Praising gender inequity raises feminist ire

November 5, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Student won’t be punished for satirical posters

A University of Alberta student [of women’s studies] whose satirical posters had him facing probation or expulsion learned Wednesday he won’t be punished after all.

Derek Warwick, a fourth-year women’s studies student, said the posters were supposed to be a humorous way to get people talking about comments from the university president about a decline in male enrolment. (Full Story and comments)

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US Government censors its own report that debunks the gender-wage-gap myth

March 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The following two excerpts from a couple of articles illustrate an instance of government censorship of information that has had a major impact on the promotion of pro-female and anti-male labour legislation.

Rather than using the truth to debunk the need for that intended legislation, the US Government pushed through the passage of that anti-male and discriminatory legislation, while at the same time removing all pointers to the report that had already been published prior to any attempts to have the legislation pass. The truth is now hidden, and the legislation that ostensibly but falsely and unjustifiably addresses non-existent inequities in wages and salaries paid to women now has the force of the law.

1. US Chamber of Commerce

January 28, 2009

Reasons for Wage Disparity - The Missing Report

by Mike Eastman

Earlier this month (before the end of President Bush’s term), the Labor Department released a report called An Analysis of the Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women – it was prepared by a contractor, the CONSAD Research Corporation and included a forward written by the Labor Department.

When the report was released, it was posted on the “highlights” section of the OFCCP’s web site (the OFCCP is part of the Labor Department’s Employment Standards Administration).The link to the file was www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/Gender_Wage_Gap_Final_Report.pdf but don’t click just yet.

After the change in administration, we noticed that the report has been removed from the Labor Department’s web site. The previous link does not function and other searches on the DOL site have not been successful at finding any reference to the report.This report is very timely – the House has already passed two bills, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, dealing with pay equity issues – one of those bills could be signed into law by the end of this week. We are disturbed that the DOL would take this step while Congress is considering these important issues – especially in light of the President’s call for a “new era of openness” in government.

Today, we filed this Freedom of Information Act request to receive an “official” copy of the report in addition to all records related to the Department’s decision to remove the report from its web site. You don’t have to wait for a response though, we fortunately have a saved copy of the analysis, take a look….(Full Story)

2. Renew America

March 12, 2009

Obama’s first cover-up: the gender wage gap myth

By Carey Roberts

Liberals never tire of convincing persons to believe they are victims in dire need of a government hand-out. But this time it’s a case of outright mendacity aided by the concealment of a high-level government official.

During the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton repeatedly made the claim that women suffer from pay discrimination. Barack Obama’s website likewise asserted, “Despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. Throughout his career, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have championed the right of women to receive equal pay for equal work.”

It was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who engineered the recent passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Act. And just a few weeks ago Rep. George Miller of California made the red-meat assertion that women earn “78 cents for every dollar that is earned by a man doing the same job with the same responsibilities.”

Democrats call it as the “gender wage gap,” but I prefer to think of it as the “scare-the-female-electorate-into-submission” ploy. Claims about sex-based wage discrimination have been repeated so often that many Americans simply accept them as fact. But a recently published — and quickly suppressed — study reveals a different picture.

Titled “An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women,” the report tallies the results of over 50 studies. No one questions the fact that on average, men are paid more than women. But turns out this is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

The paper concludes the 20-cent odd wage difference is not caused by discrimination. Rather it’s women exercising their right to make lifestyle choices. What choices are we talking about?

1. A greater percentage of women chose to work part-time.

2. Women may opt to leave the work force for childbirth, child care, or elder care.

3. Women are often willing to accept a lower paying job in return for family-friendly policies that allow them to have fewer hours, flexible schedules, and a shorter commute.

In addition, women work fewer hours than men. According to an article posted on the Department of Labor website, “Among full-time workers, 24% of the men, compared to 10% of the women, usually worked more than 40 hours per week:” http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/06/art4full.pdf

And then the fact that men tend to work in occupations that are far more likely to injure, maim, or kill….(Full Story)

The US Government is not the first to engage in such a cover-up. There was a similar cover-up of a government-published study report that debunked the wage gap myth. That was during the early 1990’s, in Canada. The report that was covered up then, after it had originally been published at the website of Statistics Canada, was a study report by Ted Wannell and Nathalie Caron, commissioned by Statistics Canada, “THE GENDER EARNINGS GAP AMONG RECENT POSTSECONDARY GRADUATES, 1984-92″ (11F0019MPE No. 68, ISBN: 0-662-22499-X).

