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Who Cares About Men’s Affairs?

Courtesy of Mark Bradman at Mensline
a telephone counseling service 0800 MENSLINE (636 754) or 522 2500 from Auckland.

What is missing from these groups?
A, B, and ???
He, She, and ???
Men, Women, and ???

Now that we’re warmed up, here is a really tricky one:
Ministry of Women’s Affairs,
Ministry of Child, Youth and Family
Ministry of Youth Affairs
Ministry of ???

With statistics such as these:
• Boys are under-performing at school in comparison to girls (gap is widening)
• Boys account for 85% of behavioral problems in schools
• Father-absence is increasingly being recognised as a social problem
• 80% of suicides are male
• 90% of prison inmates are males
• 94% of workplace deaths are male
• 76% of assault victims requiring hospitalisation are males
• 66% of all murder victims are males
• Males die at twice the rate of women from coronary heart disease
• A third more males die from cancer than women
• Men die on average 6 years earlier than women.
… why is there is no government body addressing Men’s Issues? Social resources in NZ seem to be allocated along similar lines to places in the life rafts on the Titanic:

Women and children first,
if there’s any room left over
we might take on some men.

It would seem that men’s issues have been lost within the politics of feminism, the thinking being that men have suppressed women for so long that a bit of suppression of men is now both tolerable and acceptable.
There is also a prevailing fear that focusing on men’s issues will divert funds away from the women’s issues that still remain unresolved, and the fear that allocating resources to men’s issues could return men to a position of dominance over women.

The world is undeniably richer for women’s increased contribution to society as a result of their liberation. They have indeed proven that there are times when the ‘best man for the job’ could be a woman. However, in the words of Steve Biddulph from his book, Manhood:

“You can’t liberate only half of the human race. The idea of liberating women from men assumes that men were somehow the winners in a power struggle and that power was what life was all about. In short, feminism assumed that men were having a good time!… “It’s much more realistic to say that both men and women were trapped in a system which damaged them both. The way forward lies not in women fighting men but in women and men together fighting the ancient stupidities that have been bequeathed to them.”

Some questions to ponder:
• Who speaks for men?
• Who is representing our sons and the problems they are experiencing in education?
• Who is addressing the lack of male presence in our schools?
• Who is quantifying the cost of a Fatherless society?
• Who is representing the concerns of Men on legal matters such as Child Custody, Matrimonial Properties Act, Sperm Banks/Artificial Impregnation, etc?
• Who even cares about the disproportionate number of males taking their own lives?
• And most importantly, why is the Ministry of Women’s Affairs the primary provider of gender-specific advice to the NZ Government (as per the Government’s own Web Site)?

‘Chivalry’ may have implied that men’s job was to look after women, but what needs to be shown in today’s world is that men are capable of caring about and for themselves.

Quoting Steve Biddulph again:

“What we must do now is to make comparable changes in the empowerment of men to those that have begun to happen for women.”

 

 

STATE OF THE GENDER

Men are involved in a Gender War, all the more insidious because it is undeclared. Many men are aware that their sex role is under attack in a feminised society. They say so, in confidence but few real men stand up to be counted. Men’s rights are undermined, to a greater or lesser extent, in many areas of their lives. In a time of social transition to a more varied New Society, sex roles are confused. Ambitious females, vacillating males and misguided politicians have caused the weight of gender politics to work against men. It is time to correct the imbalance evidenced by an influential Women’s Ministry.

THE FUTURE MUST BE GENDER JUST. ONWARDS TO THE MEN’S MINISTRY!

Dr Berthold delivered a warning to the Western Masculist Society in ‘Men’s rights What rights?

“……………….not since the Amazons or Lesbos have women been so dominant. Males have been marginalised such that their psyche has become androgynised. This emasculation leaves men troubled. This weakened role and father absence in families has led to the disintegration of our basic social unit. Societal norms are disturbed and the future of both sexes and their children is uncertain. Such a fundamental schism in heterosexuality and the emergence of solo mother families is psychologically fraught. This centres around breaches of trust, women who renege on spousal responsibility and who don’t value shared parenting. The other half of this dangerous dynamic is the depressed father and suicide, to say little of homosexuals who want to parent.

Men need to assert their archetypical role. Sensible women need to support a healthy connection in heterosexuality also. To achieve such a reconstitution is a considerable challenge in today’s divisive mores. The well being of Western civilisation is reliant on meeting such a serious challenge.”

 

 

The Care of Children Bill

A recent speech made by the United Future leader, Peter Dunne, highlighted a typical case in which ‘gender-specific advice’ from a male perspective should be ‘par for course’ before our Government enacts proposed legislation.

The good news according to Peter Dunne is that a biological father will automatically become a guardian if he lives with the child's mother at any time from conception to birth. And even if he doesn't, he has the right to apply to the Family Court to be appointed a guardian.

The major area of concern is that the bill’s definition of ‘father’ is so wide that it could include the lesbian partner of the mother.

Peter points what should be obvious - dads are dads and no amount of corrupting worthwhile legislation with political correctness will change that.
Other provisions in the bill allow people to apply for guardianship of a child after living in a relationship with a custodial parent for just one month!
For goodness sake, under the Property Relationships Act it takes you three years in a relationship before you can get your partner’s sofa!

Thanks to Mark Bradman for permission to reproduce his article from Menslines' VoiceMale.