October 20, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Aftenposten
Saturday October 20 2007

Men to discuss men’s rights

The Minister of Children and Equality Karita Bekkemellem announced the 32 members of the so-called Men’s panel Monday. The panel, consisting of men from various backgrounds and professions, aims to spark a public debate on men’s rights in areas such as health, education and divorce.

….The 32 men in the sport’s pub are members of the newly established Men’s panel, set up by Bekkemellem to introduce a public debate on men’s rights. Men are falling behind in the education system, rarely get custody over children after divorce, and face other health risks than women, the minister argued.

The Men’s panel will discuss these issues and more, and will advise the Government on the drafting of a forthcoming white paper on men and equality, due next summer….(Full Story)

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Concerns by F4L: The article states nothing about how long Karita Bekkemellem has been in office, but such information is important and available.

Karita Bekkemellem was previously the minister of children and family affairs in Jens Stoltenberg’s short-lived 2000-2001 cabinet, and also Norwegian minister of Children and Equality Affairs in the second cabinet Stoltenberg from 2005–2007. She is in her fifth period of representing the county of Møre og Romsdal. In the period from 2001 to 2005 she served as faction leader in the committee for church, education and research affairs. (Wikipedia)

Did not at least some of the discriminatory circumstances of men’s rights under which men in Norway suffer come about during her tenure?

UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN 27 FEBRUARY-10 MARCH 2005

UN- CSW; New York 27. February – 10. March 2005

Ministry of Children and Equality, Norway
DRAFT 27.02.2006

STATEMENT OF NORWAY
KARITA BEKKEMELLEM, Minister of Children and Equality

Madam Chair, fellow delegates,

CEDAW is one of the most important tools for improving gender equality. I am proud to announce that within the next three years we will seek to incorporate CEDAW in our Human Rights Act instead of in the Gender Equality Act in which it is incorportated today. This will further strengthen women’s human rights in Norway….
(Full Story)

CEDAW is not one of the most important tools for improving gender equality. It serves entirely different objectives.

To clear up Karita Bekkemellem’s role in the steady deterioration of men’s rights, have a look at these results of a google.com search for <”Karita Bekkemellem” “Status of Women”>.

How were the members of the Men’s panel chosen? Let there be no mistake, there are more male than female feminists, especially in Norway, a country that was for decades at the forefront of the UN’s war against men, fathers and families. Norway is one of the driving forces of that war. When the Men’s panel makes its recommendations to the government, will it not report to the Minister of Children and Equality Karita Bekkemellem?

What assurances does the Norwegian Men’s panel have that it will not labour under the condition of reasonable apprehension of anti-male bias by a feminist-dominated and -controlled government?

Is there anyone who can clear up those and related concerns?

–Walter Schneider
http://fathersforlfe.org

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October 19, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Grandma’s Apron is a little story about what grandmas do with their aprons. It is a piece of feminist propaganda (stolen and much plagiarized, to boot) that has been circulating on the Internet for some years and was delivered at the Lamont County Seniors Fair in 2005, as part of a presentation on the necessity for humour. To put it into context and to balance the story, I augmented the story of Grandma’s Apron and posted it at Fathers for Life. The web page has been visited 120 times during the last 30 days (average length of visitation: six minutes, enough time to read all of the article).

Today I added the following to that web page:

Epilog 2007: Ruth and I visited two more Lamont County Seniors Fairs since the one in Andrew. The one in 2006 in the Town of Lamont still featured a blatantly discriminatory and insulting presentation by the Red-Hatters, a women-only organization run by aged feminists that promotes consumerism by women (partying, travel, whooping it up in hotels, eating out, etc., splurging by women but all of it without men, at least without their husbands) “just for the fun of it”. The presenter specifically stated that the Red-Hatters cater to women only and adamantly refuse membership to all and any men.
When Ruth and I signed the guest book, I gave a copy of my augmented version of “Grandma’s Apron“ to the women of the county staff that had been the organizers of the seniors fair, while we also told them that feminist propaganda at such fairs is insulting to men present and especially insulting to the memory of men who cannot attend any longer.

This year the County’s seniors fair was held in the Town of Mundare. It was a relief to the very small minority of men present at the fair not to have to listen to a single presentation containing even a trace of feminist propaganda. That was even though a good number of women with red hats attended; true, a minority of the women who attended wore those red hats, but they by far outnumbered the minuscule minority of elderly men who were still alive and could attend.

God willing, Ruth and I will see at next year’s seniors fair whether that many red hats prevail. Regardless, for any man or for any woman who respects men to see a Red Hatter flaunt her in-the-face-of-men “femininity” at a seniors fair is like being spit in the face.

This requires a comment about the vast majority of dignified women at such functions, women who do not flaunt red hats. One of those is Sophie Baidak, in her 80s, active all of her life in the service of others - women or men - helping and aiding seniors, especially those whose health is failing. She is a familiar sight in Lamont County, with her always being involved in pushing around some senior’s wheel chair.
Sophie does not wear a red hat, but she most definitely enjoys her life without one, does not feel that she needs to make up for lost time and always has a joyful smile for anyone whom she knows and even for strangers.
Yes, Sophie is a grandmother and great-grandmother who not only wears no red hat but who never once even flaunted her apron.
Even though recently she began to propel a wheelchair of her own now and then, Sophie still smiles and laughs. “Sophie: many, many thanks!” and many thanks to the majority of all women; women like Sophie and like the author of the original poem “Grandma’s Apron“, Tina Trivett.

–Walter

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