The Rights Of Man

THE CITY UNDER SCRUTINY BY EQUALITIES COMMISION OVER GENDER PAY GAP AND HARASSMENT

The CEHR (Commission for Equalities and Human Rights) which formed when the EOC and other bodies merged last year is pulling up the drains on the City and the construction industry.

It is conducting a witch-hunt inquiry (link) into both, based on the gender pay gap in the City and harassment.

They quote that the gender pay gap in the City is 41% and the arguments about why the Gender Pay Gap is a myth has been outlined regularly on this site (link). However, the gap in the City is starker because, generally speaking, the hours that people work in the City are extreme and many women will choose not to take part especially when they want to bring up a family.

Often, they have a husband/male partner in the City and they are the ones that work ridiculous hours (often earning serious money for their family to boot).

On the harassment front, perhaps the Commission may turn its attention to this survey that showed that 85% of men had said they had been sexually harassed at work (link).

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ANOTHER REASON WHY ANONYMITY IS NEEDED FOR MEN ACCUSED OF RAPE

The petition (link) calling for anonymity for men accused of rape needs more signatures.

As well as those cases listed previously (link), the reason the law has to be changed is because of cases such as this where Shirley Prince (link) put a man through hell.

TWO MORE CASES THAT SHOW RAPE LAW MUST CHANGE

Rape is one of the worst things that can ever to occur to a woman or a man. Those who falsely accuse a man of rape not only let down those women who have been raped but also blight the lives of the accused.

Both Tracy Winfield and Erin Casson are two such women who made false rape allegations (link) ruining the lives of innocent men.

This site has long argued that men accused of rape must remain anonymous unless they are found guilty. They should not have their lives blighted by this and anonymity would give equality of treatment before the law. Importantly, there is no evidence that this would stop any women who was raped from coming forward.

FEMALE SEXUAL HARASSMENT FIGURES FOIL ANOTHER FEMINIST MYTH

Well, well well, Law firm Peninusla (link) produced a survey about sexual harassment at work by women on men.

According to their figures, four out of five men have suffered sexual harassment at work and 85% of employers admit they take claims of sexual harrassment made by a men less seriously than if made by a women. Links to the story are here (Telegraph, Daily Mail).

David Price of Peninsula said "The majority of men don't feel gender discrimination applies to them, and tend to just accept it. Male employees should not feel they can't report incidents to their employer."

David also debated this issue across the media (go to press section of their web-site).

It now seems month by month, the one sided myths of the feminist fundamentalists are being shattered. The one-sided debate over education, domestic abuse, cancer, the gender pay gap and now this are being challenged.

Those fundamentalists who only run campaigns about men harassing women at work are anti-men, that is what drives them, they can no longer ignore the facts.

If anyone sees campaigns in their workplace that are only aimed at men harassing women, they should challenge those (normally female dominated HR departments) who put them up.

Happy for anyone who sees such campaigns to contact this site.

 

 

 

THE BRIGHTON ARGUS SHOWS ITS IGNORANCE OVER DOMESTIC ABUSE

One of the many complaints from those operating in the sector helping male domestic abuse victims is the ignorance of their plight in the media and the gender discrimination in the reporting. Though media reporting in some quaters has improved with regular features on male victims, other media carry on the distortion.

As well known, two in every five victims are men but some media insist, when running stories on the issue, of just referring to females being vcitims and that men are wife-beaters.

The Brighton Argus has recenly done just that. They run a story on domestic violence courts under the headline "New Court System To Ensnare Wife Beaters" (link).

Well Done Brighton Argus for your balanced reporting!

TRACY BROOKS CASE SHOWS ONCE AGAIN WHY MEN SHOULD REMAIN ANONYMOUS UNTIL FOUND GUILTY IN RAPE CASES

The case of Tracy Brooks who had down the years falsely accused five men of rape is a salutary tale (link).

It not only serves as a great disservice to those women who are raped but again shines the spotlight into the way that the criminal justice system 'automatically' believes a man is guilty.

What is also made worse is that a man, once charged, is named irrelevant as to whether he is found guilty. It is too late for those who are found innocent or who eventually have the charges dropped against them, their names have been emblazoned across the media and the friends and work colleagues will never quite believe them.

Often the feminist fundamentalists will state that nothing can be in place that will out off women from coming forward if they have been raped. Of course, that is true, but there is no evidence to state that by keeping a man's identity secret, unless found guilty, would put women off from coming forward.

The current situation is a clear case of sexual discrimination against men and cannot be justified on moral, logical or rational terms.

The Government have looked at it but done nothing about it, no doubt because Harriet Harman QC MP sees it as an opportunity to attack and undermine men

This is one Law that has to be changed.

BBC SUCCEED AGAIN, THIS TIME ON FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MEN

Often this site has been critical of the BBC and how they systematically ignore men's issues even when the evidence is staring them in the face.

Last Sunday, they ran an excellent feature on Radio Five Live (see previous post) on male domestic violence victims, now the Radio One (link) 1Extra production team have run a feature on men falsely accused of rape.

It includes a recorded feature as well as copy on their web-site:-

False allegations of rape may make for gripping headlines in the newspapers, but they can also ruin the lives of those men who've been accused despite being innocent.

