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United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 - The Best Interests of the Child

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Update on United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 - The Best Interests of the Child

We are pleased to announce the United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 – “The Best Interests of the Child”, to be held in Reading, Berkshire, England on Saturday and Sunday 16th-17th June 2007. The conference aims to discuss the best interests of the child, a much mis-used phrase, children's rights and equal parenting. Campaigners, authors, well-known figures, charities and organisations have been invited to speak. There’ll be talks including “Choice for children?”, “Best interests of the child? A revolutionary & personal view” and from various equal parenting organisations. The full schedule is nearly complete and will be announced later in May.

Manhater Annie Clayton trains husbands, like dogs, on BBC’s Bring your Husband to Heel

Today we had the second episode of man-hater Annie Clayton training husbands as if they were dogs on the BBC2’s sexist insulting “Bring You Husband to Heel”. Husband David spends all his time on the computer when at home. The computer is in the kitchen and he doesn’t want any noise around him. This includes washing up. He also lets meals get cold when he’s at the computer. Enter man-hater Annie Clayton to help wife Michelle to bring David “to heel”. Lot of comparisons of men and dogs, supposedly funny. David is, of course, lied to about what the programme is about. Michelle it seems nags and complains about his computer usage. David simply ignores her. Michelle also says “When David asks me to do something and he doesn't ask in a particularly nice then I don't respond”. Annie suggests a subtle system of rewarding him for “good behaviour”. We see Michelle appealing to David for help and gradually getting it.

Of course, no-one sees David’s behaviour as a problem with the relationship but simply as a problem with David. Michelle’s nagging and complaining do not get her what she wants but she initially still tries to continue with them. How long she’s been doing this we don’t know. The fact that computer’s are part of David’s jobs (and he’s possibly self-employed) are ignored. When Michelle tries persuading David to help it may be the first time he has truly been talked to in years.

Man-hater Annie Clayton finishes with one down 10million husbands to go. Clearly she and the BBC are well suited. Some have written to the BBC and got bland answers like “we do programmes for all tastes” back. So “Bring our Wife to Heel” soon? No, of course not. The man-haters in the BBC, like Annie Clayton, don’t want it.

BBC’s Bring your Husband to Heel or “Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work makes Freedom (Sign over Auschwitz gates))

After tonight’s “Bring your Husband to Heel” on BBC2 shown 7-730pm tonight (Monday 22nd August 2005) I half expect the next BBC programme on husbands to be called "Arbeit Macht Frei" (“Work makes Freedom” (Sign over Auschwitz gates)). The men will get into trains thinking they’re going to work off their “crimes” but really…

Michael Buerk on What Are Men For

This Tuesday on UK Channel 5

What Are Men For?

DOCUMENTARY:  Don't Get Me Started!
Channel: five
Tuesday 23rd August 2005
Time: 19:15 to 20:00 (starting in 2 days)
Duration: 45 minutes.
Michael Buerk on What Are Men For.
This provocative series gives some of Britain's leading thinkers a chance to sound off on the issues they feel most strongly about. In this first programme Michael Buerk examines man's role in today's femocracy and asks whether there will come a time when men aren't needed at all.

I sincerely hope that's not what he's asking.  It could be a serious oppurtunity to get some home truths out there.  Then again maybe not  :(

The week the women went - Men 1 BBC 0

The BBC has just aired a reality show where 70 women leave a small village and the men had to cope with the children for a week on their own. The BBC describes it in The Week The Women Went

The quiet Nottinghamshire village of Harby looks like any other rural idyll at first glance. But look closer and it soon becomes apparent that something’s up - there isn’t one woman to be seen. For one week in April the 70 women who usually reside in Harby disappeared, leaving the men all on their own. BBC Three discovers what happened The Week the Women Went.

Research suggests that while women have taken more and more of a place in the world of work, men are still on the back foot as far as domestic life is concerned. Most mothers in Britain today feel part of a community but it is not uncommon for men to have no connection with their neighbours at all. Whilst many females have learnt to become a dab hand at juggling work, home, and the kids, many males have never spent 24 hours with the children, let alone seven whole days.

VAWA - OPEN LETTER to Congress

OPEN LETTER to Members of Congress

Recognizing the need to protect all citizens from violence, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA, S. 1197, HR 2876), as currently written, is deceptive in its purported aims and destructive to American families and freedom. Well intentioned lawmakers are being misled about its purposes and effects. Feminist advocate Andrea Dworkin acknowledged that the original bill was enacted only because “senators don’t understand the meaning of the legislation that they pass.” We urge you to withhold or withdraw support for this bill until it is significantly modified.

Nuremberg rally in Perth. Germaine Greer cheers divorcing women

THE high rate of divorce should be celebrated as the major sign of progress in the feminist movement, an ever-passionate Germaine Greer said at the start of a national speaking tour.

Women doctor doesn’t need a second opinion when she says there aren’t enough male doctors, but I expect she’s going to get one, or she’ll be politely ignored.

The medical profession is in danger of losing its power and influence because too many women are scaling its ranks, according to the female head of Britain's most influential royal medical college.

While most observers have seen this as a positive trend, leading to a more caring, humane style of medicine, Professor Black is the first female leader of any profession to suggest that the increased involvement of women may be damaging. "We are feminising medicine. It has been a profession dominated by white males. What are we going to have to do to ensure it retains its influence?

Of course, this might be seen as a serious problem, and she would probably get a second opinion on this, and third, and fourth, etc, but it looks like the doctors and the media are going to ignore it and hope it goes away.

The End of Civilization? A Pity No One Mentioned It

There's a discussion on MenActivism started by Thomas The End of Civilization?

The world has begun to harvest the bitter fruit of feminism -- population collapse resulting from the ruination of male-female relations, the systematic removal of fathers from the family (the destruction of the traditional, nuclear family), and so-called "family planning" (birth-control and abortion). Fertility rates in most advanced nations continue to decline despite the fact that they are already, in some cases drastically, below replacement rate

Don't tell the French not to get burnt up about Joan of Arc. You could get arrested.

Jail sentence for sexist insults under new French law

The French cabinet yesterday gave its backing to a bill authorising penalties of up to a year in jail for anyone found guilty of making an anti-gay or sexist remark.

"This law puts the fight against homophobia and sexism on the same footing, legally speaking, as the fight against racism and anti-semitism," said the justice minister, Dominique Perben.

Of course, this is a politically correct one way street...