Abstract:

This study attempts to compare the earnings of men and women on an equal footing by concentrating on recent postsecondary graduates and using survey data on a number of earnings-related characteristics. The data cover three graduating classes of university and community college students: 1982, 1986 and 1990. These data indicate that the gender earnings gap among graduates has narrowed in recent years. In fact among the most recent class, we found that female university graduates are rewarded slightly better than their male counterparts after controlling for experience, job tenure, education and hours of work. A small gender gap persists among community college graduates: about three-and-a-half percent on an hourly wage basis. For all graduates, the earnings gap tended to increase with age, even after controlling for previous work experience….(Full Story)

Carey Roberts, in his article on the wage-gap myth and on the US Government’s efforts to promote that myth and to keep it alive, marvels that,

Claims about sex-based wage discrimination have been repeated so often that many Americans simply accept them as fact. But a recently published — and quickly suppressed — study reveals a different picture.

Nevertheless, even if such revelations of the truth about such persistent myths (there are many comparable myths, such as the age-old canard about male violence) would not be so extremely and purposely short-lived, there is one aspect of such propaganda that must never be forgotten:

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan….

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.

—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI

There it is. The task of successful propaganda “is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly,” and therefore includes deliberate censorship of the truth.

–Walter

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Secrecy of U.K. family courts is to end

December 17, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

From Manumit:

As always, it is judicious to wait and see if the reality matches the promises.

The British ‘family’ courts also seem to deal a lot with child ‘protection’
matters, and not just matrimonial separation and divorce.

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The Times (Britain)
17 December 2008

‘Access all areas’ for media so justice is seen to be done
By Frances Gibb, Legal Editor

The secrecy of the family courts – in which nearly 95,000 cases are heard
in private each year – is to end under reforms announced yesterday that
will allow the media access to all levels of the system. The move could
mean that social workers and expert witnesses who fail children, and now
enjoy the protection of anonymity, will in future be named publicly when
criticised by judges.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, said that from April the media would be
permitted access to all family cases in all courts – from celebrity
divorces to hearings over domestic violence or children being removed from
families.

“A really important veil is being lifted on what happens in these courts,”
he said….(Full Story)
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F4L: Right. Don’t believe it until you see it happen.

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International Men’s Day

December 8, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

It is too late now to celebrate International Men’s Day (IMD) in 2008, on Nov. 19, but it is not too late to get ready to celebrate it in 2009.

This year the Australian organization Dads 4 Kids joined Save Indian Family in promoting IMD. It appears that IMD has not yet been declared to be officially recognized by any country in the world. However, some men’s- and fathers rights organizations throughout the world are working hard to get that done.

There is a video of an announcement by Warwick Marsh of Dads 4 Kids, Australia, urging organizations and anyone throughout the world to become involved in joining and promoting the celebration of IMD. I found that video at http://www.internationalmensday.com/, a website that is owned by Warwick Marsh. (Here is a comparable 2007 statement by Save Indian Family, on YouTube.)

Warwick Marsh explains that the day for celebrating IMD, Nov. 19, is fortuitous, as that day is also the day of remembrance of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney.The HMAS Sydney, a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)), sank on Nov. 19, 1941, “with the loss of all 645 hands, which represented the greatest loss of life in an Australian warship, and the largest Allied vessel to sink with all hands during the war.” (Source: Wikipedia)

Therefore it may be a good reason for Australians to celebrate IMD on Nov. 19. However, internationally, the date is not yet quite fixed.

The sinking of ships is rare. Voluntary sacrifices by men are far more common. It is the nature of men to sacrifice their lives to save women and children or — far more common yet — to die to merely keep women and children safe and comfortable. Still, it may be appropriate that, in celebrating IMD, a date should be chosen to commemorate a single instant of voluntary sacrifices in massive numbers made by men during the sinking of a ship. The sinking of the Titanic comes to mind, 1912 04 15, at 02:20 hrs.

The behaviour of the men on the Titanic is an example of what men do when the lives of women and children are in danger. In such circumstances, even in peace times, men eagerly and without much hesitation selflessly and voluntarily sacrifice their lives to save those of women and children. Moreover, the sinking of the Titanic has less of a national and more of an international nature of men’s magnanimity in saving women and children.

Women and children are not usually present on ships of war, as it would be uncharacteristic of men to demand that women and children risk their lives in the service of others to the same extent men do that. The deaths of the men on the HMAS Sydney were due to enemy action (the enemy in that case being comprised of German sailors who killed Australian sailors). The sinking of the Titanic had nothing to do with war, winners or losers.

In the sinking of the Titanic, 1,352 men, 96 women and four children lost their lives; 338 men, 316 women and 57 children were saved. (The Men of the Titanic Disaster)

The circumstances and current status of International Men’s Day in various nations were once well explained at Wikipedia (here is a ghost of that, the archived Feb. 27, 2008 entry of the definition), but now no longer so. World-wide, and if all men wish to say “me too”, then great efforts should be made by many men to have that day of celebration, so many decades after the world’s women got their International Women’s Day. How are men to do that? At Wikipedia, no man but men like Michael Flood, a manhater, gets permanent attention.

