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| 5 | ‘Societal response’ required to fight epidemic of violence against women, says Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister]. Such hype/language could potentially lead to too much focus on violence against women, when a lot of deaths are likely very difficult to prevent.I don’t know the percentage but a significant proportion of violent deaths of women reported in the Irish media* are not from current or former partners, but [adult] sons who may be unstable for one reason or another, including from drugs and/or alcohol, or psychiatric problems. *There are approximately 9 a year so probably close to all violent deaths get mentioned in the media. Very often the reporting says the police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the death so it’s not difficul… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/26 09:59 PM |
| 11 | Is UN Women misandrist?It is also on their Instagram account. In the first 23 hours, it has been liked 1602 times and reposted 106 times. I think these are reposts without comments as I think you need to use other apps to quote repost (but I could be wrong on that?). I don’t see any critical comments in English under it (some comments are not in English but I can’t understand them as there doesn’t seem any option for automated translation of them). | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/06/26 09:17 PM |
| 5 | "We call for women and girls to be placed at the center of rescue efforts", UN Women saysIt is also on their Instagram account. In the first 23 hours, it has been liked 1602 times and reposted 106 times. I think these are reposts without comments as I think you need to use other apps to quote repost (but I could be wrong on that?). I don’t see any critical comments in English under it (some comments are not in English but I can’t understand them as there doesn’t seem any option for automated translation of them). | /r/MensRights | 27/06/26 09:17 PM |
| 1 | “Pending Corruptions of Justice at April 2026.” Men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford draws attention to some of his previous blogs before describing some proposed changes. Very UK focused. Not as thorough or as exquisitely argued as some of his other posts. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“These “specialist courts” would, the amendment proposes, “incorporate best practice in hearing cases involving violence against women and girls, including ensuring fair and trauma-informed proceedings. Regulations under this section must make provision for such courts to have specialist facilities for alleged victims.” (My comment: explicit mention of VAWG means that, if enacted, this would be explicitly gendered law. Focus on “trauma-informed” would embedded a manipulative feminist strategy in… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 09:07 PM |
| 1 | “Pending Corruptions of Justice at April 2026.” Men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford draws attention to some of his previous blogs before describing some proposed changes. Very UK focused. Not as thorough or as exquisitely argued as some of his other posts. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“Anyone who does not appreciate the role that allegations of domestic abuse, including sexual offences, plays within the family courts – and hence with fatherlessness – has not been paying attention. One of the more egregious phenomena which arise in the context of parental separation is parental alienation (PA), a serious psychological assault on the affected children. The feminist axis has long denied the reality of PA, claiming it is merely a ruse for abusive men to deflect attention from the… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 07:35 PM |
| 1 | “Pending Corruptions of Justice at April 2026.” Men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford draws attention to some of his previous blogs before describing some proposed changes. Very UK focused. Not as thorough or as exquisitely argued as some of his other posts. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“The history of domestic abuse issues since 2014 has been summarised in my article Throwing Children to the Wolves. The rest of this section refers to the Courts and Tribunals Bill now before Parliament, and specifically amendments to the Bill now tabled. Many of the amendments are bids to include the feminist VAWG [violence against women and girls] perspective more firmly into criminal legislation.” | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 05:42 PM |
| 3 | “Pending Corruptions of Justice at April 2026.” Men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford draws attention to some of his previous blogs before describing some proposed changes. Very UK focused. Not as thorough or as exquisitely argued as some of his other posts. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“Do note that juries acquit defendants at nearly double the rate of Magistrates’ courts (21.6% compared with 11.4%), and that the difference is even greater for offences which challenge free speech (27.6% compared with 15.9%), Free Speech Union. This suggests that the changes to do away with juries will increase the number of miscarriages of justice in Crown Court (noting that all such trials involve a defendant claiming innocence).” | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 04:48 PM |
| 3 | “Pending Corruptions of Justice at April 2026.” Men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford draws attention to some of his previous blogs before describing some proposed changes. Very UK focused. Not as thorough or as exquisitely argued as some of his other posts. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“[Attorney General] David Lammy stated in March 2019 that “the vast majority of women in prison are there because of a man, and are there because of exploitation, and the system is not responding adequately to the role of that man”. From his perspective the proposals are all good because our Attorney General does not quite understand the concept of justice.” | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 04:48 PM |
| 2 | "VAWG [violence against women and girls] and Misogyny Everywhere": men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford looks at some of what the UK government is doing. Very UK focused and unfortunately very long, so I would recommend some of his other blog posts first but as always both well researched and insightful.Not exactly the same point but it contains this: — 6.1 Prevent The purpose of the Prevent programme is to prevent terrorism in the UK. In his 2023 report, William Shawcross advised that, “Prevent must return to its core mission – countering all those ideologies that can lead people to committing or supporting acts of terrorism. … It is correct for Prevent to be increasingly concerned about the growing threat from the Extreme Right. But the facts clearly demonstrate that the most lethal threat in… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/26 06:24 PM |
| 9 | "VAWG [violence against women and girls] and Misogyny Everywhere": men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford looks at some of what the UK government is doing. Very UK focused and unfortunately very long, so I would recommend some of his other blog posts first but as always both well researched and insightful.This is probably the most interesting part from a men's rights perspective. It contains a lot of embedded links: Empirical evidence on harassment and misandry cf misogyny My own personal statement on misandry includes data from many surveys on harassment, domestic abuse and sexual assault by sex, as well as academic publications on misandric and misogynistic attitudes among adults and children of both sexes. Importantly, the impact of misandry on men and boys is also addressed. This is augmented… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/26 02:16 PM |
| 7 | "VAWG [violence against women and girls] and Misogyny Everywhere": men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford looks at some of what the UK government is doing. Very UK focused and unfortunately very long, so I would recommend some of his other blog posts first but as always both well researched and insightful."“3.4 Ofcom’s guidance about protecting women and girls” [..] Parity’s response stated, “The consultation starts from the presumption that online harms disproportionately affect women and girls. Yet Ofcom’s own data does not support this” (followed by details, which you can find in section 4.2 of my statement on misandry)" | /r/MensRights | 19/06/26 02:14 PM |
| 1 | Irish Times opinion piece: “‘Gender pay gap’ agenda a pointless contrivance that ignores the reality of women like me”.I find what you are saying is ambiguous. Can you expand? | /r/MensRights | 09/04/26 05:23 PM |
| 3 | "Injustice and Sex Offences": in a thoughtful but detailed post, men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford highlights some of the issues facing men in the UK in this area, with lots of quotes and references to back up the points made. Long but interesting. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“Concerns over disclosure now focus on Operation Soteria and its embedding within police procedure. This initiative, originally imported from the USA, promotes a close collaboration between the CPS and the police in “building a case”, following specific protocols promoted by Soteria, the whole being overseen by academics. The nature of the Soteria process was more transparent when it was first piloted in 2022 as the CPS’s own press release at that time made clear. I have criticised the initiativ… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/26 01:23 PM |
| 7 | "Injustice and Sex Offences": in a thoughtful but detailed post, men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford highlights some of the issues facing men in the UK in this area, with lots of quotes and references to back up the points made. Long but interesting. I will post a few extracts in the comments.“In rape cases where the defence seek to demonstrate the complainant was capable and consenting, social media messages might be the only means by which an innocent man avoids a very long prison sentence. The famous case of Liam Allen is a prime example in which a message from the complainant to a friend after the event stated bluntly “it wasn’t non-consensual or anything”. And yet there continues to be push-back on searching a complainant’s mobile phone on the grounds of privacy.” | /r/MensRights | 24/03/26 10:56 PM |
| 15 | "Injustice and Sex Offences": in a thoughtful but detailed post, men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford highlights some of the issues facing men in the UK in this area, with lots of quotes and references to back up the points made. Long but interesting. I will post a few extracts in the comments.Second last sentence: “All that stands between almost all men and a long prison sentence is for an accusation to be made and for the man’s defence to fail to discredit it.” | /r/MensRights | 24/03/26 10:52 PM |
| -1 | “I Lived as a Man and a Woman: This is What It’s Like” by a transgender woman. Mentions disadvantages for men and women. My guess is as someone transgender, they need to put in more effort to appear like the gender they transitioned to.The article can be read without paying a fee. You give your email address but can unsubscribe. COI: I am not connected with the site. | /r/MensRights | 28/02/26 01:24 AM |
| 7 | "Proof Science Lied: Men Are An Underclass & Discriminated" (53 minute video from a man and woman)I came across it being recommended here: https://stuffmenhavetodealwith.quora.com/Just-came-across-this-video-The-first-5-minutes-are-just-an-intro-and-talking-about-a-slightly-off-topic-study-where where they suggest you could skip the first 5 minutes | /r/MensRights | 17/02/26 07:58 PM |
| 10 | WRC rules woman was discriminated against on the grounds of gender & age when applying for a firefighter position as a beep fitness test was used “without the application of a normative table that considers age and gender”. I think lowered standards could be dangerous in situations like this.Don’t remember seeing this information in the article above: “Ms Foott accepted she had applied for other firefighter jobs and had failed the job suitability element of the test for a position in Limerick.” https://archive.is/rCqp9 | /r/MensRights | 15/02/26 01:37 AM |
| 3 | US withdraws from man-hating UN organizationsAn MRA has written a short blog about this: "USA Withdraws from UN Women" http://empathygap.uk/?p=4793 | /r/MensRights | 14/01/26 08:41 PM |
| 8 | “Bashing Boys (Again)” blogpost. As usual, lots of statistics & references from Dr Rick Bradford to back up his critique of the new, completely one-sided, UK government plan to spend millions on re-educating boys to try to protect girls. Some extracts in comments.Description from a post on X: 'Bashing Boys (Again)' Another good blog by The Illustrated Empathy Gap containing data that the media & the Government seem happy to ignore in order to peddle their rigidly gendered ideological narrative that alienates, demonises & neglects boys | /r/MensRights | 22/12/25 08:56 PM |
| 13 | “Bashing Boys (Again)” blogpost. As usual, lots of statistics & references from Dr Rick Bradford to back up his critique of the new, completely one-sided, UK government plan to spend millions on re-educating boys to try to protect girls. Some extracts in comments.“And what is the reality of boys’ experience at school now? A survey of sixth form pupils by Civitas revealed that 41 per cent of the pupils reported they had been taught that young men are a problem for society. Why would anyone expect young men to be positively disposed towards a society which openly despises them?“ | /r/MensRights | 22/12/25 06:32 PM |
| 36 | “Bashing Boys (Again)” blogpost. As usual, lots of statistics & references from Dr Rick Bradford to back up his critique of the new, completely one-sided, UK government plan to spend millions on re-educating boys to try to protect girls. Some extracts in comments.“In short, girls are more controlling, more violent and more sexually predatory in their relationships than boys. For any old traditional conservatives who insist that all girls are sugar and spice and all things nice please be aware that that was always partly fantasy and, perhaps more especially, that girls are not what they were 50 years ago. This may be contrary to popular perceptions, but only because empirical reality has been systematically kept from public view. It is actually unsurprisi… | /r/MensRights | 22/12/25 04:55 PM |
| 18 | “Bashing Boys (Again)” blogpost. As usual, lots of statistics & references from Dr Rick Bradford to back up his critique of the new, completely one-sided, UK government plan to spend millions on re-educating boys to try to protect girls. Some extracts in comments.“The measures will include a helpline for girls to report abuse and “behavioural courses” for boys – compulsory re-education in the best communist fashion. The Prime Minister stated “Every parent should be able to trust that their daughter is safe at school…This is about protecting girls…” | /r/MensRights | 22/12/25 04:53 PM |
| 13 | Proportion of children in relationships who have experienced different types of violent or controlling behaviour by gender (from the UK). Topical given UK government plan to spend millions on only educating boys to try to protect girlsGraphic from Youth Endowment Fund 2024 https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CVV24_R3_Gender.pdf | /r/MensRights | 22/12/25 04:08 PM |
| 1 | Blogpost by MRA Dr Rick Bradford on news the UK Government will repeal the presumption of parental involvement. “Make no mistake, the ultimate aim is to empower mothers to be able to remove fathers from the lives of their children with ease and without hinderance”. Some extracts posted in comments.The last extract that I'm posting, which is the longest one: [Refutation of the Key Claim]() The attempt to oust even more fathers is claimed to be based on the desire “to better protect children in private law cases”. The falsity of the claim can be established immediately thus, The report considers only the potential harm due to the parent seeking contact, not the potential harm arising from the parent resisting it. In around 90% of cases the former is the father and the latter the mother; But… | /r/MensRights | 15/11/25 12:52 PM |
| 1 | Blogpost by MRA Dr Rick Bradford on news the UK Government will repeal the presumption of parental involvement. “Make no mistake, the ultimate aim is to empower mothers to be able to remove fathers from the lives of their children with ease and without hinderance”. Some extracts posted in comments.“The Benefits of Involvement Finally, the report attempts to minimise the positive effects on a child of the involvement of both parents even when there is no question of harm.” | /r/MensRights | 15/11/25 11:49 AM |
| 2 | Blogpost by MRA Dr Rick Bradford on news the UK Government will repeal the presumption of parental involvement. “Make no mistake, the ultimate aim is to empower mothers to be able to remove fathers from the lives of their children with ease and without hinderance”. Some extracts posted in comments.“Nor does returning to court, perhaps to request an enforcement order, do the non-resident parent any good. By 2017 the percentage of enforcement applications that resulted in an enforcement order had fallen to virtually zero (0.2%). So, what does happen when a non-resident parent complains to the court that their own order is being disrespected? “The answer is quite shocking if Hunt & MacLeod is any guide. The best you can realistically hope for is that your original order is reinstated…But wor… | /r/MensRights | 14/11/25 08:57 PM |
| 4 | Blogpost by MRA Dr Rick Bradford on news the UK Government will repeal the presumption of parental involvement. “Make no mistake, the ultimate aim is to empower mothers to be able to remove fathers from the lives of their children with ease and without hinderance”. Some extracts posted in comments.“It is therefore very important to note that Hunt & MacLeod found “Where information was available (in 286 cases), 38% of resident parents (109 of 286) were known to have been opposed to any face to face contact, with a further 15% (44) wanting supervised contact only, i.e., a total of 53% of resident parents were opposed to anything beyond supervised contact. An additional 11% of resident parents were resistant to ‘staying contact’, i.e., overnight stays with the non-resident parent.” (For quot… | /r/MensRights | 14/11/25 07:50 PM |
| 13 | Blogpost by MRA Dr Rick Bradford on news the UK Government will repeal the presumption of parental involvement. “Make no mistake, the ultimate aim is to empower mothers to be able to remove fathers from the lives of their children with ease and without hinderance”. Some extracts posted in comments."The official Ministerial Statement noted that this presumption [of parental involvement], “..has faced criticism for appearing to reinforce a ‘pro-contact’ culture that prioritises the involvement of both parents in a child’s life over the child’s individual welfare.” Indeed, it has faced criticism – from lobbies who wish to progress their true objective, namely for mothers to be able to remove fathers from their children’s lives without any hassle. And note how the above quote cunningly sugges… | /r/MensRights | 14/11/25 07:23 PM |
| 31 | “Cambridge students launches first single-sex society for biological women”. I recall lots of discussion over the years where single-sex male groupings were frowned upon. And men’s issues societies in universities often struggle to get officially accepted.It wasn’t just women. For example the (government funded) Equality Authority in Ireland spent a lot of resources fighting the single sex Portmarnock Golf Club leading to legal cases. Led to a lot of discussion in society that single-sex groups were bad, though there were women-only groups that continued without the public opprobrium. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/25 01:22 PM |
| 27 | ‘Dehumanizing the male’. Book review. Book by Daniel Jimenez; review by Pablo Malo (psychiatrist). From 2020 but seems just as relevant today. “It is a rigorous book, with references to support all statements”. I haven’t read the book but found the review interesting.Extract: “In contrast, traditionally, men don’t demand protection. The woman who demands protection doesn’t lose her femininity, but the man who asks for it does damage his reputation as a man in the eyes of society, who perceive him as less than a man (in the case of traditionalism) or as a privileged person who pretends to be a victim and has no right to complain (in the case of feminism). Men do not demand protection, men protect others and especially themselves. A man who is not able to prot… | /r/MensRights | 25/09/25 01:29 PM |
| 11 | ‘Dehumanizing the male’. Book review. Book by Daniel Jimenez; review by Pablo Malo (psychiatrist). From 2020 but seems just as relevant today. “It is a rigorous book, with references to support all statements”. I haven’t read the book but found the review interesting.Extract: “3-Limiting male problems to purely internal issues based on gender roles. Males suffer social pressures to prevent expressing their feelings and they are constrained by their role as providers and protectors, but all they have to do to solve their problems is to change their attitude, learn how to communicate better and ask for help. This approach is present, for example, in the subject of suicide. The discussion of female suicide tends to be focus on external factors: the living condi… | /r/MensRights | 25/09/25 01:28 PM |
| 1 | Blog post by MRA on Casey Report & UK grooming gangs. Some data on "Complex Organised Child Abuse crimes": "Of victims, 78% were female & 22% male. Of suspects, 24% were female & 76% male". Highlights how male victims & female perpetrators don't get nearly as much attention. Some extracts below.“I also object most strongly to Baroness Casey’s suggestion that… “The law should be changed so adult men who groom and have sex with 13–15-year-olds received mandatory charges of rape,” Only men? Why? There seems to be a trend towards proposing laws against men that do not apply to women. There is no shortage of adult women who groom and sexually exploit male minors. See chapter 14 of The Illustrated Empathy Gap, or this post, where I compare cases involving adult female perpetrators with the R… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/25 10:39 PM |
| 1 | Blog post by MRA on Casey Report & UK grooming gangs. Some data on "Complex Organised Child Abuse crimes": "Of victims, 78% were female & 22% male. Of suspects, 24% were female & 76% male". Highlights how male victims & female perpetrators don't get nearly as much attention. Some extracts below.“However, one of the uses of the word “boys” in the Casey report I find most objectionable, namely this, “Child sexual abuse, rape and group-based child exploitation is, overwhelmingly, committed by men on girls. We all know the vast majority of men are good men but, if boys grew up into men who did not commit violence against women and girls, then we would not be in this position – so we must make it our shared endeavour to help those boys as they navigate the world.” Well, if boys grew up into… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/25 10:38 PM |
| 1 | Blog post by MRA on Casey Report & UK grooming gangs. Some data on "Complex Organised Child Abuse crimes": "Of victims, 78% were female & 22% male. Of suspects, 24% were female & 76% male". Highlights how male victims & female perpetrators don't get nearly as much attention. Some extracts below."However, what exercises me more is the airbrushing away of the victimisation of boys. Why, I ask, is Casey’s report focussed on “group-based child sexual exploitation of girls” (only)? Boys are also at risk, whether the perpetrators are male or female, White or non-White. That boys feature in the victims of the Pakistani heritage “grooming gangs” is something we already know from previous reports. To quote chapter 20 of my book The Empathy Gap, “…the public are largely unaware that not all the … | /r/MensRights | 30/07/25 03:47 PM |
| 2 | Blog post by MRA on Casey Report & UK grooming gangs. Some data on "Complex Organised Child Abuse crimes": "Of victims, 78% were female & 22% male. Of suspects, 24% were female & 76% male". Highlights how male victims & female perpetrators don't get nearly as much attention. Some extracts below."Boys Whilst I welcome Baroness Casey’s report for the reasons discussed above (essentially its focus on the need for greater protection of poor white girls in the context of “grooming gangs”) in one important respect it perpetuates another prejudice, that against boys. Casey states baldly, “This audit is focused on group-based child sexual exploitation of girls by ‘grooming gangs’.” Casey also wrote, “Child sexual abuse, rape and group-based child exploitation is, overwhelmingly, committed by m… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/25 03:45 PM |
| 29 | A healthcare assistant in the UK has successfully taken a gender (and disability) discrimination case against Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where there was a culture where male staff were expected to deal with aggressive patientsOne way to deal with this might be to offer extra pay for people if there were expected to take on more danger and the like. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/25 04:42 PM |
| 51 | A healthcare assistant in the UK has successfully taken a gender (and disability) discrimination case against Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where there was a culture where male staff were expected to deal with aggressive patientsHere is a summary from July 17 I found on another forum: —- An article in The Times (UK) today, highlights a particularly unjust way in which men are dealt a sexist hand. Stuart Smith, a healthcare assistant, took his employer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, to a tribunal for sex discrimination, claiming that he was expected to oversee aggressive hospital patients because of his gender. He reported that he had been kicked, spat on, punched and sworn at by patients. He claimed that man… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/25 04:25 PM |
| 1 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“What this reaction to the drama implies is a willingness to further partisan (and corrosive) sociopolitical objectives by burdening every boy in our society with a guilt he does not deserve. It is obscene.“ | /r/MensRights | 20/04/25 12:08 PM |
| 1 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“The deeply pernicious aspect of Adolescence is that it creates a worry in parents that their son, despite perhaps being apparently a paragon of good behaviour, could be turned into a murderous monster at any moment by the influence of the “manosphere”, or perhaps just due to his intrinsically toxic masculinity. That there is no evidence for any of this is not the message being promoted, and the usual culprits are enthusiastically whipping up the hysteria aided and abetted by senior politicians … | /r/MensRights | 20/04/25 12:07 PM |
| 24 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“As far as I am aware, the film makers have only suggested one case might be similar to that depicted in the drama, the stabbing to death of Brianna Ghey. Why have none of the sources which refer to this case not mentioned that Ghey was killed by two people, one of whom was a girl: Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe. The judge, Mrs Justice Yip, said in her summing up that Scarlett Jenkinson had a fantasy to kill, that she had lured Brianna to the park, and that it was acknowledged that Scarl… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 08:08 PM |
| 18 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“Whatever the writers intended, the controllers of the popular narrative are insisting that the drama shines a light on the corrosive impact of social media and misogynist influencers on teenage boys. Some even claim that it motivates a need for a reform of parenting or a reform of schools. All this is based on a fictional story which is wildly empirically unlikely to the point that – as far as I have yet seen – no one has identified a single case quite like it, and certainly not one motivated b… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 08:05 PM |
| 9 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“But I’ve not seen anything to link “the manosphere” to knife crime, this being arguably one of the propaganda targets of Adolescence. Rudakubana was arguably influenced by online sites, but Islamist in nature, not the “manosphere”.” | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 08:03 PM |
| 10 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“Only about 4.5% of knife crime victims are under 16, so the story of “Adolescence” which associates this age range with the problem is misleading.” | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 08:01 PM |
| 25 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“About 8.7% of stabbing victims are female, about 13.1% of knife crime offenders are female. Like other forms of non-domestic violence, knife crime tends to be male-on-male.” | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 08:00 PM |
| 33 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blog on Netflix 'Adolescence': "male adolescent offender & young female victim is the least common combination in knife crime". Series is being used to propagandize the UK to support censorship laws against 'the manosphere'. Appendix: Good AI critiques. Some extracts in comments“That is rather important because, in contrast to what happens outside the home, within the home females are the majority perpetrators of stabbings. This fact tends to be elided. To quote Brown et al (2022), gender influences offending “with males being more likely to use knives against strangers and in community settings, while females were more likely to use knifes against family members and partners in domestic settings”.” | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 07:59 PM |
| 16 | ‘Sentencing by Identity Group’: Dr Rick Bradford blog "It is indisputably the case that men are treated far more harshly in the criminal justice system than women" yet on 1st April 2025 the UK is introducing new sentencing guidelines that will increase the gender gap. Some extracts in the comments."The MoJ’s [Ministry of Justice] headline finding was that under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females, i.e., an imprisonment disparity factor of 1.88 in 2015. This was very similar to the disparity of being sentenced to imprisonment from my analysis. But I also showed that a similar magnitude of disparity exists on sentence length, assuming imprisonment. Moreover there are many other disparities such as on parole, on cautions, on conv… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 02:36 PM |
| 17 | ‘Sentencing by Identity Group’: Dr Rick Bradford blog "It is indisputably the case that men are treated far more harshly in the criminal justice system than women" yet on 1st April 2025 the UK is introducing new sentencing guidelines that will increase the gender gap. Some extracts in the comments."The glaring problem with the Sentencing Council’s guidance is that, if current disadvantage was the argument being advanced, then “female” should be deleted and replaced by “male”. It is indisputably the case that men are treated far more harshly in the criminal justice system than women, though that will not stop it being disputed." | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 02:35 PM |
| 16 | ‘Sentencing by Identity Group’: Dr Rick Bradford blog "It is indisputably the case that men are treated far more harshly in the criminal justice system than women" yet on 1st April 2025 the UK is introducing new sentencing guidelines that will increase the gender gap. Some extracts in the comments."A PSR [pre-sentencing report] is not mandatory but an offender for whom a PSR is carried out will generally receive a less severe sentence than one who has no PSR. Sentencing Council’s Guidelines state, 'A pre-sentence report will normally be considered necessary if the offender belongs to one (or more) of the following cohorts:…(amongst others)…. female from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community'" | /r/MensRights | 19/04/25 02:35 PM |
| 8 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below.In theory, even females could commit misogyny so it might not be a cast iron defence | /r/MensRights | 16/04/25 12:06 AM |
| 15 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below."Article 2.1 of the Annex says, 'Online misogyny is perpetrated and witnessed in a variety of online spaces, across both larger services serving many audiences, and smaller services dedicated to proliferating misogynistic views and behaviours. On the former, misogynistic content can consist of hypermasculine narratives about how boys and men should behave and act towards women and girls, often in partnership with broader criticism of feminism, gender messages, or women’s rights.' This does not q… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/25 10:16 PM |
| 11 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below."However, the above alignment of misogyny with “feelings of, or beliefs in, the hatred of women” is worrisome. This is not about behaviours, then, but opinions. While Ofcom is not a legislative body, this is the outlawing of thought. And who will be deciding upon whether your opinions count as misogynistic. I know that many people – perhaps most people – would regard this site as misogyny. In practice the “hatred” bit is elided and your beliefs are judged to be misogynistic based simply on someo… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/25 10:15 PM |
| 31 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below."Overall, men are more likely than women to have experienced potentially harmful online behaviour or content in the (study period) (64% vs 60%).” Moreover, this finding has been confirmed in Ofcom’s 2024 One Nation report (Figure 63) which again indicates that men were more likely than women to have experienced potentially harmful online behaviour or content in the study period (four weeks in 2024) (69% vs 66%)." The point of this is that if such a scenario requires laws against misogyny it shou… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/25 10:13 PM |
| 37 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below."How can the deliberate, knowing and calculated omission of men and boys from equal protections be anything other than 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards' men and boys?" | /r/MensRights | 15/04/25 10:12 PM |
| 20 | The misandry of proposed misogyny laws in the UK, discussed in the Illustrated Empathy Gap. "How can 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards, women and girls' be made criminal but 'contempt for, or malice and ill-will towards men and boys' remain acceptable?" Some extracts in comments below."We know that, de facto, we are not all equal before the law. Nevertheless, it was some comfort that, ideally – in principle – the idea of equality of all before the law was the acknowledged formal position. Not for much longer, not in the UK. Not in the land of Magna Carta, which enshrined that principle originally. We will shortly have, not just de facto bias, but also de jure inequality. We are about to enter the brave new world of “gendered law”. There is nothing accidental about it. It’s no… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/25 10:11 PM |
| 5 | Press release: “Airlines with more women at the top are more efficient”. So are they saying there is a difference between men & women? It seems it’s either women are better than men or we are told we shouldn’t say there is a difference, basically never “men did/do better” (continued in comments)That makes me wonder: if research was done to look to see whether there was any relationship between percentage of female employees and resources spent by a company on health resources (HR) i.e. are women or men more expensive for a company in this way. Though it’s probably the sort of research where there might be a bias in what gets published and what gets press releases. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/25 06:04 PM |
| 7 | “Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish Football Federation, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting the footballer Jenni Hermoso by kissing her on the lips after Spain’s women’s team won the World Cup”. Also fined €10,800. Seems a weak/very broad definition for sexual assault.I didn’t say it should be OK, I’m questioning it should be classified as sexual assault rather than something else. | /r/MensRights | 21/02/25 12:39 PM |
| 3 | Irish police force fitness requirements relaxed. Reasons include worrying that different standards for men & women could lead to discrimination cases. Extra info: Almost half of all women who took the test last year failed.“JJ Clarke: I took the Garda fitness test – here’s why the standard should not be lowered” https://archive.is/YqzFV | /r/MensRights | 20/02/25 11:43 PM |
| 3 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“Sir William Shawcross warned that something had gone very wrong with Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy. Instead of focusing on Islamism, Prevent was wasting its time investigating complaints of ‘far-right’ extremism from left-wing teachers, e.g., 14-year-old boys ‘caught’ watching TikTok videos of Nigel Farage…If you think Yvette Cooper is going to rectify this, think again. …Her priorities have evidently taken root in her department…” To address the alleged growth of ‘misogyny’ among teenag… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 09:00 PM |
| 5 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“The Rapid Sprint report recommends reversing the previous government’s code of practice which “aimed to limit the recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)’”. This is a direct attack on free speech, without which there is no freedom at all. Although NCHIs do not involve any criminal sanction, and do not formally constitute a criminal record, they may show up on an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, potentially affecting employment prospects. Moreover, “having your collar felt b… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 08:56 PM |
| 4 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“In contrast, MRAs – or other denizen’s of the so-called manosphere – have zero representation in any institutions whatsoever. In starkest contrast, it would be hard to find any organisation not happy to declare themselves ‘proudly feminist’ – the Teflon ideology against which no criticisms stick however well-founded.” | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 08:52 PM |
| 6 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“This is very much an Old Trick. No doubt there are those who adopt the MRA label and could be quoted as (arguably) advocating violence against women. Not that I could name any. But to give the impression that this is typical of MRAs is dishonest. Anyone advocating for men and boys could reasonably be called an MRA despite this including some distinctly “progressive” people. And there’s no shortage of feminists who have advocated for violence against men. As Policy Exchange note, even if you acc… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 08:39 PM |
| 9 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“Whilst it [the report] delights in the use of phrases like “extreme misogyny”, this and various other invented “extremisms” have caused no terrorist deaths in Great Britain since 1999*, and they fail to meet the test of causing harm to national security – or even the test of extremism.” *Based on other comments, I think it only goes back that far rather than there was a death in 1999. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 08:38 PM |
| 17 | MRA Dr Rick Bradford blogs on an unpublished UK government extremism report which tries to link the manosphere with violence and extremism "As Policy Exchange note, “There is an obvious risk here of tarring significant swathes of the public as Far Right”." Some extracts in comments“Rather than focus on real terrorist threats – those which result in mass deaths – the focus of the Rapid Sprint report is on, “violence against women and girls”, “spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories”, “an interest in gore or extreme violence”, “misogyny” and “involvement in the online subculture called the manosphere”. That will be you (and me). I trust you are happy to be lumped in with mass murderers?” | /r/MensRights | 07/02/25 08:36 PM |
| 2 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.Jonathan Taylor waxes bullish in his write-up of the ruling, suggesting that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of “progressivism”. He writes, “The bloodthirst and fanaticism of ideologies opposed to due process on the basis of sex—MeToo, extreme feminism, and their various offshoots – are increasingly falling out of favour, meeting harsher and more public opposition, and finding defeat (one way or another) in court.” | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 06:21 PM |
| 1 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.“The first Trump administration made various changes to Title IX guidelines that were implemented during the Obama administration. These changes shifted the standard of evidence used in Title IX investigations from “preponderance of the evidence” to a “clear and convincing” evidence standard.“ [..] Most importantly, the Trump administration imposed due process protections, perhaps the most important change of all to the interpretation under Obama given that the principal method of unfair dismiss… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 05:42 PM |
| 2 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.You see how that works? There is no threat of fines or withdrawal of funding if a university expels a young man without due process and without any meaningful examination of the allegations. Emanating from the highest Federal levels, the threats push the college in only one direction. As Taylor’s advisory guide for accused students puts it, “Some accused students think that their situation will work itself out if they just tell the school the truth about what happened because schools generally p… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 05:13 PM |
| 2 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.But what is unacknowledged is that allegations are only allegations. The prevailing ethos was – and still is – to believe the accuser (often referred to immediately as a “victim”). It fails to acknowledge that being thrown out of university on the basis of an unproved allegation also – and rather more directly – “interferes with a student’s right to receive an education”. And here the prevailing culture impacts on political policy which in turn impacts on collegiate policy, namely that their bro… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 05:11 PM |
| 2 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.“Readers of this blog will not need me to spell out the egregious nature of the status quo on university campuses as regards the handling of complaints regarding young men’s sexual conduct. The problems of gross gender bias and the flouting of due process are endemic across the “western” world. In the USA these are specifically associated with a piece of Federal legislation, universally referred to as “Title IX”. It is ostensibly about equal opportunities of the sexes in the context of education… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 05:11 PM |
| 2 | “Title IX for All: Jonathan Taylor”. Blogpost by experienced & insightful men’s rights activist Dr Rick Bradford. Discusses history of this US provision which has led to kangaroo courts in colleges, plus a significant court victory last year. I'll post some extracts in the comments.Purpose of Jonathan Taylor’s website: “…to make knowledge about the Title IX world more accessible to the general public by talking about what would otherwise only exist in obscure court records, and creating databases to track court cases, regulations, and OCR investigations. That’s also why I decided to be an advisor for accused students, many of whom have no money tree to shake and are in need of affordable options.” (OCR = Office for Civil Rights). | /r/MensRights | 06/02/25 05:10 PM |
| 68 | “Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin: ‘We are seeing conservative, masculine forces rising up’” (Irish Times headline). It seems to be maybe like a form of misandry, where masculine is seen as something bad.Hard to imagine the equivalent in reverse would be seen as acceptable i.e. “we are seeing X, feminine forces rising up” | /r/MensRights | 09/01/25 12:15 AM |
| 7 | (Ireland) “Homeless fathers ‘not seen as fathers’ by services, pushing them farther from children - report. Many men categorised as ‘single adults without dependants’ are fathers who may share custody of children”“With the support of an individual caseworker he was encouraged to apply for a two-bedroom home so he could have Joan [his daughter] to stay. He had to convince his ex-partner to put his name on Joan’s birth certificate.” | /r/MensRights | 07/01/25 01:33 AM |
