The Rights Of Man

INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY - CELEBRATE TODAY

In a post long ago (link), the site asked readers whether there should be a men's day in the UK and also what day that should be.

Little do the site know that 19th November has already been designated as International Men's Day (link).

It is already celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, India, Pakistan and now Australia.

As far as anyone is aware, there is no such event in the UK but clearly in 2009, there has to be.

BBC BIAS ON GENDER PAY GAP

In a post last week, the issue about BBC bias was on the issue of domestic violence (see previous post). This time it is on the gender pay gap.

In October, a publication by J R Shackleton which received a high volume of coverage (see previous post) highlighted that the gender pay gap was largely about lifestyle choice and not discrimination.

Yet when the latest figures are published, the BBC just stick to their left-wing politically correct assumptions and publish a story (link) that does not mention the alternative arguments. Instead, it gives a free platform to anti-male organisations such as the Fawcett Society and the Commission of Equality and Human Rights to berate men and companies.

The BBC are biased, what other reasonable conclusion can you draw?

ALEX SALMOND REFUSES TO ACTIVELY HELP MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN SCOTLAND

A post last week (link) outlined how Mary Scanlon MSP in the Sunday Herald had questioned the Scottish Government on why they provided no support for male victims.

This week, she directly asked leader of Scottish Government, Alex Salmond, about the lack of support for male victims in Scotland (link).

Instead of answering her reasonable question, he purposely chooses not to and just says that the majority of victims are women, that it is wrong regardless of gender and that he will keep the lack of help for men under 'review'. In other words, he intends to do nothing.

One of the weasel-type phrases that Governments use on this issue is to say that "domestic violence is wrong and every victims should be helped". However, there is a clear difference between what they say their policy is and the policy that is implemented. The latter of course, is to systematically ignore men. 

Last year, 6,000 men asked for help from the Scottish Police because they were victims of domestic violence. In choosing to purposely ignore them, Alex Salmond is not fit to ever claim that the Scottish Government treats its citizens equally.

For information - a one-sided story from Fife (link)

ONLY MAN NAMED IN LEWD BEHAVIOUR CASE

Here is another example of male bias (Hattip to Matt on www.Mens-links.net).

A Daily Mail report (link) on a couple who were arrested on a train for lewd conduct and yet it was only the man who was named. He was charged, the woman was not.

THE BBC'S INCONSISTENT AND BIASED REPORTING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

One of the main complaints made against the BBC is its liberal left-leaning metropolitan prejudice, a charge that often the BBC admits.

One of the problems is that it means individual journalists are able to treat some subjects blissfully ignorant of the need for balance, they can just get away with it so long as it fits left-leaning prejudices.

On the issue of domestic violence, there has been some successes including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in February 2008 (link) and an interview with a male victim on radio 4 in August 2008.

However, they still fall into the politically correct left-leaning trap of only portraying victims as female and perpetrators as men.

Last week, for example, they made much comment with interviews on the new figures on prosecutions issued by the CPS (link). However, none of the broadcasts had a spokesman commenting on male victims and this on-line coverage (link) from Andy McFarlane shows that men are ignored. They even trot out the usual picture of a man hitting a woman and ignore the fact that two in five victims are men.

The BBC needs to get its act together and treat all victims equally and stop this gender bias. What do we pay our licence fee for!

MANKIND INITIATIVE RESPONSE TO CROWN PROSECUTION CONSULTATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The charity, The ManKind Initiative (link), has responded (link) to the Crown Prosecution Service's consultation (link) on domestic violence.

Essentially, the charity states that unless the CPS overhauls its policies, web-site and training then it is likely to be in breach of the Gender Equality Duty.

One of the scary things is that the CPS is meant to be gender-neutral and look at each case that it considers on its merits, however, it is difficult to have confidence in it when, for example, its domestic violence web-site pages (link) do not refer to male victims at all. It also only runs information campaigns for female victims.

In addition, the response also points out that the CPS cannot, by definition, be gender-neutral when its domestic violence policies fall under its Violence Against Women strategy. The charity believes that domestic violence has to be a stand alone policy area.

Look forward to the response from the CPS? 

SCOTTISH MSP AND SUNDAY HERALD HIGHLIGHT THE INSTITUTIONAL BIAS IN SCOTLAND AGAINST MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

Figures in Scotland's Sunday Herald (link) show there has been a 110% increase in the number of male domestic violence victims in Scotland. Police were called to over 6,000 incidents where men were the victims.

And as the article states "And while the Scottish government has spent tens of millions of pounds in recent years to support female victims of domestic abuse and violence, it has not directed a single penny to support men who suffer at the hands of their partner."

Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon also raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament last week .

Thing are bad in England and Wales but clearly worse in Scotland. This clearly another example of institutional sexual discrimination perpetrated against men.

The Scottish Government knows there is a problem but they CHOOSE to do nothing about it.

SACREMENTO VICTORY FOR MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS

The previous post described how in the US the notion of political correctness had overtaken constitutional rights of equality.

The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that California’s exclusion of men from domestic violence services violates men’s constitutional equal protection rights.

This was because a previous judge had ruled that "men are not entitled to equal protection regarding domestic violence because they statistically are not similarly situated with women."

The story is covered on Glenn Sacks' site here (link).

What is so bizarre is that the judges who are meant to revere the Constitution and Bill ofRights could come to such conclusions in the first place and that money had to spent to overturn this anti-male madness in the first place.

STIRRING UP HATRED AGAINST MEN - DALLAS TRANSPORT

Despite having a constitution that makes it clear that men and women are equal, the US spawns the most viciously anti-malepolitical correct propaganda in existence.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transport Service has been running an advertising campaign basically stating that every boy will grow up to perpetrate domestic abuse against women. It is vicious and has been condemned right across the US.

The campaign has been led by Glenn Sacks (link), a men's and fathers' issues newspaper columnist, radio commentator, and blogger. He is first rate.

There have been campaigns similar to this in the UK and with Domestic Violence Awareness Week on the horizon (25th November) all men need to be on their guard.

FAMILY COURT CAMPAIGN STARTS TO BEAR FRUIT

For years, the Kafkaesque family court system, has been getting away with gross injustices against fathers (mainly),their children and others. Social Services, CAFCASS and judges have basically been able to do what they like, as if they are above the law. This is all because of the secrecy of the courts.

Many groups such as Families Need Fathers, Fathers 4 Justice, John Hemming MP, Grandparents Apart and others have chosen different means to raise the issue, but they have lacked the full scale backing of a media group to open up the debate on open courts.

In the summer, The Times (link), took up the gauntlet, and their campaign, backed by others is now starting to bear fruit (link, link, link, link, link). The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, plans to announce changes to create more transparency and even Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division agrees.

Unsurprisingly, it is the vested interests of the social services department et al ho are not in agreement.

They don't want their attempts to 'play God' exposed.