Mens Rights Thread

El_Duderino 09 · 29-05-2017 12:55PM

py2006 wrote: »

Not sure if this is the correct thread for this but:

Three women rape man, 23, for THREE days after drugging and kidnapping him

A South African man was left traumatized after being drugged and raped 'numerous' times over three days by three female assailants.
The 23-year-old's ordeal began when he hailed down a communal taxi in eastern Pretoria on Friday - which had three young women inside.
The taxi began to change direction and the man was ordered to sit in the front.
He was then injected within an unknown substance and passed out

Notice the article is very much down the pecking order of articles.

Bloody tragic that this is so common in SA. I hope they catch the perpetrators.
The last line in your post is a strange point. The article says there are half a million rapes in SA per year. Very few make it to the UK news at all but his one did, and you're pointing out that this article was 'down the pecking order'. Imagine if all 500,000 South African rapes were reported up the pecking order.

Murrisk · 29-05-2017 05:42PM

py2006 wrote: »

Notice the article is very much down the pecking order of articles.

How many news stories about rape in South Africa make it to the UK press?

py2006 · 29-05-2017 06:38PM

They must have heard me, its moved up since!

Folks, the point of this was the rape of a man by women. Which to some isn't possible. It doesn't get much discussion or mention. Hence I brought it up in the Mens Right thread.

Murrisk · 29-05-2017 07:16PM

py2006 wrote: »

Folks, the point of this was the rape of a man by women. Which to some isn't possible. It doesn't get much discussion or mention. Hence I brought it up in the Mens Right thread.

And the fact that it was published in the UK shows that it was getting more attention to than the more common forms of rape. You seemed to be saying that it didn't get enough attention. This didn't happen in the UK and yet got notice in the UK press. That it was highlighted would be a good thing. It seems bizarre to complain about that. How much farther up the headlines should it have been? Reminder, we are talking about a rape that happened in another country, one rape of hundreds of thousands in that country every year. Men as rape victims certainly needs more attention and that seems to be why this story was reported in the UK but it's not going to be front page news, especially as a rape perpetrated on a woman in SA wouldn't get any kind of headline at all in the UK press.

iptba · 29-05-2017 07:44PM

Gardai intervene after man falsely labelled as sex offender on website

Garda? took action to protect a man who was wrongly identified as a sex offender on social media.

[..]

Shortly after the posting, there was an altercation between locals and the man. There is no suggestion that the man had done anything wrong.

To avoid an escalation, the man had to be given Garda protection in order to leave the area.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-intervene-after-man-falsely-labelled-as-sex-offender-on-website-35765145.html

Sn@kebite · 31-05-2017 03:23PM

I'm sure its getting noticed because it's unexpected to hear about a male being raped by a group of females. On the other hand our society is desensitized to the statistics of male on female rape or male on male for that matter. There's an advantage to a male victim in that his clothing or consumption of alcohol is not questioned, however there is a disadvantage in that it's often not taken seriously or laughed at if a male is raped by a female.

professore · 01-06-2017 06:21PM

Sn@kebite wrote: »

I'm sure its getting noticed because it's unexpected to hear about a male being raped by a group of females. On the other hand our society is desensitized to the statistics of male on female rape or male on male for that matter. There's an advantage to a male victim in that his clothing or consumption of alcohol is not questioned, however there is a disadvantage in that it's often not taken seriously or laughed at if a male is raped by a female.

There are quite a few incidents of female teachers having sex with very young guys (16 and under) in the news lately. That's statutory rape.

py2006 · 01-06-2017 07:36PM

professore wrote: »

There are quite a few incidents of female teachers having sex with very young guys (16 and under) in the news lately. That's statutory rape.

It appears to be reported more these days. I doubt it a new thing!

Gets a very different reaction etc though

Skyfarm · 01-06-2017 07:51PM

the abuse of men by women is well documented, its largely ignored because its a taboo to say a warm nurturing woman the image of empathy and compassion can abuse

, I believe it to be an inherent part of us to see women as caring, warm, compassionate and empathic, that image is so strong, that to say women are capable of being dark wounded souls who are capable of killing children, abusing children,or abusers towards men is too much of overload of darkness for us to believe and discuss,

it's not the only reason why it's happening or not disscussed
one part of a jigsaw where I believe where some women fail is saying it happens so little it doesn't matter or it happens to more women,in my view it brings back feminism to the start, I often wonder how many male children get impacted by negative viewpoints towards men ,isn't that abuse? to say if you get hurt sexually, psychically by a woman you won't be believed?

we are carrying the problem forward by not addressing the issue, we are teaching all children that fear is a great place to be stuck, that there is no healing and being a victim is the right way to address healing and moving forward

H3llR4iser · 09-06-2017 04:02PM

iptba wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-intervene-after-man-falsely-labelled-as-sex-offender-on-website-35765145.html

Quite amazing - that "article" made it to my Facebook feed, plenty of friends bounced it left and right alarmed about it...

iptba · 15-06-2017 10:46PM

iptba wrote: »

Here are some more since then. These are copied from what is trending that I see on my PC which only shows the top 10 (some people can see the top 20).

