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Justice for Men & Boys 
Good. With the tendency of us in Britain to copy what happens in America I’m sure american practices in using direct discrimination have been given the “green light” here. Even though these are in fact illegal here under the Equality Act. For instance in the US Universities have had different entry requirements for students of different races and sexes for getting on courses. Which is illegal here. In fact though there is of course discrimination advantaging certain groups here it has to be more subtle and about encouraging applications. This is why for instance the Police, Fire, Military end up having to lower standards for everyone in order to get a few women through their tests. As the Army and RAF recently found changing the requirements only for women is illegal here.
It has always struck me as amazing that the USA has alowed these forms of direct sex and race discriminations for so long.
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Recently reading about the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution (still not ratified by the States) which sets out equal rights according to sex. It is interesting that many feminists were opposed on the grounds it could bring to an end a lot of “affirmative action” provisions that in fact privilege women. Its an interesting point in the light of the Supreme Court Ruling reported here. As is often pointed out here feminists fight to defend privileges for women, and create new ones, rather than equality. I can’t think of an instance where men in the UK would not benefit from the application of the Equality Act as on statute. For a start many of the “positive action” recruitment and promotion practices current in public services and large corporations would have to end. Unfortunately too few men are informed about their rights in this country. And of course litigation is expensive.
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