Two Oppressed Genders

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After eons of struggle against cruelty and oppression it appears that we are now down to just two communities still suffering under the lash of oppression: women and men. Despite this good news much remains to be done. Here’s a short outline of the injustices still faced by these two remaining groups of downtrodden based on the claims of their most vocal advocates.

Women:

• Are paid about 20% less than men.

• Live in a rape culture.

• Suffer violence at the hands of men.

And…

• Are not equally represented on the country’s banknotes.

• Are dressed in pink and bought Barbies.

• Are often judged on their appearance.

• Do more of the housework.

• Have doors opened for them and other micro-aggressions.

• Are condescended to by men.

• Have to queue for the toilet.

• Are called “bossy” if they assert themselves.

Men:

• Receive much higher sentences in courts than women for the same crime.

• Are also heavily discriminated in the family courts after divorce.

• As boys suffer at the hands of a feminised education system

• Commit suicide at three times the rate of women.

And…

• Research into male diseases a fraction of that into women’s.

• Suffer false rape allegations.

• Are discriminated against in the workplace in the name of “positive” discrimination .

• Die for their country and community at many times the rate of women as soldiers, police, firemen, etc…

• Are constantly mocked in popular culture.

• Are lectured to constantly about toning down their evil masculinity.

• Suffer much more physical violence than women (Yes, it’s true. They are usually attacked by men, but how is that relevant in the case of a peaceful man attacked in this way. Is a mugged black man not a victim because most muggers are black?).

It would be invidious to say which sex suffers the most but I’ll take a stab at it anyway. I will start with only the first three most serious charges made against men.

Feminist deploys her primary weapon

First and foremost is the claim repeated ad nauseam and most recently by the delightful Emma Watson in her widely lauded UN speech that women earn 20% less than men “for the same work”. This is just a flat out lie that will never be made true no matter how often feminists and those deluded by them keep on repeating it. In short, it’s against the law to pay women less for doing the same work and any employer who tried it would get the bum’s rush through the courts before he could say “Make me a coffee, darling”. Significantly almost the only cases that come up these days concern the grey and subjective areas of bonus payments. The reason that women earn less than men is largely down to fact that they don’t “do the same work”. Women tend to choose occupations that are less well paid. Apart from career choice the breaks they take in their careers for child bearing and rearing account for most of the rest of the difference. In support of this assertion is the news from Britain and America that women in their 20s (before having children) are now paid more than men.

Next. There is no rape culture. Men are every bit as appalled by rape as women and the whole of society demands that convicted rapists are dealt with severely. The use of this meme by feminists which exploits society’s natural abhorrence of this barbaric act is shameful. The only real problem in dealing with rape is the usual context of the crime. It happens away from witnesses and physical evidence given modern sexual tastes is often ambiguous to say the least. So many cases inevitably boil down to a matter of he said, she said. The sad fact then that a relatively low percentage of rapes are punished is not yet another aspect of the "patriarchy" at work, but simply the result of the natural desire of juries to only convict people when their guilt is proved “beyond reasonable doubt”. Making a unique exception to this laudable principle of justice in the case of rape by relaxing the rules of evidence (as feminists demand) would only result in more innocent men being jailed and poison relationships between the sexes. In fact false accusations of rape are already a real problem. According to the BBC around two women a month are prosecuted for the offence and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All the serving policemen interviewed for David Copperfield’s Wasting More Police Time considered the number of false claims significant with some even suggesting they were a majority of claims. Here’s one except from a detective constable:

(They) meet a bloke in a pub , go back to his flat to shag him, and then sober up and wonder how to explain the love bites, ripped knickers and staying out all night to their boyfriend or husband. We get a fair few reports like that. We also get women alleging rape to get at the other side in custody battles, we get prostitutes alleging rape because they haven’t been paid by their punter, we get women alleging rape who haven’t have sex with anyone in six months.

And this from a sergeant:

I honestly cannot understand why more of the false reporters don’t get charged.

This leniency is semi-officially justified as the lesser evil. The greater one being that the rigorous charging and imprisonment of these “vulnerable” women  would discourage others from approaching the police.  But there is also the  very real fear among senior police of the reaction of liberal opinion formers to the imprisonment of these “victims”. Also when convicted of “perverting the course of justice” the penalty doesn’t match the seriousness of the crime which can result in a man being sent to prison for 8 years or more. This is, however, just another aspect of the much bigger problem of sentence bias in favour of women offenders. 