Feminism is socialism’s primary tool for re-engineering humanity and civilization. There are many forms and varieties of feminism, but the unifying thread that runs through virtually all of them is that when one examines their ideological roots, one always arrives back at the “gospel” according to Marx and Engels and their primary object of attention, the Status of Women. Marx and Engels were the first to popularize the term “status of women”. Ever since then, self-respecting feminists, especially of the Marxist or radical or socialist variety, religiously adhered to and promoted any and all dogmata pertaining to the well-being of the Status of Women.

Mothers Day wasn’t good enough for the feminists. They needed not only a day to celebrate women with children, they needed in addition to celebrate women, whether those women had children or not. They needed the worship of the uterus. Therefore it should not surprise anyone that International Women’s Day began like this:

Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of [the]former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother’s Day and St Valentine’s Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season….

The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Now, we all know what has happened since then. To elevate someone to a pedestal causes discrimination. In the case of IWD, the discrimination became a war against men and the traditional nuclear family, and that is exactly what the socialists wanted, to cause dissent between the sexes and to create a rift between them. That rift already existed in the early 20th century and steadily deepened ever since, but a rift is not all. From the chivalry of the Victorian Age and its voluntary serfdom to women, men were made to jump into the mandatory slavery demanded by feminists and their fellow travellers.

Men’s average life expectancy, after being about the same as that of women in the developed nations at the beginning of the 20th century, fell more and more behind that of women. Now it is on average five years less than that of women, and as much as close to 14 years behind that of women in some of the developed nations, depending on for how long and how severely socialism has been at work in a given nation.

So, there is no doubt in my mind that International Women’s Day, given its origin as a political event (that was and still is its purpose), has done men a lot of harm and grief but not only men. Married women and their children who stick by their men and fathers suffer as well, as do even more so the vast majority of those who were enticed by easy divorces that followed and their children. Divorced women and their children wanted it all, and unless they went through a succession of new “husbands”, found instead that they had to do it all. It seems to me that the celebration of women on International Women’s day is not truly that but a wake for the traditional nuclear family.

Do men now want to fight back by having the governments of the world launch a day of celebration that will have a comparable impact on women, their husbands and fathers of their children? Is that why men now say, “me too”?

The reality of it all is that for good reasons no two legal-aid lawyers work on opposite sides of the same divorce or child custody case. For similar reasons it causes all governments problems to elevate women and men onto pedestals. If money and efforts are to be wasted, let the women do it — quite a few of them are good at it, as many a man can tell, especially those who were expunged from their families and need to pay child-support extortion (a.k.a. alimony in disguise) for their “right” to have been robbed of their children.

Such days of celebration don’t produce the results that the masses are made to expect, but they serve the politicians and the bureaucracy well, in as much that anything of that nature that the government gets its finger into, to promote and control, gets invariably fouled up (and that always being good for an expansion of the bureaucracy). That is what caused the fall of the Roman Empire, and it most certainly is causing our fall right now.

Instead of having government-sponsored and -promoted days of celebrating one or the other sex, let’s have more power for parents and more of the teaching of respect for them in school and at home, as well as the teaching of mutual respect between the sexes. Government-sponsored days of tax-payer-funded celebrations for one sex or the other won’t create even once a year for one day what we need to have all year around. What the government makes a duty will soon be perceived to be a chore by many who will not ever get to see it as their obligation.

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The 1989 Montreal Massacre in the context of men’s sacrifices

December 7, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

A message from Jeffrey Asher To Fathers for Life

7 December 2008

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your informative web site.  You may find the data below useful.  I have included source web sites.

Yours appreciatively,

Jeffrey Asher.

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Please forgive this lengthy comment. Please offer this data to others.

I propose another view of Canadian deaths, which are mourned only by monuments in the towns where they died.   Please place these deaths in the context of 14 women killed by a psychopath, which never happened before or since.  All men and women condemned that massacre.

The death toll of the men below remains ongoing. They die to provide their families with security and prosperity.

• 1873 Drummond Colliery Disaster, Westville -   60-70 deaths
• 1880 Ford Pit Explosion, Stellarton, -   50 deaths
• 1891 Springhill Mine Disaster, -   125 deaths
• 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster, Alberta -    189 men died.
• 1917 Dominion No. 12 Colliery Explosion, New Waterford, -  65 deaths
• 1918 Albion Mine Explosion, Stellarton -   88 deaths
• 1938 Sydney Mines cable break in mine shaft -   20 deaths
• 1956 Springhill Explosion -   39 deaths
• 1958 Springhill Bump - 75 deaths
• 1982 The Ocean Ranger drilling rig Grand Banks Newfoundland – 84 deaths. All drowned in freezing water.
• 1992 Westray Coal Mine Explosion, Nova Scotia -  26 deaths

Omitted from this toll is the annual murder toll of men, at least twice that of women.

In 2005, the count of deaths on the job was 1,097, a historic maximum.  Few Canadians know that 97% of those deaths are men.  That means 33 women and 1,064 men killed at work.

Men who died fighting to preserve Canadian democracy

• The Boer War - 261
• War World War I – 64,944
• World War II – 42,042
• The Korean War – 516
• War in Afghanistan – 100 and ongoing.
• Female battle deaths to date: 1.

