The Rights Of Man

FAWCETT SOCIETY'S HYPOCRITICAL DAY OF ACTION: DON'T TURN BACK TIME - MYTHS AND LIES

Somehow the Fawcett Society find it useful to keep this blog on its email list and as ever it is very useful as they have told us they are running a day of action called "Don't turn back time".

This of course is not a day of action against obvious grievances (like the St Paul's crowd for example), it is a day of action to protect and enhance women's rights over men. A day of action for more special treatment.

It is worth looking at the lies and myths they are using for the basis of their day of action (comments in italics).

On average, women earn less, own less, and are more likely to work and retire in poverty than men.

It has never been proven that women get paid less than men for doing the same job and according to gender pay gap younger women earn more than younger men. Men may own more, but as most of the male owners are married and will have daughters then those women own as much of it as the male owner does. More retire in poverty than men - where's the proof and what's the definition of poverty?

The government’s approach to cutting the deficit will widen the gap between women and men:

- Female unemployment is rising as jobs are cut in public service

The latest unemployment figures (Table A3) show that 1.486m men and 1.047 women are unemployed (June to August 2011). A year ago, the respective figures were 1.424m and 992,000. It means the number of men unemployed has increased in a year by 62,000 and 55,000 for women.

More men have lost their job in a year than women and far more are still unemployed. Nailing the Fawcett Society lie.

In addition, the rate of job losses at the beginning of the recession for men when the private sector was hammered was far higher than for women. Something Harman was caught out on.

The benefits and services women rely on more are being slashed

There is no difference between the benefits men and women receive except that child benefit normally goes to the mother. As this is a benefit for the benefit of children, it benefits the family unit - that is, it for the father and the children as much as a women. Even if there is no father around - it still benefits his children! An examination is here.

- Women on low incomes are becoming poorer
- The pay gap looks set to widen
- Women’s access to vital support services is being undermined
- Increasing numbers of women are being forced to give up work as cuts to childcare support means their jobs no longer cover the family's care costs.

These have been lumped together because they are all hypothetical because the Fawcett Society offer no proof and they are based on what could happen. There is no proof on low incomes, the pay gaps issue is just an opinion and a red herring as are the other issues. WHERE IS THE PROOF?

If you compare the depth of the issues affecting men and the maturity of the Men's Network in dealing with them at the conference on 1st November, the cries of justification of the Fawcett Society are desperate and unfounded. They are not based on any facts, they are based on the cry for more special treatment.

One issue worth looking at in the next few weeks is to see how much media coverage there is of the first national conference for men and boys and the Fawcett society's march. If there is no coverage of the Men's Network conference but lots of the march then we all know how biased the media will be against issues affecting men and boys.

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NEWS UPDATE

Here are a few recent articles:

 Irish Independent: Charity dismayed at banned ad (Fergus Black) A good example of how to use equality laws to fight the case for male equality. Further debate in Irish Examiner, Irish Herald and ASAI.

 BBC News Scotland: Rise in male victims of domestic abuse  - Excellent work from Abused Men in Scotland

 Daily Mail - Cameron demands more women to be in top jobs (Kirsty Walker)

 Daily Telegraph - Ed's pro women reshuffle gives Cameron a problem (John McTiernan). As with boardroom appointments, the positive discrimination for women in politics continues apace as it dominates the news agenda with Miliband's reshuffle and it dominates the Conservative Party's thinking. Talent is secondary to gender.

 BBC: Nearly half of allegations against teachers are malicious - Still waiting for the government legislation on this stopping teachers from being named unless guilty.

 Guardian -Women need quotas not canapes (Jane Martinson) - More dangerous antimale nonsense from Ms Martinson

 Guardian - Boardroom quotas for women? Good or Bad (Jill Treanor)

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MEN'S MATTERS - OCTOBER

James Williams' October Men's Matters show is available on Express FM.

DELOITTE ADD TO CHORUS WANTING TO END MERITOCRACY IN BRITAIN'S BOARDROOMS

The 30% Club, the anti-male group who want preferential treatment for women to be placed on the boards of major companies, despite the fact that younger women earn more and therefore more will be on boards soon, were joined by Deloitte this week. An issue covered extensively before

They joined the carnival of anti-male groups desperate to get headlines for their company and the easy win is to go in for man-bashing. Their report said 20% of FTSE-100 companies had no women on their board, and many had not set equality target sdemanded by the government specifically designed to promote women over men to tick a box.

