Doctor Damage writes "Apparently the answer to the question in the subject is "equality". At least, this is what the president of Australian Women Lawyers, Jennifer Batrouney, SC is quoted as claiming in this article at the Sydney Morning Herald.

The whole quote goes like this:

But the president of Australian Women Lawyers, Jennifer Batrouney, SC, says affirmative action is needed because "equality involves the recognition of genuine difference and, where it exists, different treatment".

I keep seeing this stuff and like the feminists of the 80s used to do, I just shake my head and say: they just don't get it.
When are they going to figure out that equality does not involve the granting of priveliged status for favored groups?"



Anybody else notice how she says equality and different in the same sentance? Oh yeah, no double standards there *rolls eyes skyward*

Fathers 4 Justice, the tireless father's rights crusaders in the UK, staged a repeat of last years Santa protest when 200 members dressed as Santa Clause to present Minister Margaret Hodge with a 6 foot turkey. Details here.

It seems that UK police are demonstrating a pattern in dealing with the F4J civil rights crusaders. A recent demonstration in which five campaigners dressed as Santa and held signs on a walkway above a major road resulted in police assuming they were dangerous, closing the road to traffic, and then charging them with being a public nuisance. Article here.

However unlike the case with David Chick, (aka spiderman), there was no crane or any other impediment to the police simply walking up and arresting them. So why was the road closed? Is this the UK police force's way of trying to bias the populace against father's rights protestors, by making them think they "force" roads to be closed? Would the actions of the protestors be legal under UK law had police not decided traffic needed to be diverted thus causing the Santas to become a public nuisance?

Matt writes "Week-end before last, some restless misandry-despising members of NCFM-DC decided to get the word out on man-hater Joe Farah. Read about it, see the pics at the NCFM-DC home page.

Misandrists be warned: we are not going away!

Happy holidays, all, and I am so glad this site is back up!

-Matt"

Well, we're back, even if it is a bit late :). The server is in its new home and we should have some more bandwidth to boot. Thanks, everyone, for being so patient during the outage!

Both the Mensactivism.org web server and mail server will be unavailable beginning Friday, December 12. Downtime is expected to be up to one week until the servers are relocated. I wish I could have planned this better, but the shutdown is required. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

jenk writes "
Here is a site
with war posters reworked to fit the anti-peonage movement. Some are very clever, and worth putting up. The Biscuit Queen"



Note - Peonage refers to the imprisonment or forced labor of debtors.

CPM writes "Add another one to the list, but remember that when you speak of suicide bombers, always use the pronoun "he".

Moscow Female Bomber"

Marc writes "Wendy McElroy's recent FoxNews.com article discusses the use of discretion in holiday charity giving and domestic violence shelters, a major factor being their policies toward males. She mentions NCFM, and in particular mentions Deborah Watkins' (leader of Dallas/Fort Worth NCFM chapter) Homeless Project and Mask Project! McElroy also linked Glenn Sacks’ Daily Breeze article about NCFM's civil rights lawsuit against DV shelters (click on "women only policy"). Thank you Wendy!

Marc"

Ray writes "Our counterparts in Great Britain are making quite a show these days. Can men in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere learn from the bold and dramatic tactics of these men, or are they merely committing futile and foolish acts of desperation?"

I'm guessing they were jealous because he was getting a bigger fan reaction than they were. Whatever the reason, the future NOW members of the Pasco High School cheerleading squad demonstrated their support for diversity by allegedly framing the only boy in order to get him expelled so they can have an all girl squad. One of the girls who attends church with some of the cheerleaders says she heard them plotting...

"I heard (a cheerleader) state to these two other girls that she was going to find a way to get Johnathan kicked off the cheerleading squad because he was a boy," she said. Story here.

nick writes "Might I suggest that all men opposed to feminism and other forms of political correctness visit www.traditionalmen.meetup.com . This is part of the www.meetup.com website.

Meetup.com is a brilliant, simple and free (!) website which allows like-minded people to meet up in their home town, wherever in the world this might be. If you visit the site you will understand how this works. There are pages devoted to all sorts of interests and categories and I have persuaded them to start a category for men opposed to feminism and political correctness, which I have called ‘Traditional Men’.

If you are a ‘traditional man’ please join up so that we can all meet up, have a few drinks and discuss issues of interest to us among like-minded friends. Also, if you know anyone else who might be interested in this idea please pass this message on to them too.

Let’s fight the good fight – and have fun doing it!

Nick"

P George writes " Here is a short article on AIDS. The arctile summary says "Latest AIDS statistics point to sexual and syringe intromission as the vectors of contamination of a disease that disproportionately cuts down women, gays and racially-despised minorities. Created in Quebec by Montreal men against sexism, this logo attempts to raise the issue of penetration as cultural icon."

Now if you go to the bottom of the page it gives a link to the National Institue of Health. Near the top of the page it says "Approximately 50 percent of adults living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are women.", which means the other 50% are men! Then further down the page under the heading " HIV/AIDS in the US" and exactly right above the statistics that these "men against sexism" cut and pasted it says "Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women." Whose being the sexist here?

Then click on their attached file. It's a picture of a red no smoking sign with a syringe turning into a penis. On the sides it says "Penetration Kills" followed by the inside saying "Montreal men against sexism"! I can't articulate on how this sign is misandry but I can't imagine a similar sign with a vagina that says "cavern of chlamydia" or something. This seems like purely Hate propaganda to demonize men. Why would they do this? What do you guys think?"



I agree with you that the sign is misandrous, and the reason I would call it that is it clearly focuses on the penis as an object of hate and fear, while implying everyone with a penis, (and only those with a penis), is responsible for the spreading of STDs. As to the question of why they would do that, well some people may not be aware of this but in addition to ourselves and groups like the NCFM, ACFC, etc. there is also a fake men's movement. A movement which purports to oppose sexism and care about the issues which effect men but is really just composed of self-hating male feminists. Men Against Sexism is a group which fits this category, and I would bet that the Montreal Men Against Sexism is just a division of that group. A brief perusal of their homepage should tell you what they're about, and why they would actively try to demonize men.

Doctor Damage writes "A young man is confined to a wheelchair and his hopes of a career in aviation are more than likely permanently dashed following an incident of police brutality after a misunderstanding over a permit to take his pickup offroad. The article can be found here and it is being discussed at LibertyForum

Anyone think this incident would have been so egregiously mishandled if the young man were a young woman?"

But haven't feminists taught us that men in power treat other men better than they treat women? In this enlightened age, don't we understand that simply because the officer who savagely attacked the boy was a man his actions therefore represent men's interests?

Ray writes ""Don't be so quick to judge in Bryant case," is a letter to the editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, written back in July, but is still a timely read. A growing number of men in the movement are beginning to speak up and get published. Let us hope this continues and becomes a trend. A little media objectivity would be a refreshing change."



Note - The letter is about two thirds of the way down the page.