The Rights Of Man

CAMPUS RUMPUS OVER GENDER EQUALITY OFFICER AT UEA

This site recently was forwarded an email outlining the experiences of a student at the University of East Anglia in Norwich after he had called for a debate on having a Gender equality Officer at the student union. They currently have a women's officer ('surprise surprise as Cilla Black used to say) but no men's officer.

His experience is laid out clearly in his blog where 'surprise surprise' the accusation of misogyny is causally cast about as a fascist stick to silence debate.

This site has covered this type of issue before: Hull, Manchester and Oxford. Kentkept there's after a failed attempt at abolition though "the National Union of Student's Women's Movement has a problem with this."

As we know from experience in the UK and of course in the USA, hatred of men is a constant theme with many women becoming radicalised on campus (gender studies anyone?) to then go out into the wider world to preach the Marxist Feminist Gospel of women=good men=bad. They end up in governement as politicians or senior civil servants, enter quangos like the Equalities Commission or local authorities/police forces as oxymoronically called 'diversity officers'.

The experience in the University of East Anglia is a salient reminder of the danger.

Posted by Skimmington

 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY SHOULD BE RENAMED "INTERNATIONAL MEN BASHING DAY"

Every year when International Women's Day comes around in theory it should be a day of celebration of the achievement of women and the qualities they bring to us all. Similar to Mother's day (and Father's Day of course) men and women from across the UK should be encouraged to raise a toast to women. Instead, you are left with the acrid stench of anti-male hatred and discrimination.

The reality is that the day is increasingly hijacked (I am not sure whether it was ever thus) by Marxist feminists and others who hate men. It is not a celebration of women it is used to bash men, to say that all the barriers that women face are down to sexist men and if women ruled the world, the planet would be perfect.  It is used to campaign for more rights for women over men - it is not about equality.

Organisations like the Government, Women's Aid, Fawcett Society and the Guardian (of course) plan their PR around campaigns and adverts all with an underlying anti-male bias. It is not always in your face but you are left in doubt what the underlying message is: Women = good, men = bad.

For men, Tuesday was a day to keep your head bowed as you read every newspaper and watched the TV or listened to the radio knowing that your female colleagues at work, mothers at the school gates and  female friends will be seeing, watching and hearing the same. It really is uncomfortable.

You wonder what goes through their minds when you interact with them. Is it the normal "Hi, how's things" or do they really want to say "Hi, you fascist misogynist who's stopping me advancing in my career, ia a sex pest and thinks I should be at home with the kids and the kitchen." That's what the anti-male feminists want them to think.

As it was the centenary this year, there was more of this than usual and of course, with International Men's Day due for 19th November this year, it will be interesting to see what level of attention that receives from the same organisations. Silence, I expect but that is equality for you.

Posted by Skimmington

 

Some of the low lights of this year's campaign include:

Guardian - Women only day, Manifesto for 21st century feminism, Why feminism must not lose its bite, How rapidly things change

Government and the Labour Party: the shockingly anti-male Yvette Cooper

The Equalities Commission who do nothing to support equality for men

Oxfam ad - very anti-male (why would a man donate to them after reading this)

James Bond ad (and Daily Mail)- even says women get paid less for doing same job as men. That is not true, completely unproven. This is run by a new umbrella organisation called EQUALS.

Telegraph - Women are only equals for one day per year 

House of Lords

And a great post on Quiet Riot Girl

STILL NO EQUALITY IN THE RACE FOR LIFE

Last year John Kimble wrote a great article about Cancer Research UK and its Race for Life which bans men from participating - an event this year sponsored and promoted by Tesco.

John Taylor who has been campaigning for over a decade to make the event gender neutral and in the name of equality allow men to participate. In this letter (Download CRUK and its discriminatory race for life _Mar 11_) he gives a summary of recent events in his quest for equality.

Posted by Skimmington 

ARTICLES UPDATE

Just a quick update on some recent and varied articles of interest on male equality issues. Health warning - some may make your blood boil!