The key issue from Deloitte, the 30% club and those who fall behind this issue, is the fact that nowhere do they mention talent or give examples where more talented women have been denied a place on a board by less talented men - a clear case of discrimination. But that argument is never made, it is all about the statistics. And from companies like Deloitte and organisations like the 30% Club that is rather pathetic. Deloitte claim to provide a quality service, but their research is shallow and panders to the anti-male carnival.

Two trends are emerging from all of this:

Firstly, there is now clear impetus on this issue and men will face the double whammy of underachievement in getting into professions and being out-competed because their exam grades will be lower.

Secondly, years ago men were easy targets for man bashing adverts normally by trashy consumer brands and while this trend has continued unabated, it is now being joined by allegedly more 'respectable' organisations like Deloitte.

They don't use low grade advertising, they use shallow research to bash men like this report. And why do they do it? They need column inches so they are in the papers more than their commercial rivals (Ernst & Young, PwC etc) and an easy win for organisations is to go in for pro-women, anti-male research because it is so acceptable these days and the newspapers are more than happy to print it without question.

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Media coverage - Independent graphic, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, Telegraph, Telegraph

 

CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE IGNORES BOY'S EDUCATION

Looking at what happened at the Conservative conference last week, I was looking to see if there was anything as remotely anti-male as the usual stuff we get at a labour conference and the expected diatribe at the Lib dem conference.

There was the usual guff about needing more women in power by discriminating against men through A-lists, gender quotas and otehr artificial selection criteria favoured by the Conservatives. Obviously with articles like this from Jenni Rusell, it just keeps the anti-male momentum going.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary and Minister for Women didn't even mention the latter brief ion her speech.

One speech worth reviewing was Michael Gove's, the education secretary. Considering how far boys are behind girls you would feel there would be a section in the speech dedicated to dealing with this issue. Switch the genders and you would expect it.

But there was absolutely nothing on the subject expect for a bit of father-bashing: . "That's why we should emphasise that the most important job that any man can have is being a father. And that your responsibility to your child is life long. If you were there at your child's conception, you should be there for the rest of their life."

Some of the policies on discipline, increasing rigour and less emphasis on continual assessment, will bring some balance back to boys,

So the Liberal Democrat conference went in for grotesque man bashing and wanting to join Labour and the Conservatives in not wanting men in Parliament, Labour just banned men altogether and the Conservatives just ignore their problems altogether.

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NEWS UPDATE

A few to catch up on

Cycletta - Women-only cycle rides inclduing at Whipsnade Zoo

The Guardian - Labour must stand by side with women (Yvette Cooper)

The Guardian - Rolls Royce points to lack of female maths and science students (Jill Treanor)

The Guardian - Sheffield council agrees to backpay of thousands of women (Owen Bowcott)

Evening Standard - The one woman Dave needs to listen to (Sarah Sands)

Irish Times - Amen launch abuse campaign (Aoife Carr)

The Guardian - Is Iceland the best country for feminists (Kira Cochrane)

The Guardian  - Is it any wonder women's support for Cameron is dwindling (Jane Martinson) - Ms Martin does not seem to like women who do not share her "all men are bastards" worldview.

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GENDER PAY GAP AND THE INDEPENDENT'S INTERNAL CONFLICT

Many of you rightly pointed out (see comments) to Monday's Independent front page  about the gender pay gap being in favour of women for people between 22 and 29 - a story we commented about at the end of last year.

There are as ever two areas to review - firstly the comments section (the Independent piece had 298 comments) which gives those who truly want equality for men and women a voice across the UK.

The second piece is really around the comments and this is where you see the institutional antipathy of men especially by those who 'claim' to believe in equality.

Exhibit 1: Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union

She said: "I am pleased that young females are now earning more but we still have a lot of work to do before we bridge the pay gap between men and women in higher education, especially at professorial level."

