The Rights Of Man

WHY DOES WEST MIDLANDS POLICE NOT SUSPEND THESE OFFICERS?

Tuesday the site covered this awful and pathetic sentence and then along comes newsfrom West MIdlands police who give Jess Cooper a £80 fixed penalty fine for making a false rape allegation which ended up with one man in hospital and another in a cell. The anger from the 192 comments tell a clear story.

The West Midlands police should be at least suspending the officers involved and publicly saying so. Firing would not be a problem either. Why the silence from them when these officers thought the false claim no different to someone caught shoplifting? The police did take forward this case so it is not as though all West Midlands police ignore the issue.

If the police are really clear on wanting to deal with the issue or false rape allegations, they must make examples of these officers and publicly do so. Otherwise two men hurt by this have been dealt an incredible injustice and the police are turning a blind eye to it. And Jess Cooper has let every poor women who is raped down as well, do the police not consider that either.

Still we all know where the Women's Justice Taskforce stand - another victory in their campiagn to end equality in justice.

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MORE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE DOMESTIC ABUSE EQUALITY BECOMES A REALITY

Monday saw a post about how the media forget male victims exist and not helped by the government who often forget that men are victims too (Sonia Poulton wrote a great piece righting that wrong). The problem with the government is while their policies are gender neutral they are often not explained that way (including by them) and they certainly not applied that way.

A case in point (and pointed out by a kind reader) was this pathetic suspended sentence of a woman who attacked a man with a golf club and was not sent to jail. If the genders were reversed does anyone really believe this is all a man would have got?

The government though has announced that it will be launching this week a fund to help male victims (see question 4) at least it is some recognition bar giving the Men's Advice Line (run by the awful Respect) money for its helpline.

The issue is that small initiatives are welcome and so is a gender neutral policy but more, much more, has to be done to make sure the support and recognition is happening on the ground. Pathetic and sexist sentences are one such example of how discrimination remains rife in domestic abuse.

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MEDIA STILL FORGETTING MEN CAN BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

While the BBC and others tend to be a bit more balanced in ensuring the way they portray domestic abuse as being about male victims as well as female victims, some continue to only keep one eye open even though the statistics are clear that one in three victims are male. It is a theme raised before. This weekend we have seen more cleaq eampoles:

The Sunday Telegraph's Patrick Hennessy broke the story under this headline: Men who bully or abuse their partners in a "controlling" fashion could face criminal charges under a shake-up of domestic violence laws being planned by ministers.

The Mail on Sunday's Jack Doyle followed up with: Bullying husbands could face court for 'emotional abuse' as domestic violence laws are tightened


Yet both articles go on to say later on that men can be victims too, but the impression is clearly left (especially because of the headline) that again only men perpetrate domestic violence and only women are victims. It is this biased and awful reporting that continues to give succour to those who believe that domestic abuse is a gendered crime and do all they can to stop male victims from being recognised and getting the help they need.

Shame on you Telegraph and Mail.

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NEWS UPDATE

A few from this week:

Lynne Featherstone MP (Minister for 'Equalities') - Women key to economic success: Men clearly are not part of Featherstone's thinking about how we get out of the economic mess we are in.

Lynne Featherstone MP (Minister for 'Equalities') - Women in Business speech: You would think that young men were paid more than women and that more men were entering the professions and that there are more women unemployed than men. But as this is the other way around, Featherstone, must be in the running for the newly crowned man-hating MP of the year does not think so.

The Guardian - Major pension fund may vote against all-male boardrooms (Jill Treanor): Legal and General are a new name in the pantheon of anti-male companies stalking the UK. In favour of gender quotas and being anti-meritocracy, they favour putting people into boardrooms because of their gender not their talent. Not an investment house to have confidence in.

The Observer - Imposing quotas is not as important as cultural change (Catherine Bennett)

The Observer - Women told: your place is on the dole (Katie Allen): We look forward to Katie's piece on men on the dole which is where 1.5 million currently sit.

Daily Mail - Women surgeons who complain about their sexist industry are just making excuses: Always far more powerful when a women says it.

Kent Online - Girl jailed over rape claims (Paul Hooper)

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FEMINIST BLOGGERS AND THE 'NO PLATFORM'

One of the long standing traits of the extremist  marxist feminists who were radicalised in the 70's and 80's and then went on to radicalise another generation of man-hating gender warriors was the 'no platform' tactic. This is where either certain groups/people are stopped/banned from speaking at open meetings or were marginalised and not engaged with. To some of us it has always been a badge of honour (though never been no platformed because of fascism becuase I am not!).

We are now seeing no platform culture being asked for where (self described) feminist bloggers are decrying people who comment negatively about their misandry. What's worse for them is the fact that as many women as men comment on their blogs and articles complaining about their sexism towards men. That leaves them in a real quandry.