| 17 | (Ireland) “Homeless fathers ‘not seen as fathers’ by services, pushing them farther from children - report. Many men categorised as ‘single adults without dependants’ are fathers who may share custody of children”“This is despite a 2019 Supreme Court ruling, known as Fagan v Dublin City Council, in which the court unanimously criticised Dublin City Council for categorising a father as a one-person household, despite being entitled to three-nights per week custody and co-parenting rights. It meant the local authority had to assess him as entitled to multi-bedroom accommodation.” | /r/MensRights | 07/01/25 01:32 AM |
| 17 | (Ireland) “Homeless fathers ‘not seen as fathers’ by services, pushing them farther from children - report. Many men categorised as ‘single adults without dependants’ are fathers who may share custody of children”“There is a “mismatch”, says the report, between social expectations of what a father should be and their “lived experience” of homelessness, causing “psychological distress” – low self-esteem, guilt, shame and a loss in confidence as a parent.” | /r/MensRights | 07/01/25 01:31 AM |
| 1 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.The phrasing may be ambiguous for this particular quote but read in the context of the other quotes, I’m not sure that is the main point being made here; instead it is saying fathers need to be supported more. | /r/MensRights | 29/12/24 12:17 AM |
| 2 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“‘We need to foster a societal expectation that fathers be present in their children’s lives and support them financially and emotionally…it might mean revisiting fatherhood rights and child support enforcement regimes.’ Yes, indeed, but it is far from clear how this can be achieved in the teeth of the widespread social, political and ideological factors which are opposed to it.” | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 10:52 PM |
| 1 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.In terms of policy, the author advises that we should “Start with an acknowledgement that in most cases, two-parent, stable families are very beneficial for children…we can and should explore ways to boost the prevalence of (healthy) two-parent families…At the same time, we can collectively work to strengthen alternative family structures, so that more children in families in which the parents do not live together have the benefit of positive support and engagement from two parents.” The latter … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 10:16 PM |
| 1 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“The decline in the two-parent family relates in part to the struggles of men, which is in turn contributing to the struggles of boys. This cycle is in desperate need of interruption: the US needs to raise boys who are fit to be reliable marriage partners and nurturing, supportive fathers…Helping children in this country will require helping dads.” (extract from book) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 09:50 PM |
| 3 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“Bolstering the well-being of children requires recognising the important role of fathers in children’s lives and boosting support to both mothers and fathers.” (extract from book) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 09:47 PM |
| 2 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“Kearney includes a brief nod to what is actually the true nub of the problem: “They (the researchers) observed that some of the fathers in the programs had highly conflicted or disengaged relationships with their children’s mothers, and in some cases that mothers would serve as “gatekeepers”, restricting a father’s access to his child. The researchers suggested that programs may need to focus on helping parents improve their relationships with one another, whether amorous or not, in order to be… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 09:30 PM |
| 10 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“While economic forces have been a key driver of the decline in marriage – and the corresponding increase in single-mother homes – it seems that we are now in a new social paradigm, where nonmarriage is common outside the college-educated class. This development has not been good for children.” (extract from book) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 09:15 PM |
| 15 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“…the earnings of wives tend not to exceed that of their husbands, and when they do, there is an increased incidence of divorce.” (extract from book) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:59 PM |
| 15 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“The absence of dads from many Black families disadvantages not only the children in those families but also the other boys growing up in the neighbourhood.” (extract from book) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:46 PM |
| 24 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“Researchers found that family structure was a key determinant of the gender gap in behavioural outcomes, more so than early school environment…By eighth grade the gender gap in school suspension was close to 25% among children raised by single mothers, versus 10% among children from two biological parent families.” (extract from book itself). | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:18 PM |
| 19 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“The book laments the vicious circle that arises as the reducing fortunes of boys from single parent homes then cause them to be less attractive “marriage material”, so that the situation is self-reinforcing in a form of positive feedback.” | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:17 PM |
| 38 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“It has also been feminism that has energetically, and successfully, steered the family courts and associated legislation in a direction which facilitates the eradication of fathers.“ | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:16 PM |
| 16 | “The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa Kearney: A Review“ by William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford, an insightful & well-read men’s rights advocate (and anti-feminist). Some extracts in the comments below.“…a child born in a two-parent household with a family income of $50,000 has, on average, better outcomes than a child born in a single-parent household earning the same income.” (extract from book itself) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/24 08:16 PM |
| 1 | A review of Louise Perry’s book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” by knowledgeable and well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford (aka William Collins). This is written from a men's rights/antifeminist perspective but also from a conservative perspective which may be different from many readers here.It’s a men’s rights post not a political post. He talks at length about false rape allegations, the fate of fathers and fathers rights, data showing men do a lot of the unpaid caring, etc. He just believes people should be married before they have sex. Different people can have different views on this topic and still be men’s rights activists. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/24 02:00 PM |
| 5 | A review of Louise Perry’s book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” by knowledgeable and well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford (aka William Collins). This is written from a men's rights/antifeminist perspective but also from a conservative perspective which may be different from many readers here.“Perry writes “…women who work at male-dominated organisations such as Google often experience everyday sexist insults that range from mild condescension to outright sexual harassment…” Really? At Google? I have worked in a male-dominated environment with minority women. Most women are fine but there is the odd one who is determined to find sexist issues and does so – not merely at the slightest opportunity but even when there is no opportunity at all except in their own heads. One knows that th… | /r/MensRights | 09/10/24 11:46 PM |
| 6 | A review of Louise Perry’s book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” by knowledgeable and well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford (aka William Collins). This is written from a men's rights/antifeminist perspective but also from a conservative perspective which may be different from many readers here.“Anyone from another planet, after reading the first seven chapters, would conclude that men were universally vile and that no woman should ever contemplate having any relationship with one of these beasts whatsoever. And yet she ends up recommending marriage so there must be something positive about men. One wonders what it could be.” | /r/MensRights | 09/10/24 11:43 PM |
| 1 | (Ireland) Dublin woman jailed for falsely claiming man raped her in hotel while others watched. Ann Marie Keenan (37) made the baseless and “devastating” allegation against an “innocent man”https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/fake-rape-accuser-who-upended-innocent-mans-life-accuses-sunday-world-of-harassing-her/a1716953373.html | /r/MensRights | 09/10/24 11:31 AM |
| 5 | "A Gentleman’s Strike". Thoughtful antifeminist/men's advocate Dr Rick Bradford highlights some problems feminism has caused for society & men, and proposes a (controversial) solution. I find his analysis interesting as usual though hope there are other, less dramatic, means of making progressNot sure which bit is supposed to be sarcastic but in this case, the strike doesn’t refer to work. | /r/MensRights | 26/09/24 06:24 PM |
| 47 | (Irish Times) "Looking to date a man in finance? You’re not the only one". On female hypergamy, it tries to hide it or at least downplay it as a female tendency e.g. "you need to factor in demographics, patriarchal societal structures and plain old genetics" (and expands on these excuses)For example: —- “People look around and say, ‘women seem to marry up in some ways’ or ‘women tend to marry taller husbands’ or ‘women have better educated husbands’,” says Brendan Halpin, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Limerick (UL). Some of this is due entirely to the fact that there are male and female [genetic] differences, so men tend to be taller, and therefore taller husbands are more common. Very often the underlying explanation is quite simple: that you have une… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/24 10:42 PM |
| 2 | (Irish Times) “I’ve yet to meet a woman who has regretted not getting married but plenty of married ones who have” “I have seen so many good women drained by men who could not or would not meet them at their level”. Lots of questionable claims. I’ve never seen a similar Irish Times article by a man.This journalist could be called a man-hating feminist. I don’t think if negative things are said to or about her on Twitter that that is representative of most women’s experience. I think most men would be very hesitant to tell a woman she will feel she missed out if she doesn’t have a child. However I think some women may encourage other women to settle down and not let her biological clock run out and miss having a child.. There is a joke I have read a few times that goes something like: I’m t… | /r/MensRights | 03/08/24 11:11 AM |
| 2 | (Irish Times) “I’ve yet to meet a woman who has regretted not getting married but plenty of married ones who have” “I have seen so many good women drained by men who could not or would not meet them at their level”. Lots of questionable claims. I’ve never seen a similar Irish Times article by a man.Men may think women will miss not having children because women make this point a lot, explicitly and implicitly. Lots of men would prefer not to take on the huge responsibility of raising a child but go along with it because their partner tells them they really want to have a child, it’s what would make them happy. | /r/MensRights | 03/08/24 11:04 AM |
| 17 | Diageo (a drinks company) paid for this advertorial in the Irish Times: “The gender pay gap is as important as profit and loss”. It is not hard to believe that there is basically a form of gender discrimination & similar there i.e. women are advantaged“Apprenticeships are also helping in other areas, she points out: “We have 50 per cent women on our Supply Chain and Procurement apprenticeship programme. It’s a four-year programme that offers great opportunities to gain experience, mentoring and career support. That boosts female talent availability.” Based on the context and the rest of the article it seems likely before this policy there were more men on such apprenticeships on average. It’s hard to see they would have implemented such a pol… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/24 10:17 PM |
| 3 | Diageo (a drinks company) paid for this advertorial in the Irish Times: “The gender pay gap is as important as profit and loss”. It is not hard to believe that there is basically a form of gender discrimination & similar there i.e. women are advantaged“For example, we want 50 per cent of leaders in Diageo globally to be female by 2030. We have already achieved that here in Ireland.“ | /r/MensRights | 10/07/24 10:14 PM |
| 3 | Should DNA testing be mandatory at birthI would say there may little appetite for paying damages, etc. And a lot of women would have little or nothing to give especially as they can claim they have one or more children to support. Better to stop the problem as soon as possible. | /r/MensRights | 03/07/24 01:47 PM |
| 1 | "New Book: The Illustrated Empathy Gap" by William Collins. I haven't read it myself but I would highly recommend it based on my reading of most of his blog posts (which make up the book): he really digs into the issues & statistics in an impressive way. This blog post includes the book's preface.I have also done lots of threads here in MensRights on the author’s blog posts which can be seen by looking through my profile looking for empathygap links (though there are not many in the last six months) | /r/MensRights | 02/07/24 09:01 PM |
| 2 | "New Book: The Illustrated Empathy Gap" by William Collins. I haven't read it myself but I would highly recommend it based on my reading of most of his blog posts (which make up the book): he really digs into the issues & statistics in an impressive way. This blog post includes the book's preface.The book is a collection of his blog posts most of which I have read as I said. Also from that I can also extrapolate to having some knowledge of the way he approaches topics. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/24 12:46 PM |
| 12 | Harvey Weinstein: New York court overturns 2020 rape conviction | Harvey WeinsteinFrom another article: In a dissenting opinion, court of appeals judge Madeline Singas said the decision by her co-jurists meant that henceforth “juries will remain in the dark about, and defendants will be insulated from, past criminal acts”. As I understand it, the problem was random individuals making other allegations. Unless the allegations have been proven/led to a conviction, surely they shouldn't be seen as "criminal acts". | /r/MensRights | 26/04/24 01:09 AM |
| 5 | Irish Times article/headline gives the impression that anti-feminism, masculinism & misogyny go hand in hand & are necessarily extremist. 1st comment = extract. 2nd comment = press release; 3rd comment = original/source document produced by academics which mentions antifeminism dozens of timesThey could also run experiments about how often university students are exposed to feminist ideas in non-STEMM* subjects. *Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine | /r/MensRights | 18/04/24 01:26 AM |
| 6 | Irish Times article/headline gives the impression that anti-feminism, masculinism & misogyny go hand in hand & are necessarily extremist. 1st comment = extract. 2nd comment = press release; 3rd comment = original/source document produced by academics which mentions antifeminism dozens of timesRecommending Toxicity: The role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers Dr Catherine Baker, Prof Debbie Ging and Dr Maja Brandt Andreasen DCU Anti-Bullying Centre Dublin City University April 2024 https://antibullyingcentre.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DCU-Toxicity-Full-Report.pdf | /r/MensRights | 18/04/24 12:46 AM |
| 5 | Irish Times article/headline gives the impression that anti-feminism, masculinism & misogyny go hand in hand & are necessarily extremist. 1st comment = extract. 2nd comment = press release; 3rd comment = original/source document produced by academics which mentions antifeminism dozens of timesPress release: New research shows how TikTok and YouTube Shorts are bombarding users with misogynist content https://www.dcu.ie/instituteofeducation/news/2024/apr/new-research-shows-how-tiktok-and-youtube-shorts-are-bombarding "The researchers found that all of the male-identified accounts were fed masculinist, anti-feminist and other extremist content, irrespective of whether they sought out general or male supremacist-related content, and that they all received this content within the first 23… | /r/MensRights | 18/04/24 12:45 AM |
| 9 | Irish Times article/headline gives the impression that anti-feminism, masculinism & misogyny go hand in hand & are necessarily extremist. 1st comment = extract. 2nd comment = press release; 3rd comment = original/source document produced by academics which mentions antifeminism dozens of times"Teenage boys ‘bombarded’ with misogynist content within minutes of signing up to TikTok and YouTube Shorts DCU research finds young males fed ‘toxic’ antifeminist and other extremist content within 23 minutes Teenage boys are being bombarded with misogynist content on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube Shorts due to algorithms which amplify antifeminist and other extremist content, according to new research. The study from Dublin City University’s anti-bullying centre tracked and… | /r/MensRights | 18/04/24 12:43 AM |
| 3 | The Irish Defence Forces have dropped the requirement for female (but not male) applicants to pass the fitness test in their drive to increase the number of women in the force.In the Irish defence forces, for better or worse, all positions are open to women. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/24 08:39 PM |
| 11 | The Irish Defence Forces have dropped the requirement for female (but not male) applicants to pass the fitness test in their drive to increase the number of women in the force.This is a response to a question in the Irish parliament. Relevant section: “The Defence Forces are also taking a broad approach in terms of fitness testing. In addition to a re-examination of the female specific milestones that have to be achieved in terms of fitness standards, there has been a change from a “Pass or Fail” system in terms of fitness test scoring to a “traffic light” system. This means that female applicants who do not automatically pass the fitness test may be selected for indu… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/24 03:53 PM |
| 24 | Man who has bonded with a 3-year-old child, as he thinks she is his daughter, discovers from a paternity test in (TV) court he is not the father. Mother cheers. Judge gives her a lecture. Having paternity testing as the default at birth would reduce situations like this. (90-second video).It came up on my Twitter/X feed today. Also seems like a timeless general issue, which hasn’t been resolved. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/24 04:26 PM |
| 5 | A woman tried to threaten her boyfriend by calling the police because he was being a “douchebag.” While in the back of a police car, she admits that no one had done anything wrong. After hearing her screaming, her boyfriend comes out and quickly gets tasered. 2-minute clip in comments.The article links to a 15-minute clip but all I watched was this two-minute clip: https://x.com/picturesfoider/status/1746916131653447860 | /r/MensRights | 15/01/24 08:39 PM |
| 11 | Irish Examiner:”What is it about the fear of men? Lock up your daughters, unvetted, military age men are coming to town”.Background:a number of Irish communities are objecting (& burning down buildings) if there are plans to provide accommodation for groups of males seeking international protection"Then in 2012, the New York Times conducted an investigation which revealed that the Obama administration made a decision to exclude from collateral damage figures boys and men who were killed in drone strikes. “These boys and men were referred to as military-aged males, an identifier that covers those between the ages of 16 and 60,” wrote Sarah Shoker in her book, Military Age Males In Counter Insurgency And Drone Warfare. “In doing so, the Obama administration used gender as a shortcut to assi… | /r/MensRights | 14/01/24 01:40 AM |
| 2 | Irish Examiner:”What is it about the fear of men? Lock up your daughters, unvetted, military age men are coming to town”.Background:a number of Irish communities are objecting (& burning down buildings) if there are plans to provide accommodation for groups of males seeking international protection“These kind of tropes are a way of dehumanizing people coming into communities and removing any potential vulnerabilities that they (male refugees) have.” | /r/MensRights | 14/01/24 01:38 AM |
| 4 | Irish Examiner:”What is it about the fear of men? Lock up your daughters, unvetted, military age men are coming to town”.Background:a number of Irish communities are objecting (& burning down buildings) if there are plans to provide accommodation for groups of males seeking international protection“Meanwhile, on New Year’s Day there were 376 male asylum seekers awaiting an offer of accommodation, most of them literally sleeping on the streets”. Irish authorities have had an explicit policy in having single males at the bottom of the queue for accommodation. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/24 01:37 AM |
| 9 | Irish Examiner:”What is it about the fear of men? Lock up your daughters, unvetted, military age men are coming to town”.Background:a number of Irish communities are objecting (& burning down buildings) if there are plans to provide accommodation for groups of males seeking international protection“I’ve worked in this sector for over 20 years and some of the most vulnerable people I’ve met have been single men.” | /r/MensRights | 14/01/24 01:35 AM |
| 1 | “Cancer-stricken man, 31, says he could have avoided terminal diagnosis - if he hadn’t tried to ‘man up’ and ignore tell-tale symptom”. I think one thing that can cause men to delay is talk of “man flu” and other belittling of men who mention symptoms and concerns/worries.Who use the term “man flu” most? Pretty sure it’s women. The effect of the term is to inhibit men “from voices worries about their wellbeing”. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/24 11:43 PM |
| 7 | “Cancer-stricken man, 31, says he could have avoided terminal diagnosis - if he hadn’t tried to ‘man up’ and ignore tell-tale symptom”. I think one thing that can cause men to delay is talk of “man flu” and other belittling of men who mention symptoms and concerns/worries.Not convinced women have more pain tolerance based on what I have read. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/24 11:11 PM |
| 6 | “Cancer-stricken man, 31, says he could have avoided terminal diagnosis - if he hadn’t tried to ‘man up’ and ignore tell-tale symptom”. I think one thing that can cause men to delay is talk of “man flu” and other belittling of men who mention symptoms and concerns/worries.If you are married to them and own property together, have children together, etc., it’s not so easy to walk away. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/24 11:03 PM |
| 3 | (Ireland) “How the murder of Ashling Murphy prompted one town to try & end misogyny”. I’m not sure it’s right that jokes for example are connected to the murder of a young woman by a stranger. There is also a lack of balance: no similar attempt to stamp out misandry or link it to problems men face.Some background: this isn't the place where the woman was murdered. That is a different town, 70 km/44 miles away. Nor was the murderer from this town. | /r/MensRights | 07/01/24 02:20 AM |
| 1 | (Minor) BBC Radio 1 news highlights—sounded more like celebrated—number of weeks women were number 1 in music charts in ‘23. I don’t recall them celebrating anything similar about male achievement: when men are doing better, it tends to be given as an example of bias & something that needs to changeThis item in different forms was on the first four of the short (2- or 3-minute) news bulletins during the Breakfast Show | /r/MensRights | 04/01/24 06:09 PM |
| 1 | (Minor) BBC Radio 1 news highlights—sounded more like celebrated—number of weeks women were number 1 in music charts in ‘23. I don’t recall them celebrating anything similar about male achievement: when men are doing better, it tends to be given as an example of bias & something that needs to changeJust listened to more of the Breakfast Show now. They had a different piece with the same basic message on the 8am news bulletin (the text I gave was from the 7:30am news bulletin). | /r/MensRights | 04/01/24 01:28 PM |
| 12 | Dr Rick Bradford's post for international men's day: mainly a list of 168 UK men killed by their female partner in 2011 to 2023 (just like the list Jess Phillips MP shares every international women’s day in Parliament of female victims of partner homicide). Also a list of UK charities for men/boys"This is a list of direct killings which resulted in homicide trials. Hence, suicides resulting from partner abuse, including suicides resulting from a fathers’ estrangement from his children by belligerent actions by the mother, are not included as I have no means of identifying them. This is a major omission because the total incidence of male suicide per year is massively greater than their deaths by direct partner homicide, by a factor of order 150 to 200 or so. Consequently, any sizeable pr… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/23 01:09 AM |
| 14 | Dr Rick Bradford's post for international men's day: mainly a list of 168 UK men killed by their female partner in 2011 to 2023 (just like the list Jess Phillips MP shares every international women’s day in Parliament of female victims of partner homicide). Also a list of UK charities for men/boys"There are many cases where the killing was instigated by the female partner but she got one or more men to assist in carrying out the deed. I have only been able to capture those cases where the woman was convicted as well as the man/men. There may be other cases where a woman’s “commissioning hand” failed to be identified and therefore appear in reports to be merely “man kills man” cases." | /r/MensRights | 02/12/23 01:08 AM |
| 13 | Dr Rick Bradford's post for international men's day: mainly a list of 168 UK men killed by their female partner in 2011 to 2023 (just like the list Jess Phillips MP shares every international women’s day in Parliament of female victims of partner homicide). Also a list of UK charities for men/boys"Moreover, and this is what certain parties are most keen to keep submerged, there are many cases where the man has been subject to persistent abuse by his female partner, and his eventual death is the result of its, almost inevitable, escalation. In other words, exactly the sort of case which rightly excites so much ire when the sexes are the other way around." | /r/MensRights | 02/12/23 01:07 AM |
| 17 | Dr Rick Bradford's post for international men's day: mainly a list of 168 UK men killed by their female partner in 2011 to 2023 (just like the list Jess Phillips MP shares every international women’s day in Parliament of female victims of partner homicide). Also a list of UK charities for men/boys"No, my interest in compiling a list goes back to the first time I did so, nearly seven years ago. The reason is that, when it comes to male victims, there is a suspicion in some quarters that, somehow, the statistics are misleading; that men dying just isn’t the same as women dying. I don’t need to labour for this audience how that perception arises – through the empathy gap or gamma bias. It becomes harder to deny when specific cases are identified, and especially when one reads the case histo… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/23 01:07 AM |
| 3 | (UK) 'Young dads are seen as a problem in our society' - BBC News. A lot of the focus is on The North East Young Dads and Lads Project and the work they doHeading on BBC site has been changed to “Parenting: Helping young dads to challenge stereotypes” | /r/MensRights | 08/11/23 05:25 PM |
| 35 | "Deirdre Domingo, of Scottish Women’s Rights Organisations, told the inquiry that the idea that the pandemic affected everyone equally should be “firmly dispelled”. She said women, particularly from black and minority ethnicities, were far more affected when compared to the wider population"As is so common, a claim something was (or is) worse for women than men. | /r/MensRights | 29/10/23 01:08 PM |
| 17 | "Tusla, the [Irish] Child and Family Agency, has recommended that a mother lose custody of her daughter after concluding that the woman made unfounded allegations against the girl’s father, a court has heard.""Judge Gabbett stated: “Put simply, Tusla is saying that the mother has engineered a situation where her child has been subjected to medical examination, psychological examination, Garda interviews, and the allegations were all unfounded. "This has happened on at least three occasions in order to frustrate the father’s access to his child.” | /r/MensRights | 23/10/23 06:07 PM |
| 10 | One scenario where gender balance is arguably most important is in parenting. Feminists often push for “gender balance”, but generally only when they think it will help women. But in this scenario [raising children], many rarely promote the value of both parents being involved to a similar extentI think a lot of women’s support for paternity leave is the expectation that the men availing of it will help them/reduce their workload. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/23 07:23 PM |
| 1 | (Ireland) State funding for sporting bodies will be cut by 50pc if gender rule [of a minimum of 40% women on the national boards] not met. Seems a draconian approach for such a high bar, especially considering some sports are played more by men & also more men volunteer to coach some sports, etc.Lots of sports in Ireland are run mainly by volunteers, not looking to make a profit. The GAA, probably the largest one, has possibly tens of thousands of volunteers with a small number of professionals in head office. Many would argue these sports provide a useful service which help the physical and mental health of people. | /r/MensRights | 26/09/23 10:15 AM |
| 1 | (Ireland) “Feminist legal project awarded government funding.” That’s not me editorialising, that’s the article title. The project is called Doing Feminist Legal Work (DFLW) (December 2022).?? Ireland and Finland are not the same country. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/23 11:05 PM |
| 4 | (Ireland) “Feminist legal project awarded government funding.” That’s not me editorialising, that’s the article title. The project is called Doing Feminist Legal Work (DFLW) (December 2022).This isn’t for a charity. This is for research by researchers in universities from a research budget. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/23 10:45 PM |
| 1 | Irish Minister for the Climate [Eamon Ryan]: "We know globally that women and children are the most impacted, but have the least responsibility, for the climate devastation we are now seeing almost daily” National Women's Council of Ireland makes similar comments at event. More in commentsNo idea whether you are being sarcastic or not. Eamon is an Irish name and I figured a lot of people wouldn’t know whether it was a male or female name. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/23 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Irish Minister for the Climate [Eamon Ryan]: "We know globally that women and children are the most impacted, but have the least responsibility, for the climate devastation we are now seeing almost daily” National Women's Council of Ireland makes similar comments at event. More in commentsThat’s Orla O'Connor, director of National Women's Council of Ireland. Eamon Ryan is a man | /r/MensRights | 14/09/23 10:03 PM |
| 1 | Irish Minister for the Climate [Eamon Ryan]: "We know globally that women and children are the most impacted, but have the least responsibility, for the climate devastation we are now seeing almost daily” National Women's Council of Ireland makes similar comments at event. More in comments“A feminist community work approach to climate justice means acknowledging and tackling the root causes of inequality and climate injustice – the same systems that oppress marginalised groups also harm the planet,” said Ann Irwin of CWI\"* *Community Work Ireland | /r/MensRights | 14/09/23 08:23 PM |
| 7 | Irish Minister for the Climate [Eamon Ryan]: "We know globally that women and children are the most impacted, but have the least responsibility, for the climate devastation we are now seeing almost daily” National Women's Council of Ireland makes similar comments at event. More in comments"The climate emergency is a feminist issue with women, girls and other marginalised groups disproportionately affected by it in Ireland and globally, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said." | /r/MensRights | 14/09/23 08:22 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“This first ever empirical research assessing the attitudes of actual jurors serving on real cases in England and Wales reveals that the claim made in the petition to Parliament that “Research shows that jurors accept commonly held rape myths resulting in many incorrect not guilty verdicts” is incorrect. The research also reveals that previous claims of widespread “juror bias” in sexual offences cases are not valid. Jurors at court do not hold the same views on these issues as reported in public… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/23 08:54 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“The UCL Jury Project undertook research in 2018–19 based on real juries and real trials, immediately post-verdict. A total of 65 discharged juries (771 jurors) in 4 different court regions took part in the research. The cases the juries tried covered a range of offences, including sexual and non-sexual offences. There was a 99 per cent participation rate. The findings regarding what jurors really believe were, “…hardly any jurors believe what are often referred to as widespread myths and stereo… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/23 06:02 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“Thomas’s report goes on to observe, “It is unclear what the source could be of the statistic cited (in association with the 2018 petition) that the conviction rate in rape trials is 21 per cent lower than other crimes. Detailed research on all jury verdicts in all courts in England and Wales over a substantial period of time had already shown that juries convict in rape cases more often than they acquit, and that the jury conviction rate in rape cases is higher than it is for other serious crim… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/23 01:21 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“Lady Dorrian’s review has provided the basis for the SNP Government to instigate the pilot juryless trial system, which appears now to have the green light.” | /r/MensRights | 09/08/23 10:38 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, Scotland’s top prosecutor, wants to introduce juryless trials for rape and attempted rape cases. She regards politicians to be “morally obliged” to consider it.” | /r/MensRights | 09/08/23 09:16 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“Amongst other things, Thomas concluded in 2010 that conviction rates when the victim is male are consistently lower than when the victim is female, a fact that I subsequently confirmed (see Tables 19.4a-c of The Empathy Gap). This is worth noting because CPS data on rape convictions does not disaggregate by sex of victim – and, notoriously, the CPS VAWG reports classify male victims as victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (see here).” | /r/MensRights | 09/08/23 03:05 PM |
| 1 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“To impose some patriarchal wisdom on you: when the criminal justice system becomes highjacked by a political power, you are on the path to tyranny, if not already there.” | /r/MensRights | 09/08/23 11:49 AM |
| 2 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments“Consequently, in a decent society with a decent criminal justice system, it is essential that the rights of the accused (of rape or anything else) are protected. Irrespective of some people’s opinion to the contrary, it is a sound principle that it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to incarcerate a single innocent man (probably for 10 years or more). This is what “beyond reasonable doubt” is about. And, as barrister Matthew Scott has emphasised, scrapping juries in rape trials may we… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/23 11:54 PM |
| 9 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments"The point here is that, if you are inclined to dismiss this whole issue on the grounds that “why should I give a toss about rapists, the scum of the earth?” – the issue here is whether the accused are actually rapists. If you incline to the belief that women never lie about rape, then all that stands between you and a horrible awakening is an accusation. Do not be too confident that cannot happen: being innocent is not a guarantee. There are cases where a man ends up in court on a rape charge m… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/23 06:57 PM |
| 8 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments"The feminists’ proposed policy on the matter revolves around either doing away with juries in rape trials, or subjecting juries to “training”. One knows who would do the “training”. No doubt the efficacy of such re-education would be confirmed by an assessment, with failure to demonstrate successful alignment with their views, however empirically false, leading to disqualification to sit on the jury. In short, such “trained” juries would be a sham, an obvious undermining of the principle that j… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/23 06:51 PM |
| 9 | Another well-researched blog by experienced & well-read men’s rights advocate, Dr Rick Bradford on moves in Scotland to remove juries in rape trials & background info. Highlights how research on real jurors (vs. research volunteers) found so-called rape myths are rare. Extracts in comments"In May 2021 my article The Myth About Rape Myths http://empathygap.uk/?p=3706 addressed the growing feminist determination to achieve more rape convictions by promoting the idea that jurors are unsuitable to make judgments on these sex offence cases. Mere lay persons, the hoi polloi, the riff-raff, the deplorables (that’s us) have not the wisdom to decide upon such matters." | /r/MensRights | 08/08/23 06:50 PM |
| 5 | Sex education lessons must engage boys and young men in order to tackle "a scourge" of sexual harassment and violence in schools, according to a group of MPsI heard this on the BBC Radio One news at 10:30 AM this morning. I listen to BBC Radio One and quite a large percentage of their news stories seem to be about ways that females have it worse in some way. It's very rare if it happens at all that male issues are highlighted. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/23 10:46 PM |
| 3 | A recent UK inquiry found that RAF [Royal Air Force] diversity targets discriminated against white men. Here's a link to the 72-page official report in case it contains some interesting comments. Link to a media article in comments"Leaked emails suggest RAF disadvantaged white male applicants" https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/raf-recruitment/ | /r/MensRights | 03/07/23 12:29 AM |
| 3 | A recent UK inquiry found that RAF [Royal Air Force] diversity targets discriminated against white men. Here's a link to the 72-page official report in case it contains some interesting comments. Link to a media article in comments"RAF diversity targets discriminated against white men" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66060490 | /r/MensRights | 03/07/23 12:23 AM |
| 14 | I'm very unhappy and uncomfortable with a line in Madonna's new song "So watch what you say or I’ll split your banana".Okay, I've only started listening to a lot of radio and mainstream music in the last few years so not too aware of her previous output. I mainly listen to BBC Radio One: I like the light-hearted tone and that there are no ads. But this has been played a number of times on the station over the last few days so hard to avoid. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/23 11:04 PM |
| 16 | (Ireland) (2022) ‘I’ve stabbed you now, good enough’ – woman (38) spared jail for calling to ex-boyfriend’s home while drunk and knifing him". "Other people who were present in the apartment at the time managed to wrestle the knife from Lynham, resulting in her wounding her hand.""A woman who called around to her ex-partner's apartment one morning and stabbed him in the torso has been given a suspended two-year sentence and ordered to pay him €2,000." | /r/PussyPass | 10/06/23 07:57 PM |
| 1 | (Ireland) "Over 200 male applicants for international protection remained without accommodation last week, [parliamentary] committee hears. As of May 24, all adult women and couples seeking accommodation since January were accommodated" (This is based on a state policy decision: see comments)Great. Thanks | /r/MensRights | 01/06/23 07:09 PM |
| 24 | (Ireland) "Over 200 male applicants for international protection remained without accommodation last week, [parliamentary] committee hears. As of May 24, all adult women and couples seeking accommodation since January were accommodated" (This is based on a state policy decision: see comments)This is based on a state policy decision = This is based on a government policy decision | /r/MensRights | 01/06/23 01:25 AM |
| 14 | (Ireland) "Over 200 male applicants for international protection remained without accommodation last week, [parliamentary] committee hears. As of May 24, all adult women and couples seeking accommodation since January were accommodated" (This is based on a state policy decision: see comments)"Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Mr O’Gorman said he “could not rule out” that some people would end up sleeping on the street. Women and children will be prioritised for accommodation in Citywest, and his department will work with NGOs about supporting other arrivals." He's the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth of Ireland https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/10/21/refugees-sleeping-on-the-streets-cannot-be-ruled-out-as-citywest-reaches-capacity-minis… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/23 12:31 AM |
| 18 | (Ireland) "Over 200 male applicants for international protection remained without accommodation last week, [parliamentary] committee hears. As of May 24, all adult women and couples seeking accommodation since January were accommodated" (This is based on a state policy decision: see comments)From October 2022: "Ten Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Ireland yesterday have been told there is no accommodation for them, bringing the total number to 44 this week. Yesterday it had been revealed that 33 refugees had been told there was no accommodation for them, but this afternoon the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) confirmed that 'a further ten people, all single males, were informed that no accommodation was available and asked to provide cont… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/23 12:30 AM |
| 23 | (Ireland) "Over 200 male applicants for international protection remained without accommodation last week, [parliamentary] committee hears. As of May 24, all adult women and couples seeking accommodation since January were accommodated" (This is based on a state policy decision: see comments)From October 2022: "A spokeswoman for the Department said all individuals who were turned away from the Citywest transit hub were male, and no women or children were turned away. The men who were not able to be accommodated were asked to provide contact details so they can be contacted when accommodation does become available." https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2022/10/22/33-ukrainian-refugees-told-no-accommodation-available-on-friday | /r/MensRights | 01/06/23 12:29 AM |
| 27 | Woman jailed for making false reports of rape and sexual assault against social workers, solicitors and gardagarda = Irish police officer | /r/MensRights | 19/05/23 01:27 AM |
| 39 | Woman jailed for making false reports of rape and sexual assault against social workers, solicitors and gardaThree of the 11 were female which conceivably could have altered things. | /r/MensRights | 19/05/23 01:13 AM |
