3 thoughts on “Feminist Rights vs. Human Rights: A Clash of Principles”

1. Very interesting. One observation is the importance of asserting individual rights. Pragmatically because our culture is deeply gynocentric and we have learned that anything that looks like against women is on a loser, with men specially. However the cultural idea of fairness is particularly ingrained in men( think of all sports played and watched for instance). Think of the headwind the feminists ran into with the idea of denying mens right to a jury trial.

   Another is that whatever the popular mood is the reality is that major changes do happen with changes in the actions of comparatively few powerful people. A good example in the sea change on abortion and “affirmative action” DEI following rulings from the US supreme court. Though shifting “public opinion” is important in fact the feminists have shown us , that getting the cohorts in university who go on to populate our political leadership and public service is the key to their lobbying with our societies “leaders” . Mens human rights would be dramatically improved if a government and civil service simply dropped the all encompassing VAWG Strategy which reaches into every aspect of our huge public sector.

   Thirdly the author suggests feminism hasn’t used “violence” however this is not so as it has mobilised the state’s force, the police, criminal justice system and “family courts” to intimidate, sanction and imprison men on the basis of accusations which are treated as proven just on the basis of an ideology not on the evidence of the individual case. The state’s monopoly of legitimate force is applied to men as a group rather than as an individual with rights under law.

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   • Thanks Nigel. I think you’ve articulated brilliantly why there will never be a Minister for Men.

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     • Maybe in a Reform government?

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