Putting aside the random nutters who give death threats and suchlike (do they suppose men don't get get these as well?) and who should be caught and locked up for a long time, the underlying theme is that these writers don't actually like the fact that people write comments pointing out they are wrong. They complain about sexist comments when on many occasions the articles they write are sexist against men so men (and women) are simply responding to that.

Helen Lewis-Hastely kicked the subject off on her New Statesman blog and then followed it with a comment on men's experience. Vanessa Thorpe follows it up in the Observer as does Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard

Brendan O'Neill also raises his opposition in the Telegraph. As featured in the latest News Update Anna Racoon questioned whether the bloggers were crying rape and follows it up here.

The problem is where this leads. Firstly, men won't be allowed to comment on the blogs complaining of feminist misandry, though it will be harder to ban those women who also complain of their misandry. So then comments will be moderated to the extreme so only those in agreement will see their comments published. On and on it will go until all men (and women) who disagree are silenced and no platformed.

No platform on the internet is the inevitable end - the anti-male cultural stalinism that they want. All are equal but some are more equal than others. This is just another thread to the campaign to shut the challenges men and women make to the misandry of the radical and marxist feminists.

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PS - the only comments moderated here are those that are plainly nasty and anti-women and also the irritating spam selling things. Anti-male feminists are welcome to debate on this site! They never do - maybe we have been no platformed!!

LAST FEW DAYS - EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CONSULTATION

A few kindly readers have pointed out that phase two of the ECHR's consultation finishes on their strategic plan (2012-2015) on Monday. The supporting information is worth going through.

As everyone will have their own views, personally one area they need to concentrate on is their policing of the public sector equality duty because there lies the best opportunity for men to get equality in this day and age.  As well as the policing they should be promoting that fact to a wider audience so men know about it.

They should spend less time on campaigning (as that always means campaigning against men) and get on with the job of ensuring equality also means equality for men too.

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PARISH NOTICE - NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOMESTIC ABUSE

Good to see a conference on this subject - from the ManKind Initiative

NEWS UPDATE - BLACK NOVEMBER

Quite a few to catch up from November and the beginning of December – they catalogue the debates where the attacks on men have been continual and unprecedented either as direct attacks, discrimination by omission and the declaration that women need even more special favours and treatment.

It has been a Black November for men, despite the excellent conference at the beginning of the month. It makes the conclusions drawn from that conference even more important.

We have had the continuation of attacks on the government on the impact of cuts and the recession when many of the cuts impact on whole families and when more men have lost their job than women over the past year. We also had the impact of the awful Norgrove family review, the domestic abuse awareness week peppered with campaigns that pretend that male victims don't exist and of course the ignorance on the gender pay gap which shows younger men earn less than young women.

Week beginning 01 November 2011

Telegraph – Cameron accused of unprecedented attacks on women (Andrew Porter)

Daily Mail - Do fathers no longer have any rights?(Amanda Platell)

Daily Mail - Law shake-up will fuel epidemic of fatherless families (Tim Shipman)

Daily Mail - Let them bake cake (Suzanne Moore)

Daily Mail - The craving that leads to the ultimate deception (Liz Jones)

Anna Racoon - Female Bloggers Cry Rape? and on Dale & Co: Excellent example of a sound women distancing herself from the extreme feminists who believe that any criticism of them and their views is down to misogyny. A post will be imminent on this type of Stalinism.

Week beginning 7 November 2011

Daily Express - We must not forget the rights of fathers (Anne Widdecombe)

Huffington Post - Fem 11 hears from Livingstione and Paddick (Dina Rickman): Why do politicians pander to groups that push an anti-male agenda?

Evening Standard - The hate that stalks women on the internet (Rosamund Urwin)

Week beginning 14 November 2011

BBC News - Midwives told to involve fathers

Karen Woodall - Family Justice Review death of fatherhood or dawn of new era (Karen Woodall)

Bob McCroskie - Why I won't be wearing the white ribbon

This is Bath - Do women really get a better deal?

Daily Telegraph - Why we all need to talk about prostate cancer (Judith Potts)

Daily Mail - Dads by deception (Kathryn Knight)

Guardian - Young women earn more than pay - that's not sexist its fair (Gaby Hinsliff): So Gaby what campaigns are you now willing to support to help bring equality for young men? Sorry, I couldn't hear you? Lee Dauphin's comment in th excellent comment's section debate sums it up 'So, inequality is "unfair" when it is skewed in favour of men, but "fair" it is skewed against men'.

Week beginning 28 November 2011

ConservativeHome - Councils funding equalities industry: They sure ain't funding male equality.

Guardian - Workers given green light over equal pay (Owen Bowcott): Will this also apply to men in the 'traditional' women's roles.