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From: Why I Won’t Wear a White Ribbon

By Jeffrey Asher

Job-caused deaths amount to about 800 per year in Canada. 97% of those deaths are men. That is typical of industrial nations.

Workplace equity is not imposed for the hazardous occupations in the mining, oil, logging, transportation, and construction industries.  Canadians grieved over the deaths of 26 miners in the Westray mine explosion of May 1992.  Since Confederation, over 1200 miners died in the Maritimes mines, and many more of pulmonary suffocation and cancers.  Few Canadians understand those tragedies as typical of centuries of work deaths.

Men commit their bodies and lives to compete for labour in the marketplace, as the irreplaceable financial support for their extended families.   A man is still expected to preserve his wife and children from the insecurity and deprivations caused by poverty.  The burdens on men of an erratic economy have rarely been examined by the media or social scientists.  Husbands and fathers blame themselves for low income, job loss, bankruptcy, and family poverty….

Fathers’ loyalty and sense of duty to their families are paid for with their physical and mental health, and years cut off their lives….

Vancouver and many other cites commissioned monuments dedicated to: “…all the women who have been murdered by men.”  What would be the public or legal reaction if those gender terms were replaced with a religious or racial slander?

No monument has been proposed for the devoted fathers and husbands who supported their families with work in mines, construction, as police officers, deep-sea fishermen or  (mostly volunteer) firefighters. They risk their lives every day.  Canadian soldiers stare death in the face as they remove land mines in the Balkans to save the lives of strangers, or rescue Afghanis from terrorists.  They are heroes, and we owe them respect and honour.”

(Full Article)

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• Ocean Ranger

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger

The ODECO Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well in the Grand Banks area, 166 miles east of St. John’s, Newfoundland … with 84 crew members on board when it sank. There were no survivors of the accident. All drowned in freezing water….

Google search for “Ocean Ranger“

• Piper Alpha

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform … An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6, 1988, killing 167 men. [The 167 men who died were blasted, drowned and burned to death.] … To date it is the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in terms both of lives lost and impact to industry. At the time of the disaster the platform accounted for around ten per cent of the oil and gas production from the North Sea.

Please view video and photos of Piper Alpha.

Google search: Miners Canada Disaster

• Men in the Mines: A History of Mining Activity in Nova Scotia, 1720-1992

Disasters in the Mines

The miner’s life has always been a dark, dangerous and precarious one, carried out in the earth’s margins and depths, usually far underground — and in the case of Nova Scotia’s coal mines, frequently in dank subterranean tunnels stretching for kilometres out beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Sweat from the miner’s brow has often been mingled with blood on the coal or gold.

Miners live with death as a constant threat, and are frequently the victims of underground tragedies — dust explosions, falling coal and rock, asphyxiation from gas; still others drown, are caught in machinery, or are run over by coal cars. Above ground, coal miners die from silicosis, black lung and other related diseases caused by breathing coal dust, while gold miners fall victim to silicosis as well, and sometimes to arsenic poisoning.

Over nearly three centuries of mining activity in Nova Scotia, countless numbers of miners and quarrymen have been killed in disasters large and small. Major coal-mining catastrophes in the last 130 years include:

• Drummond Colliery Disaster, Westville, 1873 (60-70 deaths)
• Foord Pit Explosion, Stellarton, 1880 (50 deaths)
• Springhill Mine Disaster, 1891 (125 deaths)
• Dominion No. 12 Colliery Explosion, New Waterford, 1917 (65 deaths)
• Albion Mine Explosion, Stellarton, 1918 (88 deaths) cable break in mine shaft
• Sydney Mines, 1938 (20 deaths)
• Springhill Explosion, 1956 (39 deaths)
• Springhill Bump, 1958 (74 or 75 deaths)
• Westray Coal Mine Explosion, Plymouth, 1992 (26 deaths)

while the most memorable gold-mining accident is the Moose River Mine Disaster of 1936….

 (Full Story)

• Hillcrest Mine Disaster - Centennial Commemoration 19 June 1914

The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died.

http://members.tripod.com/~coalminersmemorial/hillcrestminedisaster.html

http://www.coalking.ca/challenges/major_hillcrest.html

• Springhill Mine Disasters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springhill_Mining_Disaster

1891 Fire

Springhill’s first mining disaster, the 1891 Fire, occurred at approximately 12:30pm AST on Saturday, February 21, 1891 … a fire caused by accumulated coal dust swept through both shafts killing 125 miners and injuring dozens more.