Channel 5 News - Shocking rise in male victims of domestic violence

The Sun - Dads in despair (Antonella Lazzeri)

Daily Telegraph - It's babies not discrimination that hold women back (Jemima Lewis)

Daily Telegraph - Mother's horror as court takes children after 15 minutes hearing (Nick Britten)

Office for National Statistics - Suicide statistics show three times as many men still commit suicide than women

Daily Mail - Jailed the solidiers cheating wife who made false rape claim

The Guardian - What is the nicest thing a man can do for a woman - shout at a bigot (Suzanne Moore)

The Independent - Men blew it (Janet Street-Porter)

Daily Mail - Escape from your husband and duck your duties as a mother (Daniel Bates)

 

THE END OF MERITOCRACY AND EQUALITY FOR MEN IN BRITAIN'S WORKPLACES

The publication this week of Lord Davies of Abersoch's government backed report on getting more women into British boardrooms means the end of meritocracy and equality in Britain's Boardroom. An issue this site has been covering for some time. No longer will talent, qulaifictaions or dedication matter, your gender is all that counts.

If you are a man - your only chance of getting onto a board is if the female quota has been fulfilled. If it has not you can be the best business person in the world, but you still won't get on. That is the end of meritocracy and equality for men in the Britain's companies.

The report states that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should be aiming for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015. Davies recommends that FTSE 350 companies should be setting their own, challenging targets and expects that many will achieve a much higher figure than this minimum. 

The explicit threat is that if the recommendations are not met British companies will be forced to do it and have quotas like those in Norway (40% of boards have to be women).

The issues it raises are clear - as stated there will be no such as meritocracy, gender is all that matters. Secondly, it is clear this government is as anti-male as the last one and is doing all it can to undermine and attack men.

This boardroom issue is basically another tactic to berate and undermine men to ensure they remain viewed by the metropolitan elite as second class citizens who are to be blamed for everything.

The report is very explicit in saying that the reason there are not as many women on a board as men is down to discrimination by men. But there is no evidence of this, and reports like those by Catherine Hakim  and the Institute of Leadership and Management (covered in the Daily Mail) have clearly shown that not all capable women want to be on the board. Some because they haven't got the drive, some want to stay at home and bring up a family, some  make other lifestyle choices and some just do not want all the hassle that comes with it.

Davies and others complain of Groupthink but all the clamour to support this is Groupthink of the worst kind. If you don't agree you are cast to the margins. Plus there is no evidence to suggest that more gender balanced boards are more successful.

Many very successful women also work in the public sector which is not affected by this. Theresa May  (Minister for Women) spins by saying that 51% of the population are women therefore implying that this should be reflected on boards in the private sector. But twice as many women (40%) work in the public sector than men so one of the reason there are less women on private sector boards is actually because they employ fewer. There is less of a pool to choose from. 

This fact is worth looking into more because it has not been taken into account because it does not play to the distorted picture Davies, May and others are spinning.

With the Government bringing in the measures of the last Government to ensure there is discrimination in getting a job (section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 which the government had campaigned against when in opposition) and now ensuring talented men will hit a quota ceiling there is no equality for men at either end of the job scale.

With educational standards far behind those of girls, men being stopped from getting into work or getting to the top and with young men now earning less than girls all because the government and the state actively discriminate men and boys, it is now clear:

British men are second class citizens by Order of the Government

Posted by Skimmington 

Media Coverage - BBC#1, BBC#2, Daily Mail#1, FT#1, Guardian #1, Guardian #2, FT#2 (Catherine Hakim quote), Independent#1, FT#3, Daily Mail#2 

ARTICLE UPDATE

Here are a few articles that have not been covered so far but may be of interest.

The Guardian - Welfare Reform Bill will trap women in their violent hell (Lisa Ansell)

The Observer - Review threatens companies with disclosure over number of women they interview (Andrew Clark) plus UK lags behind Nordic nations.