BBC News - Teacher Katherine Goldberg groped male steward on flight : Clear double standards as she avoids jail and a man who groped a female steward would be in jail make no mistake.

All Party Parliamentary Group on Sex Equality: Women's Access to Power investigation: This dangerously influential group of parliamentarians claim that they are for sex equality yet the secretariat is run by pro-women anti-male pressure group The Fawcett Society. Such hypocrisy. Would they ever talk about male equality issues!

Daily Mail - Save our sons (David Thomas)

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UPDATE FROM TOM MARTIN - COURT DATE ANNOUNCED FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

PRESS RELEASE: December 4^th, 2011

 Court date for man's £50,000 lawsuit against 'male-blaming' gender studies degrees at LSE

 A former student of the London School of Economics (LSE), who has filed a lawsuit claiming all five of its gender studies Masters degrees “exaggerate women's issues and recommend blaming men to justify ignoring men's issues”, will make his case at the Central London County Court, a hearing date now set for February 14^th, 2012.

 As reported by The Evening Standard , The Guardian (here and here), Forbes Magazine, The West End Extra, A Voice for Men, Men's Matters, and dozens of blogs and vlogs, Tom Martin's case has garnered a lot of public support, his legal fighting fund receiving £3055 in donations from ninety people in eight countries to date, but Martin says he now needs more donations, “Clerical errors by the court have caused a three month delay, so I now need a few thousand pounds more to continue devoting all my time in preparation for winning the case.”

 Director of LSE's Gender Institute, Dr Anne Phillips, told LSE's student union newspaper The Beaver “I find it almost surreal when [LSE's] Gender Institute is portrayed as representing 'women good, men bad'”, but Martin's website documents his method and analysis of texts in the opening compulsory unit for all gender degrees at LSE as evidence of “systematic male-blaming bias”, and argues the contract students enter explicitly rules out sex-discriminatory learning materials.

 LSE's defence now argue key texts are not compulsory learning materials, only “recommended”. Martin claims key texts are indeed compulsory, students explicitly told to read them in preparation for further discussion in seminars. LSE also argue texts are available for both women and men to read so therefore do not directly discriminate.

 Further, they argue a focus on women in gender studies is expected, claiming any bias or discrimination against men “plainly justifiable”. Martin says the prospectus did not warn of any discrimination or bias, nor seek to justify it.

 In a 2011 book (p10), Dr Clare Hemmings, senior gender lecturer at LSE, admits when “women's studies” became “gender studies” programmes, it signalled a rejection of biased, exaggerated female victim-hood perspectives in favour of greater inclusion, accuracy, and fairness for the field, but that subsequently, nothing changed. In 2008, Hemmings wrote that replacing the prefix “women's” with “gender” was a good way to ensure continued public funding and support.

 Another of LSE's key gender texts recommends ignoring men's studies in favour of “Critical Studies on Men (CSM)". According to various reports, many educational programmes around the world are similarly critical, from kindergarden up.

  Research shows negative stereotypes on men effect focus, performance, and health. With 59% of university degrees going to women and 41% to men, the gap widening, Martin hopes his lawsuit will encourage educationalists to improve their stories. He appears in a Youtube exposé, finding some LSE students justify bias against men, by citing discrimination issues they say women face, one student exclaiming “There's no discrimination against men!” her outburst replayed in slow motion then freezing as a 160 item A to Z list of discrimination issues scrolls by.

 Commenting on the February 14th court hearing date, Martin says “I think LSE's Gender Institute is planning an extra special Valentine's Day massacre for men's issues as usual, but people would prefer to see these gender studies industry representatives publicly renew their vows to gender equality, and make a serious effort to pick up the £50,000 tab too - loose change for LSE maybe, but not for the more than 900 other gender studies and women's studies departments worldwide who can avoid similar payouts by dropping the man-hatred, and incorporating men's equality debates without further deceit, delay, or excuse. Gender-developmental progress is much more attainable when considering both women's and men's issues. Equality is a two way street.”

 The university's press office can be contacted here. Tom Martin can be contacted here.

 

MEN-HATING TO GO ON NATIONAL CURRICULM

Wherever you turn there are legions of anti-male feminists coming out of the woodwork demonising men and calling for special favours for women and girls.

Dr Helen Wight, president of the Girls' Schools Association  (there is no Boys' Schools Association that I can find) said (Standard and Telegraph) that girls should be taught about sexism because men secretly think their place in the home and only play lip service to equality. She has a son and a husband I wonder how they feel having a mother who sneers at them?

The problem is that people like Dr Wright think it is OK to come out with this nonsense and no commentators have the nerve to challenge them. This is someone who has influence and she wants to turn every girl at school into people who hate men because they think all boys and men hate and sneer at them.

When will this sexist man-hating nonsense end?

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PS If she wants to teach girls about sexism, this site may be a good start!