1956 Explosion

The 1956 Explosion occurred on November 1, 1956 …The resulting explosion blew up the slope to the surface where the additional oxygen created a massive blast which leveled the bankhead on the surface - …

In a show of heroics, Draegermen (rescue miners) and barefaced miners (no breathing equipment) entered the 6,100 foot deep shaft of No. 4 to aid their co-workers. In total 88 miners were rescued, but 39 were killed in the explosion. Media coverage of the 1956 explosion was largely overshadowed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary on October 24, 1956. However, Canadian and local media did offer extensive coverage of the

1958 Bump

The 1958 Bump which occurred on October 23, 1958 was the most severe “bump”, or underground earthquake, in North American mining history and devastated the people of Springhill with the casualties it took, and devastated the town: the mines had been the town’s economic lifeblood, and were never reopened following the disaster. …

Of the 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at the time of the bump, 74 were killed and 100 trapped but eventually rescued.

………….

I have not included disability, maiming or death toll of men who risk their lives daily as: construction & demolition workers, roofers, fire fighters, police, prison guards, truck drivers, farmers, loggers, power machine operators, radioactive industries, meat processing, heavy industry, soldiers.

Jeffrey Asher

15 Drayton Private
Ottawa Ontario
Canada K1K 4R1

Telephone: (613) 745-5545

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Comment by F4L:

Professor Jeffrey Asher was the first Canadian lecturer (at Dawson College, Montreal) who offered a men’s studies course.  He was also the first to be forced to leave employment by his school (in the year 2000) for the “crime” of teaching it.

• Men’s studies’ professor leaves job, citing feminist putschDawson College Administration had cancelled his courses and reassigned him 2 1/2 months ago, by Neil Seeman, National Post, August 16, 2000
• FEMINISM CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
  Jeffrey Asher transcripts from CKNW Radio Interview - Aug 23 2000

Comments and links to articles related to the issues brought up by Jeffrey Asher:

• During the preceding century about 100,000 men died in mining disasters and mining accidents throughout the world.
• Average life expectancies, by sex, various countries in the world
• US Job fatalities for selected occupations: Police, protective services, guards, firefighting
• Death by Numbers
• Gamil Gharbi (a.k.a. Marc Lepine) and propaganda, December 6, 2008, by Walter Schneider.

Please do as Jeffrey Asher asks.  Spread this information around. Send the link to this posting to your friends.  Print the posting and give copies of it to your friends who don’t have Internet access.

–Walter

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Remembrance Day

November 9, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

Remembrance Day is coming up.

It is a celebration in honour of the men (many millions of them) and the women (a handful) who sacrificed their lives fighting for home and country and for the preservation of democracy, freedom of speech that is. (Canadian World War II casualties by sex: 50,000 men, 25 women)

Now that freedom of speech is just about dead, so dead that the only places in which it is being discussed publicly is in such venues as the (Canadian) Human Rights Tribunals (the Canadian equivalent of what in totalitarian regimes used to be called People’s Courts), it may be worth having a look at a personal experience from a few years ago - perhaps now quaint and outdated - with the concept of free speech, something that once-upon-a-time made the societies in the developed nations great.

Have a look at http://fathersforlife.org/articles/robin/freespeech.htm.

Given that the commentary on Remembrance Day that was posted last year at this blog has been fairly popular for all of last year, but especially during the past few days (more than 500 visits a day), you may want to have a look at that one, too.

–Walter

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Equal Parenting or the Disbanding of Status of Women?

October 8, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

What is more important, attempts to promote equal parenting or to cut the budget of (or even to disband) Status of Women Canada?

Canadian women have an existence that is far more comfortable than, and in many other aspects far superior to, that of Canadian men.  That is born out by the sum total of the effects of all-out discrimination against men: Canadian men live on average seven fewer years than Canadian women do (at the beginning of the previous century, men and women had equal life expectancies).  In view of the great advances made by women, what need do we have to promote concerns about and increased spending on women’s issues?  It is men who need to be saved, far more so than women!

Yet, the CPC has done absolutely nothing to address the great and escalating need of men to be allowed to be equal to women.  However, things are even worse than that.  The following contains some of the pertinent details.

Equal parenting, or the lack of it, is the consequence of a more fundamental problem cause.  That problem cause is the government’s agenda for the planned destruction of the family.  In turn, that is largely but not exclusively a consequence of the dominance and control by the feminist ideology that is all-pervasive in the government bureaucracy.

The bureaucracy is our true government.  The bureaucracy always exists.  It is a juggernaut that exhibits cancerous growth that the politicians are either unwilling or unable to bring under control.

Politicians are just window dressing.  They come and go.  The unelected bureaucracy has its own goals, and those goals are hardly ever influenced through changes in the direction of the political winds.

Does anyone labour under the illusion that the most powerful bureaucratic office in Canada (far more costly to run than is the whole Parliament), the Prime Minister’s Office, is controlled by any prime minister who ostensibly heads it?  (All engines, Full Stop! We’ve got a new prime minister.  Everyone, drop all you are doing!! Wait for new instructions, perhaps to take actions opposite to those you were involved in until now. Ha!)

In that context, it is absolutely and totally wrong to assert that, “As you know, the Conservatives are the only party that explicitly supports “Shared Parenting” in its party platform (para 65).”