| 47 | Woman jailed for making false reports of rape and sexual assault against social workers, solicitors and garda“Det Sgt Buckley said Egan’s complaints were all investigated by gardaí and they could find no evidence to support any of them. He said the claims had caused huge distress and damage to all the victims, some of whom were suspended while they were investigated by regulatory authorities.” | /r/MensRights | 19/05/23 12:42 AM |
| 29 | The CPS [Crown Prosecution Service in the UK] have this week recognised 'love bombing' as a sign of abuse. I have a concern that all sorts of behaviour in a relationship is becoming able to be cited in domestic abuse/controlling behaviour cases, probably particularly where there is a female victimFrom another news article on the topic: Chief Crown Prosecutor Kate Brown, national lead for domestic abuse at the CPS, said: ... "Bringing offenders of violence against women and girls to justice is our priority and we are working hard to drive improvements for victims of these crimes". https://uk.news.yahoo.com/love-bombing-included-guidance-abusive-103800543.html She could have kept her statement gender neutral but didn't. | /r/MensRights | 30/04/23 12:28 AM |
| 1 | "BAMSNI Update and Seminar Invite": A Dr Rick Bradford post updating readers on developments in a BAMSNI (Boys And Men Strategy for Northern Ireland) campaign for domestic violence. Highlights a free online webinar on Thursday, April 27Title for free webinar on April 27: "Tackling Domestic Abuse: - The Northern Ireland Model: Does Northern Ireland's 'gender neutral' domestic violence strategy help male victims and should other regions adopt a similar approach?" | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 10:45 PM |
| 41 | Irish Independent article: "‘Help! I’ve become my boyfriend’s mum’: The unstoppable rise of the manchild". I found most of the text in this article quite annoying (one could argue it is misandrous) but it has a few interesting quotes which I have highlighted in the comments."Mark Brooks, a male inclusion policy adviser, rejects the manchild label and sees it as part of a double standard when it comes to categorising men’s behaviour. He finds the label “odd and wrong” and says it is a “step backwards” from more inclusive and evolved conversations around gender. “Nobody would give a similar label to a woman,” he tells me. “It just doesn’t fit where we’re going as a society, and therefore shouldn’t be seen as an acceptable description. ”It feels easy to categorise our… | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 10:19 PM |
| 81 | Irish Independent article: "‘Help! I’ve become my boyfriend’s mum’: The unstoppable rise of the manchild". I found most of the text in this article quite annoying (one could argue it is misandrous) but it has a few interesting quotes which I have highlighted in the comments."Last year, journalist Moya Lothian-McLean coined the term “romantic victimhood”, which refers to a tendency by some women to villainise the male half of a failed relationship. It’s characterised by the use of sweeping generalisations about an ex’s behaviour, allowing women to wallow in the idea that men are bad romantic partners and not much else. Lothian-McLean argues that women see themselves as perpetual victims of men’s behaviour rather than sharing equal responsibility for a broken relatio… | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 10:18 PM |
| 20 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 2: review by thoughtful & well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford of Mary Harrington's book. The book prompts him to make general observations on problems feminism has caused and the way forward. Unlike much of his work, doesn't have lots of statistics. Some extracts in comments"My position is, and always has been, that we do not want to return to a traditionalist world. The men’s movement is not merely conservative (though many of its adherents happen to be). The men’s movement is actually radical. This is not appreciated by any feminists, nor by the public at large. The radical element lies in the movement’s opposition to gynocentrism. This immediately rules out the traditional world, which was as gynocentric as our present world." | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 12:23 AM |
| 18 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 2: review by thoughtful & well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford of Mary Harrington's book. The book prompts him to make general observations on problems feminism has caused and the way forward. Unlike much of his work, doesn't have lots of statistics. Some extracts in comments"The feminist conception of marriage as being an arrangement to facilitate a man’s desire to dominate (oppress) his female partner arises, I think, from a profound failure to understand male psychology – coupled with a remarkable blindness to the real nature of family dynamics. Men have an innate drive to protect and provide resources for women. Hence, marriage is an altruistic action for men. But respect is also very important for men, and being in a position of servitude does not fit well with… | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 12:23 AM |
| 23 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 2: review by thoughtful & well-read MRA Dr Rick Bradford of Mary Harrington's book. The book prompts him to make general observations on problems feminism has caused and the way forward. Unlike much of his work, doesn't have lots of statistics. Some extracts in comments"One of the many jibes directed at men in the feminist era has been the claim that men find it hard to adjust to new employment environments – generally justifying the claim by reference to the loss of their “traditional” jobs in factories. Utter nonsense, of course. Because men have always been obliged to follow the money, due to family commitments, it follows that men must always be ready to move into new work areas as old ones become less economically attractive." | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 12:22 AM |
| 1 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)That's a very vague criticism. | /r/MensRights | 20/04/23 01:51 AM |
| 4 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/w5r2tk/blog_post_july_8_by_dr_rick_bradford_which_links/ | /r/MensRights | 19/04/23 02:24 PM |
| 9 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)It is unfortunately true that this crime seems to have been committed by a man. This will likely get included in gender homicide statistics and perhaps discussions about how mass shootings are usually done by males. I don't see people collecting, publishing and disseminating in the media similar data broken down by gender about another measure, heroic acts like this. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 09:33 PM |
| 20 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)Very sorry to hear that | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 08:24 PM |
| 36 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)My sister was told outright I wasn't worth risking anything for Curious to know the context of this/more about it. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 08:07 PM |
| 16 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)Some men being unnecessarily violent isn't the only case when some men can be heroic e.g. dealing with an effect of nature, though this one is. Due to testosterone and the like, I think there will always likely be some differences between men and women. The negative aspects are often highlighted but rarely more positive differences. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 05:42 PM |
| 20 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)It's highlighting an apparent difference between males and females. There are more males than females that are violent with guns and the like (as you point out)* but also more males than females that seem to be heroic in this way. *A very small subgroup of men | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 04:41 PM |
| 70 | "Alabama shooting: Brother died saving birthday girl Alexis Dowdell’s life". There is a lot of talk about toxic masculinity but I get the impression more males than women do heroic acts like this for others (excluding their children)I have been listening to reports on this shooting over different days on BBC Radio One including Alexis being interviewed but haven't heard anything about her brother's heroic actions. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/23 03:06 PM |
| 7 | EU directive on corporate boards includes "where 2 candidates of different sexes are equally qualified, preference must be given to the candidate of the under-represented sex in companies where the target for gender balance is not being achieved". See comments for other info from Irish Times articleThis EU directive is very likely to lead to gender discrimination: "Companies must also disclose their qualification criteria should the unsuccessful candidate request it and must make a firm commitment to reaching gender balance among their executive directors. If they don’t, penalties (decided on by individual countries) will apply." | /r/MensRights | 08/04/23 12:38 AM |
| 14 | EU directive on corporate boards includes "where 2 candidates of different sexes are equally qualified, preference must be given to the candidate of the under-represented sex in companies where the target for gender balance is not being achieved". See comments for other info from Irish Times article"Overall, female representation in management-level applications increased by a marginal amount to 35 per cent in 2022, with women more likely to apply for what the bank calls “second-line-of-defence roles” such as head of compliance or head of anti-money laundering." My interpretation of this is the type of jobs they are not applying for can involve extra hours either regularly or at least when there is some sort of an emergency. Why should men have to do most of the non-cushy jobs which could … | /r/MensRights | 08/04/23 12:36 AM |
| 55 | EU directive on corporate boards includes "where 2 candidates of different sexes are equally qualified, preference must be given to the candidate of the under-represented sex in companies where the target for gender balance is not being achieved". See comments for other info from Irish Times article"It’s not that women don’t go into financial services. They do, and they are well represented across the general population within the industry. But somewhere along the line something happens that stops them from getting the top jobs" further on: "Also contributing to the problem is that fewer women apply for senior roles. The Central Bank’s analysis shows that only 31 per cent of applicants for pre-approval controlled function roles within regulated firms were female, and only 28 per cent of ap… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/23 12:31 AM |
| 1 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments“However, there is much common ground with Harrington: sufficient common ground upon which to build an alliance. But a deal breaker must be the priority given to re-establishing fathers’ security of meaningful paternity. Without that it all collapses into hot air. The second, and closely related, condition must be the acknowledgement of the reality of gynocentric bias (by whatever name) which skews concern to women and girls and responsibility to men and boys. Unless this is replaced by empirica… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/23 12:15 PM |
| 2 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments“The Overview There is much to commend this book, but equally as much to condemn it. Harrington’s analysis of how feminism has harmed women is correct, as are her ideas for reversing these harms. This is no small thing; let us recognise that. My condemnation of the book is that the harms to men and boys go unrecognised. I must immediately expand upon that because people will point out that the book contains a whole chapter on the desirability of allowing men their own single-sex spaces. They wil… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 11:49 PM |
| 2 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments“The thrust of Feminism Against Progress is that feminism took a wrong turn in promoting “progress”. However, Harrington interprets “progress” as having an extremely restricted scope. Her “progress” is identified with “women’s liberation” and that is equated with a particular type of “freedom”. That “freedom” became defined as following men into the path of wage-slavery. I cannot fault the exposure of that semantic trick…except that it’s hardly news to some of us, Mary. You just wouldn’t listen.… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 09:32 PM |
| 2 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments"The men’s movement is actually radical. This is not appreciated by any feminists, nor by the public at large. The radical element lies in the movement’s opposition to gynocentrism. This immediately rules out the traditional world, which was as gynocentric as our present world." | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 07:09 PM |
| 3 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments"Be in no doubt that the easy passage of this Bill through both houses of parliament was because very few MPs or Peers will say boo to the feminist hegemony." | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 04:47 PM |
| 3 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments“I acknowledge that Harrington does note the correlation of men’s suicide with divorce, and the lack of such association for women. But the process by which this happens is still in place, and getting worse. It will not do. The outcome for the men who survive the family court gauntlet and obtain “contact” is, if they are amongst the lucky ones, every other weekend and maybe one day in between – and perhaps one or two overnight stays. This is what fathering is often reduced to now. And having sur… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 12:15 PM |
| 5 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments"Every year in England and Wales some 60,000 fathers are obliged to go to court to attempt to obtain “contact” with their own children (and the usage “contact” is an obscenity in itself). In most cases these fathers’ only crime is to no longer be their female ex-partner’s favourite person. Half of them will be subject to allegations of domestic abuse, often rape or child sexual abuse. Most of these allegations are false, and everyone involved in the process knows it. Yet these fathers are oblige… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 02:05 AM |
| 6 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments"It will not do, Mary Harrington, to ignore the devastation that feminism has wrought upon men, boys and children generally – and thence to everyone. Admittedly you do not ignore it entirely; you are explicit about several issues for which feminism is culpable – but relentlessly motivated only by the consequent harms to women. I would not expect a complete exposition of all the male disadvantages, which, after all, took me 676 pages to address. However, there are two topics which I would conside… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 12:21 AM |
| 4 | Feminism Against Progress, Pt 1: Dr Rick Bradford's review of Mary Harrington's critique of feminism. He offers some praise but also highlights many ways the author hasn't highlighted issues feminism has caused/contributed to. Doubles as a critique of feminism in general. Some extracts in comments"In the context of the power of the sexes, and on a more observational and less theoretical level, Harrington writes of a medieval wife “more than holding her own” in a dialogue with her husband and notes that women have always had their own resources of social power, e.g., “The ethnologist Susan Carol Rogers supports this view in her study of power dynamics between men and women in agrarian communities…Rogers shows that in practice women in such communities wield considerable informal power, vi… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/23 12:20 AM |
| 2 | What feminist analysis of history are children taught?Minor correction to your reply: he’s not my son, he’s my nephew | /r/MensRights | 05/04/23 10:28 PM |
| 2 | What is your response to the argument that it's reasonable that there are better domestic violence services for women than men because women have fought harder for them e.g. with fundraising?You don’t have to give a detailed response if you don’t want: shorter responses could also be useful. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/23 11:57 PM |
| 2 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsExtract: —- The Government guidance is all about safeguarding, yet it is clear that the actions of schools failed catastrophically to safeguard the accused boys in the above cases. The reason is the endemic prejudice that is blind to girls’ situational aggression. We are culturally unable to recognise who is the victim and who the perpetrator. | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 10:37 PM |
| 2 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsExtract: —- This is how hard it is to escape gynocentrism even for a mother defending her – let’s be frank about this – her abused son. She should have been demanding that mothers raise their daughters to understand the importance of treating boys with respect. What chance is there of anyone ever imposing such an obligation on girls? Nil. Instead we have the empathy gap on steroids, with callous behaviour by girls being rewarded instead of punished. This is the nub of the problem: total failure … | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 09:22 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsExtract: —- One can see a pattern of future behaviour emerging from this. Unjust treatment of young men accused of sexual assault has been increasingly a feature of university life for many years. Men are not even safe at the gym now. The false allegations of sexual assault that are made in adult life are the natural extension and outcome of behaviours reinforced by society via the schools at an earlier age. Five years ago I did a brief review of such false allegations in the UK and identified t… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 07:52 PM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsBut we must also acknowledge that some girls (not all) are genuinely fearful of boys – which is not to say that such fear is well founded. How could they not be when they have been raised to believe they live in a rape culture. That preposterous narrative continues to go from strength to strength. It is incredibly damaging, to both sexes, driving a wedge between them. Every boy, they have been taught to believe, is just waiting for an opportunity to pounce on them. That boys might be motivated b… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 04:47 PM |
| 4 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsExtract: Who is the one hurt here? Was it the girl who was merely touched (or voluntarily provided a topless photo of herself) and was subsequently the recipient of everybody’s concern and protection, perhaps enjoying the attention and envy of her school friends. Or was it the boy who was universally vilified, urged to kill himself, lost all his friends, was subject to mob aggression and further groundless accusations, ultimately obliging his family to move away? In future life, will it be the g… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 02:44 PM |
| 38 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsExtract: —- Just last week, 5 February 2023, The Times had an article by Sian Griffiths, “Why MeToo fallout is wrecking the lives of schoolboys”, which begins to shed some light on the issue of prevalence. It reports the testimony of highly experienced psychotherapist, Julie Lynn-Evans. Her clients used to be teenage girls with eating disorders or self-harming issues. But for the last six months they have been exclusively boys – boys who have been ostracised, punished or even expelled for behavi… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 02:23 AM |
| 24 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how a dominant narrative continues & grows that girls are at constant, severe & ever-escalating risk from sexually rapacious boys & this is leading to life becoming increasingly difficult for many boys. Gives some UK examples. Some extracts in commentsHe discusses a newspaper article (linked) in July 2022: —- My son’s innocent teenage fumblings saw him branded a rapist, his anonymous mother reveals. He says the key points are as follows: The story is recounted by a mother who withheld her name out of fear for her son. She had other sons too, and observed that, “throughout their young lives they have routinely been told by their young female friends that they ‘hate men’ and that ‘all men are rapists’. So fevered has the atmosphere among young … | /r/MensRights | 27/02/23 02:19 AM |
| 4 | An Irish Times article which I found surprisingly good, highlighting various issues rarely highlighted in the mainstream media here. "What’s it like [for a man] to work in a women-dominated profession? A nurse, SNA, drama teacher, childcare worker and occupational therapist share their experiences"“Men bring a “different perspective to nursing”, McBrien believes. “Sometimes I think men can be even more caring than a woman can be.” He admits that working in a women-dominated environment can be challenging at times. “Men don’t tend to hold grudges… The bitchiness type of thing. Talking in small groups. Not allowing men into the group. Talking about female subjects and not involving the man… In the earlier part of my career I found that very difficult.” Carrying out intimate procedures on wo… | /r/MensRights | 21/02/23 04:16 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments belowYes, here is the rest of the section: “He does it for the power, he does it for control, he does it because he can – these were the jingles that, in our opinion, said all there was to say”. But on the next page she clarifies, “By determining that the need or desire for power was the motivating force behind battering, we created a conceptual framework that, in fact, did not fit the lived experience of many of the men and women we were working with. Like those we were criticising, we reduced our a… | /r/MensRights | 21/02/23 01:36 PM |
| 3 | An Irish Times article which I found surprisingly good, highlighting various issues rarely highlighted in the mainstream media here. "What’s it like [for a man] to work in a women-dominated profession? A nurse, SNA, drama teacher, childcare worker and occupational therapist share their experiences"SNA = special needs assistant (somebody who assists children with special needs in schools) | /r/MensRights | 21/02/23 02:58 AM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below"Duluth – Retracted? It seems to have gone unnoticed by the professional DV community that, before she died, the late Ellen Pence, co-author and main developer of the original Duluth Abuser programme, recanted. The following extracts are taken from “Co-ordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond” by Melanie Shepherd and Ellen Pence, published in 1999." (Continues) | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 08:14 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below"3.3 Respect for Men? Respect manage the national Men’s Advice Line, a service which the unwary might assume parallels help lines for female victims of DV. It doesn’t. It couldn’t. There are very few services, e.g., refuges, available for abused men to be referred to (though there are a few and the number is now growing). But the differences between the Men’s Advice Line and services provided by the likes of Women’s Aid charities is deeper than that. One very significant difference is that Respe… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 08:13 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below"In other words, the only services which will be accredited are those which continue to monitor the man’s behaviour, as determined by ‘the woman’s experiences’, after the ‘re-education’ phase has completed. The man is, in effect, put on probation by a non-governmental feminist-based service provider." | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 06:43 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below"That Respect’s philosophical orientation conforms broadly to the Duluth, or feminist, perspective is best illustrated by their 2008 Position Statement. It no longer appears on their web site but can be found here. Some extracts from this Position Statement are, - Gender is a critical determining factor for whether or not someone will use any form of violence and assumptions about the right to use violence are therefore likely to be associated with gender. - Men are the abusers in most incidents… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 06:42 PM |
| 4 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below"“ It is useful to start, not with the perpetrator programmes, but with a programme for victims of PV because the mindset involved is the same. Welcome to the Freedom Programme. The introduction explains *The Freedom Programme is then discussed with sample videos and images which get across how biased the programme is | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 02:49 AM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below“The headline finding of the [PASK] review is that “except for sexual coercion, men and women perpetrate physical and non-physical forms of abuse at comparable rates, most domestic violence is mutual, women are as controlling as men, domestic violence by men and women is correlated with essentially the same risk factors, and male and female perpetrators are motivated for similar reasons.” Key numerical results from PASK include,- Among large population samples, 57.9% of inter-partner violence (I… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 02:42 AM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below“In 2012 Martin Fiebert of the Department of Psychology, California State University, compiled a huge database of 286 scholarly investigations into partner violence. The database comprised in excess of 371,600 individual case studies worldwide. It led Fiebert to conclude that, “women are as physically aggressive as, or more aggressive than, men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners“. The research reports reviewed by Fiebert relate primarily to the USA, but it also includes 6… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 02:21 AM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford's 2017 blog, UK PV Perpetrator Programmes - part 1, explains the Duluth approach to domestic violence & how almost all programmes in the UK uses it & indeed are pretty much forced to use it by the body, Respect, which accredits perpetrator programmes. Some extracts in comments below“The sub-text, as always, is the role that allegations of domestic violence (DV) play in the family courts and in parents’, especially fathers’, sundering from their children.” | /r/MensRights | 20/02/23 02:21 AM |
| 3 | "Persona Non Grata": "Taken from numerous first hand accounts, and in collaboration with the charity Families Need Fathers, this 15 minute [UK] film shows how our legal system does not protect our children from a parent who is pathologically selfish". Doesn't use cases involving the worst behaviour.Short blog post on the film http://empathygap.uk/?p=1862 | /r/MensRights | 07/02/23 02:48 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"9. Conclusion The purpose of this article has been to emphasise the volume of research evidence against the feminist patriarchal power & control view of domestic violence and to highlight the inadequacies of the associated ‘Duluth’ based perpetrator programmes. The feminist perspective controls the opinion of the public at large, the criminal and family justice system, and the political class. The latter therefore remain ill-informed about the empirical truth of DV. You do not need to be a psyc… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:52 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"But an aspect which tends to get forgotten is the position of female abusers. Temper DV report that 10% – 15% of their clients used to be female – now it is a mere 2%. Women who abuse – and may be actively seeking help with their violence – are sent on the Freedom Programme for victims (see Part 1). What a very insidious form of psychological abuse it must be to be sent on a course which teaches you that your partner is the villain, and you his innocent victim, when you know, if only subconscio… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:51 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"Dutton (2003) argued that Duluth models had two major flaws that were contraindicative of effective treatment; they attempted to shame clients and, in taking a strong adversarial stance to clients (based on a view of male sex role conditioning as a major issue in domestic violence), failed to establish a therapeutic bond with their clientele. The single most predictive factor for successful therapeutic outcome (even those labelled “interventions”) is the therapeutic bond. However, it becomes ex… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:50 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"(In Duluth-style programmes) no other circumstances, motivation, or interpretations are permitted (other than that of feminist patriarchal power and control). With this mindset, high levels of program attrition are inevitable. No therapeutic bond can form and clients who comply will feel judged and disbelieved. Empathy is impossible, change is unlikely, group process is subverted, and clients’ commitments to change are rarely internalized. It is a “take it or leave it” posture and many clients … | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:48 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"The Duluth model’s negligible success in reducing or eliminating violence among perpetrators in tandem with the iron-grip of prohibition of other approaches is perhaps its most damaging feature." | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:48 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"The Actual Success Rate of Duluth-Style DVPPs I make no pretense to give a complete account of the investigations which have been carried out into the effectiveness of feminist ‘patriarchal power and control’ DVPPs (domestic violence perpetrator programmes). However here I give some indication of their efficacy as derived from studies not controlled by feminists, including those “experimental studies which show no effect” alluded to by the Mirabal project." | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:47 AM |
| 3 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"And as for “contemporary gender theory being more sophisticated”, no, it isn’t. Feminist gender theory is no more sophisticated than “men bad, women good” and it hasn’t moved on since Christabel Pankhurst referred to men being “nothing more than the carriers of venereal disease”." | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 05:46 AM |
| 1 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"Women carry no responsibility in the feminist worldview, nor can their behaviour ever be reprehensible or even contributory." | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 03:01 AM |
| 5 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory2.3 Men and women have different environmental and social limits and opportunities “This statement moves away from partner violence to the societal backgrounds of men and women, making the large conceptual leap from men’s overall societal power to the assumption that this directly translates into the behaviour of men and women in relationships. Respect stated that ‘women who abuse do not have the same or equivalent means to justify or support that abuse’. Yet, all the evidence is that women’s ab… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 02:55 AM |
| 2 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"Dixon et al summarise the Respect position on this as follows, “…..if there are a significant number of women perpetrators of IPV, this must have arisen from self-defence…..having argued that women’s violence is infrequent, the authors now seek to identify it as justi?able when it does occur. The implications of this are that when Respect and similar organizations recognize the needs of victims of both sexes, the needs of male victims will be different from those of female victims. This is beca… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 02:52 AM |
| 3 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory“Nowadays, most feminist writings do admit that a significant minority of victims are men. For example, the Director of Women’s Aid, UK, Harwin (2006) stated that 15– 19% of those who are victims of IPV are male. These figures are used to justify all the research and practical resources being devoted to female victims. Even accepting such figures at face value (see below), this amounts to justifying no provision for one in five to one in seven victims of this type of violence, solely on the basi… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 02:51 AM |
| 3 | UK PV Perpetrator Programmes. Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the data on the effectiveness of Duluth-style* perpetration programmes for domestic violence: the results are not impressive, as he details. Extracts in comments. From 2017 but pretty timeless *male-specific ‘power and control’ theory"To anyone who believes that the whole of academia has rolled over and handed the narrative to the ideologues: this is not the case, though the penetration of dissenting academic voices into the popular, political or policy spheres is another matter. I will quote Dixon at al at some length, and then refer more briefly to a sample of other publications. The intention is to give the reader some appreciation of the considerable extent of academic condemnation of the feminist perspective, though the… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/23 02:51 AM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"It is tempting to express this as the political establishment (irrespective of Party persuasion) having been captured by the partisan feminist lobby. But in truth it is not a capture but an alliance, a symbiosis. Feminism is a tool for those of an authoritarian bent – which tends to be everyone in positions of power unless that power is closely monitored and severely restricted. But the political process is also a tool for feminism. This is the feminist establishment; feminism gifts the establi… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:12 PM |
| 6 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"Yes, well, it would. The panel that was responsible for that so-called Harms Report was so one-sided in terms of their views on these very issues that the nature of their eventual report was inevitable." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:12 PM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"The reality is clear enough. There was always a determination to remove PA from the Guidance and the Consultation was a vehicle for giving it apparent legitimacy." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:12 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"Hence, in the July 2021 draft Guidance it was clear that Parental Alienation was expliclty included as a form of controlling or coercive behaviour and a form of emotional or psychological abuse (both forms of domestic abuse, of both the alienated parent and the child). But then, suddenly, it wasn’t. All the above extracts were removed from the Statutory Guidance as published in July 2022. The only part which remains has been robbed of its specific allusion to parental alienation in respect of i… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:10 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"The point of my present post is to highlight how the one possible benefit to arise from this sorry episode, namely the recognition of parental alienation (PA) as a form of child abuse, was snatched away at the last moment." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:10 PM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how the Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling or coercive behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in commentsApologies for deleting the original thread but there was a bad, significant and confusing typo in the original. There was only one comment apart from mine when I deleted it, from OrionBartholomew: "Makes sense. Feminists are going to remove anything does doesn't privilege women over men and always keep avenues open to punish men when they disobey women's commands." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 04:09 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in commentsDrat: There's a typo in the heading. It should say: "controlling or coercive behaviour". Can a mod edit it? | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 03:24 PM |
| 2 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"It is tempting to express this as the political establishment (irrespective of Party persuasion) having been captured by the partisan feminist lobby. But in truth it is not a capture but an alliance, a symbiosis. Feminism is a tool for those of an authoritarian bent – which tends to be everyone in positions of power unless that power is closely monitored and severely restricted. But the political process is also a tool for feminism. This is the feminist establishment; feminism gifts the establi… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 03:03 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"The panel that was responsible for that so-called Harms Report was so one-sided in terms of their views on these very issues that the nature of their eventual report was inevitable." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 03:02 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"The reality is clear enough. There was always a determination to remove PA [Parental Alienation] from the Guidance and the Consultation was a vehicle for giving it apparent legitimacy." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 03:01 PM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"Hence, in the July 2021 draft Guidance it was clear that Parental Alienation was expliclty included as a form of controlling or coercive behaviour and a form of emotional or psychological abuse (both forms of domestic abuse, of both the alienated parent and the child). But then, suddenly, it wasn’t. All the above extracts were removed from the Statutory Guidance as published in July 2022. The only part which remains has been robbed of its specific allusion to parental alienation in respect of i… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 03:00 PM |
| 1 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on how Statutory Guidance for the (UK) Domestic Abuse Act 2021 largely removed language highlighting parental alienation as a form of "controlling our course of behaviour" that had been in the draft, likely due to a biased process & feminist pressure. Some quotes in comments"The point of my present post is to highlight how the one possible benefit to arise from this sorry episode, namely the recognition of parental alienation (PA) as a form of child abuse, was snatched away at the last moment." | /r/MensRights | 04/01/23 02:59 PM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"Yet again: consulting a prosecutor “to talk through the evidence needed to build and strengthen the case” will not relate to exculpatory evidence, will it? They are setting up a process to drive disclosure failure. This is knowing and deliberate. And note that it is the CPS exerting this pressure on the police, albeit upon a police force now very willing to comply, led in many cases by female chief constables. (15 of the 46 chief constables are women as of July 2021)." | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 03:01 AM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"It could not be clearer: there is a deliberate policy to operate directly contrary to the Select Committee’s guidance. Their guidance was specifically to avoid disclosure failures, as well as serving the wider interests of true justice. Operation Soteria is the name given to the CPS’s drive to implement this process of undermining true justice. What lies behind this is a feminist organisation of that name which we have imported from the USA." | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 02:58 AM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"Sexual assault cases hinge upon consent. Is the conduct of the alleged victim relevant to the issue of consent? Clearly the answer is “yes”. Indeed, because the DPP has already stated his reluctance to investigate IT equipment thoroughly, the complainant’s behaviour and conduct is about all there may be to go on – beyond the testimony of the two involved parties. The defendant is already being placed in a position of having to demonstrate his innocence, despite this being contrary to the accept… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 02:52 AM |
| 4 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"Quote: “Close joint working from the very start of an investigation means we can build the best possible cases more quickly. With police going to the CPS earlier in the process and more often, the rise in charging decisions will lead to more trials and more convictions. Early advice in these cases has been key in helping us use our joint resources more effectively and narrow the gap between the number of offences reported to the police and cases going to court.” Note how flagrantly this contrav… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 02:35 AM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"The Prime Minister, then Boris Johnson, all but acceded to Baird’s demands. He promised that the cross-government crime and justice task force, which he led, would impose targets on the police to refer more “high quality” rape cases. He also promised to impose targets on the CPS to prosecute both a greater volume of cases and a greater proportion of cases. Absolutely no political interference in the justice process there then. What is a “high quality” rape case? It is one with a high probabilit… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 01:47 AM |
| 4 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"The Select Committee did their job. But making progress against the feminist state is like brushing water uphill: inevitably it comes right back again. The public’s memory, and hence concern, rapidly evaporates. Having given it a couple of years, the feminists were on the march again, demanding that more men are sent to prison." | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 01:24 AM |
| 6 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"These disclosure failures led to the CPS being obliged to conduct an investigation. The resulting report was a disgraceful exercise in obfuscation (for details see section 19.7 of my book, The Empathy Gap). However, the Justice Select Committee, whose job it is to oversee matters independently of the Ministry of Justice, did very much better in their investigation. Here are some key extracts from the Select Committee’s report, “…disclosure errors have led to miscarriages of justice and…some peo… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 01:24 AM |
| 11 | Dr Rick Bradford blogs on Operation Soteria & pressures that will make it difficult for defendants in UK sexual assault cases to get justice ie a move away from “prosecutors must always act in the interests of justice & not solely for the purpose of obtaining a conviction”. Some extracts in comments"All the cases against Liam Allen, Isaac Itiary, Danny Kay and Samuel Armstrong collapsed within a week or so of each other due to the very late disclosure of mobile phone evidence which disproved the complainants claims. Liam Allen, Isaac Itiary and Samuel Armstrong narrowly avoided long prison sentences. Danny Kay was not so lucky – the evidence which exonerated him came to light only after he had served four years of a four and half year sentence. But none of these men need ever have been cha… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/22 01:22 AM |
| 15 | Dr Rick Bradford discusses the (UK) Sex-Based Harassment Bill. He summarises it as "just another step in the ever-expanding criminalisation of men’s every act". A commentator: "The definition is hugely vague and ambiguous, allowing any vindictive woman to make an allegation fits into the definition"Article says: “You may recall the “debate” about creating a specific misogyny hate crime. This is, in effect, it – albeit in another guise.” | /r/MensRights | 25/12/22 01:02 AM |