The most effective way of reducing the level of rape would simply be for women not to place themselves in a position of vulnerability by getting hopelessly drunk or going back to his place soon after hooking up. But this advice is clearly too offensively commonsensical for today’s feminists and whenever a brave judge makes this suggestion he’s excoriated to an inch of his life. Much better to send innocent men to prison. After all they are all latent rapists anyway.

The other serious feminist charge is that women continually suffer violence at the hands of men. There is some justification for this as the number of women seriously injured by their partner greatly exceeds the number of men. But once again the picture is far from black and white. The experience of Erin Pizzey is worth mentioning here. She founded the first shelters for battered women in Britain. As such she should be an icon for feminists, but she had one terrible flaw from the perspective of the sisterhood: she likes to tell it as it is. Annoyed by the cartoon image of violence between men and women being promoted by feminists she pointed out that most domestic violence is reciprocal with the women in her shelters being the instigators just as often as men. This has been well known for decades by experts in the field. For not toeing the party line she was shunned, harassed and suffered credible threats to her life and had to have her mail opened by bomb disposal experts. Pizzey was finally forced into exile by the mental and physical strain that other women subjected her too thus proving her point. In 2009 she said that she has “never been a feminist, because having experienced my mother’s violence, I always knew that women can be as vicious and irresponsible as men.”

Then there’s the embarrassing reality that the most physically abusive relationships of all are those between lesbians. While this finding is once again the result of research it can be anecdotally confirmed by anybody who has had the misfortune to have know many lesbians. Also children suffer just as much violence at the hands of their mothers as from their fathers. There may be good reasons for this, the most obvious being that women spend more time with their children. But it is nevertheless a sobering fact if you have been deluded by feminists into believing that only men are violent.

So examining the serious issues that concern women reveals a much more complex set of problems than the propagandists would have us believe. But the key fact is that all of these problems have already been addressed by society. Unequal pay, violence against women, and its most heinous variety rape are abhorred by society and punished appropriately.

But when you turn to those problems faced by men you quickly notice one glaring difference. Men are systematically discriminated against by society and society hasn’t addressed the issues at all. Curiously enough most of us including us men are pretty blasé about it.

Once again I’ll only look at the most important problems.

Let’s start with the justice system. Men are given much stiffer sentences as an official policy of discrimination. The disparity varies according to the offence but on average men are about three times as likely as women to be imprisoned for the same crime. There are, of course, good historical reasons for this but they are all tied up with the pre-feminist patriarchal view of women. Now we are equal shouldn’t we be treated equally before the law? The question answers itself, but that’s counts for nothing because nobody in authority seems to be asking it.  

One aspect of the extreme inequality in the justice system is the rank prejudice on display in the family courts. Men are openly and officially discriminated against particularly over access to their children.

Then there’s the education system. Boys are disadvantaged by schools in which competition and male role models have largely disappeared. That’s why there are a third more women at university these days.

Finally there’s the issue of suicide. In 1981, 2,466 women committed suicide. By 2012 that had almost halved to 1,391. Good news. In 1981, 4,129 men took their lives. By 2012 this had increased to 4,590. No news.

In 2012 the Department of Health issued its Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. The idea was to focus on nine target groups including LGBT groups, young people, refugees, asylum seekers and various ethnic minority groups. “Say, Nigel, do you think we missed anybody?”  Er, yes. Nowhere in this 57 page document was any reference made to the fact that men are now killing themselves at more than three times the rate of women. Imagine what feminists would make of the strategy document if women were doing away with themselves at three times the rate of men. They’d have a real grievance for once. It would be very heaven for them to be alive and hell for any government suit who wasn’t up to speed with strategies to put the injustice right.

But sadly it’s men who are topping themselves so who gives a shit.

If the government was interested in addressing the problem of male suicide they might like to start with the curious cluster of suicides of men that occur just after the family courts have deprived them of their reason for living.

So, there are just two groups of oppressed remaining today: women and men. One group receives privileged treatment but is universally regarded as oppressed. The other suffers from real, general and offensively blatant prejudice but it’s protests are largely derided and ignored.

It’s a weird world and no mistake.


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