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Justice for Men & Boys 
It is only when actual equality happens that there will be a reality check. Generally what happens is that the protection and support to women continues and what is actually happening is privileges to “join in” without any of the responsibilities or consequences.
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How the rise of DNA paternity tests is tearing communities apart | The Independent THis really is revealing. The revelation is in the response of the Church and community leaders. Non of them seem at all bothered about the behaviour of mothers in having sex outside their marriage and thus duping their husbands. No the pressure is on the husband to turn a blind eye to the fact they were betrayed and lied to. And carry on being father and husband. Yet all that has happened is a bit of equality. For the first time in history men can know about their paternity rather than just relying on what the mother says. Most telling is in practically all cases in Uganda the test proves the husband’s suspicions are correct.
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Heather Draper revealed the female mindset on the underlying ‘ethics’.
https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/33/8/475.full.pdf
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The female modus operandi is laid bare in Esther Vilar’s ‘The Manipulated Man’.
Chapter 1 – The Slave’s Happiness…
“The lemon-coloured MG skids across the road, and the woman driver brings it to a somewhat uncertain halt. She gets out and finds her left front tyre flat. Without wasting a moment, she prepares to fix it : she looks towards the passing cars as if expecting someone. Recognising this standard international sign of a woman in distress (‘weak female let down by male technology’), a station wagon draws up….”
But, they can’t help themselves, they always push it too far. These days, men aren’t even accorded an iota of respect for their efforts, quite the reverse.
So, as a result, women can fix their own flat tyres. Eventually, they’ll be forced to build their own grass huts, the pinnacle of female technological advance predicted by Camille Paglia.
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That opening story says so much about the reality. It resonates with me particularly. When I was in my mid 20s I lived with my partner in a small ground floor flat with its own door. Late one night a young woman knocked at the door, she’d come out of the nearby pub at closing time and found her tyre flat. Despite the suspicions of my girlfriend I duly found a foot pump and went out. To be set upon by a gang. Fortunately a neighbour in flats overlooking the street had been observing “odd” behaviour in the road and phoned the police, shouting down that’s what he’d done. They ran off. Leaving me with sack over my head in a load of bushes. The Police thought it was to with rival gangs as they seemed to have a notion of who it was, “mistaken identity”. Frankly the experience made me a bit more suspicious but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t done just the same as Vilar’s man a number of times since. Biology? Socialisation? Psychology? all I know is its my attempt to counter the impulse failed in favour of trying to always extent a hand to boys or men who look like they need it.
The report about DNA testing really highlights this too. All sorts of ways to get men not to even ask the question let alone get a test. An assumption that whoever is “right” the man has to protect the children and indeed mother from any consequences. I was interested that the story of Joseph invoked, because of course Joseph knew and had a choice about Jesus. What actually is being said is the men should stay ignorant of the truth.
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Why more men are going part-time Though the article rather overplays this (given only 10% of those part time are men) it is interesting that men working part time have much the same experience, in terms of impact on earnings, as women.
” Research shows it’s actually worse for men. Academics from the University of London, University of Manchester and University of Salzburg analysed 40 years of data to find that, for every year men work part-time, their hourly pay drops by 3.5pc. For women, it’s only 1pc.”
So it seems working part time has consequences. Apparently not a plot by the patriarchy but common sense.
Personally I’d happily see transferable parental leave (rather than paternity and maternity leave) because then we’d see whether “mum” or “dad” takes the leave. Evidence from Scandinavia suggests “mums” are not likely to swap “their” leave to dad, whatever the “sistas” say.
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