| 50 | Dr Rick Bradford discusses the (UK) Sex-Based Harassment Bill. He summarises it as "just another step in the ever-expanding criminalisation of men’s every act". A commentator: "The definition is hugely vague and ambiguous, allowing any vindictive woman to make an allegation fits into the definition"Here's the full quote from the commentator that I quote in the heading: "The purpose of this type of legislation is generate vexatious litigation against men and to harass men by forcing them to incur significant legal fees and time defending themselves. The definition is hugely vague and ambiguous, allowing any vindictive woman to make an allegation fits into the definition. As noted, no physical evidence required. Men will have to prove their innocence, as usual. This is not a civil offense, i… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/22 11:12 PM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced & well-read men's rights activist) acerbically summarises what he found of interest in UK Parliamentary Debate on International Men’s Day, 2022. He highlights there has been some progress over the years though some annoying attitudes remain. Some extracts in comments“Nick Fletcher also scored points with me for being forthright regarding the realities non-resident fathers face in seeking child contact. I don’t think anyone has previously stated in Parliament, so bluntly, that every other weekend is what fathers can expect…if they are lucky…and even then they can also expect court orders to be breached routinely with no consequences. Well said, Mr Fletcher.” | /r/MensRights | 24/12/22 10:41 PM |
| 8 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced & well-read men's rights activist) acerbically summarises what he found of interest in UK Parliamentary Debate on International Men’s Day, 2022. He highlights there has been some progress over the years though some annoying attitudes remain. Some extracts in comments"Like almost all speakers always do at these IMD debates, Nick Fletcher discussed male suicide. I have no problem with that, except that other speakers invariably blame “men don’t talk”, “men don’t seek help”, “men need to be more open about their feelings”, etc. Mr Fletcher, thankfully, said that talking is good but not enough: practical support is needed. Quite." | /r/MensRights | 24/12/22 10:08 PM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced & well-read men's rights activist) acerbically summarises what he found of interest in UK Parliamentary Debate on International Men’s Day, 2022. He highlights there has been some progress over the years though some annoying attitudes remain. Some extracts in comments"Ben Bradley (Conservative, Mansfield) led the IMD debate in 2020 and was (I think) the first to call for a Minister for Men in Parliament. Bradley was pilloried in the press for it, with the trotting out of the tired old “why have IMD when men already have 365 days a year”. I thank the authors of these articles for proving the thesis of the empathy gap. Lamentably, in the IMD debate in 2021, some MPs still found it necessary to display their gynocentrism even on the one day that it would be nic… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/22 10:07 PM |
| 2 | Double standard in "body positivity" campaigns and similar?Though with the items Adidas (and similar companies) sell for men, presumably most of the customers choosing the product are male. | /r/MensRights | 17/11/22 04:49 PM |
| 7 | Having more women as political leaders would ensure the response to the climate crisis was more effective - Mary Robinson et al. Seems when it suits, there are no differences between men & women; when it suits, there are differences but only women are better than men, not men are better than womenWho knows what if any average differences there are between the sexes. But there does seem to be a difference in which is more acceptable to say publicly in your own name (rather than on an anonymous forum): women are better than men in X way vs men are better than women in X way | /r/MensRights | 17/11/22 02:15 AM |
| 9 | (Ireland) "Woman must pay former husband €1.6m as part of divorce settlement, judge rules". Also "the judge said, the woman’s allegations of assault, abuse and threats had not been made out, and the court was not satisfied to make orders in the proceedings" i.e. her claims did not lead to a sanction"The woman made serious allegations of misconduct against the man, which the court must examine. The judge said a spouse, and anyone involved in an intimate relationship, is “entitled to be treated with the complete respect by the other partner”. In this case, the judge said, the woman’s allegations of assault, abuse and threats had not been made out, and the court was not satisfied to make orders in the proceedings No credible or convincing evidence was produced to prove that the husband is or … | /r/MensRights | 03/11/22 06:40 PM |
| 11 | Article shows the ongoing battle about ‘parental alienation’ (PA) in custody disputes in Ireland: "Groups incl. Women’s Aid, the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) and the Men’s Development Network (MDN) are concerned about the increasing use of 'parental alienation'" i.e. about accusations of PAMDN=Men’s Development Network “Psychologising children’s feelings of hostility to the absent parent runs significant risks which can cause tangible harms to the child,” says the MDN. “Many of the diagnostic features of PA could easily be attributable to more typical run-of-the-mill hostilities or anxieties which pertain to the separation.” The MDN continues: “The term is often used as a direct response to allegations of domestic abuse, has a chilling effect on women coming forward to disclose ab… | /r/MensRights | 03/11/22 01:27 AM |
| 64 | "Women and children will be prioritised for [refugee] accommodation in Citywest " - Irish Minister for Equality (etc.), Roderic O’Gorman. Subsequently over the weekend, only men were turned away from refugee accommodation (see links in comments)It is interesting to see the comments on the Irish Times and Irish Independent Facebook pages to these articles. A lot say that these men should be in the army anyway fighting for their country. | /r/MensRights | 24/10/22 01:35 AM |
| 50 | "Women and children will be prioritised for [refugee] accommodation in Citywest " - Irish Minister for Equality (etc.), Roderic O’Gorman. Subsequently over the weekend, only men were turned away from refugee accommodation (see links in comments)"Ten Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Ireland yesterday have been told there is no accommodation for them, bringing the total number to 44 this week. Yesterday it had been revealed that 33 refugees had been told there was no accommodation for them, but this afternoon the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) confirmed that 'a further ten people, all single males, were informed that no accommodation was available and asked to provide contact details for whe… | /r/MensRights | 24/10/22 01:33 AM |
| 67 | "Women and children will be prioritised for [refugee] accommodation in Citywest " - Irish Minister for Equality (etc.), Roderic O’Gorman. Subsequently over the weekend, only men were turned away from refugee accommodation (see links in comments)"Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] says Government ‘under pressure’ on refugee accommodation after 33 Ukrainians turned away from Citywest No women or children turned away, but men asked to provide contact details for when places become available [..] A spokeswoman for the Department said all individuals who were turned away from the Citywest transit hub were male, and no women or children were turned away. The men who were not able to be accommodated were asked to provide contact details so they… | /r/MensRights | 24/10/22 01:31 AM |
| 1 | "Pick me" men as a term to describe the behaviour of some men when they are putting men down/going along with others who are putting men down in some wayI have just seen this on Tumblr and it gets across why terms like cuck are far from ideal: My favorite thing in the world is when someone whoe spends 99% of the their time in some toxic radicalized internet bubble tries to insult you but they are incapable of speaking normally so they call you some hyper-specific term that literally nobody understands like "kill yourself you fucking nooploid" And then you Google "nooploid" and turns out it means something like "a derogatory term for attractive p… | /r/MensRights | 23/10/22 12:25 AM |
| 2 | "Pick me" men as a term to describe the behaviour of some men when they are putting men down/going along with others who are putting men down in some wayA word or phrase should not be used incorrectly, whatever it is. But that doesn't mean there aren't situations where it could be appropriate. | /r/MensRights | 22/10/22 11:11 PM |
| 1 | "Pick me" men as a term to describe the behaviour of some men when they are putting men down/going along with others who are putting men down in some wayThe term “cuck” I get the impression is not popular with many, including many women and I’m not sure if it’s redeemable for general use. But “pick me” is using the same language to others. | /r/MensRights | 22/10/22 08:19 PM |
| 1 | "Pick me" men as a term to describe the behaviour of some men when they are putting men down/going along with others who are putting men down in some wayI’ve also seen gay men behave in this way. In this case, it sometimes/often seemed about “picking” them as a friend. | /r/MensRights | 22/10/22 08:01 PM |
| 32 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at James Damore's (in)famous Google memo that got him fired, with a critique of a reaction to it. Includes a well-referenced appendix detailing discussion & research findings regarding sex differences of various types. From 2017, but the issues & research remain relevant todayConclusion: "The bottom line is this: James Damore was sacked for voicing his opinion, despite his opinion being backed by scientific consensus and despite his concern being grounded in equality. Lara Williams, on the other hand, does not know what it is to be unable to express her opinion, constrained by cultural disapprobation. She can express her views and have them published in New Scientist, without need for scientific justification or even any attempt at claiming any. And she can do so wit… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/22 01:38 AM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at James Damore's (in)famous Google memo that got him fired, with a critique of a reaction to it. Includes a well-referenced appendix detailing discussion & research findings regarding sex differences of various types. From 2017, but the issues & research remain relevant today"Williams writes, in connection with Damore’s concerns about tensions arising from discriminatory practices favouring ‘marginalised’ candidates, that “they increase tensions only for those with a sense of entitlement”. But entitlement to what? Williams hints that it is an undeserved sense of entitlement to privilege. But it isn’t. It’s the entitlement to equal treatment which is relevant here – and that’s what Williams fails to grasp." | /r/MensRights | 11/10/22 01:34 AM |
| 13 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at James Damore's (in)famous Google memo that got him fired, with a critique of a reaction to it. Includes a well-referenced appendix detailing discussion & research findings regarding sex differences of various types. From 2017, but the issues & research remain relevant today"[From a critique] “Sexism in the tech industry is a long-standing problem” Really? That’s a strong statement. Where is the evidence? None is given. One assumes that Williams simply equates less than 50% employment of women with sexism – by definition. In other words, she simply dismisses out of hand the possibility that there may be reasons for unequal numbers of male and female employees other than discrimination. She does so without evidence or argument. This is the standard feminist position… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/22 01:26 AM |
| 17 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at James Damore's (in)famous Google memo that got him fired, with a critique of a reaction to it. Includes a well-referenced appendix detailing discussion & research findings regarding sex differences of various types. From 2017, but the issues & research remain relevant today"The essence of Damore’s position is this, “Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.” The first of those statements is capable of scientific resolution. It has been. Whilst there is always room for doubt, there is a clear consensus amongst scientific investigators that Damore is correct: differences i… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/22 01:24 AM |
| 9 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at James Damore's (in)famous Google memo that got him fired, with a critique of a reaction to it. Includes a well-referenced appendix detailing discussion & research findings regarding sex differences of various types. From 2017, but the issues & research remain relevant today"The memo was a reaction to “diversity training” which Damore, and his colleagues at Google, had been obliged to attend. What disconcerted Damore is that, at this diversity training, employees were informed that the company was intending to introduce discriminatory practices which, in Damore’s opinion, appeared to be illegal. This impression was reinforced by the instruction that what was said at this ‘training’ should be regarded as secret, unrecorded and have no paper trail. The objective of t… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/22 01:18 AM |
| 10 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at A-level* results for boys/girls which, as in '20 & '21, didn't simply depend on exam results with some element of teacher assessment. For '20-'22, girls fared a lot better than when exam results only were used. The regulator has buried this bias. *Final UK high school examsComment under the blogpost: —- “I have a GCSE\ maths teacher friend. She’s very nice and I’m sure not militant. However, she let slip in the summer of 2020 how pleased she was to see that the girls she had taught that year got what they “deserved”.* It’s maths. You get what you deserve by answering the questions correctly, but what I think she meant was, hard working nice girls that she had enjoyed teaching, she was able to give high marks to.” —- *GCSEs are exams at an earlier stage in the UK s… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/22 04:11 PM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at A-level* results for boys/girls which, as in '20 & '21, didn't simply depend on exam results with some element of teacher assessment. For '20-'22, girls fared a lot better than when exam results only were used. The regulator has buried this bias. *Final UK high school exams"Conclusion: The poorer A Level awards to boys compared with girls, which have been worsening for decades, has been further exacerbated by basing these awards on teachers’ assessments in 2020 and 2021, and this bias has persisted in 2022 probably due to the use of the “2019-2021 mid-point” grade boundaries. As a result boys have faired comparatively less well in 2022 than in the last exam year, 2019. The Department for Education steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that there is bias inherent in t… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/22 03:53 PM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford looks at A-level* results for boys/girls which, as in '20 & '21, didn't simply depend on exam results with some element of teacher assessment. For '20-'22, girls fared a lot better than when exam results only were used. The regulator has buried this bias. *Final UK high school examsFrom his analysis of the 2021 results: “There is more to honesty than merely never being untruthful. Here’s an example of a honest depiction of what has happened: the excess of top A/A\ grades awarded to girls over boys (in 2021) has nearly tripled since the last exam year, 2019.”* http://empathygap.uk/?p=3843 | /r/MensRights | 30/09/22 03:52 PM |
| 6 | "Tim Cook: 'No good excuse' for lack of women in tech". How about, for example, more females than males being more interested in other subject areas (and fields of employment). These sorts of statements can lead to males being put at a disadvantage/being discriminated against/more help for females.I heard this on the short BBC Radio 1 news bulletin at 8 AM this morning. Story seems to have got quite a bit of media coverage. | /r/MensRights | 27/09/22 09:31 PM |
| 1 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments'I still think that there’s some of that going on. But I also believe that, to a large extent, conservatives wish they were facing a more masculine form of authoritarianism. Men know what to do when other men try to oppress them. They resist and fight back. But who wants to participate in a struggle where women’s tears are what you need to overcome? Men can feel invigorated after a fistfight with another man, even when they lose! Nobody feels that way after arguing with his wife. " | /r/MensRights | 12/09/22 11:37 AM |
| 1 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"Extreme maleness, i.e., violence, is already stigmatized, and we have developed rules, norms and institutions to deal with “Big Man” behavior. These include not only prisons, but anti-bullying campaigns, international laws of war, and the social stigmatization of violence more generally outside of accepted outlets such as sports and military service. At the same time, society has not yet begun to address the distortive effect female tears have on public life because it’s something relatively ne… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/22 11:28 PM |
| 1 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"Whether or not the tendency reflects a rule of human nature, it is unquestionably true that the modern West prioritizes female well-being. There’s a funny Hillary Clinton quote that couldn’t demonstrate the point more clearly: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” If the gender ratio of COVID were reversed and women were more at risk than men, all we would ever hear about would be the “femdemic.” Even the way we ju… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/22 01:00 PM |
| 1 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"Late night comics make fat jokes about Chris Christie, but not female politicians. Men in public life are just trolled online, while women face “harassment” and “abuse.” Women openly discuss how some idea or another made them cry, while even in liberal spaces, men crying over ideas is generally not accepted. Even conservatives behave like this, and will “own” the left by attacking liberals for saying something “sexist” against a female public figure when they would fail to notice a similar atta… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/22 09:18 PM |
| 1 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"While most women don’t go around cancelling people, it’s clear that many do value protecting feelings over free speech." | /r/MensRights | 10/09/22 05:43 PM |
| 10 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"How many women were behind the Yale Halloween costume controversy that became the center of American intellectual life? Like 10? Imagine at least one crying woman in every board room, newsroom, faculty meeting, and government office, and you can understand the decentralized force that has led us to this point." | /r/MensRights | 09/09/22 08:20 PM |
| 23 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"But men tend to be puzzled by how to handle getting yelled at by women, and most will try to end the conversation as quickly as possible on whatever terms they can get. Conservative media is much more eager to personalize the enemy when it’s a man who wants to fight than when it’s a woman feeling emotionally vulnerable. There’s nothing noble or heroic, or even much enjoyable, about standing up to such an enemy. When college “snowflakes” are attacked, they’re targeted as young people or liberals… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/22 01:59 PM |
| 37 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"What makes these cases difficult is that male versus male argumentation just has completely different rules, norms, and expectations than male versus female. Going back to the Yale video, if one of the men acted like the more hysterical women, at some point he and Christakis would either have had to shake hands, walk away, or come to blows. This is basically what happened, before it even got to that point. A man can’t just yell in another man’s face for 5 or 10 minutes about how he’s hurting hi… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/22 01:38 PM |
| 95 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"For all our talk of equality, our culture treats violence, incivility, and aggression towards women much more seriously than the same towards men. This creates a difficult dynamic, in which if a man disagrees strongly with a woman, he has to tread very carefully if he is not to be judged harshly by observers." | /r/MensRights | 09/09/22 12:56 PM |
| 19 | "Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas" "How belief in the blank slate plus residual gender double standards create 'cancel culture,' & the difficulties of fighting back". Thought-provoking. Includes discussing how men can be at a disadvantage in debates with women. Some extracts in comments"Having mentioned the concept https://mishasaul.com/conversations/feminisation-of-society-with-richard-hanania a few times, many have been encouraging me to write a Substack on the feminization of political life and its connection to free speech issues. Noah Carl beat me to it https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/did-women-in-academia-cause-wokeness , and the idea has also been picked up by no less an authority than Tom Edsall at the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/opinion/gender-ga… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/22 12:55 PM |
| 1 | "Liz Truss's cabinet is Britain's first without white man in top jobs". Admittedly it only covers 4 jobs so hard to say it's a definitive trend. I wonder did the Conservative party send out a press release/similar.I heard this mentioned on BBC Radio One's news yesterday. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/22 12:44 PM |
| 7 | This is getting a lot of media coverage: "Briton Asher-Smith calls for more research into how periods affect performance" "I feel like if it was a men's issue there would be a million different ways to combat things." I'm not convinced at all: lots of men's issues are ignored to some extent.The thing is that often it will balance itself out: one woman will benefit as another woman won't be at her peak. [i.e. sometimes a particular woman will lose out from this, sometimes benefit]. Also sports are pretty much only women-only so it's not like men benefit from this effect in sports. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/22 06:10 PM |
| 3 | This is getting a lot of media coverage: "Briton Asher-Smith calls for more research into how periods affect performance" "I feel like if it was a men's issue there would be a million different ways to combat things." I'm not convinced at all: lots of men's issues are ignored to some extent.I heard this on BBC Radio One news this morning. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/22 04:39 PM |
| 2 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced and well-read men's rights activist) summarises 20 presentations at the recent British Psychological Society Male Psychology Section Conference 2022 (title and speaker for each in first comment; many were on male domestic abuse victims). Informative as always.Apologies John. I have now edited that in. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/22 02:09 PM |
| 1 | Blog post (July 8) by Dr Rick Bradford which links to various pieces of evidence countering the view that female leaders either won't be involved in wars or are less likely to be involved. Focuses largely on summarising a peer-reviewed paper involving statistical analysis entitled "Queens"I note the sarcasm but just to point out that one of the authors of the main paper discussed, Queens, is female. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/22 02:46 PM |
| 5 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced and well-read men's rights activist) summarises 20 presentations at the recent British Psychological Society Male Psychology Section Conference 2022 (title and speaker for each in first comment; many were on male domestic abuse victims). Informative as always.From: "Do healthcare professionals delivering emergency services have adequate knowledge & awareness to identify and support male domestic abuse victims?" "Only 5 out of 100 men interviewed had had a positive experience from healthcare" | /r/MensRights | 27/07/22 12:49 PM |
| 12 | Dr Rick Bradford (an experienced and well-read men's rights activist) summarises 20 presentations at the recent British Psychological Society Male Psychology Section Conference 2022 (title and speaker for each in first comment; many were on male domestic abuse victims). Informative as always.A list of the 21 presentations that he summarises: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Seager – The Life of Boys and Men: Key Questions from Cradle to Grave Alexandra Kirby – Attentional Biases Towards Body-Related Stimuli in Healthy Males: A Systematic Review Dennis Relojo-Howell – Blog to bounce-back: A qualitative study on the viability of blogs as a resilience intervention "John Barry – The belief that masculinity has a negative impact on one’s beh… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/22 01:05 AM |
| 14 | Blog post (July 8) by Dr Rick Bradford which links to various pieces of evidence countering the view that female leaders either won't be involved in wars or are less likely to be involved. Focuses largely on summarising a peer-reviewed paper involving statistical analysis entitled "Queens""Dube and Harish constructed a dataset of conflict participation in 18 European polities across 193 reigns during every year between 1480 to 1913. Queens were the ruling Monarch in 18% of these reigns. (That, incidentally, shows how false is the popular narrative that women had no political power before the last few decades). [..] They found that 'polities ruled by queens were 39 percentage points more likely to engage in a war in a given year, compared to polities ruled by kings'. " | /r/MensRights | 23/07/22 01:53 AM |
| 6 | Blog post (July 8) by Dr Rick Bradford which links to various pieces of evidence countering the view that female leaders either won't be involved in wars or are less likely to be involved. Focuses largely on summarising a peer-reviewed paper involving statistical analysis entitled "Queens""Perhaps what would deter women in power from waging war would be vast numbers of female deaths in war. But war deaths are still overwhelmingly a male privilege. In the campaign that followed the invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003 and came to an end in April 2009, the UK war deaths were 173 men and 6 women (3% women). In the 14 years starting in October 2001, the number of UK war deaths in Afghanistan were 453 men and 3 women (0.7% women). In contrast, around 12% of UK armed services personnel ar… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/22 01:23 AM |
| 8 | Blog post (July 8) by Dr Rick Bradford which links to various pieces of evidence countering the view that female leaders either won't be involved in wars or are less likely to be involved. Focuses largely on summarising a peer-reviewed paper involving statistical analysis entitled "Queens"(Has links) "Such gynocentric delusion, and not confined to Johnson, was both predictable and predicted. Over three months earlier the blog Toxic Feminism had predicted it and got the refutation of it in first. In the days of absolute Monarchs (or other tyrants when the controlling hand was clear) it has been claimed previously that queens were more likely to wage war than kings. Following Johnson’s typically ill-informed comment, Edward Bartlett has produced another refutation, citing an even l… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/22 01:22 AM |
| 3 | Women already live longer than men. What more do you want?Government press release: First Women's Health Strategy for England to tackle gender health gap https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-womens-health-strategy-for-england-to-tackle-gender-health-gap | /r/MensRights | 20/07/22 03:44 PM |
| 1 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"'’I advocate equal rights, equal opportunities, equal privileges. So does Miss Chancellor,’ Verena added, with just a perceptible air of feeling that her declaration needed support.’ Oh, I thought what she wanted was simply a different inequality – simply to turn out the men altogether,’ Ransom said. ‘Well, she thinks we have great arrears to make up. I do tell her, sometimes, that what she desires is not only justice but vengeance, I think she admits that,’ Verena continued.'" | /r/MensRights | 20/07/22 01:32 PM |
| 1 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"'…she (Verena) was not so hungry for revenge as Olive, but at the last…she quite agreed with her companion that after so many ages of wrong…men must take their turn, men must pay!'" | /r/MensRights | 20/07/22 01:32 PM |
| 2 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s(Of Olive and Verena): “They read a great deal of history together, and read it ever with the same thought – that of finding confirmation in it for this idea that their sex had suffered inexpressibly, and that at any moment in the course of human affairs the state of the world would have been so much less horrible…if women had been able to press down the scale. Verena was full of suggestions which stimulated discussions; it was she, oftenest, who kept in view the fact that a good many women in t… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/22 08:06 PM |
| 2 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80sDr Rick Bradford: (In the UK at this date, and hence before the 3rd Reform Act, 67% of men over 21 did not have the Parliamentary vote. Over 90% of men earned their living through manual labour of a severity that few men today could tolerate. They had no choice, there was no Welfare State). | /r/MensRights | 19/07/22 03:51 PM |
| 2 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"“Olive Chancellor regulated her conduct on lofty principles, and this is why, having tonight the advantage of a gentleman’s protection, she sent for a carriage to obliterate that patronage….he belonged to a sex to which she wished to be under no obligations.” Dr Bradford (Yet when I tell people that feminism isn’t about equality, it’s about making women independent of men, even after 150 years of being told this clearly by feminists themselves, they still don’t believe it)." | /r/MensRights | 19/07/22 12:28 PM |
| 2 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"(Olive): “’It would be the greatest change the world had seen; it would be a new era for the human family, and the names of those who had helped to show the way and lead the squadrons would be the brightest in the tables of fame. They would be names of women weak, insulted, persecuted, but devoted in every pulse of their being to the cause, and asking no better fate than to die for it.’ It was not clear to this interesting girl in what manner such a sacrifice (as this last) would be required of… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/22 12:27 PM |
| 3 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s(Ransom musing on Verena Tarrant’s speech): “…it was all about the gentleness and goodness of women, and how, during the long ages of history, they had been trampled under the iron heel of man. It was about their equality – perhaps even (he was not definitely conscious) about their superiority. It was about their day having come at last, about the universal sisterhood, about their duty to themselves and to each other.” (Verena Tarrant): “’When I look around me at the world, and the state that me… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/22 11:16 PM |
| 4 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"“…she (Olive) would do something to brighten the darkness of that dreadful image that was always before her, and against which it seemed to her at times that she had been born to lead a crusade – the image of the unhappiness of women. The unhappiness of women! The voice of their silent suffering was always in her ears, the ocean of tears that they had shed from the beginning of time seemed to pour through her own eyes. Ages of oppression had rolled over them; uncounted millions had lived only t… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/22 11:14 PM |
| 12 | Piece by Dr Rick Bradford critiquing 19th century feminism (which is similar as he points out in any ways to feminism today) as discussed in Henry James' novel The Bostonians: I "wish merely to present quotes which illustrate the nature of feminism as it was in fashionable US circles" c. 1870s/80s"(Olive): “She considered men in general as so much in the debt of the opposite sex that any individual woman had an unlimited credit with them; she could not possibly overdraw the general feminine account.” (Now that is feminist patriarchy theory to a tee – any amount of female preferencing is just the striving for an equality that will never be reached, and all disadvantages imposed on men, however extreme, are always fully justified)." | /r/MensRights | 18/07/22 11:13 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""Brenda Smith has commented on this phenomenon in Uncomfortable places, close spaces: Female correctional workers’ sexual interactions with men and boys in custody, UCLA Law Review, 59(6), 1691-1745. An extract from the Abstract reads, “It is well known that sexual abuse occurs within the correctional system. That female correctional staff commit a significant proportion of that sexual abuse is met with discomfort bordering on disbelief. This discomfort has limited the discourse about female cor… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/22 02:21 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""The case studies demonstrate that women’s offending commonly displays the following characteristics: plying victims with drink or drugs, persistent grooming which continues for years, offences against multiple victims, offences against pre-pubescent victims (hence physically as well as legally children), and threats in the event of disclosure. Counter-accusations were sometimes deployed by the female abusers: that the boy victims raped her. The words used by judges in their summing-up at the tr… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/22 01:13 AM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""I give just one example from the academic literature which identifies this bias against boy victims of sexual abuse in the legal arena. It is “Differences in Legal Outcomes for Male and Female Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused”, by Meredyth Edelson and Debbie Joa, in “Sexual Abuse”, 2010, Vol.22 Issue 4. The Abstract reads, “The goal of the present study was to determine whether or not there were sex differences in legal outcomes for children who were sexually abused. Using the methodology… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 09:55 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""Meanwhile the popular narrative, orchestrated by the media, remains prejudiced. This is reflected in, for example, the public being largely unaware that not all the victims of Rotherham and Oxfordshire were girls – at least 50 and 80 respectively were boys. The Rotherham report noted that none of the boy victims had been flagged by social workers as “risky business” and stressed the importance of “making sure that judgments about child sexual exploitation are consistent and gender neutral, for … | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 08:39 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""In 2004, Myriam Denov published “The Long-Term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by Female Perpetrators: A Qualitative Study of Male and Female Victims”, in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence ,Vol 19, Issue 10. Key findings were, • 93% reported that the sexual abuse was highly damaging and difficult to recover from; • 100% reported a strong mistrust of women as a result of the sexual abuse experience; • 29% reported having sexually abused children at some point in their lives. The men were charg… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 08:02 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""5. Female Perpetrated Sex Offending Is Harmful Many of the academic papers within the bibliography identify the long-term harm caused by childhood sexual abuse. Many do so by sex of offender or by sex of victim. Broadly the findings are that boys and girls suffer comparable adverse outcomes, and abuse by a female is not less damaging than abuse by a male. In some ways female perpetrated abuse can be worse. Studies find that the trauma of sexual abuse for the victim increases when compounded by … | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 07:48 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""In 2009 in the journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (Vol. 16, p.394), Rebecca Deering and David Mellor came to the same conclusion regarding “Sentencing of Male and Female Child Sex Offenders” in Australia. Their Abstract, “Research suggests that, in line with the chivalry hypothesis of female offending, a range of mitigatory factors such as mental health problems, substance abuse, and personal experiences of abuse are brought into play when women who offend against children are brought to tr… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 06:28 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""4.1 Sentencing of Sex Offenders by Sex Ideally, criminal sentencing should be based only upon what you did, not upon who or what you are. In the UK – and all “Western” societies – we fail massively to achieve that ideal. The vast majority of female sex offenders are never prosecuted. Are the few women who are prosecuted and convicted for sex offences sentenced equally severely as men? You know the answer, I think. In March 2012, in the Journal “Feminist Criminology” (absolutely no possible bias… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 05:13 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""Now, recall once again that more than half of male sex offenders against women were sexually abused themselves as children – and by a woman. So, tell me, if there are 12,000 men in prison for sex offences – predominantly against females – where are the 6,000 women who should be in prison for sex offences against boys? And that doesn’t count women’s sex offences against girls, probably a roughly equal number. So, where are the missing 12,000 female sex prisoners? Yes, yes, I know it isn’t as sim… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 05:11 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""In summary, multiple studies show that the incidence of childhood sexual abuse in the history of adult sex offenders is significantly higher than that in the general population. Not surprisingly there is a spread of estimates, ranging from 28% to 80%. There is a particularly marked correspondence between male sex offenders against women and the offender’s history of childhood sexual abuse specifically by a woman. The best estimate at present is that a little over 50% of male sex offenders again… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 04:55 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""The 1987 paper by Condy et al , “Parameters of sexual contact of boys with women”, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 16(5), 379-394, has been cited by Mathews as giving a prevalence rate of female-perpetrated abuse against male sex prisoners as children of 46%. [Apologies, the pay wall frustrates my checking the primary source]. " | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 04:53 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""The 1993 paper “Childhood Sexual Abuse and Subsequent Sexual Aggression Against Adult Women”, by Brière and Smiljanich, presented at the 101st annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, has been quoted by Mathews as implying an alarmingly high 80% prevalence rate of sexual abuse by females in the background of male sex offenders. " | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 03:15 PM |
| 1 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""This latter point was confirmed by O’Brien (1989) who reports that sex offenders against male victims who had themselves a history of having been abused were more likely to have been abused by a male. Similarly, and even more emphatically, of sex offenders against female victims who had themselves a history of having been abused in childhood, 93% had been abused by a female. [O’Brien, M.J. (1989), “Characteristics of Male Adolescent Sibling Incest Offenders”, Orwell, VT: Safer Society Press]. S… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 03:14 PM |
| 2 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""In 1984, American researchers Petrovich and Templer studied a sample of 83 adult (male) rapists and found 59% had been heterosexually molested as children (“Heterosexual molestation of children who later become rapists”, Psychological Reports, (1984) 54(3), 810). Most of these men (77%) reported sexual abuse on more than one occasion and that the abuse involved intercourse. Note that the 59% statistic relates specifically to sexual abuse as children by women perpetrators. The boys’ mean age at … | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 03:13 PM |
| 2 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""My doubts vanished earlier this year, thanks to Naomi Murphy’s presentation at the 2017 Male Psychology Conference. Naomi Murphy is a psychotherapist working at HM Prison Whitemore, a top security prison housing serious violent and sexual offenders (men, obviously). Naomi reported that 54% of the male sex offenders had been sexually abused themselves as children by women. Moreover, she emphasised to me in private conversation that this was generally women acting alone – not typically in conjunc… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 03:12 PM |
| 9 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)"In a 2005 study of 17,337 subjects of childhood sexual abuse, 23% had a female-only perpetrator and 22% had both male and female perpetrators. Males were 39% of those victimized, and men reported female perpetration nearly 40% of the time. (Dube et al. “Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Gender of Victim”, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, (2005):28(5), p 430 – 438). The long-term impact of childhood sexual abuse on multiple health and social outcomes was found to be simi… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 01:56 AM |
| 13 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""And yet nearly a quarter of a century later, the social narrative still will not acknowledge the reality of female perpetrated sexual abuse. The public is resistant to the notion because it transgresses against the gynocentric obligation to believe that women are invariably caring, nurturing and benign. Men and women both have a powerful disinclination to believe that some women might deploy their social power in harmful ways. The pernicious effect of this mindset has been stressed in 1999 by H… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 01:51 AM |
| 23 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""The radio station’s switchboard was jammed with calls from people disburdening themselves of their own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of women – almost always the first time they had told anyone. Over the following week, Elliott’s office at Kidscape was inundated with letters bearing similar tales (this was before email). This experience led to Elliott hosting the Kidscape First National Conference on Female Sexual Abuse. The event was invaded by 30 or so feminists intent on preventing… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 01:36 AM |
| 20 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)""Fox has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. At the Court of Appeal in London, Louise Oakley, representing Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC, claimed Fox had been treated more leniently because of her gender. Oakley said: “It cannot be right that a female who commits an offence is dealt with more leniently than a male, simply because she is female.” Lady Justice Hallett, presiding at the appeal, agreed that leniency had been shown but argued that mitigation was justified due to Nicola Fox’s men… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 01:31 AM |
| 37 | Another fascinating & well-researched (but long) blog by Dr Rick Bradford, "Women Sex Offenders Against Children" (from 2017). Some extracts in comments. Summary: "Around 25% of paedophiles/hebephiles are women. Sexual offences against boys are committed comparably often by men and women (contd.)"(continued from title) “Just over half of men who commit sexual offences against females were themselves the victims of sexual abuse as children by a woman. Consequently, even if one’s sole concern were the protection of women, a strategy which is far more likely to be effective in reducing rape than “teach boys not to rape” would appear to be to acknowledge more widely women’s own sexual offending against boys and its harmful effects. There is a massive disconnect between the above observations… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/22 01:31 AM |
