Mens Rights Thread

White males are a now a MINORITY GROUP! Universities are setting targets to recruit more after numbers plummeted
•Aston and Essex universities pledge to boost the number of white male students
•Women are a third more likely to apply to degree courses than men, data shows
•Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show white British students are in a minority at about 10 per cent of institutions

While university entry should primarily be decided on merit, Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said there was a good case for giving white men special attention.

'It is a form of racism to be uncomfortable in tackling white male under-representation,' he said.
While university entry should primarily be decided on merit, Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said there was a good case for giving white men special attention.

'It is a form of racism to be uncomfortable in tackling white male under-representation,' he said.

seamus wrote: »

Whatever about men's issues being ignored by the media, RTE have a documentary about steroid abuse in men at the moment. It's reaching epidemic proportions and nobody is talking about it.

But RTE have been absolutely spamming the **** out of it all week, so fair play. Credit where its due.

Google was already active in the diversity and inclusion space before this, she adds. "We were among the first companies to publish diversity to statistics and female representation has gone up significantly in the past 5 years. There is no one thing you can do to solve this overnight. We are focused on helping and promoting and supporting underrepresented groups."

H3llR4iser wrote: »

I've been saying this for years, even on this very forum - the pressure to "look a certain way" is not something that exclusively affects women, quite the contrary in fact: the "ideal male body" is actually more unrealistic than the female one - unless you literally lived in the gym eating steroids breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Lads as young as 15 pumping lurid sh1t in their system to "get big", skipping meals for days to look "shredded", exercising to exhaustion every single day ain't exactly new, I've seen it happening for the last 10 years, yet gets completely ignored.

Watchdog bans 'harmful' gender stereotypes in adverts

iptba wrote: »

Here's the latest batch of gender-related hashtags I have noticed trending for anyone interested (I know some are not)
(Aside: I'm not on Twitter 24/7 of course and don't look back at lists for when I wasn't on)

How badly were Protestants treated in the Republic of Ireland after it got independence?
https://www.quora.com/How-badly-were-Protestants-treated-in-the-Republic-of-Ireland-after-it-got-independence

Nevertheless, Kew Records Office notes that 24 Protestants were killed in the first six months of 1921. While this might not seem very many there were not that many to kill and having got rid of the father and eldest son the whole family got the message and left. They were not always killed someone posted on Quora his grandparents were given 24 hours to get out by “DeValera’s men” and did. I asked for details but he did not reply.

The Dunmanway killings, also known as the Dunmanway murders or the Dunmanway massacre, refers to the killing (and in some cases, disappearances) of thirteen Protestant men and boys in and around Dunmanway, County Cork, between 26–28 April 1922. This happened in a period of truce after the end of the Irish War of Independence (in July 1921) and before the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in June 1922. All the dead and missing were Protestants,[3] which has led to the killings being described as sectarian. Six were killed as purported British informers and loyalists,[4][5] while four others were relatives killed in the absence of the target. Three other men were kidnapped and executed in Bandon as revenge for the killing of an IRA officer Michael O'Neill during an armed raid. One man was shot and survived his injuries.[1][6]

Do women really need ‘gentlemen’?
Tuesday, February 05, 2019 - 12:00 AM

Aileen O'Reilly and Suzanne Harrington give us their views on how 'gentlemen' fit in to modern society.

Who should foot the bill for dinner on Valentine’s night? The gentleman, of course, says Aileen O’Reilly.

Ladies, make no mistake. It is not a matter of ‘needing’ gentlemen. It’s far more a matter of having enough self-respect to know we deserve them.

Yes, I expect doors to be held open for me. Yes, I expect the man to at least offer to pay for dinner. Yes, I expect to be offered a seat if I’m standing on a crowded bus or train and, yes, I expect my bags to be carried, if they’re heavy, and I make absolutely no apology for it.

Why? Because I was brought up being told I was worth it; anything less than this is boorish behaviour.

Sleepy wrote: »

It rather encaspulates most of modern feminism tbh: grown adults with princess complexes who believe they "deserve" superior status. :rolleyes:

It fits nicely with the entitled spoiled brat persona I've come to expect of thos professing to be feminists tbh

seamus wrote: »

To be fair, if you read the whole article, it presents two polar opposite views. The first being a woman who considers herself a feminist but still wants men to treat her the way her Daddy used to.

The second being a feminist who just wants to be treated as an equal, directly contradicting the first.

So it's a bit unfair to represent the whole article as a hot take on why feminism is "broken".

Sleepy wrote: »

Would two spokespeople for a movement holding directly contradictory views about the very aims of that movement not represent a broken movement to you?

seamus wrote: »

Well no. Feminism isn't a single entity or organisation. And the two women giving their opinion are not spokespeople for it.

Feminism itself is an ideology, and like any ideology it can be subject to interpretation (and misinterpretation). The men's rights "movement" has exactly the same issue. Many individuals who consider themselves crusaders for men's rights, singing from very different hymn sheets.

If these two women were both senior leaders of the WCI and presenting pieces like this, then it would certainly suggest something broken in the WCI.

But two self-identified feminists having different ideas on feminism means is no more strange than two psychologists disagreeing over a patient.