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by Anonymous User on Monday June 23, @05:55PM EST (#1)
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Dear Men's Activism,
Since the misinformation about the SWC report has been increasing, I have written up a summary and a link to the actual report.
Both Transitions, the publication of the National Coalition of Free Men (NCFM), and David Shackelton's Everyman (out of Ottawa) are planning issues devoted to this report. I'd like to encourage contributions. Contact Transitions via Jim Lovestar at ncfm@consciousbody.info and Everyman via David Shackelton, at editor@everyman.org.
Warren
Canada's Department on the Status of Women Creates "Enemy List" of "Masculinists" to be Monitored for Potential Hate Crimes
By
Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
http://warrenfarrell.com
In response to a number of "What's Happening in Canada?" inquiries, here is a summary and a link to the actual report.
Summary. Canada has a Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and the Status of Women Canada (SWC). She is Jean Augustine. SWC has produced a taxpayer-funded report recommending the monitoring of "masculinists" for potential hate speech against feminists, and therefore women. In Canada, speech alone--that is, speech without action--can be considered a hate crime, resulting in a jail/prison sentence.
Among the people cited as in need of monitoring are Robert Bly, Harvard's William Pollack, authors Susan Faludi, Warren Farrell and Herb Goldberg, and the Men's Health Association. The SWC report is called School Success by Gender: A Catalyst for the Masculinist Discourse, by Pierrette Bouchard, Isabelle Boily and Marie-Claude Proulx. The full report is at: http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662882857/200303_06 62882857_1_e.html.
MY COMMENTARY:
The Perspective of Status of Women Canada (SWC). The SWC Report expresses concern that groups and individuals they call masculinists are using some of the new data on the plight of boys in school to promote their own agenda of attacking feminism. They feel that behind this attack on feminism is an attack on women and women's equality-and, implicitly, a desire to return to the old male-dominated society. Thus masculinists are anti-women and SWC should monitor their web sites to determine if their anti-woman rhetoric makes them guilty of a hate crime.
The Perspective of "Masculinists". Among the objections of "masculinists" to the SWC report are: their feeling that the SWC assumes that to be opposed to feminism is to be anti-women (which feels as inaccurate as saying that to be opposed to Conservatives is to be anti-American or Anti-Canadian); that the creation of an "enemy list" is a Mc Carthy-type tactic-that by discouraging employers from hiring men on the government's "enemy list" it intimidates virtually any man from opposing feminist ideology; that the SWC Report seems to feel women are entitled to all the money and attention gender receives and men's increased activity is threatening the status of feminism as the one party system of gender politics.
Many masculinists feel that feminist ideology hurts not just men, but also women and children-that, for example, feminist efforts to keep fathers from children hurt children, women and men. Masculinist groups are in favor of girls getting the special help they need in school, but feel that boys-who are doing worse in school in every academic and psychological measure except math and science-need attention in proportion to their problems.
Masculinists agree that they do have an agenda that is different from the feminist agenda. (E.g., see The Myth of Male Power at www.warrenfarrell.com). They feel that both should be aired. They do not favor using the taxpayer money of both sexes to fund a lobby group for one sex while criminalizing the speech of the other sex.
On a Personal Level. My speaking, consulting and expert witness work pays for the loss of income I endure from writing books. The institutions that hire me usually do a Google search. In the future, when my name comes up as listed by the Secretary of State of Canada as a suspect for a hate crime of being anti-woman, that is all any feminist needs to convince her employer to hire someone else. Hence, merely being listed has an effect on me similar to the effect on a father of a false accusation. That's why, when a government agency merely lists names it has the impact of McCarthyism.
Register your reaction with:
Research Branch
Status of Women Canada
123 Slater Street, 10th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1H9
Telephone: (613) 995-7835
Fax: (613) 957-3359
TTY: (613) 996-1322
(Also keep Senator Anne Cools [coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca], and David Shackleton, editor of Everyman [editor@everyman.org ] informed of your efforts.)
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by Anonymous User on Monday June 23, @08:47PM EST (#2)
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Thanks Warren. Your insights are kind and intelligent as always. Perhaps your kindness is your highest virtue.
One of the signs I bring to protests says, "WE DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEMINIST MODEL FOR MEN"
The feminist model doesn't work for men. Why would we want to apply something to men that doesn't even work for women?
The kind of abusive feminists who are instituting a "pogrom" against men are a small overempowered segment of the population who are starting to come under a more strict scrutiny by reasonable people. People are becoming painfully aware of the damage that this group is doing to innocent lives (mostly men) and our societies. Yes, they are very overempowered, because they have abused their power greatly by wielding what they've been given unfairly/unjustly.
I am encouraged daily by the kind words and actions of sisters, daughters, mothers and 2nd wives of abused and mistreated men. They have seen their male loved ones treated hatefully and unjustly by the power wielded through the abusive feminist agenda.
Let me make this perfectly clear, abusive feminists are not ifeminists, or equity feminists or the Concerned Women of American or the Independent Women's Forum, etc. Those females I respect and share a bond with, in that, we strive for fairness and justice for all, even when we disagree about specifics. They are not perfect people, and neither am I, but at least we try hard to know what fairness is and to practice it.
The abusive feminists I'm talking about are urgently in need of taking their own batterer's programs as they use hate, power and control to intimidate, harass and bully other people to get their own selfish way, completely disregarding anyone’s right to hold a different viewpoint. Frankly speaking, the great majority of society is sick of them.
So you abusive feminists put me on your list too, if you haven't already done so. It'll be a cold day in L.A. before I will live willingly under your fascist ideologies or tactics.
There, now that I’ve said that, I have to be careful not to get trampled by all the people who feel that same way, whether they are unafraid enough to speak up, or not.
Let Free Men, Women, and Children Ring Forever,
(We all equally share a common human bond)
Ray
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Yeah, this is going unnoticed in Western Canada, especially in the tycooned Alberta where I live. I have been trying to get the word out but it seems few care. I wrote an article for the Alberta College of Social Work journal the Advocate to get word going, but this is a great challenge in a profession that was founded on feminist thought, which isn't a bad thing, but as we all know there are different classes of feminism and its the ones who buy into the "greater than thou" mentality that I fear. Any one in Western Canada in on any thing concerninhg this? Writing letters to politicians?
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The answer to political repression and threats based on opinions is to boycott Canada throughout the (somewhat) free world until they give up sexual apartheid. Shame on you Canadians! Shame! Of course it is no different down here. :( Oppression is the currency of the Left. If you are smart you will emmigrate to where you are wanted and let them import the people they obviously want.
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