It explains how the police automatically believe the man is guilty and that according to Home Office research, between 3% and 9% of all reports of rape are found to be false. Yet the lives of those men accused are often devastated. Some even commit suicide, so terrible is the stigma of being charged with sexual assault - even if subsequently cleared.

The most recent case that achieved notoriety was the Warren Blackwell case (link).

Margaret Gardener, the director of the False Allegations Support Organisation (Faso) receives over a thousand calls each year from men looking for help and advice. She is utterly convincing.

There are two problems:-

Firstly, the feminist fundamentalist lobby, having taken over the Government, keep ratcheting up the targets for rape convictions which means that the police in their target driven madness don't care whether a man is innocent or not. To them, he is simply another tick in the box and has to be guilty. There is no such thing in rape cases as innocent before proven guilty when a man is accused of rape.

The second issue is that men who are accused of rape are named, whether innocent or not. This is not equality. Rightly, a woman is not named but a man should only be named if he is found guilty in a court of law. That is equality.

The feminist fundamentalists often say that nothing should happen that would prevent female victims from coming forward and this is right, however, allowing a man to keep his anonynomity unless guilty would not stop women coming forward.

Male anonymity is a key plank in the Manifesto for a Minister for Men (link).

The Government did look at this, but unsurprisingly got beaten down by the fundamentalist lobby, so they have no plans to change the law.

All aside, congratulations to the BBC for making a start on redressing the balance by highlighting two vitally important men's issues.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RADIO FIVE LIVE (5) FOR FEATURE ON MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

As reported (link), the Stephen Nolan show on Radio Five Live (5) ran a feature on male domestic violence victims.

It was first rate and aired an interview with Erin Pizzey and a victim. Subsequently, they were inundated with calls from other victims, many of whom were interviewed. Not in recent years has there been such an opportunity to air this taboo.

It can still be heard at (link) and thanks to Men's Aid (link) - the timings are  01:34:40 to 01:43:00 and then 01:45:00 to 01:57:00, 02:01:30 to 02:28:30 and lastly 02:35:30 to 02:45:00.

If you ever hear those from

• Women's Aid,
• Refuge,
• NSPCC,
• Fawcett Society,
• Commission of Equality and Human Rights,
• Labour Government,
• Media.

deny that men are victims, sit them down and make sure they listen to every single word said on this programme.

With this feature and other articles such as those in the Telegraph, The Independent (link), (link) and (link), if the current Home Affairs Select Committee on Domestic Violence does not take male victims seriously in its findings then it will be a whitewash.

FURTHER MISTREATMENT METED OUT TO WARREN BLACKWELL

As reported in the Daily Mail (link), Warren Blackwell has lost his appeal against having to pay his bed and board for the time he wrongly spent at Her Majesty's Pleasure after being falsely accused of committing rape by a serial accuser.  As he states, whilst he received more than enough compensation to cover the £12,000 cost, it is the principle that matters.

This judgement really does stink and it is another case of institutional sexism against men. How can it be just and fair that an innocent man is charged for the time he wrongfully spent in prison because of false allegations made against him which severely damaged his and his family's reputation. It is even worse that those actually guilty of crimes like robbery and murder are not charged for their bed and board.

No wonder people in the UK have lost faith in their institutions. 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BOOK : A MAN IN A WOMAN'S WORLD BY JACKIE HAYDEN

A new book - A Man In A Woman's World - has been published. Written by Jackie Hayden it outlines his disillusionment at the anti-male culture and anti-male sexism in the domestic violence sector in Ireland. A sector that he worked in including four years as Chairman of the Wexford Rape Crisis Centre. His testiimony is therefore unquestionable.

The book is available at (link) or (link).

Two reviews from Ireland show that this is a must read for anyone wanting to read more about the anti-male culture we live in where it is acceptable for those who believe in 'equal opportunities' to berate men.

Eilis O'Hanlon writes in The Independent 'that they can lose the active support of Jackie Hayden is a dreadful indictment of feminists:

'He has seen, too, the way in which problems which afflict men have been sidelined and ignored, and no one seems to find it at all strange that they should be, while those affecting women are automatically assumed to be more important. He even details one shocking incident when, in a piece he had written for Hot Press, he mentioned the need to help victims of domestic abuse "to return to a life of non-violence that is the human right of every woman, man and child", and was urged by the female director of the Wexford Centre to drop the word "man" from the sentence because it was "inappropriate in the context".

'He has seen how women are allowed to joke about men in a belittling and derogatory way and no offence is allowed to be taken, whereas men are "permanently under scrutiny and threat" for the slightest remark. He knows that relations between the sexes are constantly shifting and under negotiation -- "Human behaviour," he writes, "is not robotically controlled." But still feminists speak as if all social and sexual interaction can be subject to cast-iron rules, with the severest punishments for transgression.'

The full article is here (link)

John Waters from the Irish Times stated: 'Hayden tells of his disquiet at the level of anti-male sexism and hostility he encountered within the rape crisis and women's aid networks. Somewhat typical of his and my generation, he describes growing up in the rock 'n' roll counter-culture and being easily persuaded that sexism against women was wrong and violence against women utterly unacceptable. But, in the trenches with feminist activists, he found the dream gradually unravelling.

'Conditioned by feminism to avoid any form of sexism, he found himself "confronted with sexism almost at every turn". Many women he worked with "revealed themselves as harbouring a cynicism about men in general that was profound and far-reaching"'.