality.

Daily Telegraph - Companies to be forced to publish gender audits of employees (Louisa Peacock): does this count for the public sector which is dominated by women? The comment in the Telegraph comments section sums it up:

"Yet more discrimination against my white English husband who supports his family and has never been unemployed in his life"

Feminism

Netmums - What does feminism mean to the modern women: The research showed that only 17% of women described themselves as feminists (though more young women did which shows their radicalisation), that modern-day feminism did not represent them and that 28% felt it was too aggressive with 17% thinking it was anti-male. This landmark research has had the feminists blogs apoplectic as it damages their whole reason to be. Coverage in The Express, Telegraph and Daily Mail

Politics

Guido Fawkes - Quota of the Day

The Times - We do not need a Minister for Women (Ruth Porter): Subscription only

Family Law

Daily Mail - Why I stole my children (Ian Gallagher)

Daily Telegraph - Female breadwinners losing out (John Bingham): Staggering hypocrisy of the "want their cake and eat it kind". Pannone can be added to the list of anti-male organisations in the UK.

Prisons

Parliament - Download Prison Sentence Inequality - UK Parliament 16 Oct 2012 (2) (Philip Davies MP) : Again the MP excels himself by bringing into Parliament the myth that sentencing is far harsher for women than men. The Men's Network summarises the story. Thanks you to James Williams for circulating far and wide.

False Accusations

Teeside Gazette - Middlesbrough man hounded after being cleared of rape

Health

BBC - Prostate cancer barcode tests: Unless there is 'compulsory' organised screening for prostate cancer on a national basis like there is for breast and cervical cancer then there can be as many tests as you like but until that is in place things will not progress as they should.

Hanna Rosin book - The End of Men

Daily Mail - Is the male of the species now redundant (Bev Mooney)

Daily Telegraph - Interview

The Guardian - Cardboard men (John Harris)

The Guardian - It's not the end of men (Ally Fogg)

The portayal of men

Daily Telegraph - The descent of men (William Leith)

Education

Daily Telegraph - Young boys stuggling to write their name (Graeme Paton)

Domestic Violence

One in Three Report - Gaps in services revealed

General

Daily Mail - Why men love bossy women (Cosmo Landesman)

Daily Telegraph - BBC to draw up top 100 female power list: More Opus Dei-like self-flaggelation from the Beeb.

 Posted by Skimmimgton

 

Thanks to those that send links over

NEWS UPDATES

Thank you to everyone for their patience - here are a few from the past two weeks and thanks to those that have sent them through or added them in to the comments on the Citizen Khan story.

Daily Mail - The real price of feminism (Bianca London) Amazing misandry in the article by the journalist - this shows the cake and eat attitude of modern-day anti-male feminism. The journalist says you are not a true gentleman if you expect the woman to go Dutch.

The Independent - Take a bow, Sir Roger Moore (Ally Fogg)

Daily Telegraph - Domineering men face domestic violence proscutions (Martin Beckford) and Daily Mail - Stopping your wife having a bank account could be domestic abuse (James Chapman) More misandric headlines when the changes are clearly gender-neutral (although we know they may not be in practice) although any official involvement of the NSPCC in the Youth Panel means bias as boys as victims will be ignored as they are only seen by them as perpetrators.

Daily Mail - Forgiveness saved my life (Deborah Arthurs)

Daily Mail - Mother-of-four, 34, had sex with two schoolboys while her toddler slept in the  same (Larisa brown) No equality in justice as there is now way she should not be in jail.

Order Order - Disolve companies that do not meet gender quotas (Guido Fawkes)

BBC - Samaritans report that men born in their 60's and 70's at risk of suicide and Daily Mail - Why male suicide rates go up (Tamara Cohen) - The report is here.

Financial Times - Business leaders urge government to stand firm against boardroom quotas (Brian Groom)

Daily Telegraph - The BBC need more women (George Entwhistle) and then he tries to backtrack which we know is false -  his views are those that he stated first time. Watch this space.

Daily Telegraph - Thousands of boys are behind at reading (Graeme Paton)

Daily Telegraph - Father wins right to know who false accusers were (John Bingham)

Posted by Skimmington

 

THE BAD BOYFRIEND CLUB by ANTHONY HUMPHREYS

An interesting development  has come to my attention regarding a new television programme fronted by Peter Andre entitled ‘The Bad Boyfriend Club’. It may seem a trivial thing to some people as it is presented as a lighthearted show but if you probe deeper into the message it portrays it is most disturbing to men.

As I understand the premise is that Peter Andre takes men that have been identified as bad boyfriends by their female partners and changes them, supposedly for the better, so they
return as new men ready to cater to their girlfriends every whim and command.

I find the underlying message this sends out to the audience deeply worrying as the basic implication
is that all boyfriends (or indeed men in any relationship regardless of if they’re engaged, married etc..) are useless until they are trained in how to behave by women. It is also interesting to note that the methods used to modify the men's behaviour are mostly painful and humiliating (such as waxing).

Yet again no chance is wasted by the modern female dominated media to subject men to unacceptable behaviour they are not comfortable with but are forced to endure.  It also implies that men should not have their own independent mind and should instead live their life on standby ready for them to be given a command or job to complete, entirely at the woman’s discretion.  

I think that the programme also has an equally powerful message for any women who watch in that it informs them they are a superior gender to men (otherwise why would men need teaching how to behave and why would they be the ones to do it?). It also reinforces the prevalent negative image of men in modern society that we are stupid, knuckle dragging Neanderthals who are nothing without a woman to improve us.      

If you add all this together then it is a toxic cocktail of a programme that very cleverly and subtly
continues the war on men.  If anyone doubts this I would recommend you watch ‘The Bad Girlfriend Club’ that comes on prime time television this week – oh hang on that programme doesn’t actually
exist as you would never be allowed to make or air it would you?!!   

Posted by Anthony Humphreys