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.

Posted by Skimmington

NEWS UPDATE

Sorry I have been away - now catching up and thanks to John K for putting posts up in my absence.

Here are some latest news updates:

MSN News - Do we need a men's rights movement (Hugh Wilson): This site gets a mention

The Sun - Girl who lured my brother to his death could be free in three years (Grant Rollings) - A clear example of a ludicrous sentence passed against someone just because she is a woman.

National Conference for Men and Boys- 2012 date: 2nd November 

Duncan Fisher - Why was a man treated as a stranger to his new bron child

ManKind UK - Service delivery to male victims of sexual abuse (Martyn Sullivan): A key conclusion is that their should be a parallel Ending Violence against Men and Boys strategy

Daily Mail - Lib Dems block fathers from being named on birth certificates (James Chapman) and petition

Sunday Telegraph - Boardroom quotas and EU debate (Harriet Alexander)

BBC - Who is being made redundant (Mark Easton): More evidence of the lies of Harman, Cooper, Fawcett etc stating women are the losers from the recession.

The Independent - Woman loses false rape appeal (Cathy Gordon)

Daily Mail - Female workers get paid more (Steve Doughty)

The Sun - Tyrone to be victim of domestic abuse (Colin Robertson)

BBC - Council bans father from looking after daughter

Men's Health Forum - Recession hits men's mental health

Posted by Skimmington

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).

PARISH NOTICE: UPDATE FROM TOM MARTIN

Press Release – January 30^th, 2012.

 

Tom Martin v LSE's Gender Institute: Update

 

Tom Martin's sex discrimination lawsuit against Europe's largest gender studies department at The London School of Economics (LSE) has been delayed, a hearing now rescheduled for March 13^th. Tom has given an interview for a programme on satellite news channel Press TV on 'the future of feminism', which awaits broadcast, and also, has recently been invited to take part in a debate at University College London (UCL), on the prevalence of misandry in academia and society, a date not yet set. Tom invites all other press and media to contact him directly: [email protected].

 Tom thanks all 120 people from 9 countries who have now donated a total of £4013.25 to the legal fighting fund so far, and asks supporters to keep the donations coming in and the momentum going, by subscribing on twitter, facebook and youtube, and spreading the word in any other way they can for what could be a long, difficult, but ultimately game-changing awareness-raising and legal campaign.