Men's Hour

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.

Glass ceiling? Glass lift more like..

A row has broken out at Scotland Yard after a female police officer was singled out for a fast-track promotion scheme.

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...

Save the rain forest. Have sex now! Where do I sign up for that?

From Ananova Couple had sex on stage at rock festival

A Norwegian couple face court action after they stripped off and had sex on stage during a rock concert.

Tommy Hol Ellingsen, 28, and his girlfriend Leona Johansson, 21, say they did it to help save the rain forest

Those of you of a more robust constitution can also see the unedited picture, but naturally you'll want to read more because you wish to save the rain forest...

Satanic abuse?, make that social services abuse. Isle of Lewis, Scotland parents cleared of child abuse to sue police.

Last October several people were arrested for Satanic abuse. Angry mobs terrorised the charged people, frightening their children as well. One man had his house burnt out. The police did little to protect these people, accused of raping young girls. You might be tempted to say, who cares about some child rapists? Except that after 8 months the charges were quietly dropped. Along with the charges was a civil case by the social services, also dropped. The parents are considering suing the police. Once again we have a case of social services charging in like the cavalry to save everyone from the Indians (aka native Americans) and shooting the civilians instead. Once again questionable investigation techniques appear to have been used and a social services determined to believe anything no matter how thin the evidence. No sign of an apology or even an explanation. The social services haven't learnt from last time. It seems like they apply an attitude of man=guilty and woman=innocent and will suspect men of anything with no proof but when the reverse is true, a woman is the central character, no amount of evidence will convince them of her guilt until it is too late. Only when they get past this attitude will they actually start to find the real abusers.

Braveheart or bigot in Scotland? No gay sex in my house, says Tom Forrest of Cromasaig guest house. Removed from VisitScotland website.

B&B owner keeps 'no gays' stance

A GUEST house owner was unrepentant last night despite being dropped by VisitScotland for refusing a gay couple a double room and branding them "sexual deviants".

Boy killed for his mobile phone. Time to rethink moral teachings in schools?

A boy of 15 was stabbed to death for his £79 mobile phone by three masked youths.

Only women need help

From the Independent, UK Women to be given advice on problems in workplace

Female employees will be allocated a personal adviser and offered legal advice by the Government under a proposed national mentoring scheme to help them to deal with problems such as maternity leave disputes and sexism at work.

Score one more for the feminists - David Reimer, the "proof" that men and women are interchangeable, commits suicide

Once when I was young (shortly after the Ark landed) the words gender and sex meant the same. I usually only heard the word "gender" in French lessons at school, so I could tell which sex a table was in French. It didn't seem to matter much except to another table. "la table" is feminine by the way. Later on it seems feminists, having decided that men and women were the same, decided that something must be getting in the way of men and women being equal, even interchangeable. This they decided was "gender". Now gender came to mean a social conditioning imposed above and beyond the physical sex of the child. Gender and sex meant two different things and since gender was an ephemeral thing, not really having any definition or form, then it could be changed. About this time Dr. John Money started saying that you could bring up a boy as a girl or vice versa and they would act the way you bought them up. This seemed to work in his experiments with babies of indeterminate sex. It's clear where he got his ideas from. As little as 10 years previously any idea that men and women were interchangeable and that you could get boys to like dolls and girls to like train sets would have been dismissed as nonsense. In 1966 Bruce Reimer, a young baby, along with twin his brother, was circumcised. Both babies had had trouble urinating and this was to be the solution. Unfortunately for Bruce Reimer this turned out to be the start of his troubles. The circumcision went drastically wrong and his genitals were all but destroyed. The parents looked around for someone to help this now seriously damaged baby. They found Dr John Money. He said that Bruce could be surgically altered and become Brenda and everything would be alright. They thought they had the solution. Brenda Reimer was expected to grow to be a happy girl and women. The trouble is that Brenda didn't like dresses or dolls and was unhappy as a girl and didn't make friends with other girls and acted a lot like a boy. Eventually when Brenda was older they told her/him. Brenda immediately declared himself David and became a man, including surgery to turn him back into a man as near as possible. The public didn't know what was happening to David. While this was going on Dr John Money was being lauded as the man who proved that men and women were interchangeable. Although the change back helped, David had psychological problems and there were suicide attempts. At age 38, David Reimer killed himself on 4th May 2004.

There's a discussion on MensActivism Can Gender Be Socially Constructed?

Woman Hater - A Shutup Word

Bernard Chapin has written the second part of this chivalry papers. Have a look at The Chivalry Papers, Part Two: Supine or Fall

The sole reason that I decided to write this piece is that I have noticed that, in our society, any time a man defends himself or his brothers against the charges of radical feminists (or their media minions) he is immediately labeled a hater of women.

Clearly woman hater is a "shutup word", a phrase designed to shame and shut up the receiver. It should be ignored.