We decided it was time to run an initiative in response to Laura Bates’s Everyday Sexism Project. We’ve launched The Alternative Sexism Project.Feel free to post comments about anti-male sexist policies, behaviours, and comments which are used to shame and/or control and/or disadvantage men and boys.
Month: November 2013
Mothers can’t be fathers, too
A short but insightful piece by Suzanne Venker:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/fathers/moms-cant-be-dads-too/
Gender bias in the media
My thanks to J for pointing me towards this matter. I’ve just signed the petition (link below) and would ask you to do the same, and to ask others to do so too. It takes only a few seconds. Thank you. Gender bias in the media is a continuing scandal globally, and this petition will be sent to the executive producer of an American TV programme, 20/20, which regularly has over 50 million viewers. The remainder of this post consists of the material sent to me by J.
“In just 17 days we’ve generated almost 1,200 signatures in protest of 20/20’s continued portrayal of men as abusive, aggressive and ‘deadbeats’ in their biased news stories. A huge Thank You for signing the petition and for standing up for gender equality in media.
Our goal is to reach 2,000 signatures before printing the letter and signatures and sending it to David T. Sloan, executive producer of ABC’s 20/20. With your help, we can reach that goal in just a few more days. Please consider copying and pasting the statement and link below, and emailing it to 5 other people – or simply forward this email to them with a short request that they participate.
Petition Background: We are offended by 20/20’s repeatedly offensive reporting of men as violent, as aggressors, as ‘deadbeats’ and as the oppressors of women. We are boycotting the television show until they start to present the facts as they are. Men want to be with their children. We suffer most of domestic violence. There are nearly no systems to support us. We are underrepresented in research, in mental health services, in education, and in families.
Please also consider posting the link on your Facebook timeline and the pages that you frequent, or Tweeting the link. This petition has already gotten responses from nearly all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries. I am very confident that with your help we will have a great success story to report when the petition is delivered.
All the best,
Todd L. Bottom, M.A.
Chicago, IL”
Why does the government hate stay-at-home mothers so much?
Why have successive British governments, including the Conservative-led coalition, hated stay-at-home mothers with such a vengeance? The legislative ‘direction of travel’ has for many years been to drive these women into paid employment, against their better judgement, although the evidence showing that children fare better when cared for by their mothers is overwhelming.
My thanks to SF for pointing me towards an article about comments made by Maria Miller MP who has two roles in the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Minister for Women and Equalities. ‘Women and Equalities’ – you couldn’t make it up, could you? A few months ago Daily Mail columnist Quentin Letts wrote an insightful piece about Ms Miller:
No man so utterly devoid of talent as Ms Miller could reasonably expect to become (or remain) a cabinet minister. ‘Hold on!’ I hear you shout, ‘What about John “Slugger” Prescott?’ Well, OK, there are exceptions to every rule…
Ms Miller’s determination to drive stay-at-home mothers into the workforce would surely have earned her a medal from the state in the darkest days of the Soviet Union. Successive governments have seen stay-at-home mothers as economically inactive wastes of space. A piece concerning Maria Miller’s remarks in today’s Daily Mail:
Perhaps the most sensible section of the article:
Lynne Burnham, of campaign group Mothers At Home Matter, said:
‘It just makes no sense. What we need is to get our youngsters into work. Why such an almighty push to get mothers into work, leaving their children as young as six months? It’s feminism gone mad. The mother-child bond is paramount and it’s absolutely crucial babies have that time with their primary carer.’
‘It’s feminism gone mad.’ It is indeed.
Athena SWAN: an assault on scientific research and male scientists
It never ceases to amaze us how many women (and all feminists) shamelessly present narratives which are plainly contradictory. The contradictions can only be ‘resolved’ through the invention of conspiracy theories, fantasies, lies, delusions and myths e.g. the ‘glass ceiling’, the ‘glass cliff’, the ‘glass coffee table’… we may have made one of those up. These are two such narratives (selected from a large number):
Women are as strong, intelligent, capable, and hard-working as men!
Women need supportive legislation and relentless taxpayer-funded initiatives to drive them into senior positions, and into professions they’ve historically avoided!
For many years social engineering initiatives – largely taxpayer-funded – have been operating (with minimal mainstream media interest and exposure) to advantage women and disadvantage men with respect to recruitment and promotion in the workplace. ‘Athena SWAN’ is a key initiative with regards to research in STEMM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine). We thank Dr John Barry for providing us with information on this matter:
Feminist Makeup Tutorial
This gem of a video has attracted 783,324 views in four months:
Welfare Britain
I hardly need comment on this story. Taxpayers should be writing to the Taxpayers’ Alliance about cases like this:
Diana Davison: ‘Cunning Stunts of History: It’s a Maslow Problem.’
This young American Honey Badger is always worth watching:
Rachel Johnson: ‘Jilly is right, we SHOULD be nicer to our men – if only for one little reason.’
A dreadful piece by Rachel Johnson – Boris Johnson’s sister – in the last edition of Mail on Sunday. If you harbour even the slightest doubt that as far as women are concerned, men’s value as human beings is defined by their utility to women, this should open your eyes:
From the final paragraph:
For despite out looming supremacy, kindness to men remains crucially important, not because we’ve won and should be magnanimous in victory, but because women still love, and want, and need, men – who give them love, and sex, and babies, and much more. It is in our interests to be nicer to men.
Richard Littlejohn on the poverty poster girls of Welfare Britain
A fine piece by the always readable Richard Littlejohn:
Justice for Men & Boys 