Daily Telegraph - Young women face £1,000 increase in car insurance (David Williams)

The Guardian - Paying the price for equality (Rupert Jones)

Daily Mail - One in three female offenders are thugs (Sarah Harris)

Warminster TImes - £80 fine for false rape claim 

Aberdeen Press and Journal - False rape claim woman faces jail

NPR (USA) - Love doesn't have to hurt (Michel Martin) About an appalling Pepsi Superbowl advert 

BBC Berkshire - Woman cautioned over false rape claim

Daily Mail - Female Chaplain sentenced over false rape claim 

The Independent - Boardroom quotas (Margareta Pagano)

Daily Telegraph - Lady golfers unhappy about law to end sex discrimination (Adam Lusher) 

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GOVERNMENT NEWSLETTER FOR WOMEN, NOT EVEN A CHIP WRAPPER FOR MEN

Lats month the site revealed that the Government's oxymoronically called Government Equalities Office would be sending newsletters to women's groups about what it was doing on women's issues. This was part of its ongoing dialogue with such groups espcially as the Women's National Commission had been scrapped. It has a special page dedicated to women's engagement.

The site questioned why it was not speaking to the plethora of men's support groups in the same way. Surely a Goverment with a Minister for Women but not one for men would not act in such a way!

The government has just issued its first newsletter for women and women's groups (it also has a violence aginst women and girls newsletter).

This is another clear case of the covert form of discrimination that men face in the UK: discrimination by ommission. What is clear is again the government don't want to know about men - on an almost daily basis they do something that proves it beyond doubt.

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REJOICE AS THE EQUALITIES COMMISSION IS TO SUFFER MASSIVE CUTS

The London Evening Standard reported that the resolutely anti-male Equalities and Human Rights Commission is going to see its budget cut from £60 million down to £22.5 million and its 460 staff halved.

As reported previously with the scrapping of the Women's National Commission, this is good news.

The Equalities Commission which supposedly is there as a government quango to ensure there is equality between men and woman (and other groups) is completely and utterly anti-male. They constantly campaign on the mythical gender pay gap, want discrimination against men to ensure there are more women in politics (abig supporters of gender quotas / all women-shortlists) as well as ensuring there is no support for men in terms of education, domestic abuse, pensions, health and unemployment.

They never run campaigns or information about discrimination against men but they are sign up to every campiagn going if it attacks men. They are proud of it!

The cuts are important because it should mean it is less pro-women and anti male because it employs less anti-male people and cannot run as many campaigns. In a rational political era, one that is not infested with anti-male feminists, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission could have been a vehicle of change for men. Unfortunately those who run it and mainly those who work for it, dislike men intensely. We are better off without it.

Posted by Skimmington

SEXIST HARMAN AT IT AGAIN - QUESTION TIME

In a classic reverse the genders issue - Harman calls for 'dreary men' not to replace Question Time presenter David Dimbleby. This rampant 'loose women' double standard sexism show how much Harman hates men. Remember, she was the one who laughably said that if Lehman Brothers was run by women it would not have gone bust. Harman is not interested in meritocracy. 

If Dimbleby had said (and he has not said he is going) that he does not want to be replaced by dreary women - he'd be hung

Posted by Skimmington

BOARDROOM GENDER QUOTAS TO STOP MEN SUCCEEDING STILL ON THE AGENDA

Just a quick post but after yesterday saying the coalition government were offering a glimmer of hope on family law, they could be taking the hope away again with the Daily Mail story that they intend to ensure there are gender quotas in the boardroom. Does this mean the stories in the Independent and Guardianat New Year were premature?

This  site has talked often about the fact that this will lead to discrimination against men because some men will not be permitted into the boardroom because they may have to make way for a less qualified/talented women to ensure the quota is met. Previous posts include these (1, 2, 3) and the arguments still stand. It is pure sexism and has now happened in France.

It also comes the day after that the unemployment figures (page 6) show that there were 450,000 unemployed male 18-24 years olds and 300,000 unemployed females of the same age.

Men can't get onto the employment ladder and eventaully with quotas it will be harder for them to get to the top of it.

Posted by Skimmington 

Ps In the comments section of the Daily Mail piece, this sums it all up from one reader:

So you work hard and are good at what you do - but if you're a man, you can't get a job on the board because the quota dictates it has to be a woman. Seems a bit...sexist to me. Or does sexism only work one way?