The CPC’s efforts in that regard are comprised of nothing more than an insignificant Private Member’s Memorandum.  A PMM does not reflect a party’s platform.  That is its purpose, to permit a private member to promote at least attention to something that is not on a given party’s menu.  To do so absolves his party of any blame for the private member’s views and keeps the media’s attention away from his party.

As I stated at the beginning of this message, the lack of equal parenting is a consequence of the dominance and control by the feminist ideology.  That ideology dominates and controls not only many of our politicians but, far more importantly, our bureaucracy.  Our bureaucracy is autonomic, in essence totalitarian and not influenced by mere elections or changes in political parties.

If you take a Private Members Memorandum as evidence of the CPC’s platform, you commit a serious error and let the wool be pulled over your eyes.  Thereby you let yourself be blinded to the CPC’s inactivity and powerlessness as to doing anything about breaking the stranglehold of the feminist ideology on the Canadian bureaucracy.  It is extremely important to determine how the CPC feels about that feminist stranglehold.  Concern about, or ostensible action in regard to, equal parenting pales in comparison.  That doesn’t mean that the promotion of equitably-shared parenting should not be pursued, but it does mean that it is neither the only nor the most important issue that needs pursuing.

It is wrong to project from the actions of a single CPC MP to the rest of the CPC, but if you do so, then you must also project from the inactions or plain ignorance of other CPC MPs to the whole CPC.

Given that requirement, it becomes extremely important to consider not only the “CPC’s” efforts with respect to equal parenting but, far more importantly, the lack of its efforts with respect to the fundamental problem causes that make worrying about equal parenting or about the lack of it a necessity, such as the unwillingness to set up a government department for the “Status of Men,” or, failing that, the dismantling of Status of Women Canada.

I tried to discuss that issue with Leon Benoit (MP Vegreville-Wainwright) on September 19th, 2008, when he came to attend the monthly supper at the Bruderheim Seniors Club to do a bit of campaigning.  Unfortunately, he was unable (or perhaps unwilling) to engage in a discussion with respect to Status of Women Canada.  He asserted that, “We don’t have such a department.”  I could tell from the look on his face that he had no clue about anything regarding Status of Women Canada.  I spoke to him for quite a while, and neither that look on his face nor his stance on Status of Women changed.  He obviously had his mind made up and no facts could confuse him.

It is obvious, when it comes to the atrocity of the discriminatory and bureaucratic existence of Status of Women Canada, Leon Benoit is of no help.  However, at least the CPC pretended at one time that they were doing something about Status of Women Canada (while they never yet even pretended to do or to have done anything about equal parenting).

With great fanfare, the CPC announced in September of 2006 that $5 million had been cut from the budget of Status of Women Canada.  Subsequently, very quietly and without much or any media fanfare at all, that $5-million budget cut was undone and $5 million were added in March of 2007 to the budget allowances for Status of Women Canada.

Status of Women Canada

News Releases

March 7, 2007
Canada’s New Government Increases Funding to the Women’s Program
OTTAWA — On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, announced an additional $5 million in new funding for 2007-2008 for Status of Women Canada and a new funding mechanism for the Women’s Program….(Full Story)

That seems to indicate that not only had the earlier-announced $5-million budget cut not come into effect, but that “an additional $5 million in new funding for 2007-2008 for Status of Women Canada” was put into effect.  Now, tell me, does the CPC control Status of Women Canada, or does Status of Women Canada have the CPC on a leash?

When I mentioned Status of Women Canada to Leon Benoit, he got a look on his face like a kid does who was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.  Why?  Is it perhaps because I forced him to realize that, in a totalitarian system that is run by a cancerously growing bureaucracy out of control, to elect politicians is little more than to appoint elected officials to a parasitic but lavishly comfortable existence?

Have a look at these articles with respect to the CPC’s and Leon Benoit’s stance on Status of Women Canada.

As of now there has been total silence from Leon Benoit on those issues, and the CPC has not only not cut the budget of Status of Women but increased it by at least another $5 million for the year 2007-2008.

That indicates that, all perceptions of Canadian men’s- and fathers’ rights activists who clutch at straws to the contrary, the CPC firmly pursues an agenda of feminist dominance in Canadian politics and society.

Walter Schneider
http://fathersforlife.org
http://blog.fathersforlife.org

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67 DV Homicides in Wisconsin in ‘06-07

October 2, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

The Capital Times

Grim report shows 67 domestic violence homicides in state in ‘06-07

Jessica VanEgeren  —  10/02/2008 9:23 am

Two years ago in Fond du Lac, a 43-year-old woman was killed by her husband. The weapon of choice: a cinder block. Earlier that year in Marathon County, a 40-year-old woman was beaten and strangled. She died at the hands of her husband after a piece of broken glass from a candy dish was stuffed down her throat….(Full Story)

That first paragraph in the article sets the stage.  After that, it doesn’t matter all that much anymore that the rest of the article is very careful to avoid  breaking down the fatality victims into men, women and children.

