The Rights Of Man

CAN THE MARXIST FEMINISTS COPE WITH THEIR STUDENT 'TRAITORS'?

One of the biggest stories last week has been the Miss University London beauty contests being held in London over the next few weeks.

The Marxist feminists have been out in force jumping up and down declaring it misogynist.

While being agnostic about the merits of such contests, the Marxists seem to be missing the target. The may declare the event as wrong, they may declare it as misogynist but they dare not confront their 'sisters', who are taking part. The fact that those taking part are students (the brightest and best in society) is something they can't seem to deal with.

It is hilarious to see the Marxist Feminists unable to deal with this both intellectually and personally. Don't blame the organisers, blame the 'traitors' taking part.

News coverage - Times, Daily Mail, Telegraph

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).

Sorry...Commission... I...cannot...hear...you...

EQUALITIES BILL OPENS UP NEW FRONT IN ATTACK ON MEN

As was feared, in the streamlined package of Bills announced in Wednesday's Queen's Speech, Harriet Harman's Equalities Bill made the cut. This will be a disaster for men and will embed anti-male legislation into the establishment even if the Government loses the next Election.

The Bill (link) which has been covered here before (link) will lump all discrimination legislation together into one Act.

However, it introduces new areas.

(1) Positive Action - If a man and a woman have equal skill, an employer who believes one gender is under-represented will be able to give a woman, for example, the job if the employer thinks they have too many men. Because of the criticism made when the Bill was announced that this would lead to widespread discrimination against men, the Government have laughably tried to say that it will allow head-teachers to pick male teaching applicants above female ones.

As stated in the previous post about this Bill (see above), this is a laughable sop.

We know, because of the previous tone of Harman et al and the rest of the anti-male establishment when the Bill wasfirst announced. It will be used to systematically discriminate against men when used in practice. This will especially be the case when it comes to the public sector and will be used to allow women to bypass men in the management chain because that is where they are supposedly under-represented.

With so many boys leaving school uneducated, the last thing they need is another brick wall placed in front of them solely because of their gender. Trevor Phillips (Equalities Commission Chairman) previously raised this as an issue (link) as did academic Dr Catherine Hakim (link).

(2) Gender Pay Gap/Equal Pay Audits - As covered extensively (link), this is a ruse to attack men, nothing more, nothing less. There is no proof that a woman doing the same job, with the same talent, same experience, making the same profit at the same company gets paid less than a man. Research shows that single women get paid more than single men!

(3) Extension of All Women Short lists/Gender Lists For The Next Five Elections - Parliament is holding a Speakers Conference on how to get more women into Parliament and the political parties will continue to be allowed to 'positively discriminate' against men in selecting candidates for elections (link). This is a clear denial of the political franchise to men and stops men from representing their community and country solely on the basis of the gender.

This Bill is another nail in the coffin of the British male.

It will go through because too many Parliamentarians are supine in the face of the anti-male feminist onslaught to dare resist it.

Daily Mail debate

THREE REAL-LIFE CASES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AGAINST MEN

Whenever anyone hears claims that domestic violence and domestic abuse does not occur against men or is not that serious, then these, amongst many cases should be sent to the non-believer.

News Shopper

Bury Free Press

Metro

The Bury one is disturbing because the sentence is an absolute joke. Can you imagine the outcry if it was a man who had thrown a knife at a woman for not cleaning the kitchen properly!

PLIGHT OF SCOTTISH MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS REVEALED

Figures (press release and report) released by the Scottish Government revealed that since the turn of the century there has been a 130% increase in the number of men being victims of domestic abuse in Scotland. In 2000-01, there were 2,873 incidents reported to the police rising to 6,753 in 2007-08.

Male victims now make up 12% of all reported victims, though of course, there will be a staggering amount of under-reporting because many male victims don't go to the police and if they do, of course many are not believed. As 40% of victims, according to the British Crime Survey (an anonymous survey) are men it shows the level of under-reporting.

The scandal which has been reported on this site (link and link) is that the Alex Salmond and his Scottish Government steadfastly refuse to do anything about it and not one penny spent in Scotland for domestic violence victims is spent on men. In fact, Salmond and the Scottish Government seem quite pleased with themselves about it.

This is the level of cynicism and antipathy there is about men in Scotland and the nation therefore remains a hotbed of anti-male activity. They can no longer justify excluding men if they believe in equality.

The report was well covered in many areas including an interview on Scottish TV:-

Scottish TV, BBC, Aberdeen Press and Journal, Times

There were also reports in papers like the Scotsman and the Dundee Courier but they disgracefully ignored the male issue so are not deemed worthy of a link.

ASPIRE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND DISCRIMINATES AGAINST MALE ENTREPRENEURS

Is there no area in life that this Government hasn't either ignored men or introduced measures that are deliberately anti-men.

In these times, small businesses and entrepreneurs find it difficult to get credit and access capital.

So to help, the Government has launched a fund called Aspire which is Government run £25m venture capital fund for women (link). £12.5m is bona fide taxpayers money which is matched by private sector investment. As reported in the Telegraph (link), the Government has realised that such a blatant anti-male fund would be discriminatory so men can apply but only if they meet other criteria such as having 30% women on their board. It would be good to have this tested in court as it is discriminatory come what may.