| 3 | This caught my eye for 2 reasons: (i) I wasn't aware of such domestic violence killings in the past (ii) the number of people who seem to celebrate this as some sort of feminist/women-empowering approach +/or find it funny: can be seen in # of likes and with some quote retweets (contd. in comments)A comment from the Twitter thread: One of mine killed her husband and was “allowed” to leave town with her children because of the well-known abuse she’d suffered. | /r/MensRights | 09/06/22 02:28 PM |
| 5 | This caught my eye for 2 reasons: (i) I wasn't aware of such domestic violence killings in the past (ii) the number of people who seem to celebrate this as some sort of feminist/women-empowering approach +/or find it funny: can be seen in # of likes and with some quote retweets (contd. in comments)A comment from the Twitter thread: My mom was a jurist on a murder trial where a woman murdered her husband in his sleep because of his abuse. They found her not guilty. Their decision was based on ' some people just need killin' | /r/MensRights | 09/06/22 02:28 PM |
| 4 | This caught my eye for 2 reasons: (i) I wasn't aware of such domestic violence killings in the past (ii) the number of people who seem to celebrate this as some sort of feminist/women-empowering approach +/or find it funny: can be seen in # of likes and with some quote retweets (contd. in comments)A comment from the Twitter thread: 2022: Men kill wives because men are abusive Women kill husbands because men are abusive. | /r/MensRights | 09/06/22 02:26 PM |
| 69 | This caught my eye for 2 reasons: (i) I wasn't aware of such domestic violence killings in the past (ii) the number of people who seem to celebrate this as some sort of feminist/women-empowering approach +/or find it funny: can be seen in # of likes and with some quote retweets (contd. in comments)Another comment: It's true! Women bought arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine at the local pharmacy. Also, many husbands died mysteriously after a meal made with deadly mushrooms. There's even a woman who crafted & sold "makeup" to women who intended to kill that was actually poison. | /r/MensRights | 08/06/22 08:04 PM |
| 20 | This caught my eye for 2 reasons: (i) I wasn't aware of such domestic violence killings in the past (ii) the number of people who seem to celebrate this as some sort of feminist/women-empowering approach +/or find it funny: can be seen in # of likes and with some quote retweets (contd. in comments)(Continued from original post) Does anyone know whether it is true that poisonings of men by their partners were more common in the past. In the thread I did find a link to a New Yorker article https://t.co/M3i5I7BoIb which included "Arsenic was now traceable in the body. For that reason—and because the enactment of divorce laws made domestic homicide less tempting—arsenic poisoning fell into disuse." The book reviewed is Sandra Hempel’s “The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and th… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/22 07:58 PM |
| 7 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median)."Another comment under the blog that I found interesting: --- There are variables that are always ignored to present a picture of rampant inequality. I always wonder how much of men’s earnings go to things like child support, alimony, paying for a second mortgage for the family home he no longer occupies etc. The reason some men work long hours against their will in exhausting jobs is to pay for their children that they are alienated from year after year through one-sided custody arrangements. Th… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 05:08 PM |
| 5 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median)."Here is a comment under the blog post that I found interesting : Paul Withrington The ONS pay gap of 9.4% in favour of men for full time work is based on the media hourly pay for paid hours. However, not only do men work more paid hours than do women they work more unpaid hours. adjusting for that and for sickness and the 9.4% pay gap vanishes. For those aged 22 to 39 the pay gap is 1.5% in favour of men but when adjusted as above it is 10% in favour of women. To see the calculations open this l… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 05:06 PM |
| 4 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median).""For part time workers the (gross) gender pay rate gap is in favour of women by 5.1% (2017)." | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 05:05 PM |
| 5 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median).""Note that the gender pay gap is larger when based on the mean, i.e., 14.1% rather than 9.1% when based on medians. Table 3 therefore includes the mean pay rates net of tax. The mean gender pay rate gap of 14.1% is reduced to 5.1% (2015) or 5.7% (2017). There is still a pay gap in favour of men, but it is much reduced." --- "However, the accuracy of this estimate is questionable for the reasons mentioned in section 3.1. ... So our estimate of the median gender pay rate gap, net of income tax, is… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 05:04 PM |
| 2 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median).""Men pay more income tax per hour worked than women, the difference being £1.65 (2013/14) , £1.62 (2014/15) and £1.74 (2015/16). Note that these are mean hourly tax rates, not median values. There is no mystery as to why this is so. It is because men have higher earnings – mostly due to working longer hours, though also partly due to higher pay rates for full time workers over 40 – and higher earnings attract higher percentage tax rates, due to the operation of higher tax bands, personal allowan… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 05:01 PM |
| 6 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median).""ONS also present a pay rate gap for both full time and part time working combined (namely 18.4% in 2017). I have omitted this from consideration. In my opinion this statistic is a fine illustration of the adage “lies, damned lies and statistics”. There is a substantial pay rate premium for full time working compared with part time working. The apparently large gender pay rate gap based on all working patterns simply reflects the fact that a far larger proportion of women work part time. As such… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 04:59 PM |
| 31 | Blog by Dr Rick Bradford looking at the gender pay gap using official UK statistics (from 2017). Includes: "Men work 55% more hours than women; Men pay 169% more income tax than women. The all-ages pay rate gap for full time workers *net of income tax* has been estimated to be roughly 7% (median).""The salient feature is that the pay gap is negligible between ages 22 and 39. Figure 4 shows both the 2015 and the provisional 2017 gender pay rate gaps. Between ages 22 and 39 the pay rate gap is about 2%. This is the largest the gap has been in this age range for some years, the estimates in 2013, 2014 and 2015 not exceeding 1%, and generally negative. Whether the increase to 2% is significant remains to be seen." | /r/MensRights | 28/05/22 01:48 AM |
| 13 | UK: Blog by Dr Rick Bradford with 2 requests: (i) that you to write to your MP regarding the creation of a Government “Violence Against Men and Boys” strategy, and, (ii) if you are a man aged 50 or over and a victim of domestic abuse that you respond to a survey. Some extra discussion points below."As a practical example of how classifying domestic abuse of men under VAWG leads to pernicious outcomes, the document ‘Supporting male victims of crimes considered violence against women and girls’ recommends the use of the Respect Male Victims Toolkit. This protocol majors on “screening” male complainants and openly being suspicious that they may be abusers masquerading as victims. Needless to say, this is not an approach of which anyone would approve in the context of female victims. Indeed… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/22 01:16 AM |
| 10 | UK: Blog by Dr Rick Bradford with 2 requests: (i) that you to write to your MP regarding the creation of a Government “Violence Against Men and Boys” strategy, and, (ii) if you are a man aged 50 or over and a victim of domestic abuse that you respond to a survey. Some extra discussion points below."The Victims’ Commissioner is in agreement with the need for a separate strategy for men and boys. In her 2020/21 annual report, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Vera Baird, stated that “The Home Office needs to offer a separate strategy for developing the rights and support services for men and boys who are victims of interpersonal violence of a physical or sexual nature”. The Victims’ Commissioner reiterated this position in September 2021, stating that “It may be that the scal… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/22 01:15 AM |
| 10 | UK: Blog by Dr Rick Bradford with 2 requests: (i) that you to write to your MP regarding the creation of a Government “Violence Against Men and Boys” strategy, and, (ii) if you are a man aged 50 or over and a victim of domestic abuse that you respond to a survey. Some extra discussion points below."Consequently, it will not do to have violence against men and boys addressed under the VAWG umbrella because that is to institutionalise prejudice. An example of how this works in practice is provided by the recent Government document “Supporting male victims of crimes considered violence against women and girls“. It recommends as “best practice” the use of the Respect Male Victims Toolkit. This protocol majors on “screening” male complainants and openly being suspicious they may be abusers mas… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/22 01:12 AM |
| 10 | UK: Blog by Dr Rick Bradford with 2 requests: (i) that you to write to your MP regarding the creation of a Government “Violence Against Men and Boys” strategy, and, (ii) if you are a man aged 50 or over and a victim of domestic abuse that you respond to a survey. Some extra discussion points below."In 2021 the UK Government published their revised “Tackling violence against women and girls strategy”. These days they know that they will face widespread criticisms regarding the position of men and boys. In an obvious attempt to head this off, whilst making no difference to anything of substance, the UK Government has just published the preposterously titled, “Supporting male victims of crimes considered violence against women and girls“. I wish that what lies behind this was merely preposte… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/22 01:09 AM |
| 11 | Dr Rick Bradford 2017 blog post "UK Prisoners by Sex: The MoJ [Ministry of Justice] Report". MoJ report: “Under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females”. Dr Bradford summarises results concluding there's a huge gender-bias in imprisonment.9. Conclusion There is decreasing scope to doubt the fundamental correctness of claims of huge gender-bias in imprisonment. People can throw accusations of misogyny at the likes of Philip Davies or myself, but future complaints about these claims need be directed to the Ministry of Justice. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/22 01:59 AM |
| 3 | Dr Rick Bradford 2017 blog post "UK Prisoners by Sex: The MoJ [Ministry of Justice] Report". MoJ report: “Under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females”. Dr Bradford summarises results concluding there's a huge gender-bias in imprisonment.I'm just quoting the blog: you could ask any questions you have there | /r/MensRights | 16/04/22 01:58 AM |
| 4 | Dr Rick Bradford 2017 blog post "UK Prisoners by Sex: The MoJ [Ministry of Justice] Report". MoJ report: “Under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females”. Dr Bradford summarises results concluding there's a huge gender-bias in imprisonment."8. Other Sources of Gender Disparity The MoJ report considered only the relative likelihood of imprisonment. My analyses also considered prison sentence length and parole. However, neither analysis has considered the other three potential sources of gender disparity, namely, Arrest Prosecution Conviction It is likely that gender bias exists also at these stages in the criminal justice process – perhaps especially at the arrest stage (without which a potential offender does not go forward to any… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/22 01:51 AM |
| 7 | Dr Rick Bradford 2017 blog post "UK Prisoners by Sex: The MoJ [Ministry of Justice] Report". MoJ report: “Under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females”. Dr Bradford summarises results concluding there's a huge gender-bias in imprisonment."5. The MoJ Regression Analysis Multivariate logistic regression models were built to account for the associations between sex, officer-identified ethnicity, age, offence group, previous criminal history, and being sentenced to prison, compared with being sentenced to another type of disposal such as a community order, suspended sentence order, or discharge. This allowed the associations between sex and imprisonment to be examined under similar criminal circumstances. Under similar criminal circ… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/22 01:47 AM |
| 11 | Dr Rick Bradford 2017 blog post "UK Prisoners by Sex: The MoJ [Ministry of Justice] Report". MoJ report: “Under similar criminal circumstances the odds of imprisonment for males were 88% higher than for females”. Dr Bradford summarises results concluding there's a huge gender-bias in imprisonment."4. The Raw MoJ Data \Females were less likely to be imprisoned than males (8% of those sentenced versus 18%).* \The most common offence for both sexes was violence against the person (VAP)*, accounting for 22% of women convicted and the same percentage of men convicted. However, whilst 20% of men convicted for VAP were imprisoned, only 7% of women convicted for VAP were imprisoned.* \For women, theft also accounted for 22% of convictions.* The second most common offence for both men and women w… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/22 01:38 AM |
| 16 | Blogpost (2017) highlighting how the UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service found "Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of [child] homicide"; however a Women’s Aid campaign gives a very different impression, based on using a biased sampleIn May 2016 the Department of Education (DoE) published their triennial review of SCRs [.] “In accepting the reality of coercive control as the dominant issue in domestic abuse, we have to recognise that it is usually women in a relationship who are the victims of men’s controlling behaviour. However, coercive behaviour may also be exhibited by women on their partners, or, to different extents by both partners in a relationship. An uncritical attribution of control to a male partner may lead t… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/22 02:20 AM |
| 18 | Blogpost (2017) highlighting how the UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service found "Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of [child] homicide"; however a Women’s Aid campaign gives a very different impression, based on using a biased sample"Despite these clear results, the Cafcass [UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service] report authors cannot help but regress to the usual chivalric narrative of women incapable of sin and men made to bear the burden of culpability. For example, quoting the DoE’s Triennial Review, and agreeing with it, they write, “fathers and mothers may have different motives; the former being driven by a loss of control and a need to exact revenge, the latter by ‘altruism’, such as a belief that th… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/22 02:18 AM |
| 18 | Blogpost (2017) highlighting how the UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service found "Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of [child] homicide"; however a Women’s Aid campaign gives a very different impression, based on using a biased sample"Cafcass [UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service] have summarised the findings of their review on-line: Learning from 97 Serious Case Reviews. Headline findings are as follows, - The vast majority of known, or suspected, perpetrators were family members; - Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of homicide; - Almost all allegations of domestic abuse were against men, usually fathers. - Allegations of domestic abuse had been made in 71% of cases,… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/22 02:14 AM |
| 23 | Blogpost (2017) highlighting how the UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service found "Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of [child] homicide"; however a Women’s Aid campaign gives a very different impression, based on using a biased sample"The claims of the Women’s Aid report were fatally undermined by the following conclusions, - One or both parents are culpable in the killing of at least 65% of children – and probably a much greater percentage if culpability could be assigned in every case. - Mothers are more likely to be responsible for a child death than fathers and male partners combined. - Single mothers are the demographic most likely to be responsible for the deaths of children. - Six cases of mothers executing ‘spite kil… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/22 02:11 AM |
| 27 | Blogpost (2017) highlighting how the UK Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service found "Men and women were suspected perpetrators of a similar number of incidents of [child] homicide"; however a Women’s Aid campaign gives a very different impression, based on using a biased sample"The [Women’s Aid] report sought to cement a link between allegations of domestic abuse and a father being a danger to his child. The purpose was to further strengthen the strategy of alleging domestic abuse as a means of frustrating fathers’ contact with their children after separation." | /r/MensRights | 03/04/22 02:08 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""There are those who will claim that it is not the job of the police to investigate evidence which might assist a defendant. DefenceBrief.BlogSpot, another lawyer’s blog, refutes such claims thus, “such claims are absurd morally, practically and legally. Morally because such a situation would mean that an investigator who spots material that looks like it could lead to material that would prove innocence would be justified in ignoring it and that will always be morally wrong. It is practically w… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 03:01 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""The case against Liam Allan collapsed when former conservative MP Jerry Hayes, the prosecution barrister – yes, the prosecution barrister – insisted that the police hand over the evidence from the complainants ‘phone. Some 50,000 messages were finally revealed on the first day of the trial itself. The defence advocate, Julia Smart, should be mentioned in dispatches. She spent the rest of that day – and undoubtedly all night – reviewing the contents of the new disclosure. Among them were message… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:58 AM |
| 1 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics"Drat, there's a typo in heading. It should be: Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Recent Events" & "Rape Statistics" | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:55 AM |
| 9 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics"One of the comments: "I’m not sure if you are aware that Police “Record” a rape when it is reported to them. They do NOT have to interview the complainant and they do take reports from Women’s Aid – so if a worker from Women’s Aid reports to the police that a woman has been raped but does not wish to be interviewed, the rape is recorded and no further action is taken by police. This, of course, leaves the statistics wide open to abuse by idealogues in Rape Crisis centres. " | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:53 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics"One of the comments: "Erin Pizzey [Yes, the famous one] Thank you so much for this first factual, evidence based report on the frightening prosecution and persecution of men. Please do not loose heart because your research is a beacon of light in the murky obfuscation that is deliberately offered to the general public. I do hope you will be able to comment on the monies doled out to accusers regardless of the outcome of the trials. Paid by the state to falsely accuse men is the most heinous crim… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:51 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""Famously, the ‘attrition rate’ for rape of females is very large. By ‘attrition’ is meant the reduction in numbers through the criminal justice process, from initial reports to the police to eventual conviction. In 2014 only 6% of police recorded rapes of females led to a conviction. What is not generally appreciated is that the attrition rate for male rape is worse, as Table 3 indicates." [For male complainants aged 16+, Table 3 shows a figure of 1%] | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:48 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""One thing which irritates me on reading CPS reports is that an acquittal is referred to as an “unsuccessful outcome”. Whilst I understand the CPS’s business is prosecution, it makes me uneasy that influential parties in the criminal justice process should regard as a success anything other than a just outcome. One feels that they perceive acquittals as “the jury screwed up”. Thank God for juries, I say." CPS = Crown Prosecution Service | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:46 AM |
| 3 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""Data on rape prosecutions and convictions have been taken from the CPS VAWG reports, Refs.4-9. However, great caution is needed in using these sources for this purpose. Since Alison Saunders took up the position of DPP in November 2013, the main text of these VAWG reports became very misleading as regards what is ostensibly reported as a “rape conviction”. What the CPS have reported recently is the number of convictions resulting from an initial charge of rape. However, in a large proportion of… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:43 AM |
| 5 | "Rape – Part 1 (Statistics)". This blog post by Dr Rick Bradford is from 2017 so doesn't contain up-to-date statistics but I think it makes some interesting general points, some of which I'll highlight in the comments below. Focuses on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" & "Recent Events Rape Statistics""Part of this cultural expurgation must include a distancing of police ‘training’ from lobbies with partisan politics. In that context it is about time that feminism was recognised as a political opinion, not the definition of loveliness." | /r/MensRights | 23/03/22 02:43 AM |
| 28 | Dr Rick Bradford critiques a 2017 UK newspaper column where a barrister effectively says people (read women) can say there was consent after a sexual encounter & can still subsequently withdraw that consent! The lawyer also made other strange comments in relation to a false accusation“The reporting of the Allan case sends a message to women that your allegation of rape might not be believed if you claim that a sexual encounter was consensual and later report rape….. This contrasts with the law, which says a woman can withdraw her consent to sexual intercourse at any time.” Now, I do not have Ms Proudman’s legal training. However, I strongly suspect that when the law says “a woman can withdraw her consent to sexual intercourse at any time” it is actually referring to any time… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/22 02:39 AM |
| 3 | Case shouldn't have been a CPS/police matter given "1000s of social media messages suggesting there was no assault, info indicating his accuser had serious mental health issues, & evidence from her computer suggesting the allegations had not only been false but she had considered withdrawing them""Hannah eventually accused Elgan of raping her on unspecified dates, once in the autumn of 2014 and again in February 2015. There was no forensic evidence of rape. The only evidence against Elgan was in a statement made by Hannah to the police six months before her death, and even this was contradictory and bore no relationship to the allegations she originally confided to university friends. It is also undermined by more than 10,000 Facebook and WhatsApp messages between them that have now been… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/22 02:25 AM |
| 6 | Case shouldn't have been a CPS/police matter given "1000s of social media messages suggesting there was no assault, info indicating his accuser had serious mental health issues, & evidence from her computer suggesting the allegations had not only been false but she had considered withdrawing them""Another of Mr Varney’s solicitors, Anna O’Mara, said: ‘I had never before seen a person charged with an offence when there existed such strong evidence pointing to his innocence.’ She was further shocked by the manner in which the police conducted their interview of Hannah, when this evidence later emerged. She described it thus: “Hanna initially was reluctant to commit herself to making an allegation against Elgan. This eventually led to the officer pointing out to her what the police would ne… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/22 02:24 AM |
| 33 | Dr Rick Bradford blog post where he makes some insightful points on why men don't speak up for men/the men's cause &, depressingly, how he believes this will lead to things getting worse. He explains why he believes male power is mainly a myth. "Men are bred to be gynocentric & women expect it""There are just two things you need to know about sexual dynamics. First, the key attribute of inter-sex dynamics is that men are terrified of female disapproval (because women define the moral right). Second, the key feature of intra-sex dynamics is that women have strong in-group preference whereas men have no in-group preference. Men’s strength is their self-reliance. Men’s weakness is their self-reliance." | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 02:39 AM |
| 50 | Dr Rick Bradford blog post where he makes some insightful points on why men don't speak up for men/the men's cause &, depressingly, how he believes this will lead to things getting worse. He explains why he believes male power is mainly a myth. "Men are bred to be gynocentric & women expect it""I suspect that almost no women have the faintest clue just how men’s gynocentric mindset controls their actions. Men are generally not aware of it themselves. Take my own case. Modesty aside, I dare to say I am quite well informed about the wealth of factual evidence which confirms the litany of male disadvantage. Despite that, my logic module exists in a perpetual state of war with my gynocentric emotion module. The latter screams ‘nasty misogynist’ at me constantly. The former responds with m… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 02:30 AM |
| 55 | Dr Rick Bradford blog post where he makes some insightful points on why men don't speak up for men/the men's cause &, depressingly, how he believes this will lead to things getting worse. He explains why he believes male power is mainly a myth. "Men are bred to be gynocentric & women expect it""Contrary to the now-popular belief that males are emotionally stunted, the emotional complex underpinning the crucial pair-bond is primarily within the male – since it is the male whose behaviour is altruistically modified. An emotional basis is essential to drive altruistic behaviour: the phenotype is conned by the genotype via the intermediary of emotional triggers. This is the foundation for what is perceived as morally “good” becoming defined by what is good for the family. And, as far as t… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 02:28 AM |
| 109 | Dr Rick Bradford blog post where he makes some insightful points on why men don't speak up for men/the men's cause &, depressingly, how he believes this will lead to things getting worse. He explains why he believes male power is mainly a myth. "Men are bred to be gynocentric & women expect it"“Where’s their [men's] protest? Will they not speak out even in self-defence?” Only Mrs Gyngell’s surprise surprises me. “Is it their innate chivalry? Do they not like contradicting women? Or are they genuinely scared?” she further asks. Yes, yes and yes. As regards fear, there are many examples of men being sacked for voicing even the mildest of heretical opinions. There is a reason why men’s rights advocates “live on the internet”, often using pseudonyms, or are older men and safely retired. M… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 02:22 AM |
| 38 | Victor Nealon Case: false rape allegation case leading to 17 years behind bars. There was a rape but the wrong person was convicted. This became very clear when the DNA samples were finally compared many years after initial trial. He received no compensation. Was released with £46 & little warning"The euphoria of his release now some years past, Victor Nealon’s life is grim. His parents died while he was in jail and his partner and daughter moved on. He lives alone. Prospective employers treat him with suspicion. He lives on benefits." | /r/MensRights | 16/03/22 02:51 AM |
| 23 | Victor Nealon Case: false rape allegation case leading to 17 years behind bars. There was a rape but the wrong person was convicted. This became very clear when the DNA samples were finally compared many years after initial trial. He received no compensation. Was released with £46 & little warning"Quoting Mark Newby, 'All of this conduct – the failure to undertake the DNA assessments, the misleading of the court, the collection of late rebuttal evidence and presence of the officer at the ID Parade – are all indicative of a disturbing approach to building a case against Victor Nealon at all costs. Had those involved with the case chosen instead to investigate the case in a fair and open manner then the result would have been very different.'” | /r/MensRights | 16/03/22 02:49 AM |
| 13 | Victor Nealon Case: false rape allegation case leading to 17 years behind bars. There was a rape but the wrong person was convicted. This became very clear when the DNA samples were finally compared many years after initial trial. He received no compensation. Was released with £46 & little warning"I quote from the blog of solicitor advocate Mark Newby: 'In January 1997 Victor Nealon began a discretionary life sentence which would see him serve 17 years in custody. Last Friday he started his new life, on the streets of Birmingham and with nowhere to stay after the State had washed its hands of him. What does it say about our society that we simply turn out men like Victor Nealon onto the street after 17 years…..he will now face the prospect of mounting a claim for compensation in an atmos… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/22 02:49 AM |
| 30 | "World Education by Sex" (2018). Dr Rick Bradford analyses the data for: a) Years of Education; b) Literacy; c) Enrollment Ratios. Conclusion: the popular view is that "women and girls are globally educationally disadvantaged compared with males. This is a gross misrepresentation of reality."Years of Education: - Of the 176 countries, 43% indicated women had more educational years than men. - In 70% of countries women had either more educational years than men, or the same number. - In 30% of countries, men had more educational years than women. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/22 03:23 AM |
| 29 | "World Education by Sex" (2018). Dr Rick Bradford analyses the data for: a) Years of Education; b) Literacy; c) Enrollment Ratios. Conclusion: the popular view is that "women and girls are globally educationally disadvantaged compared with males. This is a gross misrepresentation of reality.""Conclusion: The popular narrative, which is constantly reflected by all politicians and the media, is that women and girls are globally educationally disadvantaged compared with males. This is a gross misrepresentation of reality. Whilst educational fortunes vary widely between nations, the educational attainment of males and females within a given country differ little in comparison with the variation between countries. The relentless emphasis on female education appears to be either identity … | /r/MensRights | 15/03/22 03:20 AM |
| 1 | "Parents jailed for 'savage' abuse that 'destroyed' daughter". Not a light sentence per se (for the Irish system with its short sentences) but the same sentence for both seems a bit unusual, given "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury"This sentence is equivalent to what one would get for killing someone in Ireland. That seems reasonable enough, given the long-term damage done. If there hadn't been the "catstrophic brain injury", I think the Irish courts would have given a lesser sentence. But are each equally (50/50) responsible for the catastrophic brain injury? I'm not convinced they are given "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury". So I accept some people thin… | /r/PussyPass | 08/03/22 04:43 PM |
| 2 | "Parents jailed for 'savage' abuse that 'destroyed' daughter". Not a light sentence per se (for the Irish system with its short sentences) but the same sentence for both seems a bit unusual, given "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury"It seems to have been accepted by the court that "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury". Maybe the same injuries would have arrived at without what happened on that day at a later stage, but there's certainly a reasonable chance they wouldn't have. What we know for definite was "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury". ETA: The criminal standard is "beyond reasonable doub… | /r/PussyPass | 08/03/22 04:38 PM |
| 10 | "Parents jailed for 'savage' abuse that 'destroyed' daughter". Not a light sentence per se (for the Irish system with its short sentences) but the same sentence for both seems a bit unusual, given "only the child's mother was present in the home on the day she received the catstrophic brain injury"I'm not saying he doesn't deserve jail time. But it was the mother who inflicted the catastrophic brain injury. If the genders were reversed, I would be surprised if the mother would have received the exact same sentence as him. ETA: Similarly if the couple were the same sex. | /r/PussyPass | 08/03/22 02:59 AM |
| 2 | Shouldn't countries compensate men in some way for doing military service (especially as it may mean they will be more likely to be conscripted)?But the thing is that men are forced to do it and for many careers what you learn might not be very relevant but take up one or two precious years of your life. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/22 11:23 PM |
| 2 | Shouldn't countries compensate men in some way for doing military service (especially as it may mean they will be more likely to be conscripted)?Any idea what sort of level of money they got for national service and conscription? | /r/MensRights | 03/03/22 09:13 PM |
| 9 | Shouldn't countries compensate men in some way for doing military service (especially as it may mean they will be more likely to be conscripted)?What used to happen? | /r/MensRights | 03/03/22 06:42 AM |
| 14 | Shouldn't countries compensate men in some way for doing military service (especially as it may mean they will be more likely to be conscripted)?Are you talking about people who work full-time in the military? What I'm referring to is something different, where people have to do a year or two of military service even if they have no interest in a career in the military. Certainly in most countries, that group of men don't get any of the sort of benefits you mention. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/22 06:10 AM |
| 1 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."Despite this also being a particularly heinous crime, it can be prosecuted only under the general categories ‘wasting police time’ or ‘perverting the course of justice’." | /r/MensRights | 20/02/22 03:55 PM |
| 1 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent".Afraid not. He responds to allow comments under his blog, so you could always ask there. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/22 07:13 PM |
| 3 | "Split The Difference" are campaigning to secure the development of strategies to tackle intimate violence experienced by boys & men. The campaign begins with a call on the Northern Ireland Executive to develop a male victim strategy. There is a consultation people can submit comments to.See also this post: "There's a consultation anyone anywhere can comment on in Northern Ireland about a new strategy for violence against women. This article suggests calling for the development of a strategy to protect male victims of intimate violence. There is even already a campaign on this issue #BAMS4NI" https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/sv6ckc/theres\_a\_consultation\_anyone\_anywhere\_can\_comment/ | /r/MensRights | 18/02/22 03:42 AM |
| 1 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent".The final section "Quotes from Lawyers" http://empathygap.uk/?p=2176#_Toc504898489 is well worth checking out | /r/MensRights | 18/02/22 02:08 AM |
| 4 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."Perceptions of Wrongdoing Judges in cases shown to involve false accusation will sometimes highlight the material damage and emotional trauma to the accused man. However, this is not always the case. What is always the case is that the judge will reprimand the false accuser in the severest terms for undermining confidence in the process and hence potentially causing juries to doubt an alleged victim’s claims in future cases. This is a pernicious perspective for two reasons. Firstly, this mindse… | /r/MensRights | 15/02/22 08:47 PM |
| 1 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."Victim Compensation News reports generally do not state if alleged victims were awarded compensation. (This was reported in only 3 cases). The issue of how many complainants receive compensation pay-outs, and how much, and whether this plays a part in motivating false allegations, remains to be investigated." | /r/MensRights | 15/02/22 08:46 PM |
| 10 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."As far as I could tell there were no cases of false accusers being prosecuted and found not guilty. This is extremely unusual in criminal trials – unique, I expect. It appears to say something about the height of the bar for such prosecutions." | /r/MensRights | 15/02/22 02:10 AM |
| 16 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent".This section is not PC, as I said. But I found it very interesting. "Reasons for False Allegations Reasons for making the false allegation were apparent in 90 of the 146 cases. In four cases two reasons were identified. The number of cases out of 94 corresponding to the various causal categories were as follows, Regret (19): This was the commonest category. The woman regrets her behaviour sometime after the event and projects the blame onto the man by changing her mind about consent. This is typ… | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 09:22 PM |
| 10 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."False Imprisonment Of the 146 cases, 15 involved men initially being convicted and imprisoned. Several served their full term before being exonerated. The number of years they actually spent in prison was, 2, 4, >3, 2, 0.5, 1.5, 2, 17, 2, 3.3, 4, 2×2, (10 wks), 25, 1" | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 08:15 PM |
| 19 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."The 146 cases involved 16 deaths. 12 of these were the suicide of the wrongly accused, one was the suicide of the falsely accused’s mother, one was the suicide of the alleged false accuser, one was a homicide due to vigilante action, and one was the death in prison of an innocent man." | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 08:12 PM |
| 15 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."The striking thing about virtually all the following case histories is the triviality of the reasons for lying about something with such serious consequences for the accused. This is the empathy gap yet again. What else can account for those who think that an accusation which will blast a man into hell is legitimised by being stood up, or as a stratagem to avoid being dumped, or simply to get a lift home?" | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 08:07 PM |
| 24 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."Whilst rape is a separate category of crime, recognised as potentially extremely heinous, by a possible life sentence, there is no special category of ‘false rape accusation’. Despite this also being a particularly heinous crime, it can be prosecuted only under the general categories ‘wasting police time’ or ‘perverting the course of justice’." | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 07:27 PM |
| 32 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."In the course of doing the research for this post I have read many comments left by readers of newspaper reports. Sometimes people call for malicious false accusers of rape to face the same gaol time that the accused would have been awarded if found guilty. One type of comment which recurs is puzzlement at such an opinion. Whilst these commenters may agree that false accusers should be punished (though many do not) they attempt to draw an analogy with, say, a false accusation of murder – observ… | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 07:26 PM |
| 42 | Great blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on his informal analysis of 146 UK cases of false allegations of sexual assault (2018). Not PC (e.g. on "reasons for false allegations") but sometimes that's necessary. Will post some extracts below. Discusses a creeping attitude of "guilty until proven innocent"."Rape allegations are mud that sticks indelibly. Consider a totally innocent man – he need not even have met the accuser. But not only does the accused have his life ruined for perhaps two or three years whilst the case comes up – during which time he may be suspended from work, or actually sacked, prevented from access to children – which may mean he is separated from his own family, and possibly subject to a curfew and made to wear an electronic tag – and not only might he end up bankrupt in p… | /r/MensRights | 14/02/22 07:21 PM |
| 7 | (UK) Blogger examines 25 cases of alleged sexual impropriety of different magnitudes involving politicians (incl. many well-known names). "If pushed to judge the 24 men and one woman as either 'guilty of a criminal offence' or 'not guilty of any criminal offence', I’d say 4 guilty and 21 not guilty""Several of the cases reviewed here may be cases of political intrigue, i.e., destroying a political opponent through allegation. Sometimes the attack appears to be upon someone in the same Party as the accuser. It is worrying that we have handed to the unscrupulous a virtually risk-free means of subverting the democratic process by being able to destroy anyone at will. Sorry – that should be any man." | /r/MensRights | 04/02/22 03:41 AM |
| 5 | (UK) Blogger examines 25 cases of alleged sexual impropriety of different magnitudes involving politicians (incl. many well-known names). "If pushed to judge the 24 men and one woman as either 'guilty of a criminal offence' or 'not guilty of any criminal offence', I’d say 4 guilty and 21 not guilty""I note that accusing the dead is rather a liar’s charter. The astute reader will agree that a dead man is disadvantaged when it comes to mounting a defence. Nor can a dead man instruct a defence team. And a dead man cannot be tried in court, so the allegations will generally have no forum in which to be examined. Put these observations together with “guilty until proven innocent” and an accused dead man is automatically guilty. The IICSA is now providing a forum for examining allegations in man… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/22 03:41 AM |
| 3 | "Study shows differences between male and female surgeons: Canadian study finds fewer complications for female patients operated on by females". I've highlighted below some confounders which could bias the results along with a link to the full text.Here is a link to the abstract. The full text can be accessed for free if one registers: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2786671 | /r/MensRights | 08/01/22 01:40 AM |
| 5 | "Study shows differences between male and female surgeons: Canadian study finds fewer complications for female patients operated on by females". I've highlighted below some confounders which could bias the results along with a link to the full text."Some studies from primary care have found that so-called sex or gender discordance (when the doctor and patient aren’t the same sex/gender) is associated with worse rapport, lower certainty of diagnosis, lower likelihood of assessing the patient’s condition as being of high severity." Interesting. I've never heard of research showing this before. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/22 01:40 AM |