Perhaps there is a reason for that.  Maybe it is an interesting bit of truth that peeked through a chink in the armor of obfuscation in the article:

58 children under the age of 18 were left orphaned or without a mother or father as a result of domestic violence. Of the young children who lost a parent, 28 percent lost their mothers.

That means that 16 children lost their mothers and 42 lost their fathers.  The article provides no further clue as to what the proportions were of men and women who became DV murder victims.  Going by the proportion of the children who lost mothers and who lost fathers, the ratio of fathers to mothers killed is 2.6 fathers for every mother. That says nothing about who the perpetrators were.  However, the mothers’ ex-boyfriends or ex-husbands seem to have been the perpetrators in a good number of cases.

Does that mean that Wisconsin has almost three times as many battered men’s shelters as it has battered women’s shelters?  I don’t think so.  As far as I know, all of the Wisconsin shelters for victims of domestic violence are for women only.

Furthermore, the remedy for the victims of domestic violence is as follows:

Patti Seger, the executive director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said getting victims to the point where they are ready to leave their abusers is an ongoing challenge.

The odd thing is that “getting victims to the point where they are ready to leave their abusers” appears to be exactly the trigger that causes much of the serious or deadly violence in the first place.

Given the fact that there is no battered men’s shelter in Wisconsin, the victims Patti Seger spoke about are all women. So, the solution to creating the love and respect necessary between spouses to prevent themselves or their ex-lovers from beating each other to death is to isolate them from one another, to make them separate, to have the victims leave their abusers, to get divorces.

There is a culture of violence that boys and girls are being indoctrinated with from the time before Kindergarten.

It seems to me that girls are no longer being urged to be lady-like but to be more like boys, even to be “as strong” as boys, which is, given that boys hardly ever defend themselves, not all that hard to do when it comes to that.

It happens far more often now that a girl is encouraged to be violent, and every time one slaps a boy in the face, gives him a black eye or two, or kicks him in the genitals, there is little reproach and more likely a resounding “Good for you! There you go, girl!”  That, as the years go by, is then being followed up with other lessons for such violent girls, by which they learn that in the eyes of the law they can do no wrong and that they can even commit murder with impunity.

On the other hand, it is more typical of society to teach boys who are old enough to play in a sandbox, “Boys don’t hit girls!”  That is then being followed up with lessons that teach boys and young men that they never, under any circumstance, may be violent to a woman, that there is never an excuse for them.

The other day, when I asked her whether her son was still single, the mother of a young man told me, “Yup, he is, but that is better than being black and blue all the time.”

Whenever something did not please her, his girlfriend whom he had lived with for a few years beat him black and blue on a regular basis, scratched up his immaculate truck, kicked in the truck’s head- and tail lights and slashed the truck’s tires.

The young man’s mother told me,

He got rid of her and now she is with X [a young man whom we both know and who had a few years ago been the victim of a serious paternity fraud] and is continuing the same violent behaviour with him. Fortunately I taught him [her son] all his life not ever to hit a woman.  At least he did not go to jail and he doesn’t have a criminal record for defending himself, but he is better off single than being constantly black and blue; and, thankfully, there are no children.

At what time in their lives do people learn to give and take respect for one another?  There is one thing that is certain in that regard. At least society tried, until the feminists and their fellow-travellers usurped power and control and began to create the rift between the sexes.

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The Effect of Feminism on Canadian Society

September 27, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

Barbara Kay, columnist at Canada’s National Post, in her speech at the 25th Anniversary Conference of REAL Women of Canada, The Effect of Feminism on Canadian Society (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 20 September 2008), in describing what has in effect become a totalitarian society dominated and controlled by feminist ideology and doctrine, stated:

….Nothing is more illustrative of the punitive character of feminist excesses than family court. Here is where misandry in its most open, cynical and pernicious form is found. Over 85% of contested custody suits end with mothers receiving sole custody over children. The remaining 15% divide children between other family members, agencies and fathers, so in fact fathers arrive at sole custody about 7% of the time.

Only an extreme systemic contempt for the value of a father’s role in the life of a child can explain such a disparity, and only an extreme prejudice against men in general can explain that contempt, and nobody pretends otherwise.

Indeed, one of the more chilling statements I have ever read, one that captures the casual acceptance of democracy’s fall from grace in family court was this from the National Association of Women and the Law: “Courts may treat parents unequally and deny them basic civil liberties and rights, as long as their motives are good.”…. (See Full Speech)

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More of Barbara Kay’s speeches

Although Barbara Kay did not dwell on it in her speech, the totalitarian system created and controlled by feminists such as in Canada now prevails in all developed nations and extends to virtually all developing nations, in what is becoming a truly feminist, global, socialist, totalitarian State.

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Is feminism a form of socialism?

