by
Les May
A
couple of days ago
it was mooted that misandry, defined
as ‘hatred
of, contempt for, or prejudice against men’,
should
be
regarded as a ‘hate
crime’.
A
letter
in the ‘i’
newspaper
(18/10/18) shows why this is not a good idea. The author wrote:
‘If
misogyny becomes a hate crime then misandry should too. If you have
one you should have the other. Misandry is widespread and
commonplace in society and men’s issues – which are serious and
pressing, even life threatening – are generally overlooked. They
are certainly not given the sort of attention that women’s issues
typically receive. If the law is changed to make misandry a hate
crime then perhaps men’s issues will move towards the centre
ground, enter public discourse, and be given the attention they
deserve.’
Contempt
for men is a staple fare for many female columnists, particularly
in the print
media,
along with bias and downright lies. Criminalising
it will not
suddenly
bring issues affecting men to the fore.
The
reason for men being treated in this way is simply that too few of
the men
in the media, who
could use their position to challenge it,
have the balls to take on the women
who write this stuff. They’re afraid that if they do the
‘sisterhood’ will turn its ire on them. Much
better to buy into the idea that women are an
oppressed
group,
by calling yourself a feminist.
When
men
organise to draw attention to things that affect them deeply the
likelihood that they will get any
positive publicity
is slender. Have you even heard of the group ‘Families
Need Fathers’?
Take
a look at the recent press release from the group at
https://fnf.org.uk/ . Did you read
about it in the press or see it on BBC TV? I think not.
There
are plenty of men in the media who could change this, but who don’t.
The
same goes for MPs. The
number of men who have lost contact with one or more of their
children as a result of intransigence by an ex-partner is in the
hundreds of thousands. No one speaks for them.
If
you are inclined to be sceptical about my comments about bias by
female columnists how about this?
‘The
concept of misandry is dangerously vague in comparison to the reality
of misogyny. I predict that if misandry is taken forward as a hate
crime, it will be used to curb discussions of male violence and
female oppression’, and
‘It’s
already too easy for men to cry foul every time a woman says or does
anything they don’t like.’
Whilst
labelling misogyny as a hate crime was the only game in town our
brave women columnists were all for it. Now
that there’s a possibility that they
might find themselves on the receiving end of an accusation of hate
crime on the grounds of misandry there’s what is called in the
feminist lexicon ‘a
backlash’.
If
they succeed in killing off the whole idea they will be doing
everyone a favour. The police have enough to do without being given
the job of investigating what Orwell in his book 1984
called ‘thought
crime’.
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