A lot of what trends is international news, sport and celebrities. These make up quite a lot of the issues that trend.

Women

#womensinspire (again)

#PlanetWoman

#WIN2017 (women's inspiration network)

#galkindness

#LostGirls

#womensstrategy

#shemazinghpawards

#womensinspire (again)

#womensaid2016

#markievicz17

I saw a tweet on one of these (I forgot to save it) where somebody asked why was it trending and suggested that Twitter was promoting it above other hashtags.

I know Twitter was concerned that some women were getting trolled and similar on Twitter so put resources into allowing people make complaints and in general, seem concerned about its image and that women weren't being protected enough. So it seems plausible to me that somebody in Twitter might be placing certain hashtags as trends in a somewhat artificial manner. But I have no idea whether this is a 1% chance or (say) a 40% chance.

Latest ones:

#FeministsAreEverywhere

#WomensVoicesUCC

#MoreWomen
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iptba · 17-06-2017 01:32PM

https://twitter.com/todowd/status/875797927771459584

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/why-fathers-leave-their-children.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1

Isn't necessarily a perfect match for all of what happens in Ireland.

I agree that more research on men's lives could be useful, especially if it didn't have to be done through the prism of feminism.

iptba · 21-06-2017 04:17AM

JUDGE JUDY: BAKSYS V RIZZO.... HOME TRUTHS ON MOTHERS WHO STOP FATHERS SEEING THEIR CHILDREN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gyduoHg8jw

(6 minutes)

Calhoun · 21-06-2017 11:31AM

Lol damn no holding back from Judge Judy.

iptba · 21-06-2017 03:44PM

'Leo models himself on Macron and Trudeau, but he's not living up to them when it comes to gender balance'

[..]

Female TDs and senators were also not happy with the numbers. It’s understood the matter will be raised at the?Oireachtas Women’s Caucus in the coming weeks.

http://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-gender-balance-3454802-Jun2017/

I imagine there was a Oireachtas Men’s Caucus we would have heard complaints about it, given all the fuss about (presumably less influential) men-only golf clubs

iptba · 21-06-2017 03:44PM

'Leo models himself on Macron and Trudeau, but he's not living up to them when it comes to gender balance'

[..]

Female TDs and senators were also not happy with the numbers. It’s understood the matter will be raised at the Oireachtas Women’s Caucus in the coming weeks.

http://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-gender-balance-3454802-Jun2017/

I imagine there was a Oireachtas Men’s Caucus we would have heard complaints about it, given all the fuss about (presumably less influential) men-only golf clubs

iptba · 01-07-2017 01:17PM

A female friend shared this to her Facebook feed.

https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/10155379964444820/
South China Morning Post
June 22 at 6:30am ·

'Hire as many women as possible' - Jack Ma shares a secret of Alibaba's success.
More: http://buff.ly/2sTdnbx

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It starts:

One of Alibaba's secrets for success - hiring women. Check Ma share that and more at Gateway '17 in Detroit. Here are the highlights.

1. Women - Alibaba's 'secret sauce'.

Please pay special attention to women. Women care for other people much more than men. Men care for themselves. Women are going to be very powerful in the 21st-century. Last century people compared about muscle, this century, people compare about wisdom. Hire as many women as possible - this is what we did and this is the secret sauce.

Calhoun · 01-07-2017 01:38PM

iptba wrote: »

A female friend shared this to her Facebook feed.

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It starts:

One of Alibaba's secrets for success - hiring women. Check Ma share that and more at Gateway '17 in Detroit. Here are the highlights.

1. Women - Alibaba's 'secret sauce'.

Please pay special attention to women. Women care for other people much more than men. Men care for themselves. Women are going to be very powerful in the 21st-century. Last century people compared about muscle, this century, people compare about wisdom. Hire as many women as possible - this is what we did and this is the secret sauce.

Yes China is the beacon of human rights and how people treat each other. I wonder how much his staff are paid and under what conditions .

Sn@kebite · 02-07-2017 01:04AM

iptba wrote: »

It starts:

One of Alibaba's secrets for success - hiring women. Check Ma share that and more at Gateway '17 in Detroit. Here are the highlights.