August 8, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

At the website of Fathers for Life, I stated at a number of places that feminism is communism or, more precisely, that feminism is communism in drag - communism disguised as feminism.  One could even consider, arguably, that feminism is a means by which socialism (or communism, if you will) is being implemented in the so-called “free” West, that therefore the West is steadily becoming more totalitarian; totalitarianism being something into which socialism inevitably evolves.

Totalitarianism is a form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government. (Note that the long description of totaltitarianism at Britannica from which the preceding quote was taken mentions neither socialism nor feminism nor communism.)

Some of those ideas of mine were sparked by similar ones expressed by others.  Those ideas seem harsh to many people.  The harsher they seem to those people, the more advanced the evolution towards socialism appears to be in their country of residence.  However, the older I get and the more I keep my eyes open and look around, the more confirmations from surprising sources I find that relate or allude to the strong relationship between feminism and socialism.

This morning I re-read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 commencement address at Harvard, A World Split Apart.  In that address, Solszhenitsyn stated:

I hope that no one present will suspect me of expressing my partial criticism of the Western system in order to suggest socialism as an alternative. No; with the experience of a country where socialism has been realized, I shall not speak for such an alternative. The mathematician Igor Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliantly argued book entitled Socialism; this is a penetrating historical analysis demonstrating that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. Shafarevich’s book was published in France almost two years ago and so far no one has been found to refute it. It will shortly be published in English in the U.S.

The book that Solzhenitsyn alluded to is: The Socialist Phenomenon, by Igor Shafarevich.  Translations of the book into English (with a foreword by Solzhenitsyn) are no longer in print, but a translation of the book into English is available on the Internet in full and for free; see The Socialist Phenomenon.

I will quote here just one page from the book.  The answer to the question posed in the header of this blog entry will become instantly apparent.

It would seem that socialist ideology has the ability to stamp widely separated or even historically unlinked socialist currents with indelible and stereotyped markings.

It seems to us quite legitimate to conclude that socialism does exist as a unified historical phenomenon. Its basic principles have been indicated above. They are:

• Abolition of private property.
• Abolition of the family.
• Abolition of religion.
• Equality, abolition of hierarchies in society.

The manifold embodiments of these principles are linked organically by a common spirit, by an identity of specific details and, frequently, by a clearly discernible overall thrust.

Our perspective on socialism takes into account only one of the dimensions in which this phenomenon unfolds. Socialism is not only an abstract ideological system but also the embodiment of that system in time and space. Therefore, having sketched in its outlines as an ideology, we now ought to be able to explain in what periods and within what civilization socialism arises, whether in the form of doctrine, popular movement or state structure. But here the answer turns out to be far less clear. While the ideology of socialism is sharply defined, the occurrence of socialism can hardly be linked to any definite time or civilization. If we consider the period in the history of mankind which followed the rise of the state as an institution, we find the manifestations of socialism, practically speaking, in all epochs and in all civilizations. It is possible, however, to identify epochs when socialist ideology manifests itself with particular intensity. This is usually at a turning point in history, a crisis such as the period of the Reformation or our own age. We could simply note that socialist states arise only in definite historical situations, or we could attempt to explain why it was that the socialist ideology appeared in virtually finished and complete form in Plato’s time. We shall return to these questions later. But in European history, we cannot point to a single period when socialist teachings were not extant in one form or another. It seems that socialism is a constant factor in human history, at least in the period following the rise of the state. Without attempting to evaluate it for the time being, we must recognize socialism as one of the most powerful and universal forces active in a field where history is played out.

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Igor Shafarevich
The Socialist Phenomenon, p. 200

It appears that the feminism that is being rammed down our throats in the developed nations is the Spartan kind described by Aristotle.

If you are not yet convinced, read a bit more of The Socialist Phenomenon.  I also recommend for you to look up some of the sources used by Igor Shafarevich.  You better do that anyway, because it is extremely unlikely that much more than exceedingly little of what he wrote about was covered by the educational curriculum used to indoctrinate you with.  After all, the feminists who dominate, control and censor the curriculum (in the mid-1980s they literally purged the text books at all North-American schools, colleges and universities of all politically-incorrect content) don’t want you to know that they are socialists or communists disguised as feminists.  Most of their students probably don’t even know that is the case.  That is how indoctrination works.

By the way, you will not find anything at Wikipedia that comes even close to what I wrote about here.  But that is no surprise to you, is it?  (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafarevich#The_Socialist_Phenomenon)

Last, but not least, for anyone who ever wondered why feminists scorn science and are hostile to rigorous scientific examination of the expressions of their feelings they wish to have us buy and swallow, here is a quote from Solzhenitsyn’s foreword to Igor Shafarevich’s book:

World socialism as a whole, and all the figures associated with it, are shrouded in legend; its contradictions are forgotten or concealed; it does not respond to arguments but continually ignores them–all this stems from the mist of irrationality that surrounds socialism and from its instinctive aversion to scientific analysis, features which the

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author of this volume points out repeatedly and in many contexts….

There you have it: feminism is socialism.

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