| 30 | "Study shows differences between male and female surgeons: Canadian study finds fewer complications for female patients operated on by females". I've highlighted below some confounders which could bias the results along with a link to the full text."Close scrutiny of the data from the study shows that female surgeons have fewer patients overall than their male colleagues. Dr McNamara says that internationally there are fewer female surgeons and that this study also acknowledges that women surgeons were younger and treated younger, healthier patients. “It’s difficult to look at the findings of this study without looking at the overall context, as low risk and high risk operations are bundled together. Surgeons develop a reputation for deali… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/22 01:38 AM |
| 7 | Sexual assault-accused UK celebrities (2018). This insightful blogger briefly summarises 45 cases. Hard not to feel sorry for some of the men given some weak cases. Overall, "in my opinion 12 men were guilty, 29 men were innocent, & in 4 cases the matter is not clear". Discusses the issue in general"This raises one of the most pernicious aspects of such allegations: once accused, a man’s reputation can never fully recover unless the accuser is prosecuted and shown conclusively to be a liar. Merely having no charges brought, or even being found not guilty at trial, still leaves an indelible taint. And many men will be sacked as soon as they are accused, and never re-employed even when exonerated. What more proof of the permanence of the taint do you want? The form of words used by the CPS d… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/22 01:48 AM |
| 4 | Sexual assault-accused UK celebrities (2018). This insightful blogger briefly summarises 45 cases. Hard not to feel sorry for some of the men given some weak cases. Overall, "in my opinion 12 men were guilty, 29 men were innocent, & in 4 cases the matter is not clear". Discusses the issue in general"It is a great wheeze to accuse celebrities. The police will find it ever so much easier to trawl for other willing accusers. And the police seem to have a particular delight in bringing down the famous, which is not entirely a post-Savile effect, though that is certainly a major exacerbation. It is also a great boon to lawyers when celebrities are accused, because they are the very people who can afford to pay their defence team six figure sums – pretty much the going rate to prove to the syste… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/22 01:43 AM |
| 3 | Sexual assault-accused UK celebrities (2018). This insightful blogger briefly summarises 45 cases. Hard not to feel sorry for some of the men given some weak cases. Overall, "in my opinion 12 men were guilty, 29 men were innocent, & in 4 cases the matter is not clear". Discusses the issue in general"At one time I would have assumed – like everyone else – that multiple accusers must surely indicate the accused’s guilt. No longer. Not when the police pro-actively seek additional accusers and even mention the possibility of victim compensation. In that respect, I wonder how many people are aware that victim compensation is often paid even when the accused is found not guilty – or when no suspected perpetrator is ever identified." | /r/MensRights | 06/01/22 01:35 AM |
| 12 | Sexual assault-accused UK celebrities (2018). This insightful blogger briefly summarises 45 cases. Hard not to feel sorry for some of the men given some weak cases. Overall, "in my opinion 12 men were guilty, 29 men were innocent, & in 4 cases the matter is not clear". Discusses the issue in general"But the more fundamental problem is that the defence case has come to be so dependent upon unearthing such evidence. The reason for this is that ‘innocent until proven guilty’ has, de facto, been reversed in the courts. Were this still the true ethos, lack of evidence would disadvantage the prosecution, not the defence. It is now painfully clear that it is the defence in such cases that depends crucially on evidence gathering. Consequently, it is indisputable that it is the defence upon which t… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/22 01:34 AM |
| 5 | Sexual assault-accused UK celebrities (2018). This insightful blogger briefly summarises 45 cases. Hard not to feel sorry for some of the men given some weak cases. Overall, "in my opinion 12 men were guilty, 29 men were innocent, & in 4 cases the matter is not clear". Discusses the issue in generalNote, he does say:"This is another reason to be very cautious about reading too much into the statistics of my reviews, i.e., the rate of false accusations here may be very different from that in the general public. Mr Barnett suggested a false allegation rate of perhaps around 20%. That said, all these observations point in the direction of a distressingly common prevalence of false accusations, whatever the actual figure may be as a percentage." | /r/MensRights | 06/01/22 01:33 AM |
| 13 | "Men’s Access to Healthcare": "the literature suggests that there is a smaller gender gap in accessing healthcare than is popularly believed, especially when the apparent gap is adjusted to allow for women’s greater access for contraceptive, pregnancy, childcare & national screening purposes(contd)"(contd.) "The residual gender gap in access to primary healthcare, as displayed by Figure 1, is probably due in the main to men’s working patterns, and the resulting difficulties of access to healthcare and community health programmes during the working day. There is a willingness to attribute men’s indisputable health disadvantages to men’s lesser use of healthcare services, and to attribute this to men’s negative masculine characteristics. However, this hypothesis crumbles upon inspection. N… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/21 03:17 AM |
| 10 | "Child expert [in Australia] grants dying boy's wish to have sex". Unusual case.The child expert didn't have sex with the boy in case that is what you are thinking | /r/MensRights | 25/12/21 01:01 PM |
| 1 | (UK) "Homicide study reveals society ‘blind’ to male victims of domestic violence. GROUND breaking research has revealed society's failures to readily recognise male domestic abuse victims causing many to lose their lives"https://www.mankind.org.uk/ Male Victims of Domestic Abuse – Please call 01823 334244 to speak to us confidentially Confidential helpline for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence Weekdays 10am to 4pm Call 999 if in immediate danger | /r/MensRights | 12/12/21 06:38 PM |
| 1 | (UK) "Homicide study reveals society ‘blind’ to male victims of domestic violence. GROUND breaking research has revealed society's failures to readily recognise male domestic abuse victims causing many to lose their lives"What country are you in? | /r/MensRights | 12/12/21 06:09 PM |
| 2 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.I'm not sure that is true of chimpanzees. Here is one comment underneath: The statement that male primates make no contribution to the troop is incorrect. In Chimpanzee societies the males are the first to defend the troop against predators. They also come to the aid of young chimpanzees which belong to the females they are close to. They have also been observed to adopt orphans and nurture them. | /r/MensRights | 29/11/21 06:26 PM |
| 1 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.Female Moral Force “Men are primed in all cultures to be responsive to women’s needs and wishes, and to the values espoused by women. Feminism has confused this impulse considerably by introducing the notion that women would prefer to do for themselves many of the things which men were traditionally expected to do for them; and a half hearted New Chivalry has consequently tried to articulate around the paradoxical project of helping women to be more independent of men.” This is another key obser… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/21 01:33 AM |
| 1 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.Men’s Emotions In one of my favourite passages, Dench tells of a young man, probably Asperger’s, who has been prosecuted for hacking into dozens of computer systems. The press have a field day mocking the lad for his alleged inability to express his emotions. Dench writes, “But why should he have to talk about his emotions? They’re his after all; if he did come out with them other people might well find them unacceptable, or use them against him in some way. Men’s silence may well have something… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/21 01:30 AM |
| 1 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.Extract: “It is significant that men’s competitiveness is highly generalised, even pervasive. This is perhaps partly an adaptation for survival in chaos…To be certain of winning approval, and thereby getting out of the forest, it is important to be the best at whatever it is which is being valued and judged….The boys or men in the forest are not the ones who set the rules, or who decide what society will reward….the prizes are partly sexual and the operative community values which govern approva… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/21 01:27 AM |
| 2 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh."But he certainly argued strongly for the crucial importance of family. And families include fathers, and fathers mean patriarchy. Aargh! But Dench did not understand patriarchy in the feminist sense – namely a conspiracy by men to oppress and exploit women. For Dench, patriarchy was a piece of theatre, a subterfuge expressly designed to tie men into familial relationships whose purpose was twofold: to extract benefit from men whilst minimising the threat of men reverting to a feral state. From … | /r/MensRights | 28/11/21 12:12 AM |
| 2 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.So tell me, do you believe in the patriarchy and that men as a class oppress women as a class for men's benefit? Not at all. My opinion is more like the book reviewer: "This is another nod to the power of female in-group preference which men underestimate. Conversely, feminism over-estimates male power due to failing to appreciate that men lack in-group preference. Patriarchy, in the feminist sense, is not only false but impossible." | /r/MensRights | 28/11/21 12:01 AM |
| 2 | "Of Frogs And Men" by men's issues blogger, William Collins (2018). I found this a fascinating & insightful review of the book "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency & Dominance in Gender Relations" and the topic of gender relations in general, that causes me look at some issues afresh.Here's the official description of the book on websites, though I found the article in my original post more interesting: "Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency and Dominance in Gender Relations" by Professor Geoff Dench Synopsis Using the story, "The Frog Prince", as a symbol of traditional awareness of the potential marginality of men in society, "Transforming Men" proposes that much of patriarchy is a theatrical illusion. Presenting men as more important and powerful than they rea… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/21 10:26 PM |
| 7 | Research from Sweden: "3,200 fictitious job applications sent to 15 different occupations" "Granberg and his colleagues found that women had higher positive employer response rates than men on average, an effect that was primarily driven by female-dominated occupations.""There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions." | /r/MensRights | 21/11/21 03:41 PM |
| 9 | Irish man who spent over a year jailed for a false rape accusation is now suing the state"Consideration was given to prosecuting the woman for wasting Garda [Irish police] time, but she was not charged due to her personal circumstances. [..]However, the man claims he suffered great harm due to the time spent in prison. His relationship broke down, resulting in a lack of access to his daughter, and he lost his job, he claims." | /r/MensRights | 19/11/21 11:54 PM |
| 3 | William Collins: “Men and boys in the UK: Edited lowlights” (ICMI18). Great summary backed up with well-researched facts/data of many men's issues. From 2018 but certainly not out of date in 2021. I'll post links to the YouTube recording and slides below.William Collins: “Men and boys in the UK: Edited lowlights” (ICMI18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6CDR8lp3fs | /r/MensRights | 24/10/21 03:15 AM |
| 4 | William Collins: “Men and boys in the UK: Edited lowlights” (ICMI18). Great summary backed up with well-researched facts/data of many men's issues. From 2018 but certainly not out of date in 2021. I'll post links to the YouTube recording and slides below.Powerpoint slides http://empathygap.uk/ICMI18\_powerpoint\_v7.pptx | /r/MensRights | 24/10/21 03:13 AM |
| 47 | "Blame the Nearest Man". Blogpost analysing the response to a set of photos of an incident where a woman attacks another woman. Male bystanders are scolded for not getting involved; it also points out that if a man were to get involved, he risks being charge with assault or maybe even sexual assault"But the important messages to come out of these comments is what they expose about the female sense of entitlement and women’s insistence on male obligation. They also provide an excellent example of how women totally fail to appreciate the cleft stick in which men are trapped – despite having been trapped there by women themselves. First the entitlement and obligation thing. Notice the mindset at work in these comments: men have an obligation to protect women – including complete strangers – e… | /r/MensRights | 05/10/21 01:45 AM |
| 9 | "The Great Covid Domestic Abuse Epidemic That Never Was": Blog post by Dr Rick Bradford highlighting how UK police reports of domestic violence have been going up each year. Overall, the number of reports in 2020 went up by a slightly *lower* percentage than expected by the trend during the pandemicConclusions The police recorded data on numbers of reported incidents classified as DV have been trending up across almost all police forces for at least a decade. This contrasts with CSEW data on numbers of DV victims which has not been trending up, but either trending down or roughly static. * A larger number of police recorded DV incidents in 2020 compared with 2019 cannot be taken as indicative of a Covid lockdown effect as it was expected, without Covid, based on current trends. * Instead t… | /r/MensRights | 01/10/21 01:53 AM |
| 30 | "A Level [UK] Awards 2021 & Their Obfuscation". [With predicted grades] "the excess of top grades awarded to girls over boys has nearly tripled since the last exam year, 2019"."This suggests the order of 20000 or so places at top universities will go to girls that might otherwise have gone to boys"Due to Covid, the main public exams were cancelled. Grades instead were predicted by pupils' teachers. The data suggests this led to a significant bias in favour of girls. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/21 01:44 AM |
| 7 | "Gender Empathy Gap Day" (2018 blog post proposing 11 July and explaining why)"On 11 July 1995, after three years of siege, fanatical Serbs overrun the Bosnian city of Srebrenica and murdered some eight thousand boys and men during the following days. The UN safe area, into which countless people had fled, was handed over without a fight by the UN observers. The Serbs separated male and female: Women and children were taken off in buses and released between the fronts in no-man's-land, the men were executed and buried. UN observers were involved in the illegal deportation… | /r/MensRights | 15/09/21 01:05 AM |
| 9 | "Education: Teachers’ Gender Bias" by Dr Rick Bradford: "I present here two instances where comparisons of teachers’ assessments with exam results provide quantitative indications of teacher bias in favour of girls" (uses English school data)"Recommendations This issue joins the broader issue of boys’ under-performance in education, for which there is no political will or policy initiatives to address (see submission “Education: The Intersection of Sex and Race”). The starting point must be a political will to address the overarching issue of boys’ education." | /r/MensRights | 14/09/21 01:09 AM |
| 18 | "Education: Teachers’ Gender Bias" by Dr Rick Bradford: "I present here two instances where comparisons of teachers’ assessments with exam results provide quantitative indications of teacher bias in favour of girls" (uses English school data)"The dominant cultural narrative on gender – that girls are disadvantaged and boys are privileged – may be the cause of the bias, i.e., as a well-meaning, and probably unconscious, attempt to redress a perceived disadvantage to girls. But the empirically undeniable disadvantage in education is to boys, not girls, so the prevailing narrative is profoundly misaligned with reality. Political policy is then driven by the narrative, not by empirical fact, such as the 2016 Government White Paper, Educ… | /r/MensRights | 14/09/21 01:07 AM |
| 3 | Men and women being described as misogynistic & misandristic for comments about a member of the opposite sexmisandrist comments If you have examples, that would be interesting. What I'm looking for is what would be considered misandrist comments said in the context of an individual man. Most of the time, I think they would be considered attacks on the individual rather than misandrist comments. But when men criticise a particular woman they are often described as misogynistic comments rather than comments about a particular woman. | /r/MensRights | 09/09/21 01:52 PM |
| 7 | "Children in Custody" by Dr Rick Bradford. Contains data & some quotes. Synopsis: "... the gendered nature of depriving children of their liberty is a global phenomenon. It is useful to put the UK position in the global context because the UK is amongst the very worst offenders"Synopsis: "The focus of these submissions is the UK. But the gendered nature of depriving children of their liberty is a global phenomenon. It is useful to put the UK position in the global context because the UK is amongst the very worst offenders as regards the tendency to incarcerate boys overwhelmingly more than girls. In 2019 the UN published an 804 page study on children in custody worldwide, Ref.[2]. It identifies that, globally, 94% of detained children are boys. The UN Secretary General… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/21 01:16 AM |
| 4 | "Men have better resources than women to cope with challenges of aging". Research article claiming women are disadvantaged/men are advantaged in many ways when ageing. I would welcome rigourous analysis of the claims as I'm sceptical and the authors sound biased.Sample newspaper article on paper: "Gender inequalities persist into old age, study finds Men more likely to be richer, healthier and less isolated right up to the moment they die" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/gender-inequalities-persist-into-old-age-study-finds-1.4639133 | /r/MensRights | 06/08/21 12:43 AM |
| 5 | "Men have better resources than women to cope with challenges of aging". Research article claiming women are disadvantaged/men are advantaged in many ways when ageing. I would welcome rigourous analysis of the claims as I'm sceptical and the authors sound biased.The full research paper is available here, but people may not need to read that as the news piece, presumably based on a press release, is quite detailed itself: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(21)00121-5/fulltext00121-5/fulltext) | /r/MensRights | 06/08/21 12:41 AM |
| 1 | "Cork priest ‘sacrificed himself to save his secretary’". A man doing a heroic/dangerous act to protect somebody else. My impression is more men do this than women esp. if one excludes parents doing it for the children. Often doesn't get mentioned in discussions about "toxic masulinity", etc.Typo. That should say: "esp. if one excludes parents doing it for *their* children." | /r/MensRights | 05/08/21 12:26 PM |
| 2 | William Collins’s book “The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect” now an e-book with most of the profits to men's causes. Mike Buchanan: "I consider it the most impressive book ever published by someone in the MRM, it’s a tour de force from beginning to end."Announcement by the author William Collins/Dr Rick Bradford himself on his blog page: http://empathygap.uk/?p=3801 | /r/MensRights | 04/08/21 01:00 AM |
| 2 | William Collins’s book “The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect” now an e-book with most of the profits to men's causes. Mike Buchanan: "I consider it the most impressive book ever published by someone in the MRM, it’s a tour de force from beginning to end."COI: I have no financial or other involvement with the book or the causes it supports | /r/MensRights | 04/08/21 12:58 AM |
| 16 | "Homicide research reveals society ‘blind’ to male victims of domestic violence" (University of Cumbria & ManKind Initiative): "It is clear from the findings that domestic abuse services are not currently working inclusively, and this serves as an additional barrier to male help-seeking victims""What can we learn from Domestic Homicide Reviews with male victims? Hope, Katie, Bates, Elizabeth, Brooks, Mark and Taylor, Julie (2021) What can we learn from Domestic Homicide Reviews with male victims? Partner Abuse" --- Abstract There is an increasing recognition of men as victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) within the academic literature and the public narrative. Statistics suggest that one in three victims in the United Kingdom (UK; specifically, England and Wales) are male, with s… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/21 01:27 AM |
| 1 | Teacher Cancelled by Eton for Lecture Speaks Out. Will Knowland is the Eton English teacher who was dismissed from his job for refusing to remove a lecture entitled 'The Patriarchy Paradox' from his YouTube channel. Mainly focuses on freedom of speech rather than masculinity & patriarchy. 57 minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI | /r/MensRights | 28/07/21 01:18 PM |
| 8 | Blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on male suicide (based on UK data). This intelligent blogger/researcher on men's issues who is not afraid to challenge feminist dogma yet again makes many incisive points generally backed up with data or logical reasoning.[4] As a final example, in the discussion on “masculinities” the claim is made that men’s suicide might be related to the “failure to achieve hegemonic masculinity”. This position on hegemonic masculinity is yet another example of converting exogenous causes into internal causes by verbal legerdemain. Unemployment or separation from partner or children is recast as failure to achieve hegemonic masculinity. The failure to achieve hegemonic masculinity is then held to be the cause of increased sui… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/21 01:19 AM |
| 7 | Blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on male suicide (based on UK data). This intelligent blogger/researcher on men's issues who is not afraid to challenge feminist dogma yet again makes many incisive points generally backed up with data or logical reasoning.[3] The approved narrative regarding the role of men’s stoicism appears repeatedly, for example in this quote,“The inability to express distressing emotion has been viewed as a risk factor for suicide and the argument that some forms of masculinity position men as stoical and unwilling to seek help has meant that emotions talk by men has come under scrutiny.” But the evidential support offered for this oft-repeated thesis is very weak. Psychologist Steven Pinker has poured scorn on this notion, … | /r/MensRights | 23/07/21 01:19 AM |
| 8 | Blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on male suicide (based on UK data). This intelligent blogger/researcher on men's issues who is not afraid to challenge feminist dogma yet again makes many incisive points generally backed up with data or logical reasoning.[2] We read “where children are involved…..relationship breakdowns are likely to have an impact on men’s identity as fathers”. But the problem is not “men’s identity as fathers”, an internal issue, but rather the external issue of men’s access to children. It is being permitted to be a father – by the ex-partner, by the courts and by the State - that is actually the issue. This is another example of how a form of words is used to make an exogenous factor seem like a psychological factor, and thu… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/21 01:18 AM |
| 8 | Blog post by Dr Rick Bradford on male suicide (based on UK data). This intelligent blogger/researcher on men's issues who is not afraid to challenge feminist dogma yet again makes many incisive points generally backed up with data or logical reasoning.The Peculiar Narrative on Male Suicide As an illustration of prevailing narratives on male suicide I use those sections of Ref.[6] which relate to psychology, sociological issues, and “masculinities” (i.e., the prevailing narrative on gender). I make no attempt at a complete review in these very brief notes. My aim is to illustrate how exogenous factors are re-interpreted as internal factors, a tendency which – though probably unconscious by the authors of Ref.[6] – serves the purpose of alignin… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/21 01:16 AM |
| 2 | "Involuntary celibate jailed in Cork for coercion of child". The Irish justice system is quite often loathe to jail people in general, particularly if they have no previous convictions. Seems like a dangerous precedent to jail in a situation like this, but perhaps I can be convinced otherwise.How do you know it was of a sexual nature and they are most likely a peado? Is it because they are an incel? Could there not be an innocent explanation for it? | /r/MensRights | 12/06/21 11:09 PM |
| 4 | "Involuntary celibate jailed in Cork for coercion of child". The Irish justice system is quite often loathe to jail people in general, particularly if they have no previous convictions. Seems like a dangerous precedent to jail in a situation like this, but perhaps I can be convinced otherwise."Mr Nordell intends to leave the jurisdiction and return to Sweden and the family of the injured party would be happy with that." | /r/MensRights | 12/06/21 08:28 PM |
| 1 | "Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my patriarchy lecture" "Freddie Sayers meets Will Knowland to discuss his sacking from Eton College" I would recommend watching Mr Knowland's video itself as one gets a skewed impression of it from the questions but I thought he answered them well.Here is a direct link to the lecture that led him to be sacked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI | /r/MensRights | 06/06/21 06:56 PM |
| 1 | "Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my patriarchy lecture" "Freddie Sayers meets Will Knowland to discuss his sacking from Eton College" I would recommend watching Mr Knowland's video itself as one gets a skewed impression of it from the questions but I thought he answered them well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI&t=0s | /r/MensRights | 06/06/21 06:55 PM |
| 2 | What do people think of Cardi B's "Up" Song Lyric: "Broke Boys Don't Deserve No Pussy (I know that's right)"?If you take somebody like Cardi B herself, even if a man had no money the couple would still have enough money for a child. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/21 02:13 PM |
| 5 | "When is a sausage just a sausage? Controversial ads fuel S.Korea's sexism debate". Not sure I understand why this issue was seen as so important, but I found it interesting to read about the situation in South Korea, where men's rights groups seem to have some influence or perhaps laws are strict?"When President Moon Jae-in came to power in 2017, he pledged to be a president for gender equality, vowing to do more to fix disadvantages for women in South Korea. South Korea has one of the largest wage gaps of any OECD country and low political representation for women who hold just 19% of parliamentary seats. Since Moon, women have seen some improvement in wages and are also eligible for bigger government subsidies than men when starting a new business." | /r/MensRights | 29/05/21 01:53 AM |
| 6 | "Non-Resident Parents: Where Is The Bias?". In-depth 2018 blog using UK data to examine various issues e.g. Lawyers’, Judges’ and Court Officers’ Opinions; Actual Contact Outcomes; Enforcement; Financial Issues; etc. Also looks in-depth at 2 research studies (Hunt & MacLeod; Harding and Newnham)Hunt & MacLeod (2008) include many quotes from involved professionals. I reproduce a selection relating to the issue of enforcement below (there are other comments which may express differing opinions, see the report itself for the full set of quotations). One of the interesting things about these quotes is that, rather than use the cautious terminology “resident parent”, as I have done, they generally simply refer to the mother. ‘I suspect that your data will suggest that there is a reasonable … | /r/MensRights | 03/05/21 01:16 AM |
| 6 | "Non-Resident Parents: Where Is The Bias?". In-depth 2018 blog using UK data to examine various issues e.g. Lawyers’, Judges’ and Court Officers’ Opinions; Actual Contact Outcomes; Enforcement; Financial Issues; etc. Also looks in-depth at 2 research studies (Hunt & MacLeod; Harding and Newnham)I thought this was interesting: "There is a glaring inequality in child maintenance payments. It is surely beyond dispute that if child care were divided equally, 50/50, in all respects, then no party should be required to pay child maintenance to the other. But this is not the requirement of the UK’s Child Maintenance Service, as their on-line child maintenance calculator confirms. Instead the required payment from the non-resident to the resident parent reduces pro-rata with contact time to 50… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/21 01:02 AM |
| 1 | Recommendations from the Irish Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality have been released. Basically, it looked at things from a feminist point of view rather than a true "gender equality" viewpoint. Among other things, it recommends reducing the gender pay to 0 by 2035: good luck with that!Typo: "gender pay" should be "gender pay gap" | /r/MensRights | 25/04/21 01:22 AM |
| 2 | Recommendations from the Irish Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality have been released. Basically, it looked at things from a feminist point of view rather than a true "gender equality" viewpoint. Among other things, it recommends reducing the gender pay to 0 by 2035: good luck with that!Press release: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/news-publications/press-releases/recommendations-of-the-citizens-assembly-on-gender-equality.html | /r/MensRights | 25/04/21 01:21 AM |
| 7 | Do these Indian rulings suggest men and women are being treated differently? "Wife has a Right to Know Husband’s Income, Can Seek Info Through RTI, says CIC [Read Order]"; "RTI- Husband Not Entitled To Seek Information Regarding Bank Details & Income Tax Returns Of His Wife: CIC"(i) Wife has a Right to Know Husband’s Income, Can Seek Info Through RTI, says CIC [Read Order] https://www.taxscan.in/wife-has-a-right-to-know-husbands-income-can-seek-info-through-rti-says-cic-read-order/84762/ (ii) RTI- Husband Not Entitled To Seek Information Regarding Bank Details & Income Tax Returns Of His Wife: CIC https://www.livelaw.in/rti/rti-husband-wife-income-bank-details-income-tax-returns-cic-right-to-information-168838 | /r/MensRights | 24/04/21 02:06 AM |
| 114 | Judge dismisses case against man for sending birthday card to daughter. Dismissing the charge brought under the Domestic Violence Act against the man, the judge stated:“I mean, if we have reached a stage in our society where a man is deemed to have breached a safety order by sending a birthday card"I only dip in and out of here. Did that ever happen? I would like to store info on it for the future if it did. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/21 09:55 PM |
| 15 | Judge dismisses case against man for sending birthday card to daughter. Dismissing the charge brought under the Domestic Violence Act against the man, the judge stated:“I mean, if we have reached a stage in our society where a man is deemed to have breached a safety order by sending a birthday card"I presume that's not true so what's the point of your message? | /r/MensRights | 10/04/21 08:24 PM |
| 10 | "The Effect of Fatherlessness on Children" (2018). Detailed, well-researched and well-argued blog post by William Collins where he collates lots of published data on the topic. A great resource for anyone interested in the topic."Conclusion There is a huge prevalence of fatherlessness which our society regards with equanimity, and in some cases promotes. Fatherlessness is causally related to a range of adverse outcomes for children, many of which persist into adulthood. Consequently, our society is complicit in widespread disadvantaging of children." | /r/MensRights | 10/04/21 01:23 AM |
| 2 | "Causes of early deaths (before age 45) by gender in UK" (The Illustrated Empathy Gap blogpost). "Domestic homicides are the only category where deaths of females exceed that of males. In all other categories (where the numbers of deaths are far larger) deaths of males outnumber those of females""Across all causes, early deaths of men (before age 45) exceed early deaths of women by 78%. Premature deaths of men (before age 75) exceed premature deaths of women by 43%." | /r/MensRights | 02/04/21 01:11 AM |
| 24 | "(Ireland) Helpline for male domestic abuse victims struggles to cope amid pandemic surge" "The common thread in calls is an abusive relationship, in 95% of cases involving a wife or female partner. 'Hitting me, kicking me, spitting on me, telling me I’m a useless father, telling me I’m crap ...'""Ms Bentley said the organisation sought and was refused funding for a 24/7 helpline from the State’s child and family agency Tusla, which she criticises for allocating 1 per cent of its domestic, sexual and gender based violence (DSGBV) funding to the service" | /r/MensRights | 20/03/21 01:01 AM |
| 8 | Official EU survey: People are less willing to intervene when a woman hits a man than when a man hits a woman (64% versus 44%). See comments for more detailed information. From: Crime, safety and victims' rights – Fundamental Rights SurveyBased on the wordings which respondents saw, there is a notable difference between answers to the question about violence against a partner. In the EU-27, 64 % would be willing or very willing to intervene if they saw a man hitting a woman on the street, compared with 44 % being willing or very willing to intervene if they saw a woman hitting a man (Figure 33). In all countries in the survey, people would be more willing to intervene if they saw a man hitting a woman than a woman hitting a man. … | /r/MensRights | 19/02/21 11:35 PM |
| 10 | Official EU survey: People are less willing to intervene when a woman hits a man than when a man hits a woman (64% versus 44%). See comments for more detailed information. From: Crime, safety and victims' rights – Fundamental Rights SurveyPeople are less willing to intervene when a woman hits a man than when a man hits a woman. Each of those versions of a violent incident in which a person hits their partner in the street was shown to half of the survey respondents. If the woman was hitting the man, 44 % were ‘willing’ or ‘very willing’ to intervene. If the man was hitting the woman, 64 % were ‘willing’ or ‘very willing’ to intervene. There was no similar difference between seeing a father hit his child and seeing a mother hit he… | /r/MensRights | 19/02/21 11:33 PM |
| 3 | Interesting long blog on "The Gillen Report" on sexual offences (2018). Makes many timeless points relevant to "rape politics" worldwide on: how the focus in policing can be about getting more convictions; issues about disclosure; “Rape Myths”; Pre-Recorded Cross-Examination; Educating Jurors; etc.Extract: "I dare say that if Max Hill or Sir John Gillen were themselves in the dock (and who knows, they may be one day) they would not be so keen to save their accuser’s blushes at the expense of spending ten years in prison. And Sir John does appear motivated by the same chivalrous sentiment, as in para 10.79, “Whatever the extent of the information that has to be processed, disclosure should not involve an open-ended trawl of unused material. There are reports in England of unfettered access… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/21 03:09 AM |
| 2 | "Why I was sacked from Eton: On being sacked from the College" by Will Knowland. He was to teacher sacked for the video "The Patriarchy Paradox" which questioned much feminist dogmaOops, apologies for that. I have now added a link. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/21 06:10 PM |
| 2 | "Why I was sacked from Eton: On being sacked from the College" by Will Knowland. He was to teacher sacked for the video "The Patriarchy Paradox" which questioned much feminist dogmaIt was not new legislation I’d transgressed, just a new religion with an old-time zeal to suppress dissent and punish heresy. The College’s ‘approach to equality and diversity’ — which it finally claimed I had breached — has never been explained to staff, making it impossible to follow. The boy who wrote to me afterwards saying he wished more could have been done to defend my case needn’t have felt so bad. Victor Klemperer wrote in The Language of the Third Reich that ‘words are like tiny doses … | /r/MensRights | 09/01/21 02:39 PM |
| 2 | Study finds that "manuscripts written by women as solo authors or coauthored by women were treated even more favorably by referees and editors" yet gets reported with the heading "no gender bias". Gender bias against men doesn't seem to count as gender bias!Note that the researcher has highlighted the article on their Twitter account and hasn't complained about it. They have also highlighted other articles on the research, and so far haven't really complained about any of them. I note that he is a sociologist, a field which seems to be quite heavily influenced by feminism | /r/MensRights | 08/01/21 09:47 PM |
| 2 | (UK) "Woman stabbed boyfriend twice in the chest while high on crack ... "12-month prison sentence, but as Higginson has already served more than half of that, she will now be released from Styal Prison in time for Christmas." "victim ... now suffers with anxiety and depression"Apologies for not including the link originally; it was not done deliberately. | /r/PussyPass | 03/01/21 01:38 AM |
| 1 | "Foetal Death & Domestic Violence" 2019 blog "Claims made by Safelives/Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid/London Safeguarding Children Board/Royal College of Midwives, that domestic violence is a leading cause – or the leading cause – of foetal death, are unsupported by evidence and almost certainly false"The blog post itself is quite long. Here is the conclusion: --- In Conclusion The claims made by Safelives, by Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid, by the London Safeguarding Children Board and by the Royal College of Midwives, that domestic violence is a leading cause – or the leading cause – of foetal death, are unsupported by evidence and almost certainly false. Available information appears to indicate that the annual number of foetal deaths in the UK attributable to domestic violence is unlikely to… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/21 01:39 AM |
| 1 | "Eton teacher sacked over controversial lecture". 76-second satirical video on the teacher who was fired for his video, "The Patriarchy Paradox". A more detailed video is available. I thought this video-maker deserves support.United Kingdom | /r/MensRights | 06/12/20 08:42 PM |
| 7 | "Eton teacher sacked over controversial lecture". 76-second satirical video on the teacher who was fired for his video, "The Patriarchy Paradox". A more detailed video is available. I thought this video-maker deserves support."The Patriarchy Paradox" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI | /r/MensRights | 05/12/20 04:10 PM |
| 6 | "Eton teacher sacked over controversial lecture". 76-second satirical video on the teacher who was fired for his video, "The Patriarchy Paradox". A more detailed video is available. I thought this video-maker deserves support.Here is the video created by the teacher, "The Patriarchy Paradox" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI | /r/MensRights | 05/12/20 04:10 PM |
| 3 | "Measuring Coercive Control": 2019 blog post examining the results of an official UK survey looking at "Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Questions & the Existing Non-Physical Abuse Questions". A committee recommends against using the questions that narrowed the gap between male & female respondents"The ONS research direction is being guided by a Domestic Abuse Statistics Steering Group. This group is chaired by ONS and includes representatives from across government, academia, the voluntary sector and Kantar Public who run the CSEW. The membership is given in Annex A of their report. It is heavily biased towards the usual culprits, i.e., those of feminist sympathies, e.g., Women’s Aid, Respect, Safe Lives, Home Office, and well known strongly feminist academics. The Group is well placed t… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/20 03:26 AM |
| 3 | Incisive & well-researched speech on equality, questioning the feminist perspective. Highlights how equality is now being misinterpreted to allow special treatment for some. Highlights how history has been misrepresented; there was a more gendered society, but that caused extra problems for men"The [proposed Domestic Abuse] Bill will further strengthen existing powers to constrain, restraint and criminalise those accused of domestic abuse. The escalating sequence of protection notices, protection orders and non-molestation orders can see a man ejected from his home with immediate effect and kept out of it without limit. The new Bill will make breaching the terms of a protection notice or protection order a criminal offence. These arrangements mean that a man may be formally branded a … | /r/MensRights | 26/10/20 06:17 PM |
| 3 | Incisive & well-researched speech on equality, questioning the feminist perspective. Highlights how equality is now being misinterpreted to allow special treatment for some. Highlights how history has been misrepresented; there was a more gendered society, but that caused extra problems for menThe law of coverture effectively placed a legal obligation upon husbands to ensure their wives obeyed the law. A particularly egregious example of this is the Skimmington Ride. It is still the case today that society has a hard time accepting that some men may be the victims of partner abuse, rather than the perpetrator. In historical times things were no better. A man who allowed himself to be abused by his wife would be punished for it by his community. A husband was expected to control his wi… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/20 06:12 PM |
| 3 | Incisive & well-researched speech on equality, questioning the feminist perspective. Highlights how equality is now being misinterpreted to allow special treatment for some. Highlights how history has been misrepresented; there was a more gendered society, but that caused extra problems for menRegarding: Until around the mid-Victorian period, English Common Law had held that a married couple constituted a single legal entity. Under the system of coverture, the husband was the manifestation of that legal entity whilst the wife’s legal status became covert, i.e., hidden. - Since the man was the manifest legal entity he became responsible for crimes – or torts – committed by his wife. The most common example of this were the Victorian debtors’ prisons. Some 10,000 people, 98% of them men… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/20 04:06 PM |
| 5 | Incisive & well-researched speech on equality, questioning the feminist perspective. Highlights how equality is now being misinterpreted to allow special treatment for some. Highlights how history has been misrepresented; there was a more gendered society, but that caused extra problems for menThe Government’s Guide to the 2010 Equality Act, Ref.2, specifically cautions against treating everyone the same. The advice on the interpretation of the Act is, I quote, “The Equality Duty does not require public bodies to treat everyone the same” “Complying with the Equality Duty may involve treating some people better” | /r/MensRights | 26/10/20 04:05 PM |
| 5 | Incisive & well-researched speech on equality, questioning the feminist perspective. Highlights how equality is now being misinterpreted to allow special treatment for some. Highlights how history has been misrepresented; there was a more gendered society, but that caused extra problems for menMy first encounter with the brave new world of “equality” was in The Corston Report, Ref.1, on women in prison. I quote, “Equality does not mean treating everyone the same” | /r/MensRights | 26/10/20 04:05 PM |