The bias is clear. It gives people cheaper access to taxpayer funded venture capital on the sole basis that they are women. This is discrimination and will give a woman a competitive advantage against a man especially if looking to start up similar enterprises.

Also with capital so tight, not allowing people equal access to it, shows how gender politics is more important than fairness.

Llastly, there is no evidence that women need a special venture capital fund because they cannot obtain access elsewhere. For example women run 700,000 companies; they now sit on 78 of the FTSE-100's boardrooms; they are more female millionaires than male millionaire's between 18-44 (47,000 women / 38,000 men. But hey, lets not put facts in the way of a bit of anti-male discrimination.

ANTI-MALE SOCIETY AFFECTS ADOPTION OF BOYS

When a society turns against a certain group the consequences can be far-reaching.

A good example of this, is a report (link) from the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (link) that shows that despite their help-line receiving as many calls from parents asking for help in dealing with boys and girls in their care, people would prefer to adopt a girl than a boy.

The research from the charity shows that this is due to the negative perception of boys and over half (53%) of the people replying to their survey felt that the media portrayed boys in an overly negative way.

David Holmes, chief executive of BAAF, said: "Too often anti-social behaviour, violence, crime and gangs are associated in our minds when we think about boys.

"We all need to remember that boys are children and young people first. The findings of this research concerns us as we are worried that some prospective adopters might be put off adopting boys because of negative perceptions.

"In reality there is little evidence to show that boys really are more difficult. We would urge people to remember that boys need adopting too."

The effect of the war on men shows that there is no corner of British society that is not affected and boys are potentially being left in care homes or shunted around solely because of their gender. A terrible terrible outcome.

The report was covered by the BBC (link)

DOMESTICE VIOLENCE AWARENESS WEEK 2008 - PLEASE REPORT FAILURES TO MENTION MEN

The 2008 Domestic Violence Awareness Week (as part of the Stop Violence Against Women campaign) starts on Tuesday 25th November.

If there are media features and local campaigns on domestic abuse or domestic violence that you see that do not feature the plight of male victims as well as those of women, please let this site know.

These examples of bias are worth publicising and one charity, The ManKind Initiative (who have produced up-to-date domestic violence statistics) wants to make sure they have a list so they can make complaints. 

SWISS AIR SHOW MEN IN NEGATIVE LIGHT by GRAHAM SLIGHT*

 Recently I have been a regular traveller on Swiss Air.

I am seemingly one of the few to watch the safety videos but got increasingly annoyed with the Swiss Air one for its glaringly obvious anti-male bias.

It features a cartoon family of man, mother and daughter who skips merrily down the massively wide aisles of a similarly cartoon aircraft. In this video it is the man who is seen sneaking off to the aircraft toilet for a smoke and setting off the alarm despite there now being more women smokers than men in the UK.

To make matters worse, there is an evacuation of the aircraft and the man is shown abandoning the concept of women and children first and has exited the aircraft on his own leaving his wife to carry the daughter down the escape slide to safety. It is only the women who is shown caring about the child’s safety by putting on the child’s oxygen mask and life jacket. When they evacuate into the water once again the daughter is carried by the mother down the slide.

 Then to cap it all the mother is shown in one aisle seat with her daughter in the middle seat with the man set apart from them as though on the other side of the aisle as if not part of the family.

*name changed to protect privacy of author

ACADEMIC SAYS MEN WILL SUFFER UNDER HARMAN'S EQUALITY BILL

As the recession starts to bite and employment becomes tougher, Harriet Harman will be cementing the plans for her single Equality Bill which will allow employers to discriminate against men when it comes to recruiting people to the workforce.

Following on from comments made by Trevor Phillips who declared that such discrimination will provide extra support for the BNP because it will be the white-working class that will be discriminated against, an academic has also hit out at the plans.

Writing for Public Policy Review and covered here (Telegraph), Dr Catherine Hakim, believes that men will become the new victims of sex discrimination if workplace equality laws are strengthened further.

The Telegraph article quotes that she accuses 'feminists of peddling "myths" about the extra hours put in by women and their thwarted career ambitions to justify "futile and perverse" attempts to help them balance work and family life'.

This is important article for a number of reasons:-

Firstly, it is a woman defending men and the Fawcett Society et al cannot deal with it. She understands that the motivation behind this equality law is not equality but a way of legally discriminating against men. If a man is discriminated against it is his wife/aprtner, mother, sister and daughters who will also be discriminated aagainst.

Secondly, it ignores the facts that women are now more great inroads into what would traditionally be termed male occupations. This investigation in the Telegraphshows for example that 61% of trainee GPs are women, 63% of students enrolled into the law society are women and 79% of vets are women. What more help do women need.

Thirdly, Marxist anti-male feminists such as Harriet Harman are hell-bent on destroying men. When boys are seven years behind girls at school (the outcome of which is highlighted in the above), it is men that need help. If this carries on then Harman and her friends will have succeeded.