In what ways are men discriminated against?

Regardless of our ability to have babies, we should have the right to have babies. The Peoples front of Judea are the only people fighting this noble cause.

boneyarsebogman wrote: »

Something has been on my mind recently. A lot of nights out I would get felt up by random women. Nothing much and it doesn't bother me as such. But you can be damned sure that if I did something similar to women, walking up to and feeling them up, there would be uproar.

If it bothers you then you shouldn't put up with it.

Its quite acceptable for a journalist to write an opinion piece about men that if the opposite was done would lead to the journalist fired.

Its quite acceptable for tv films / shows / ads to portray men very poorly. I mean sex and the city every character thats male is either a complete tosser or a whimp. Some adds would be banned if they were portraying women rather then men.

Women can watch topless men on tv before the watershed but can we watch topless women? No.

Women only gym sessions etc, women free entry to clubs etc.

Womens health care gets far more attention and funding.

Jobs which involve working with children in sport etc massively discriminate agianst male applicants.

Social conventions for acceptable behavior discriminate against men. A woman can make unwanted sexual inuendos towards a man, a woman can touch inappropriately etc that if the situations were reversed would be unacceptable.

Divorce, family law etc etc.

There is a men's gym. Well, at least one that I know of; Cuts fitness for Men in Athlone.
No court orders shut it down as far as I know.

Galvasean wrote: »

Why is it Lol?
What makes a woman's nipples more private than a mans?

They're not 'private parts' like boobs are. For this reason it's acceptable for a man to be topless in public, but it's indecent for women because showing nipples involves showing boobs.

The big, most important anti-male discrimination in this country is, of course, in the area of family law.

Men are routinely and systematically discriminated against in all things relating to child care, from custody, to access, guardianship and maintenance. This can also be seen to a lesser extent in relation to divorce law, which generally strips men of assets that they accrued by themselves and gives them to women who did not actually do the work to obtain them. However, the children issue animates me more, as a single father, since I'm highly aware that the children are effected negatively.

There are plenty of others, of course, many of which have been mentioned already: in the fields of education, health, imprisonment (both sentencing and conditions), sexual assault, and so on.

As a society we don't talk half enough about these things because of two hateful perspectives - only women can be victims, and boys don't (or shouldn't) cry.

snafuk35 wrote: »

If a guy is drunk and walking home alone from a nightclub and a gang of women leap out of the bushes, strip him naked and force him to have sex with them, if he went to the cops they would laugh at him for making a complaint. This happens to me all the time and I am sick of being ignored!

You wish :-)