| 1 | Column in Irish Examiner: "Another angle here is that we know something like this (Covid) ends up affecting women disproportionately, just as the global recession did during the last decade." [I'm not convinced by either clain]. Discusses Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality; calls for more quotasTypo: Should say "claim" (can anyone edit it, please?) | /r/MensRights | 24/10/20 12:18 AM |
| 6 | "WASPIs (Women Against State Pension Inequality) and Votes". A blog takes a critical look at this campaign which has fought to delay changes to equalise the state pension age for men and woman in the UK (November 2019). Highlights how the change of dates also affected men, but that was ignored."Having started by ignoring the starkly obvious state pension inequality which has prevailed for decades prior to last year, namely that to men’s disadvantage, it is perhaps relevant to note that it is men who continue to pump the overwhelming bulk of the monies into the exchequer which pays for pensions, and indeed all public expenditure. The taxation, benefits and pensions systems form a mechanism for the transfer of money from men to women. That is the rather large elephant which goes unnotic… | /r/MensRights | 22/10/20 01:06 AM |
| 10 | "WASPIs (Women Against State Pension Inequality) and Votes". A blog takes a critical look at this campaign which has fought to delay changes to equalise the state pension age for men and woman in the UK (November 2019). Highlights how the change of dates also affected men, but that was ignored."These, most impacted women, therefore had 7 years warning that they would not receive their pension in 2018 (the changes having been enacted, recall, in 2011). Is this not reasonable warning? In any case, men were in a similar position. A man turning 65 in 2018 would have expected to draw his pension that year, but the same 2011 Act meant that he would have to wait another year until he was 66 to do so. Such men also had the very same 7 years warning of this change. This is sufficient to oblite… | /r/MensRights | 22/10/20 01:05 AM |
| 7 | "WASPIs (Women Against State Pension Inequality) and Votes". A blog takes a critical look at this campaign which has fought to delay changes to equalise the state pension age for men and woman in the UK (November 2019). Highlights how the change of dates also affected men, but that was ignored."As Brexit is also topical, it is worth noting that this 1995 legislation was, in part, a result of EU pressure. The ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1986 that the UK’s gendered approach to retirement ages was incompatible with the 1976 European Commission’s Equal Treatment Directive required ‘progressive implementation’ of equalisation of pension rights. Ironically, this landmark European Court ruling related to a case brought against HM Government by a woman. She had complained that … | /r/MensRights | 22/10/20 01:04 AM |
| 1 | Blog discussing various official reports, incl. from the UN, highlighting how boys are treated much more harshly than girls at different stages in the criminal system incl. "there is outright sex discrimination against boys in the CRC movement” (*CRC is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)""What follows in that section is something I never thought to see in a report from the UN. “Most research on the gender dimension of deprivation of liberty relates to the administration of criminal justice and primarily addresses cases of discrimination against girls, not against boys. Yet in 2006, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro noted that ‘millions of children, particularly boys, spend substantial periods of their lives under the control and supervision of care authorities or justice systems, in institu… | /r/MensRights | 21/10/20 01:31 AM |
| 1 | Blog discussing various official reports, incl. from the UN, highlighting how boys are treated much more harshly than girls at different stages in the criminal system incl. "there is outright sex discrimination against boys in the CRC movement” (*CRC is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)"UN Secretary-General’s own words, from his relatively snappy 23 page report, “Global study on children deprived of liberty, Note by the Secretary-General, 11 July 2019” [..] Another explanation is the “chivalrous and paternalistic” attitude of many male judges and prosecutors in the child justice systems, who assume, according to traditional gender stereotypes, that girls are more in need of protection than boys.” | /r/MensRights | 21/10/20 01:29 AM |
| 1 | This year the final exams in UK secondary education were cancelled and instead teachers' estimates of expected grades were used to calculate grading. This led to a bigger gender gap. This discrimination doesn't seem to have been highlighted much if at all in the media. See first comment for linkThanks for your comments. Firstly, I want to point out that I didn't make the graph. I agree with you that these details are important but from what I can see girls did benefit from calculated grades more than boys did, even though the graph may overestimate the size of the gender difference. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/20 02:49 PM |
| 2 | This year the final exams in UK secondary education were cancelled and instead teachers' estimates of expected grades were used to calculate grading. This led to a bigger gender gap. This discrimination doesn't seem to have been highlighted much if at all in the media. See first comment for linkA Levels 2020: The Year of Utter Nonsense http://empathygap.uk/?p=3494 | /r/MensRights | 30/09/20 12:39 AM |
| 1 | This year the final exams in UK secondary education were cancelled and instead teachers' estimates of expected grades were used to calculate grading. This led to a bigger gender gap. This discrimination doesn't seem to have been highlighted much if at all in the media. See first comment for linkNo, the government did a U-turn after the initial results were released and a second set of results were released which favoured girls even more. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/20 12:38 AM |
| 3 | In the UK, girls were helped more than boys by calculated gradings for A-levels this yearNo, it wasn't a link to an image. It was figure 6 from this blog post: http://empathygap.uk/?p=3494 I simply uploaded image using the "images and video" option | /r/MensRights | 28/09/20 03:28 PM |
| 4 | In the UK, girls were helped more than boys by calculated gradings for A-levels this yearBy the way, I tried to post a graph with this post, but immediately (i.e. automatically), the post received "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/MensRights. Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose." Is there a way around this? | /r/MensRights | 28/09/20 12:40 AM |
| 10 | In the UK, girls were helped more than boys by calculated gradings for A-levels this yearA detailed blog with further information can be found here: http://empathygap.uk/?p=3494 | /r/MensRights | 28/09/20 12:34 AM |
| 5 | Irish Independent article: “The grumpy middle-aged man phenomenon is fair game for TV 'haymaking'. It's not a demographic that sees many run to its defence. Nor one that defends itself much either. Unfortunately, the 'lost' middle-aged man is often portrayed in an unflattering & unsympathetic light”There are lots of over-the-top set-pieces in Us - starting with an early sequence in which a shoeless Douglas sprints down the road after Connie. Yet it strikes at a deep-seated truth in having the dissatisfied Connie end the marriage rather than, for instance, resorting to the cliche of Douglas running off with his secretary. "While the research shows men fall in love more easily, women are more likely to fall out of love," says Evans. "Women are generally more 'relationship sensitive' - more a… | /r/MensRights | 25/09/20 04:22 PM |
| 3 | Extrapolating from UK FOI data, blogger estimates paying (separated) parents (~95% fathers) are 72% & 142% more likely to die than similar aged men & receiving parents (95% mothers) respectively. Speculates a lot of these are suicides. Says highlights the hidden destruction of such parents' livesConcluding paragraph: What this estimate of excess deaths reveals is the enormity of the destruction of separated fathers’ lives which is being effectively hidden. And for every such death there are several hundreds more fathers who are put through the same emotional meat grinder. Meanwhile, back in the establishment, our so-called justice system sees fit to carry out family justice reviews which are 100% controlled by those who have created this meat grinder and who are dedicated to its grindin… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/20 12:34 AM |
| 2 | Extrapolating from UK FOI data, blogger estimates paying (separated) parents (~95% fathers) are 72% & 142% more likely to die than similar aged men & receiving parents (95% mothers) respectively. Speculates a lot of these are suicides. Says highlights the hidden destruction of such parents' livesConclusions: Non-resident (payee) parents registered with the CMS in Great Britain are far more likely to die than people of the same sex and age range in the general population, even taking account of the fact that non-resident parents are almost all men who have a substantially higher death rate than women anyway. From the most recent (2020) FOI, paying parents (~95% fathers) are about 72% more likely to die than randomly selected men of the same age in the general population. From the most re… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/20 12:34 AM |
| 3 | "A Man's World" on boyhood in the UK 1900 to 1960Have you any justifications for your argument? | /r/MensRights | 17/09/20 05:13 PM |
| 1 | "French book I Hate Men sees sales boom after government adviser calls for ban": "Pauline Harmange’s Moi les hommes, je les déteste, explores whether women 'have good reason to hate men', and whether 'anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path, if it is allowed to be expressed'."Oops. It looks like I forgot to include the link, so will need to set up a new post. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/20 02:31 PM |
| 21 | On the UN’s Twitter...Direct link e.g. if you wish to see replies: https://twitter.com/un/status/1302593895029714944?s=11 | /r/MensRights | 09/09/20 11:20 PM |
| 2 | There were no final exams for secondary school this year in Ireland; instead, teacher assessments were used. This resulted in a 17% bigger gap for girls over boys than last year (7.6 points vs 6.5). Feminists still complain about discrimination against females in Irish Examiner newspaper article!They approved the general system: "The Cabinet today signs off on the final shape of the system for calculating grades for about 61,000 Leaving Cert students, who couldn't sit exams in June because of the Covid crisis." https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/weaker-schools-will-not-be-marked-down-in-calculated-leaving-cert-grades-after-chaos-of-uk-a-level-results-39493978.html | /r/MensRights | 09/09/20 01:13 AM |
| 3 | There were no final exams for secondary school this year in Ireland; instead, teacher assessments were used. This resulted in a 17% bigger gap for girls over boys than last year (7.6 points vs 6.5). Feminists still complain about discrimination against females in Irish Examiner newspaper article!Just to clarify: there were no specific in-house exams used; teachers just guessed the results they might get if exams hadn't been cancelled due to covid-19. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/20 07:51 PM |
| 13 | There were no final exams for secondary school this year in Ireland; instead, teacher assessments were used. This resulted in a 17% bigger gap for girls over boys than last year (7.6 points vs 6.5). Feminists still complain about discrimination against females in Irish Examiner newspaper article!Background: The majority of primary degree applications in Ireland are solely based on the results in these exams so they are very important. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/20 05:03 PM |
| 1 | "The Tradition in Traditional Masculinity": long article mainly focused on describing how men historically were encouraged to be gentlemen outside the battlefield*, but how this style of masculinity has been discouraged by feminists in recent years *in a gynocentric way, one could sayWhen Harvard psychologist, Steven Pinker, was assessing the APA guidelines, he noted that one of the study’s major flaws was that it did not acknowledge the evolutionary or biological root causes of male behavior (Edsall). Pinker pointed out, for example, that the word “testosterone” appears nowhere in the report” (Edsall). His critique went on to explain that the APA’s skewed lens was driven by a narrative invested in viewing masculine traits negatively, and that, due to its politicized perspec… | /r/MensRights | 07/09/20 01:01 AM |
| 2 | "The Tradition in Traditional Masculinity": long article mainly focused on describing how men historically were encouraged to be gentlemen outside the battlefield*, but how this style of masculinity has been discouraged by feminists in recent years *in a gynocentric way, one could sayThe first paragraph, which is a bit like an abstract: "In the West, traditional masculinity is under attack. Many of the virtues that come under its code of conduct were, at one time, promoted as aspirational virtues for boys, taught and supported by both parents in a household. Increasingly, however, these historically developed traits have been the target of concerted efforts to undermine them. The American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines are the most recent example of this, arguing… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/20 11:26 PM |
| 133 | "Forcing feminism down South" "official approach taken by Cooperation Agencies ... if you want money for food you have to pass a law that will privilege women or give most of the funds to them or “educate” males to let them know how wrong they’ve being doing or find another way to empower women.""I used to work in this business but always had mixed feelings about it. On one hand I appreciate charity towards poor countries, as I was born in one and I personally always try to lend a helping hand to those less fortunate. On the other, professional charity and making money out of helping others is a deeply flawed and contradictory system.4 However, pushing forward feminist propaganda with such a level of aggression is a crime that is causing, and will cause much harm to countries like mine,… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/20 01:06 PM |
| 13 | "Betsy Devos restores much-needed due process to American campuses with Title IX reforms""Title IX had not been conceived with the resolution of sexual complaint cases on its radar, and many observers saw the DCL exploitation of it as illegal. But it went down well with feminist groups like the American Association of University Women (AAUW), who were delighted to see “a preponderance of the evidence,” i.e. a 50.1 per cent likelihood of guilt, replace “beyond a reasonable doubt (95 per cent certainty),” the standard in criminal court. The procedures outlined in Dear Colleague made i… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/20 03:33 PM |
| 18 | Covid-19 and Female Leaders: "The claim made by Garikipati & Kambhampati, namely that “COVID-outcomes are systematically better in countries led by women”, is not supported by the data ... there's no statistically significant difference between female-led countries & the totality of countries.""Garikipati and Kambhampati compare male and female led countries by pair-wise comparison, i.e., one female led country is paired with one male-led country. This is illustrated by the Guardian graphic reproduced as Figure 1. It is clear from the huge scatter in the data shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7 that how one chooses the pairs in question will dictate the answer one gets. In other words, Garikipati and Kambhampati have indulged in a particularly crude form of cherry picking and referring to it … | /r/MensRights | 21/08/20 01:27 AM |
| 1 | "Epiphanies - Second thoughts about feminism for egalitarians" (book). "Personal essays by egalitarians reflecting their own journeys out of the grip of feminism"One review has been posted here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Epiphanies-Second-thoughts-feminism-egalitarians-ebook/dp/B08B1R9S7V | /r/MensRights | 20/08/20 02:32 AM |
| 9 | One way of the wage gap myth.The Twitter account mentioned no longer exists, but a collection of the images are available here: https://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/antifemcomics/ | /r/MensRights | 12/08/20 01:47 AM |
| 23 | Sil Fox: ‘My phone went silent. Nobody rang’. This man was very lucky: the woman claimed he had touched her inappropriately for 30 seconds; the CCTV footage showed that wasn't possible. Most innocent men would not have such evidence. He was also named publicly before conviction.He pulls a piece of paper up from the side of the chair and reads from it. “All shows were cancelled straight away, including RTÉ Radio. I used to get strange looks from people. I lost interest in going out. I had to go to a counsellor every week. I’m on prescription drugs. I’m not sleeping very well. I lost weight; I used to be a 36” waist; now I’m 34”. I avoided meeting people. There were a few funerals I wanted to go to that I couldn’t go to. My phone went silent. Nobody rang, except some fri… | /r/MensRights | 27/06/20 03:37 PM |
| 10 | Sil Fox: ‘My phone went silent. Nobody rang’. This man was very lucky: the woman claimed he had touched her inappropriately for 30 seconds; the CCTV footage showed that wasn't possible. Most innocent men would not have such evidence. He was also named publicly before conviction.Sil also plans to campaign to have the law changed so that people accused of sexual assault are not named until or unless they’re found guilty. “Sil Fox was not entitled to anonymity because this was an alleged offence that’s deemed less serious” than rape or other sexual offences, Kevin Winters says. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/20 03:37 PM |
| 2 | Any statistics on gender breakdown of suspects in partner/ex-partner homicides (not just murders)?I found this: "On average about seven women and two men are killed by their current or former partner every month in England and Wales."https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22610534 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and-sexual-offences--2012-13/rpt---chapter-2---homicide.html?format=print That goes to the following: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160106232128/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/20 06:17 PM |
| 3 | "Understanding contemporary fatherhood: Masculine care and the patriarchal deficit" This 2015 paper (full text, which I haven't read, at link) involved discussions with Irish men. I came across it via the Irish Times (see first comment) which made it sound potentially interestingAn important paper by Jemimah Bailey of Trinity College Dublin examines the structural barriers for men who want more involvement with their children, challenges the notion of the “patriarchal dividend” which simply means that men have it all – agency, power, influence – and suggests instead that when it comes to fatherhood, men can be in a position of disadvantage. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/anne-harris-fatherhood-could-be-the-big-winner-from-lockdown-1.4268902 | /r/MensRights | 03/06/20 11:59 PM |
| 4 | "How do I convince my wife that I’d be a great stay-at-home dad?" (Irish Times) I thought this was an interesting topic. Article is behind a pay wall, but I will post a couple of extracts below.However, you are also facing some very ingrained traditional ideas of what heterosexual marriage and family looks like. One of the underlying assumptions of traditional marriage is that the woman has the choice of working part-time or taking time off in order to look after children and the husband will take on the role of the provider. While this assumption has long been impossible – most couples need two salaries to survive – having the choice brings up underlying ideas and values that can be s… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/20 10:42 PM |
| 5 | "How do I convince my wife that I’d be a great stay-at-home dad?" (Irish Times) I thought this was an interesting topic. Article is behind a pay wall, but I will post a couple of extracts below.She is something of a traditionalist and says she finds the idea of a stay-at-home dad strange. She also says she worries that I will enjoy the fun bits too much and never want to return to work. I think she just doesn’t want to leave the little man with anyone else, even me. But she craves work, she needs the company of colleagues and we both agree that she wants to face the challenges that work will offer her. How can I convince her that this could be a very good idea? | /r/MensRights | 03/06/20 10:42 PM |
| 1 | She made a very good point about the double standards if a drink rape posterApologies if this is a dumb question, but what's the original link for where the video was posted? | /r/MensRights | 02/06/20 01:27 AM |
| 6 | Opinion | How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror"The torture and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, a lynching actually, occurred because a white woman said that he “grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her.” His torturers beat him, shot him in the head and tossed his body into the Tallahatchie River tied to a cotton gin fan with barbed wire. A few years ago, the woman admitted to an author that she had lied." | /r/MensRights | 28/05/20 06:17 PM |
| 4 | Opinion | How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror"Indeed, untold numbers of lynchings were executed because white women had claimed that a black man raped, assaulted, talked to or glanced at them." | /r/MensRights | 28/05/20 06:16 PM |
| 1 | This is the ultimate PussyPass. This should make your blood boil.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment#Singapore | /r/PussyPass | 28/05/20 01:17 AM |
| 1 | Discussion of a men's group on Irish national radio (25:40-45:25). Didn't really get into men's rights or feminism, which is probably good. It’s a “group exploring healthy masculinity. Where men can learn to communicate better with each other, & grow into the most authentic versions of themselves"I agree with the sentiment. However I don't think the interviewees in this case are too negative about men in general, they're just pointing out that men may not have spaces to be vulnerable. Indeed, men may perhaps seek out relationships with female partners or stay with female partners who may not be that suitable because they feel they can only communicate deeply with women. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/20 07:47 PM |
| 4 | Research - Being male is a larger risk factor to Covid than any racial difference (source in comments)I think you should have clarified that you were referring to death from Covid-19 | /r/MensRights | 09/05/20 12:53 AM |
| 1 | "The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weakness of Strongmen." More balanced than many similar articles. But doesn't highlight any countries where female leaders haven't done as well w/ COVID & would still make people wary of electing males with their machismo while no comparable traits in females mentionedAnd you missed my point: the term "strongmen" is only applied to men and seems designed to only apply to men. | /r/MensRights | 07/05/20 11:49 AM |
| 3 | "European Parliament shelters 100 homeless women": They also are sheltering female victims of domestic abuse. Disappointing both genders aren't catered for, though perhaps somewhat understandable"We had to move on all the time in this lockdown, my husband and I walked 15km (nine miles) daily, the police told us 'you must keep moving'. At the end of the day we were exhausted," she said. She said the rooms, each housing two women at the most, were more comfortable than at other women's shelters, where as many as six had to share a room. But she deplored the fact that her husband, like many other homeless men, would have to remain on the street. | /r/MensRights | 02/05/20 06:40 PM |
| 8 | Just wanted to say how proud I am of not only this man supporting the men’s rights movement but to BBC 3 worker who after year of watching the BBC pumping out feminist propaganda finally brought the fight to them in the ongoing battle for equalityhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p088t1vr | /r/MensRights | 22/04/20 01:08 AM |
| 1 | "In his charge [to jurors in a rape trial] Mr Justice Alex Owens ... describ[ed] as nonsense various 'rape myths', including an idea that woman [sic] regularly make up rape allegations for no reasons." I question judges should be giving direction to juries like this.My point would be that if one of the prosecuting lawyers wanted to argue false accusations were rare, that would be much more acceptable than the judge who is supposed to be impartial and should only make statements which are pretty much definitely true | /r/MensRights | 22/03/20 01:19 PM |
| 2 | "In his charge [to jurors in a rape trial] Mr Justice Alex Owens ... describ[ed] as nonsense various 'rape myths', including an idea that woman [sic] regularly make up rape allegations for no reasons." I question judges should be giving direction to juries like this.Minor point: I tried to post this twice with the flair "false accusations" but it wouldn't let me post so I had to change the flair | /r/MensRights | 21/03/20 02:00 PM |
| 3 | Want to help men's mental health? Offer a compliment.I agree with the concept. Though personally, I'm not so interested in praising things that can be bought like clothes. Freeing yourself as much as possible from consumerism and disconnecting one's self-worth from how much one spends on consumer products is very freeing. | /r/MensRights | 01/03/20 02:34 AM |
| 6 | BBC News - Jessica Breeze cleared of father's murder after 'years of violence'Following the acquittal, a CPS spokesperson said: "While there was evidence of a sometimes violent relationship between the victim, Colin Brady, and the defendant, Jessica Breeze, the circumstances of his death made a charge of murder wholly appropriate in this case. "Regardless of the alleged provocation for the attack, the victim was attacked in the back as he walked away from the defendant. "He was stabbed with such force that it passed from his back through his entire left lung and into his … | /r/MensRights | 04/02/20 12:26 AM |
| 1 | Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (Ireland): Public Consultation Questionnaire. It looks like people from anywhere can make submissions.Men’s groups have felt excluded from the “gender equality” debate, and are “delighted” to have been invited to the Citizens’ Assembly on the issue, according to its chairwoman. Dr Catherine Day, former secretary general of the European Commission, said men want to be part of the discussion on equality between the sexes, including the pay-gap, care responsibilities, the under-representation of women in politics and poverty among lone-parent families. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/20 10:59 PM |
| 3 | CDC stalking page: starts out gender neutral incl. saying 26% of victims are male. Then "Prevention is Possible. Everyone can work together to know, name, and stop stalking by: [..] Mobilizing men and boys as allies in prevention efforts" No mention of females there!This article was highlighted in the weekly bulletin from the CDC: "Features from this Week: Cervical Cancer, Stalking, Healthy Pregnancy and more" | /r/MensRights | 17/01/20 10:29 PM |
| 2 | (Canada) Minister of Health Mandate Letter mentions gender in the number of places in the context of helping women e.g. "Create a National Institute for Women’s Health Research"Typo: Should say "in a number" | /r/MensRights | 17/12/19 08:48 PM |
| 283 | "Bangalore Traffic Police To Fine Men If They Occupy Women's Reserved Seats...Even If They Are Empty""However so far, the fine is only applicable if Men dare to sit on the seat reserved for women and not on Physically challenged or senior citizen seats!" | /r/MensRights | 30/11/19 02:15 AM |
| 3 | "Ultracrepidarian" is a non-sexist word that can be used instead of someone who "mansplains"At the time of writing, this post criticising the person who suggested that it be used instead of "mansplain", has over 155,000 notes on Tumblr, meaning at least 77,500 accounts have shared it! https://tangledinwordsandyarn.tumblr.com/post/188552380181/honoriaw-aphony-cree-veronica-rich | /r/MensRights | 27/10/19 12:56 AM |
| 3 | "Are men talking too much?" website/counter. I saw this counter on Tumblr (link in first comment): it has 90,000 likes or shares. There are more annoying things, but it could lead to negative attitudes to men speaking.https://soulfireinc.tumblr.com/post/188349544533/when-in-doubt-sing-neala-ernswa A count of 90,000 on Tumblr means at least 45,000 people reposted it or liked it. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/19 08:50 PM |
| 2 | Higher stamp duty and property registration fees for males than for females in some parts of India"Some states like Assam and Union territories like Delhi and Puducherry have different rates for male and female categories. Assam levies 4% stamp duty and 1% registration fees on women and 5% stamp duty and 2% registration fees on men. Delhi and Puducherry also levy less charges on women." | /r/MensRights | 12/10/19 06:15 PM |
| 2 | "Tamil Nadu: Wife faces jail for false Pocso case on husband". Woman had lodged a false complaint that her estranged husband was sexually assaulting their 11-year-old daughterNoting that it is unfortunate that the woman had gone to the extent of casting aspersions against the man as if he had an ‘illicit relationship’ with his own daughter, the judge said: “This case has shocked the conscience of this court and it is unbelievable that the mother, just for the sake of taking custody of her child, can go to the extent of making such serious allegations against her husband.” The judge then observed that there were instances when the attention of this court was drawn to … | /r/MensRights | 24/08/19 02:55 PM |
| 6 | "Tamil Nadu: Wife faces jail for false Pocso case on husband". Woman had lodged a false complaint that her estranged husband was sexually assaulting their 11-year-old daughterJustice N Anand Venkatesh of the Madras high court said on Tuesday, while quashing the criminal case against the husband, and recommending initiation of criminal proceedings against the wife under Section 22 of the Pocso Act. If convicted she could be jailed for up to six months and also made to pay a fine. It doesn't seem satisfactory that the maximum sentence is 6 months for such a crime. | /r/MensRights | 24/08/19 02:54 PM |
| 1 | "Man Down! A Closer Look at Family Court." - Kickstarter "A filmmaker travels throughout the U.S. and Canada to investigate the strongly held belief by men that family courts are biased."I haven't vetted this. I did find some earlier threads saying it looked promising. | /r/MensRights | 03/08/19 11:48 AM |
| 2 | "Masculinity so fragile"Your grammar is terrible. I'm happy to learn. What grammatical errors were there? ETA: Reading it back, I suppose "it" has not been explicitly explained, though I think many people could understand that it refers to problems within neurology. What's "it"? Neurologists having a problem in how they treat some patients/types of patients. My instinctive reaction is to reject this type of language. What type of language? "Fragile masculinity" I'm trying to work out what might be the problem(s) with s… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/19 11:05 PM |
| 2 | Women's Aid in Ireland are training the police about domestic violence. I'm sure it is completely gender neutral ... not (From Irish Independent article on Boris Johnson)Extract: "Women's Aid has been providing training for An Garda Síochána and we are seeing good responses. We hope that with these new units we'll have a higher level of awareness of the dynamics of domestic violence," she says. | /r/MensRights | 25/06/19 08:11 PM |
| 1 | "UCD [Ireland] apologises to students over request to help develop 'consent' app" (Irish Examiner)"UCD apologises to students over request to help develop 'consent' app" https://www.thejournal.ie/ucd-apology-4537893-Mar2019/ It looks like the problem is that some people say this would move all rights afterwards, but I'm not sure it really does. This story is all over the Irish media. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/19 10:00 PM |
| 2 | "UCD [Ireland] apologises to students over request to help develop 'consent' app" (Irish Examiner)I'm not 100% sure what the furore is about? Is it that someone suggested the possibility that there might be a false accusation when one isn't supposed to suggest such a thing ever happens? | /r/MensRights | 12/03/19 06:17 PM |
| 10 | Misandry in a suffragette's note. According to an article, it's "on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales". Not sure if the genders were reversed, it would be on display.A female contact shared the image today on Twitter. It's discussed in this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5554999/Suffragettes-advice-marriage-goes-viral.html | /r/MensRights | 15/02/19 03:27 AM |
| 3 | Toxic Feminity is...The spelling is incorrect. It should be: Femininity | /r/MensRights | 16/01/19 02:10 AM |
| 5 | Listen to interview on Irish national radio (RTE) with consultant that trains UK police forces about domestic violence. Focuses on the new laws on "coercive control". She claims men are much less likely to be victims due to wider sexism. I find it concerning police forces are trained by her.My mother once said that women go for the jugular, metaphorically speaking, going for what they think will hurt you the most. Yet the interviewee claimed this was much more a trait of men and something to the effect that they (men) store up what they think will hurt you the most. | /r/MensRights | 12/01/19 01:51 AM |
| 5 | Listen to interview on Irish national radio (RTE) with consultant that trains UK police forces about domestic violence. Focuses on the new laws on "coercive control". She claims men are much less likely to be victims due to wider sexism. I find it concerning police forces are trained by her.The whole interview is about women as victims until the interviewer asks about men at 14:49. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/19 09:31 PM |
| 7 | Listen to interview on Irish national radio (RTE) with consultant that trains UK police forces about domestic violence. Focuses on the new laws on "coercive control". She claims men are much less likely to be victims due to wider sexism. I find it concerning police forces are trained by her.Davina James-Hanman is her name. She describes herself as a feminist in her Twitter profile. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/19 08:27 PM |
| 1 | MrDeadMoth: Looks like the physical violence was mutual rather than one directional (see images). He has been pilloried in the media and it looks like could lose much of his livelihood. He is no saint, of course.I have now watched a different clip and he appears to hit her more times than in the other clip I saw where there appeared to be only one slap. So I have less sympathy for him now. But I still think they both bear some responsibility. I wonder whether this sort of scenario is common in domestic violence cases. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/19 08:22 PM |
| 1 | Most female homicide victims are killed in the home... (BBC quietly mentions later that 80% of murder victims are men).; two thirds of the victims of homicides committed by intimate partners or family members globally are female; This means that one third of the victims are male. That is still a considerable amount. | /r/MensRights | 27/11/18 02:42 AM |
| 1 | The Irish Times is looking for feedback: "What are the downsides of being a man in 2018? As International Men’s Day approaches we want to hear from readers"Article has now been published: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/being-a-man-is-quite-scary-readers-tell-us-what-is-hard-about-being-male-in-2018-1.3700202 | /r/MensRights | 19/11/18 06:20 PM |
| 3 | The body running the Irish public health system organises an event "to highlight International White Ribbon Day 2018 to End Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls and to promote Gender Equality" on International Men's Day no less. I don't remember an equivalent event on International Women's Day!There is a similar event happening in Scotland also on International Men's Day: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/white-ribbon-scotland-national-speakers-conference-tickets-50983055692 | /r/MensRights | 16/11/18 04:15 AM |
| 5 | The body running the Irish public health system organises an event "to highlight International White Ribbon Day 2018 to End Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls and to promote Gender Equality" on International Men's Day no less. I don't remember an equivalent event on International Women's Day!In case the point is unclear, I think it would be considered very insensitive to use International Women's Day to highlight women's violence against men but somehow it is seen as acceptable to do the reverse for International Men's Day. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/18 03:21 AM |
| 1 | "Funds for women-only professorships aim to end gender inequality" "Government to back roles in third level institutions at cost of €6 million" (Ireland)Original link: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/funds-for-women-only-professorships-aim-to-end-gender-inequality-1.3693939 | /r/MensRights | 12/11/18 02:55 AM |
| 2 | "Funds for women-only professorships aim to end gender inequality" "Government to back roles in third level institutions at cost of €6 million" (Ireland)"Employment experts say if the process is successful, the practice could well extend to other areas of the public sector where there is an under-representation of women." | /r/MensRights | 12/11/18 02:37 AM |
| 2 | "Funds for women-only professorships aim to end gender inequality" "Government to back roles in third level institutions at cost of €6 million" (Ireland)I tried to archive it with Archive.is but it didn't work | /r/MensRights | 12/11/18 02:36 AM |
| 1 | Indian men's rights activists called for a men's commission. Covered on News 9 on Indian TVNEWS9 is a Karnataka English news broadcasting channel. Latest English news channel. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/18 08:25 PM |
| 1 | Indian men's rights activists called for a men's commission. Covered on News 9 on Indian TVYouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9wnlVy0hak | /r/MensRights | 06/10/18 08:24 PM |
| 1 | A woman makes a false allegation about abuse in Celebrity Big Broader (UK). Women's Aid then releases this bizarre statement defending her.There is a typo in the heading: it should say Celebrity Big Brother | /r/MensRights | 07/09/18 12:45 AM |
| 3 | "Swedish opera singer attacks #metoo mob mentality. Anne Sofie von Otter blames her country’s cultural herd mentality for husband’s suicide" (Irish Times)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/30/famed-swedish-opera-singer-blames-metoo-for-her-husbands-suicide-you-can-break-a-person | /r/MensRights | 30/07/18 05:25 PM |
| 1 | "Swedish opera singer attacks #metoo mob mentality. Anne Sofie von Otter blames her country’s cultural herd mentality for husband’s suicide" (Irish Times)Link doesn't work I'm afraid | /r/MensRights | 30/07/18 05:07 PM |
| 1 | "Why Boys Aren’t Learning"But change is on the way. In a ground-breaking move, several school boards in Ontario now require that all of their schools develop written plans to help boys catch up with girls. Durham District School Board in Whitby, Ontario requires that all its schools develop more “male-centred” teaching methods to help boost boys’ literacy. These include inviting male authors to conduct readings and purchasing more reading material geared toward boys. Many other school boards have taken similar steps by r… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/18 06:01 PM |
| 1 | Healthcare, men and sexism (incl. predominantly male conditions):Thanks for your thoughtful reply. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/18 05:54 PM |
| 1 | Healthcare, men and sexism (incl. predominantly male conditions):I spend quite a lot of time on these forums as I have a medical condition that affects me reasonably badly. The illness I have affects more women than men and it is constantly claimed that women are treated worse than men both patients with the condition and in general in health care. But there are a lot of articles in the media which make similar claims. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/18 12:18 AM |
| 1 | Healthcare, men and sexism (incl. predominantly male conditions):I have now added "and overall women are treated worse than men" which was a claim I heard yesterday on a discussion forum which has partly prompted me to ask this. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/18 10:14 PM |
| 2 | Healthcare, men and sexism (incl. predominantly male conditions):If both men and women with a condition are both treated equally badly, it's not necessarily sexism (incl. if more women than men suffer from the condition). Sample article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/memoirs-of-disease-and-disbelief "Porochista Khakpour’s deliberately unheroic “Sick” raises questions about what we expect of female patients with chronic illness." | /r/MensRights | 04/06/18 09:53 PM |
| 7 | US Preventive Services Task Force provisionally recommends clinicians should screen women for intimate partner violence. Women who screen positive should be provided or referred to appropriate services. No similar recommendation for men. Would create a lopsided view of IPV. Comments can be submittedBurden of Disease IPV is a significant public health problem. According to the CDC, 37.3% of U.S. women and 30.9% of U.S. men experience sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime.1 The prevalence of lifetime psychological aggression is higher (47.1% of women and 47.3% of men). Lifetime severe physical violence is experienced by 23.2% of women and 13.9% of men. | /r/MensRights | 30/04/18 02:09 AM |
| 17 | The World Economic Forum is going to be chaired entirely by women. This is celebrated as an example of gender equality in this tweet.I have presumed it is okay to post this without blanking out the name of the body. It is not an individual. It seems relevant. | /r/MensRights | 26/01/18 06:12 PM |
| 5 | Woman admits on "The People's Court" (TV) she injured her arm a bit to make it look like a man injured her. Video shows it also and her damaging his car. He had been arrested when he called the police. Charges for a false report had been dropped against her.Here's another link if that stops working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticN4lxKymw or search: The People's Court Dec • 14 • 2017 Car Beatdown and The People's Court (Nov 16, 2017) [NEW] Car beatdown | /r/MensRights | 20/01/18 03:17 AM |
| 1 | "Bijan Ebrahimi was beaten unconscious, dragged from his home and his body set alight. How could this happen on a British street?" Shows a problem with false accusations among other things.Oops, thought this was a new article. Saw a new article on the case http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/report-finds-man-murdered-after-wrongful-paedophilia-accusation-failed-by-british-police-and-council-819224.html and googled news articles. | /r/MensRights | 18/12/17 09:32 PM |
| 2 | Journalist Kevin Myers attacks Leo Varadkar and JK Rowling and claims he was ‘punished like a rapist, paedophile or terrorist’ for controversial Sunday Times column. Journalist tells event in Portlaoise his freedom of speech has died at the hands of political correctness.Article: https://eonic1.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/kevin-myers-notorious-gender-pay-gap-article/ or (image) http://www.politics.ie/forum/media/258131-kevin-myers-kills-his-own-career-3.html#post11350438 | /r/MensRights | 19/11/17 06:38 PM |
| 3 | Journalist Kevin Myers attacks Leo Varadkar and JK Rowling and claims he was ‘punished like a rapist, paedophile or terrorist’ for controversial Sunday Times column. Journalist tells event in Portlaoise his freedom of speech has died at the hands of political correctness.Kevin Myers was one of the few journalists who regularly challenged feminists in Ireland. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/17 04:27 PM |
| 1 | We sometimes hear a woman is out of a man's league but rarely if ever it seems a man is out of a woman's league. It's like there's an unofficial caste system where woman are told they can select whoever they want but men shouldn't think too much of themselves. This might affect men's self-esteemI think I did hear it said that Penny was out of Leonard's league in one of the recent episodes of the Big Bang Theory | /r/MensRights | 15/11/17 01:24 AM |