So Ms Hunt is happy females are earning more than men, but does not say that we should now look at why men are underperforming (we know why - fewer education grades) and do something about that.

This is where you really do see the antipathy about men - sit on hands.

Exhibit 2:The Independent's leader 

This is a classic example of the conflict between those who believe in equality for both genders and the fear they have of the backlash for saying so. The leader says the gap is both welcome and unwelcome. It cannot be both.

Why does it not just say it is unwelcome if they gap is to widen which it surmises (like this site has) rather than trying to couch it that it is welcome. There is clear tension in their thinking - their emotional brain has been brainwashed by the anti-male feminists (the gap is welcome) while their reason/logic part of the brain is, er, logical (which is why they say it unwelcome).

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MINING, FATALIES AT WORK AND THE GENDER PAY GAP LIES

The tragic news this week of a miner who died in Yorkshire on top of the four men who died in South Wales at the beginning of September shows why the anti-male feminist's obsession with lying and telling mistruths about the gender pay gap needs to be continually challenged.

In addition, the Health and Safety Executive have recently said that 171 people died at work in 2010/11. Perversely for a government body, the executive does not break the genders down so you have to count them.  I suspect this is a political decision because it would show far more men die at work then women - and we know government bodies never want to show men suffering more than women. If the figure was the other around of course, it would be so so different. So I had to count through the table and found that just 4 of those 171 who died at work were women and therefore 167 were men (97%).

This issue has been raised before but it is worth stating again that one of the reasons that on average men get paid more for women, is that for many male orientated jobs there is a danger premium. Of course, those poor chaps in those mines earned more than women in the same area. It is because there is a premium attached to the dirty and dangerous jobs they do. That of course, holds no brook with many.

Remember - ignore the lies of the anti-male feminists at the Fawcett Society, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and the government who say the gender pay gap is down to discrimination. Firstly, there is no provable gender pay gap for people doing the same job, secondly they never mention that younger women now get paid more than younger men and thirdly they never talk about the different jobs men and women choose to do.

Whenever, the gender pay gap is brought up, the fatality statistic have to be brought up as an point to undermine the gender pay gap lies.

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WHY YOU MUST ATTEND THE UK'S FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MEN AND BOYS

The excellent Men's Network have now announced the agenda of the first UK's first National Conference for Men and Boys and it looks great.

Turning up to the conference to hear and take in part of these debate is important but there is another clear reason to attend.

If we are all really serious about ensuring that men and boys are treated equally and that we want to take forward the argument and put on the political agenda, then attending this conference is a must.

One of the reasons anti-male feminist groups have been so successful is that they are better organised and have larger numbers of committed people. We need to learn from this.

The Men's Network has done superb work in Brighton and Hove to actually take the debate and the arguments forward in a rational way to the authorities. This national conference takes that a stage further and it is vital to us all that this conference succeeds and becomes the first of many.

Please attend, it really does matter.

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IN LABOUR'S WORLD EQUALITY MEANS BANNING MEN FROM SPEAKING OR LISTENING

I had mentioned that I was to review what was going on at the party conferences and as you would expect Labour's is very revealing as they are continuing to want to be the vanguard of the anti-male political world we live in.

The Liberal Democrats had Featherstone ranting and its pro-women/anti-man groups but nothing compares to Labour. 

It was bad enough when they were in government where they introduced a Minister for Women (but no Minister for Men) and then government ministers took it in turns to bring in as much as anti-male policies as possible to poison the public sector, the state institutions and the state as a whole. They bankrolled much of the "women's movement" in the charitable sector.

Now at their conference they decided to devote a whole day to talking about women's issues and not allowing men to listen, speak or take part (only Ed MIliband was allowed). This from a party that puts equality at the centre of everything it does, yet bans people because of their gender. As one recent reader pointed out - no platforming people who may oppose them and not engaging them is a classic Marxist feminist ploy.

They also like the Liberal Democrats ran a whole pelthora of woemen-only courses etc.

On the "No Men Shall Speak or Listen" day the hypocrisy is breathtaking but unsurprising, and some agree (see media coverage below). Soon the whole of the Labour Party conference will be women-only.

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 Media coverage: The Indepedent, Women On, The Sun.