1. Women - Alibaba's 'secret sauce'.

Please pay special attention to women. Women care for other people much more than men. Men care for themselves. Women are going to be very powerful in the 21st-century. Last century people compared about muscle, this century, people compare about wisdom. Hire as many women as possible - this is what we did and this is the secret sauce.

There's a real chauvinism inside feminism isn't there? Imagine men saying things like "fathers are the future of parenting" or "mothers are obsolete" etc... It's funny (as in peculiar not 'haha') how being viewed as different to men when it's negative is sexism but being viewed different when it's a positive is a good thing.

Oh and the idea that women care more about people sounds a lot like saying women are nurturing doesn't it? isn't that what the awful white male patriarchy created to make sure women looked after children, the elderly and sick? A person is either against these gender roles and blanket generalizations or they're not. This is sort of like what the old feminist movements said they were against.

red ears · 02-07-2017 08:11AM

In my experience of having tests in the hospital recently any time I have encountered a male nurse they have been brilliant. Some of the women nurses are great too but I have met a few bad ones. I never met one male nurse with a bad attitude.

Sn@kebite · 04-07-2017 03:30PM

red ears wrote: »

In my experience of having tests in the hospital recently any time I have encountered a male nurse they have been brilliant. Some of the women nurses are great too but I have met a few bad ones. I never met one male nurse with a bad attitude.

Gay men usually are very friendly and chatty.

:P

Pawwed Rig · 05-07-2017 01:52PM

Interesting perspective on MGM here and how it was not taken seriously

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40420511

Sleepy · 05-07-2017 02:26PM

Great to see some headway, hopefully the court cases will result in prosecutions.

Sn@kebite · 06-07-2017 02:23PM

Men banned from pop concert in Sweden now?

'Swedish music festival to be female-only until all men learn how to behave themselves'

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sweden-music-festival-men-female-only-bravalla-rape-sexual-assault-emma-knyckare-a7824366.html?cmpid=facebook-post

I wonder what happens if a fire breaks out. Presumably 90% of firefighters will be banned from attending because they're mostly men.

iptba · 08-07-2017 02:31AM

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888?pfmredir=sm

Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals

By political reporter Henry Belot

Updated 30 Jun 2017, 1:49am

Leaders of the Australian public service will today be told to "hit pause" on blind recruitment trials, which many believed would increase the number of women in senior positions.

[..]

"We found the opposite, that de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being selected for the shortlist."

The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview.

Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.

I thought this was interesting. When it was found that blinded selection helped men it was suggested that the scheme be stopped.

I came across it in this video (which contains some swearing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0gIn7JlrQk

iptba · 08-07-2017 02:39AM

I have just by chance come across the following which covers a similar theme to the last message.

April 13, 2015
Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions
By Ted Boscia

For decades, sexism in higher education has been blamed for blocking women from landing academic positions in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.

But a new study by Cornell psychologists suggests that era has ended, finding in experiments with professors from 371 colleges and universities across the United States that science and engineering faculty preferred women two-to-one over identically qualified male candidates for assistant professor positions.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred-21-over-men-stem-faculty-positions

Sn@kebite · 09-07-2017 04:20PM

A lot of this is to do with these sociology/gender studies twats trying to keep themselves in a job and keep the government funding coming in, or else they'd have to go out into the real world outside their academic kindergarten and get an actual job.

iptba · 10-07-2017 04:38PM

RCSI to introduce measures to address "major gender imbalance" among surgeons.

http://mobile.medicalindependent.ie/page.aspx?contentid=99520

I wouldn't be surprised if this could lead to some males being disadvantaged

red ears · 10-07-2017 04:58PM

iptba wrote: »

RCSI to introduce measures to address "major gender imbalance" among surgeons.

http://mobile.medicalindependent.ie/page.aspx?contentid=99520

I wouldn't be surprised if this could lead to some males being disadvantaged

I'd say men can forget about becoming surgeons for a while.

I assume the same effort will go into getting more male midwives, nurses and teachers

iptba · 16-07-2017 12:31PM

iptba wrote: »

'Leo models himself on Macron and Trudeau, but he's not living up to them when it comes to gender balance'

[..]

Female TDs and senators were also not happy with the numbers. It’s understood the matter will be raised at the?Oireachtas Women’s Caucus in the coming weeks.

http://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-gender-balance-3454802-Jun2017/

I imagine there was a Oireachtas Men’s Caucus we would have heard complaints about it, given all the fuss about (presumably less influential) men-only golf clubs

Question of men splinters the Oireachtas female caucus

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/question-of-men-splinters-the-oireachtas-female-caucus-3rqptk7s6

A lot of this is behind a pay wall.

It goes on to say:

It was decided to bar males but to review the constitution annually. There are is provision to invite men to participate in debates.

It ends:

The National Women's Council of Ireland will act as its secretariat

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