| 10 | We sometimes hear a woman is out of a man's league but rarely if ever it seems a man is out of a woman's league. It's like there's an unofficial caste system where woman are told they can select whoever they want but men shouldn't think too much of themselves. This might affect men's self-esteemBackground: occurred to me after an episode of Modern Family (series 9 episode 6) where Jay says if Gloria got a lot less physically attractive (aged 30 years, got wrinkly, put on a lot of weight/similar) she would still be out of his league. | /r/MensRights | 14/11/17 04:14 AM |
| 3 | (UK) BBC pay: Male presenters could face wage cut BBC = British Broadcasting CorporationBe discriminated against because of your gender is okay? Not everyone would have a lot of other jobs available of a similar type. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/17 04:19 PM |
| 2 | Being male is a risk factor for being discharged against medical advice (from US hospitals)Other people can decide how interesting or uninteresting this is. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/17 03:21 PM |
| 2 | "More female surgeons needed in health service" (says one Irish consultant). I think there will likely always be fewer female doctors who want to be surgeons compared to many other medical jobs as the hours in many types of surgical specialties are inherently irregular.And an awful lot of medical education is partly or fully funded by taxpayers especially outside the US. | /r/MensRights | 10/06/17 01:31 AM |
| 2 | "More female surgeons needed in health service" (says one Irish consultant). I think there will likely always be fewer female doctors who want to be surgeons compared to many other medical jobs as the hours in many types of surgical specialties are inherently irregular.One way to look at this issue might be to say one needs gender quotas for men in medicine to ensure there are enough surgeons??? | /r/MensRights | 09/06/17 08:46 PM |
| 6 | "More female surgeons needed in health service" (says one Irish consultant). I think there will likely always be fewer female doctors who want to be surgeons compared to many other medical jobs as the hours in many types of surgical specialties are inherently irregular."as the hours in many types of surgical specialties are inherently irregular": I ran out of words. The reason I think this is a lot of surgical procedures would be unplanned, urgent procedures. Also I imagine some operations are also unexpectedly long. | /r/MensRights | 09/06/17 08:46 PM |
| 2 | "Better-educated women ‘find it harder’ to meet partner" (based on a sociological book). Irritates me the way it makes out things are all easy for men. (Not sure whether it is a perfect fit for this subreddit?)If women not being able to go into a bar/pub on their own is such a problem, why do less well educated women have fewer problems. Seems to me to be mainly a red herring. Women commenting on it on Twitter say it's because better educated women/they are fussier which is what I might speculate also e.g. only men who "earn well" are acceptable to them (maybe the same level or more) which leaves a smaller pool of eligible men than women on lower salaries. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/17 07:01 PM |
| 2 | "Women in prison: The need for radical reform". Seems a very unbalanced piece.Related piece in the same issue: Some crochet, others go to school and some just sit around in the 'rec room' – a day in the life of a female prisoner in Ireland http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/some-crochet-others-go-to-school-and-some-just-sit-around-in-the-rec-room-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-female-prisoner-in-ireland-35708654.html | /r/MensRights | 15/05/17 01:04 PM |
| 2 | "Women in prison: The need for radical reform". Seems a very unbalanced piece.Related piece in the same issue: Inside a women's prison: 'My daughter thinks I'm away doing a hairdressing course' http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/inside-a-womens-prison-my-daughter-thinks-im-away-doing-a-hairdressing-course-35706399.html | /r/MensRights | 15/05/17 01:01 PM |
| 1 | "Women in prison: The need for radical reform". Seems a very unbalanced piece.Related piece in the same issue: Inside the Women’s Prison: ‘Society says she deserves what she gets but the child is also impacted by this' http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/inside-the-womens-prison-society-says-she-deserves-what-she-gets-but-the-child-is-also-impacted-by-this-35709316.html | /r/MensRights | 15/05/17 01:00 PM |
| 2 | "Feminist Pledge" from Femfest feminist conference in Dublin today. Shows where feminism is heading/wants to head. They seem to want to claim lots of causes as their own. Includes a call for women-only spaces when Irish feminists have regularly complained about any man-only spaces e.g. golf clubs.Here's an easier-to-read version of this from the same conference. Unfortunately a lot of it is covered up. http://imgur.com/a/RUNdj Perhaps another version can be found on the Internet. I found both of these on Twitter. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/16 11:19 PM |
| 1 | Male victims are featuring in part of a large-ish domestic violence campaign in Ireland (though female victims will feature more). Here is a link to the current ad featuring a male victim. (30 seconds)Article with information on the campaign: http://www.thejournal.ie/domestic-abuse-2-3084760-Nov2016/ | /r/MensRights | 22/11/16 03:22 AM |
| 1 | Male victims are featuring in part of a large-ish domestic violence campaign in Ireland (though female victims will feature more). Here is a link to the current ad featuring a male victim. (30 seconds)Ad featuring a female victim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH3zXk4s0mw | /r/MensRights | 22/11/16 03:22 AM |
| 16 | (UK) Q. Do women receive more compensation for scarring than men? A. "Yes" - the law regards facial looks to be more important to women than men and the pain and suffering from facial disfigurement to be far greater for a woman than a man.I can understand the logic for this but if it's acceptable to give women more money than men for certain things that affect their sexual market value more than men, if one is driven by fairness you could also want to give men more money than women for things that might affect their sexual market value more e.g. ability to earn perhaps. However I imagine there would be outcry for the latter. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 03:07 AM |
| 2 | Hints of majoritarianism by some feministsThe US is only one country in the world. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/16 06:06 PM |
| 4 | "On sex differences in height and food discrimination (why the hypothesis is ridiculous)". A critique of a (feminist) research paper proposing the gender difference in height has been down to males systematically depriving females of food."Please show us a society where men prefer to distribute food to unrelated males rather than their own starving wives and daughters. It doesn’t exist for the reason we mentioned, such men would be selected against. This is simply how evolution works." This makes me wonder whether this could partly explain why there is not that much support for charities for men: men aren't willing to support other men who might be in competition with them? | /r/MensRights | 25/10/16 04:34 PM |
| 4 | (Sunday Independent) "Minister will favour women for State jobs." "Minister Denis Naughten wants to tip the gender balance on boards under his remit to the point where they are made up of 60pc women." "Women tend to be far more questioning than men"Ireland | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 02:21 PM |
| 3 | ‘Lord protect me from easily offended snowflake girls’ (by a woman)Not a bad article so I haven't used archive.is | /r/MensRights | 17/10/16 08:50 PM |
| 3 | Victorian students to be taught about "male privilege" in mandatory new school subject.from the pilot toolkit's https://www.ourwatch.org.au/getmedia/67ef5983-b19d-4f70-a807-9910e5b09f6e/RRE-toolkit-Step-3-Understanding-where-you-are-at-AA.pdf.aspx?ext=.pdf section on gender and violence: Gender-based violence, whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, psychological or economic, is based on the belief that men have the right to control and exert power over women. While women of course never feel they have any sort of right to control their spouses in any way. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/16 03:21 AM |
| 8 | "Peter Hook says Caroline Aherne was physically abusive during marriage" Subheading: Musician claims in autobiography that the comedian, who died in July, attacked him with knives, bottles and chairs before splitAn example of domestic abuse against a man being highlighted in the (national) media | /r/MensRights | 03/10/16 06:33 PM |
| 1 | "Girls face huge quality of life difference across England" (BBC headline). So do boys/males but Charity Plan International chose to focus their report on girls.Came across this on Sky News | /r/MensRights | 13/09/16 01:38 AM |
| 9 | Man is dying. His wife divorces him and asks alimony 10 million dollars per year, and over 300 million dollars to "maintain her lifestyle"Christina Estrada asked for annual payments of: - £600,000 for hiring private jets - £116,000 for handbags - £83,000 for cocktail dresses - £40,000 for fur coats - £4,000 for sunglasses - £46,000 for Wimbledon and Ascot tickets - £39,000 for watches Her total demand: £6.5 million per year The court granted: £2.5 million per year, including £500,000 for clothes* | /r/MensRights | 13/07/16 11:39 PM |
| 5 | "Former Pirelli calendar model awarded £75m in largest divorce settlement in English legal history"*Christina Estrada’s needs Christina Estrada asked for annual payments of: £600,000 for hiring private jets £116,000 for handbags £83,000 for cocktail dresses £40,000 for fur coats £4,000 for sunglasses £46,000 for Wimbledon and Ascot tickets £39,000 for watches Her total demand: £6.5 million per year The court granted: £2.5 million per year, including £500,000 for clothes* | /r/MensRights | 13/07/16 03:11 AM |
| 2 | "Mandatory gender quotas proposed for [academic positions within] NUI Galway [Irish university]" (Irish Times)"The quota to be promoted would be based on the number of women eligible for promotion at the grade below – a so-called cascade approach that would lead to approximately 50/50 selection over time." | /r/MensRights | 14/04/16 06:41 PM |
| 2 | "High Court dismisses gender quota challenge" (relates to Irish politics. Parties lose 50% of State funding if candidates not 30%+ male & female; will require 40% quota in 7 years)Some cases weren't hidden e.g. "Fianna Fáil blocks male councillor from election bid due to gender quota" http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/fianna-fil-blocks-male-councillor-from-election-bid-due-to-gender-quota-31536866.html | /r/MensRights | 02/02/16 07:12 PM |
| 4 | Irish Times article reporting on domestic violence cases before a family court. Most prominent case describes a male victim (December 30)He said on Monday his wife threw a knife at him and stuck a scissors in his neck. She would have injured him further if his adult daughter had not intervened. He also said that over the Christmas break his wife pushed him down the stairs and threw a hammer at him. He told the judge his wife had suffered all her life with mental health issues and was on anti-depressants, but had become more violent recently. He was afraid of her, he said. | /r/MensRights | 30/12/15 05:41 PM |
| 1 | From a BMJ* press release & article on gender and academic medical leadership: "in business having more women leaders has been linked with better performance" *Formerly known as the British Medical Journal, a leading medical journalFull quote: "This is a problem not only because of the strong ethical argument for equality but also for practical reasons: in business having more women leaders has been linked with better performance. For example, one study found that top firms experience positive returns on the date that female directors are announced, and another found that the Fortune 500 companies (the 500 largest US corporations by total revenue) with the highest representation of women in senior management experience sig… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/15 07:36 PM |
| 1 | From a BMJ* press release & article on gender and academic medical leadership: "in business having more women leaders has been linked with better performance" *Formerly known as the British Medical Journal, a leading medical journalLink to press release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/b-mwm121415.php | /r/MensRights | 18/12/15 07:33 PM |
| 1 | Man launches High Court case against gender quotas in politics in Ireland. [Aside: The quota is only 30% for the first seven years of the law. After that it's a 40% gender quota]Who says they weren't given equal opportunities (in Ireland). If women were being excluded by parties, one would expect to see a higher percentage of independent candidates being female than party candidates. However, it was the opposite (in Ireland) i.e. the percentage of independent candidates who were female was smaller than the percentage of party candidates who were female. | /r/MensRights | 09/11/15 05:06 AM |
| 1 | Man launches High Court case against gender quotas in politics in Ireland. [Aside: The quota is only 30% for the first seven years of the law. After that it's a 40% gender quota]Another article: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/fianna-f%C3%A1il-member-takes-legal-action-over-gender-quotas-1.2420526 | /r/MensRights | 07/11/15 07:02 PM |
| 1 | Man launches High Court case against gender quotas in politics in Ireland. [Aside: The quota is only 30% for the first seven years of the law. After that it's a 40% gender quota]Another article: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ff-candidate-to-challenge-gender-quota-law-363680.html | /r/MensRights | 07/11/15 07:02 PM |
| 4 | "Air India offers 25% discount for women flyers" (October 18, 2015)I am not an expert on Air India but presume they don't have similar discounts for men. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/15 04:11 AM |
| 1 | "Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health" to be launched this month. There's one group missing there ... (I haven't looked into this properly. Hoping others might. There was also a "2010-2015 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health")The BMJ Supplement’s 15 papers are linked to here: http://www.who.int/life-course/news/women-ado-children-bmj-series/en/ | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 02:54 AM |
| 2 | "Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health" to be launched this month. There's one group missing there ... (I haven't looked into this properly. Hoping others might. There was also a "2010-2015 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health")Not sure if a characterisation as a "support organisation" is accurate or at least gets across that this is part of the World Health Organisation and the strategy is associated with countries and the UN (see next quote I just posted) | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 12:51 AM |
| 1 | "Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health" to be launched this month. There's one group missing there ... (I haven't looked into this properly. Hoping others might. There was also a "2010-2015 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health")Another quote from a BMJ press release: "As the deadline for the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals approaches, countries have come together to agree upon a new set of development goals, which will be launched also in New York this month. The survival, health and well-being of women, children and adolescents is at the heart of this agenda, and the new Global Strategy to prevent deaths and improve the health of millions of women, children and adolescents will provide a platform for the … | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 12:48 AM |
| 1 | "Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health" to be launched this month. There's one group missing there ... (I haven't looked into this properly. Hoping others might. There was also a "2010-2015 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health")Can you (or anyone else) post a link to earlier thread(s). I'm not reading much reddit at the moment so missed it/them. Thanks. ETA: Have found this now: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3kygmv/act_now_to_improve_the_health_of_women_children/? | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 12:17 AM |
| 2 | "Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health" to be launched this month. There's one group missing there ... (I haven't looked into this properly. Hoping others might. There was also a "2010-2015 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health")From a BMJ press release this week: "No woman, child or adolescent should face a greater risk of preventable death just because of where they live," says Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization. "We know what needs to be done. With the existing evidence, we now have the opportunity to end preventable deaths among all women, children, and adolescents, to vastly improve their health, and to bring about the transformative changes needed to fully realise their … | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 12:05 AM |
| 1 | Domestic Killings in Northern Ireland: 36 female & 31 male victims (were recorded by the Police Service of NI between 2005/06 and 2014/15)This relates to those who "lost their lives to current or former partners or family members." | /r/MensRights | 07/09/15 02:01 PM |
| 1 | Domestic Killings in Northern Ireland: 36 female & 31 male victims (were recorded by the Police Service of NI between 2005/06 and 2014/15)An Irish Times article on this: Almost 70 domestic violence deaths in North in past decade http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/almost-70-domestic-violence-deaths-in-north-in-past-decade-1.2341960 | /r/MensRights | 07/09/15 01:47 PM |
| 3 | Domestic Killings in Northern Ireland: 36 female & 31 male victims (were recorded by the Police Service of NI between 2005/06 and 2014/15)Not all of these were adults: The death toll includes adults and children, with 13 children in the youngest age category of 0 to 9-years-old (that's 19.4%) | /r/MensRights | 07/09/15 01:46 PM |
| 1 | "Men and obesity: where’s the help with weight loss?" (July 12 Guardian (UK)). "Two thirds of men are overweight and at risk of premature death as a consequence. But all the support is aimed at women. One desperate man set out to change that". Note: author set up: manvfat.com i.e. may be biasedI'm not sure whether there is other evidence suggesting possible disadvantage for men in the health system. But weight loss programs being more aimed at women than men is a men's issue even if probably not the biggest men's rights issue. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 07:50 PM |
| 30 | "The reason why men refuse to ask for directions? SEXISM! Males are judged more harshly than females if they ask for help, study reveals" (May 15, 2015). Experiment controls for everything except genderBullet points from start of article: Study by Duke University hints clichéd habit may be caused by sexism Field study and lab experiment focused on the workplace found people saw men who asked for directions as less proficient leaders But asking for help did not affect participants' views of female leaders Despite the findings, the lead researcher said that businesses are starting to value a more feminine style of management | /r/MensRights | 29/05/15 01:51 AM |
| 1 | BBC Bans Men's Political Party From Talking About Men (Or Even Talking To Them)Here's the fourth paragraph with the meat of the problem "This hostility and bias against the party from the BBC raised to a whole new level more recently, with an astonishing turn of events in BBC Radio Nottingham’s hustings debates. Firstly, the BBC refused to allow Barry to participate its Broxtowe constituency hustings broadcast, thereby restricting the party to one single hustings debate in Ashfield. This one and only J4MB-featured debate was scheduled for 23 April, and saw Buchanan pitted … | /r/MensRights | 09/05/15 11:00 PM |
| 2 | The pole tax on men is why I'm not voting tomorrowI think it may be a pun and be referring to the "pole" between a man's legs. | /r/MensRights | 07/05/15 01:15 AM |
| 1 | "The Sweaty Nixon Debate Series: Men's Rights". "Ben welcomes Mel Fite, Founder of the National Center for Men and a staunch advocate for Men's Rights and Jason Stanford, Democratic strategist, formerly of Planned Parenthood and founder of Stanford Campaigns to debate the Men's Rights"The full description didn't fit in the header: "On this special Sweaty Nixon edition of Top Hat, Ben welcomes Mel Fite, Founder of the National Center for Men and a staunch advocate for Men's Rights and Jason Stanford, Democratic strategist, formerly of Planned Parenthood and founder of Stanford Campaigns to debate the Men's Rights Movements and whether any of their arguments hold water in 21st century America." | /r/MensRights | 27/04/15 10:12 PM |
| 1 | "How Rolling Stone is advancing rape accusation culture" (April 17)I looked for the "false accusations" flair but it seems to have been removed. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/15 12:43 AM |
| 13 | "Love-starved Corporal's wife who seduced soldier's son, 14, after meeting him on a school bus is spared jail" (She also told a neighbour he had raped her)Bullets from start of article: 27-year-old Caroline Salisbury was given a two year suspended sentence She began having 'sex sessions' with the boy, Service Cilvilian Court heard Would invite him over when her husband David was not in their quarters Ignored two separate warnings to stop meeting the boy after being caught | /r/MensRights | 28/03/15 04:36 AM |
| 13 | ‘Did I have to die for them to go to prison?’: Male victim of vicious attack complains about the soft sentences the women receivedEarlier thread which links to an article with more information: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2zbcfv/women_tortured_man_by_burning_hair_tongs_and/ | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 06:11 PM |
| 88 | "Women tortured man by burning hair tongs and cigarette lighter on to his genitals like a scene from Reservoir Dogs when they found out he dated three people at once". All let go. Male accomplice (who did other crimes also) jailed"Laura Addy, for Earles, said her client had severe mental health issues and was under Teale's spell." She was 47, he was 27. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/15 03:58 AM |
| 62 | "Women tortured man by burning hair tongs and cigarette lighter on to his genitals like a scene from Reservoir Dogs when they found out he dated three people at once". All let go. Male accomplice (who did other crimes also) jailedLorraine Earles, 47, Natalie Lilley, 19, and Leah White, 22, lured in victim Strapped him to a chair in a flat and forced him to drink liquid wash Pressed hot hair tongs to his genitals and a cigarette lighter to his neck Gang punched, kicked and slapped the victim as well as biting at his ear They also threatened to suffocate him by wrapping a scarf on his mouth Women were joined by Brendan Teale, 27, who also took part in attack York Crown Court heard assault was like a scene from film Reservo… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/15 03:55 AM |
| 2 | One in Three Campaign - Q&A domestic violence program ignored male victimsAnother piece on the same show: http://relatingtomen.com/blog/the-misnomer-of-family-violence/ | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 02:15 AM |
| 2 | "Men on Tinder are NOT as terrible as you think: Fake profile [of a woman] receives over 1,000 polite comments - and no abuse"Bullet points at the topic of the article: Profile was set up by blogger in response to ByeFelipe Instagram account ByeFelipe posts screenshots of men sending abusive messages to women Karen Cheng claims the accounts are exaggerated and rarely take place Robot 'right-swiped' 2,000 men on Tinder in San Francisco and New York 1,000 men matched and all were polite, despite not getting a response | /r/MensRights | 18/02/15 03:42 AM |
| 2 | Woman's group blasts plan for Men's Rights Society at Staffordshire University (warning - article actually contains honest and balanced journalism)One can read the submission (and subsequent discussion) here: http://www.staffsunion.com/betterstaffsforum/#tabideas | /r/MensRights | 17/02/15 08:54 PM |
| 1 | "Should Women Speak First in University Classrooms?" (Sub-heading: Feminists behaving badly yet again...) (Would have preferred it without last paragraph)Forgot to say: Article is by Janice Fiamengo | /r/MensRights | 17/02/15 05:29 AM |
| 2 | Femme International's "Sponsor a Boy" programme includes discussion of "the wider issues of gender equality, consent and empowerment". Sounds like it's (at least partly) about spreading the feminist viewpoint of the world.The feminists don't seem to be just giving practical support to these boys. If they were, I wouldn't complain. | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 05:41 AM |
| 1 | Letter in Irish Times (the paper of record in Ireland) criticises Women's and Gender Studies centresThis (critical) reply was published today: http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/gender-bias-and-science-1.2039861 | /r/MensRights | 17/12/14 02:11 AM |
| 1 | "Confronting the C-word" - November 27 editorial by Wendy McElroy critiques talk of "rape culture" (and other uses of the "culture" word)Here's the intro to help people decide if they want to look at it: The first rule of the politics of fear is that if you want to make something sound scarier than it actually is, you add the word 'culture' at the end of it. – Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked It is the c-word*: culture. Depending on the political agenda of the alarmist du jour, we live in a rape culture, a gun culture, an abortion culture, a culture of racism. A standard definition of culture is "the totality of socially transmi… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/14 11:14 PM |
| 2 | Why Feminism Is NOT 'The Fight for Equal Rights' by Chris GoodApologies if this has been posted before. I did do some searches and couldn't find it here. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/14 11:47 PM |
| 1 | Do you want to put the New York Catcalling video in its place? Replicate it!Here's a male version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75aX9mlipiY | /r/MensRights | 04/11/14 09:10 PM |
| 1 | "Invisible Victims: Men In Abusive Relationships": Quite long/detailed blog post on domestic violence. Includes practical advice.Some people may find the start a little irritating. But he doesn't maintain that tone for the rest of the piece. | /r/MensRights | 12/10/14 01:00 AM |
| 2 | FEMINASTY - Redonkulas.com: "What defines a Radical Feminist?"Some of you may have come across this guy before but he's new to me. He's got an off-beat style which drew me in: I find I don't watch that many videos through, but this guy sucked me in. It/he may not appeal to everyone perhaps. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/14 01:40 AM |
| 1 | Woman convicted of False Rape Report that got man fired0, 18 doesn't equal 0.18 in American English (although I believe in some European countries, a comma could mean that). HungryGeorge meant: 0 months in jail 18 months probation. | /r/MensRights | 30/08/14 09:11 PM |
| 1 | Studies Show Women Are More Successful Than Men at Raising Money Online Via Kickstarter, IndiegogoThanks. I did do a search for Kickstarter but that thread wasn't picked up. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/14 02:43 AM |
| 12 | Studies Show Women Are More Successful Than Men at Raising Money Online Via Kickstarter, IndiegogoI'm inclined to believe if the genders were reversed, this might be discussed as an example of discrimination against women. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/14 04:13 PM |
| 6 | Studies Show Women Are More Successful Than Men at Raising Money Online Via Kickstarter, Indiegogo"Overall, women are 13% more likely than men to meet their Kickstarter goals, even after controlling for project type, amount being raised and other factors, according to the analysis, which examined 1,250 projects in five categories that sought at least $5,000 between 2010 and 2012." [..] The funding gap has been "stubbornly persistent," says Ethan Mollick, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business who co-wrote the Kickstarter analysis with Jason Gree… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/14 03:56 PM |
| 1 | new to men's rights, looking for more infoLink isn't work for me now. But found the page on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20140427224210/http://www.cultural-misandry.com/mens-rights/ | /r/MensRights | 03/08/14 11:25 PM |
| 4 | "Man cleared of rape after court shown phone footage of woman 'actively' taking part in sex" (2009) - anonymous claimant still described as "the victim"I was only half concentrating reading this and was confused when it referred to "victim's flat" but then it wasn't talking about the man who had just been named and falsely accused! They do describe her as the "alleged victim" at one point. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 02:43 AM |
| 1 | Woman who stabbed 18-month-old girl while she was attacking child’s mother walks free from courtIt was in Ireland also. Senator Bacik and Mary O'Rourke had a women-only meeting of Oireachtas Members in 2008 with Baroness Corston. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 01:36 AM |
| 1 | Feminist woman talks about why she refuses to hire women at her workplaceI recall two female teacher friends of mind pointing out that punishing male and female students was very different, with dealing with male students being much easier. If they punished a male student, he'd have forgotten about it next day and still be friendly with her. With a female student, they'd have to be very careful or they could make an enemy indefinitely. [Aside: I don't think this is anything to looks - one was always quite overweight] | /r/MensRights | 19/05/14 12:30 AM |
| 1 | Reverse Sexism breeds Contempt!Men's Human Rights Movement | /r/MensRights | 12/03/14 04:45 AM |
| 1 | Science finds that women use bitch, slut, whore, & ass when communicating with other women on twitter more than men do, or women do with men. Men and women call each other cunts at about the same rate. But about half of all uses of cunt on twitter are men calling out other men.This research was probably highlighted at the time: "A Cold War Fought by Women" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/science/a-cold-war-fought-by-women.html?src=recg&_r=2& Extract: "Stigmatizing female promiscuity — a.k.a. slut-shaming — has often been blamed on men, who have a Darwinian incentive to discourage their spouses from straying. But they also have a Darwinian incentive to encourage other women to be promiscuous. Dr. Vaillancourt said the experiment and other research suggest the stigma … | /r/MensRights | 24/02/14 02:02 AM |
| 1 | American Heart Association: American Heart Month now Women's Heart MonthA better measure of the effect of a medical condition is not the number of deaths but the numbers of years of life lost due to it. As far as I know, men are more likely to die younger and hence lose more years. Also, the effect of medicines is often judged by the quality of life one is left with: surviving but living a poor quality of life for x years may not be as good as another treatment giving x-1 years more but one has a better quality of life. Similarly, dying early means one loses more ye… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/14 02:36 AM |
| 1 | Be a ManI would have preferred if it wasn't simply male voices as I'm not convinced that is a fair reflection of the topic. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/14 12:46 AM |
| 2 | "Honeytrap mother escapes jail after luring man to ‘humiliating’ torture with offer of a threesome""Despite admitting false imprisonment, McCluney, 23, was spared jail after the judge concluded she had been under the control and influence of Hogan and Doyle. "The mother-of-three had been in an abusive relationship with Hogan, was in fear of Doyle and was now trying to overcome her troubled past, the court heard." I don't recall many/any cases where a female defendant gets a significant jail sentence but the male defendant gets a suspended sentence because it was agreed "he was under the contr… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/14 08:19 PM |
| 1 | Further criticism of Feminism is officially banned on Wikipedia.I'm afraid I don't have the time at the moment to read through the thread but thought I'd point out that the Masculism entry was previously more interesting/thorough but a lot of the points got cut out after a cull. Here's a sample page (from 2011) https://web.archive.org/web/20111029210224/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism . Here's a sample page from 2012 after it was dramatically shortened: https://web.archive.org/web/20121115202315/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism The current page … | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 03:13 AM |
| 1 | Freakonomics » A Unifying Theory of Why Women Earn LessI recall hearing of an experiment in the UK. The same job was advertised at two different pay rates, one substantially (nearly 100%) higher than the other. A much higher percentage of the women who applied went for the job with the lower pay and vice versa. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/13 02:13 PM |
| 1 | Swedish TV4 "created" legal scandalA better translation would be useful, alright. | /r/MensRights | 31/08/13 02:04 AM |
| 1 | Is it possible to be an MRA and a liberal at the same time?Me personally, I'm in the left and libertarian quadrant, although am less to the left than I used to be, but both times I would have been into Men's Rights. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/13 06:40 PM |
| 1 | Is it possible to be an MRA and a liberal at the same time?The political compass http://www.politicalcompass.org/ has two axes: left/right and libertarian/authoritarian. I think these are being mixed up in some posts. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/13 06:40 PM |
| 4 | Panel of Norwegian feminists say "hate speech online must be persecuted" and recommends "that the Nordic governments charge a state body, a private or voluntary organisation with the task of continualPage 35 is in English. | /r/MensRights | 30/03/13 06:40 AM |
| 3 | "This is a user submitted blog highlighting the privileges users have felt by being female"- interesting ideaApologies if this has been highlighted before. I tried a couple of searches and couldn't find it. | /r/MensRights | 30/03/13 04:56 AM |
| 2 | "After Tanya stabbed Paul in 2006, we checked on him every day – we knew that she would kill him" (a rare murder conviction for a woman in a domestic violence case in Ireland)I accept that a lot more men than women kill people, which seems to be what that study shows. However, despite the title, the data in study seems to be about homicides. The distinction I was thinking about was between murder and manslaughter which are two types of homicide in Ireland. An awful lot of women in Ireland seem to get a manslaughter rather than murder conviction when they kill somebody. So I think it would be fair to say a murder conviction for a woman is rare in Ireland (maybe single… | /r/MensRights | 19/03/13 12:50 AM |
| 3 | "After Tanya stabbed Paul in 2006, we checked on him every day – we knew that she would kill him" (a rare murder conviction for a woman in a domestic violence case in Ireland)It is true that one can't marry for four years in Ireland, but one can live with somebody of course in the meantime so not sure how much that really would force anybody to stay with anybody. I'm not sure if divorce is that heavily stigmatised. It was the case that one couldn't get divorced - divorce only became legal in 1996. I'm not sure they are that relevant in this case. One thing that might cause some men to feel pressure to stay with violent women is how men are treated in the family court… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/13 03:40 AM |
| 1 | u.n. commission dominated by gender activists: "men’s sexual behavior can be a form of violence, since pregnancy is an outcome of it."They adopted a resolution in the end: http://www.dw.de/un-adopts-declaration-condemning-violence-against-women/a-16678852 Don't know why they can't have sentences like: "The commission urges states to strongly condemn all forms of violence against women and girls, <added> and men and boys </added>, and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination,” | /r/MensRights | 17/03/13 04:36 AM |
| 2 | Different levels of "rape" needed in law?When I was a young adult, a common refrain from feminists was "rape is rape is rape". I certainly had problems with the attitude where there were basically no mitigating circumstances and no distinctions between types of offence. So, for example, if a couple are having sex, with penetration having taking place initially with consent, but then later on a woman changed her mind and a man didn't pull out quickly enough, that would also be considered rape. And given the call for five year sentences … | /r/MensRights | 04/03/13 04:22 AM |
| 6 | Letter in a newspaper asks about the effects of the jury gender make-up on verdicts. Does anyone know any research on it?Apologies, link didn't go with message for some reason. Here it is: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2013/0222/1224330366388.html but it's not essential people read it, I suppose. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/13 01:29 AM |
| 1 | Women voting on conscription of males in AustriaA gender breakdown of votes would be interesting. | /r/MensRights | 21/01/13 06:37 AM |
| 2 | Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act in Ireland: "A female child under the age of 17 years shall not be guilty of an offence under this Act" (ROMEO AND JULIET LAW)Here's the link to the story of a 17 year old* sent to jail for having sex with a 15 year old http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1214/man-jailed-for-having-sex-with-15-year-old-girl.html As you can see, he's also now been registered as a sex offender. Perhaps worth its own thread if it doesn't have one. *ignore heading which mentions a "man" - it's misleading, which is interesting in itself | /r/MensRights | 29/12/12 02:56 AM |
| 3 | Feminist's Take on Men's Awareness EventI think you meant: "it would not mean that men's rights are not under attack and that we don't also suffer in other ways." | /r/MensRights | 19/11/12 12:47 AM |
| 1 | The ten most powerful people in men's rights(stating the obvious) If people dislike the colors involved in the page, they can always copy the text over to another file type e.g. put into a blank text e-mail. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/12 04:39 PM |
| 1 | Female in male's face for 2 minutes then hits him. (x-post /r/videos)Anyone know if this video is available anywhere else? I was going to link to it but it's gone. | /r/MensRights | 30/10/12 06:09 PM |
| 6 | Can I convince my fiancee that the wage gap is a myth?It's interesting how risk appears in this: "So really it was a decision to make. Either take the safe route and accept the $20/hr guaranteed, or demand more and risk that the employer would say no and move on to the next candidate while you end up unemployed." It's known men are willing to take more risks to themselves in other areas so it seems plausible (although still could be incorrect) that they might take more risks here also. | /r/MensRights | 27/09/12 01:59 AM |
| 1 | Castration: Secret of Longer Life for Men - Do studies like these worry anyone else?Being facetious for once, it made me look at dogs in a whole other light! | /r/MensRights | 26/09/12 02:17 AM |
| 10 | Prison Rape: Obama’s Program to Stop ItI didn't have time to read it all closely. But skimming down it and doing a few searches, the focus seems to be more/much more on female victims, with little talk of male victims even though presumably there are more of them (at least numerically). | /r/MensRights | 23/09/12 02:17 AM |
| 3 | A little rant - I was pressured to step in and help a woman in distress.This reminds me of some radio talk show discussions I've heard: some female callers were complaining that less people would step in to stop disagreements/fights than in the past and it was a disgrace the way society was going. It later became clear that they wouldn't do it themselves. They didn't seem to realise that it was hypocritical to be complaining about other people not doing something that you're not willing to do yourself. I'm not saying all women are like this of course, but there were… | /r/MensRights | 15/09/12 02:15 AM |
| 1 | Modern Day Witch-HuntSo if one committed a sexual assault on a 17 year old, that would be counted as a sexual assault on a minor? If the offender is 17/18/19 (say), that's not paedophilia in my book, it's an ordinary sexual assault. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/12 04:34 PM |
| 3 | Modern Day Witch-HuntSeems a bit odd as I would have thought there would have been a low density of minors on a campus. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/12 01:52 AM |
| 2 | Modern Day Witch-HuntAre pedophiles the most dangerous people in society? What about violent people - are there similar rules made for them? (not in my country but then we don't have such bans for pedophiles on campus either, that I know of). | /r/MensRights | 14/09/12 01:52 AM |
| 1 | Why don't we hear anything about the men's vote?They were just samples. The basic point is that a fluctuation one way in women can be overruled by a big fluctuation the other way for men. If one takes Todd Akin's comment as an example, his comments could jeopardise his vote dramatically among women without helping his vote much for men; the same thing could occur in the other direction. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/12 01:58 AM |
| 1 | Why don't we hear anything about the men's vote?Ok, I live outside the US. Most countries lock up a relatively small amount of people so that number doesn't make such a difference to the overall percentages in other countries. We have the focus on women's vote even though the voting gap is quite small. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/12 01:54 AM |
| 1 | Why don't we hear anything about the men's vote?No, that's not necessarily true. Say Obama is ahead 60:40 (60% vs 40%) with women. If he was behind 30:70 (say) with men, he would lose the election. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/12 03:33 AM |
| 2 | Why don't we hear anything about the men's vote?I'm not convinced that's the reason. Men make up pretty close to 50% of the voters - the women's vote isn't a huge amount bigger. Also, whatever the exact percentage, it's a lot bigger than a lot of other segments (apart from women) that are often targeted. Yet, it's not explicitly mentioned. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/12 01:47 AM |
| 3 | Australian government commits $320m to create compulsory gender quotas in Pacific islandsThis is the story that prompted a Australian radio presenter Alan Jones to complain that women were destroying the joint. He generalised a lot/too much. Anyway, this prompted #destroythejoint to trend on Twitter with lots of feminists in a rage. I wonder do they notice that his comments aren't that different from what many feminists have said about men ruling the world i.e. being the source of its problems. And I can well imagine if a male leader had committed to giving $320m to programs to help… | /r/MensRights | 04/09/12 02:25 AM |
| 2 | I'm curious, what does the MRM think about asexuality?A lot of what stops men complaining about discrimination against men, misandry, etc. is fear it will hamper their chances of having sex. Asexuals don't have to worry about this so could be more free to advocate. Some Men's Right issues won't be as relevant to asexuals. However, they still should have a problem with things like gender quotas. [A group that are similarly free are priests who have taken a vow of celibacy] | /r/MensRights | 27/08/12 12:13 AM |
| 3 | My University's Students' Union has a Women's officer but no Men's officerLittle anecdote, for what it is worth: When I was in college, I was annoyed there was a women rights' officer but no men's rights officer, although the former wasn't a sabbatical position but one of 6 officers that were nominated each year. The titles of these six positions could vary from year to year. At the meeting when the positions were being picked, they asked for positions to be thrown out. I said "equality officer" which generated a bit of whispering. What ended up happening was there wa… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/12 01:49 AM |
| 18 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againI've been seeing a lot of "action" on misandry recently by feminists, either mocking it or claiming it doesn't exist, at least in the same way misogny exists. I'm afraid this got me wondering about the individuals' attitudes to men ... | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 02:10 AM |
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