I will comment where I feel that there has been a misrepresentation, and that is by whichever side, and that includes bringing attention to domestic violence against men, or rape against men which are so often under reported.... one of the reason it is under reported is men are reluctant to come forward as men are supposed to "Man up" and get on with life.moonshadow wrote:Additionally S.D.,
And I mean this with all due respect, but why do you get all bent out of shape when someone suggest that there might just be a bias against men in western culture?
Perhaps it worse un the USA, but certainly I could find instances here that would also support that. Child custody cases used to be extremely biased against the man due to a large part to the ageing, traditionally minded judges that saw the women's place as being in the home bringing up the children. It's not perfect now but it has changed a lot, for instance, for quite a few years the courts have been required to put children's wishes high on the objectives list for a settlement.moonshadow wrote:However to say that men always have the upper hand and never experience prejudice, injustice, a bias against them just because they're men is just plain wrong.
Where I do object is where some people here try to create a case for bias against men where there was never one on the agenda. Not forcing schoolgirls to wear skirts is about giving them their dignity (that boys already have) and allowing the to wear what most women (and men) wear every day of the week. It is not about giving them a fashion choice and not giving one to boys. Where is this biased against boys? Moreover, rather that embracing the moves towards gender-neutral uniforms people simply complain that it's because of tg or boys still can't wear them because of society. How is the school at fault for that?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-act-2010
What about if it's a female police officer? Relatively, I think that policing is reasonably unbiased in the UK. It almost certainly wouldn't have been 30 years ago but if I look at today I would say that I know more or less equal numbers of men an women that have been stopped and fined or banned here.moonshadow wrote: Here's an actual example. A coworker was telling me a story the other day about how he got rear ended by a cute teenage girl while he was sitting at a stop light. A full on impact. The investigation revealed that the girls cell phone was laying in the floor board of the drivers seat with a text bubble active.
You know what happened to the girl? Not a damned thing! The Tennessee cop didn't even press charges. Wonder how that would have went down if it were a man texting?
I'm not familiar with Philip W. Cook but I have done quite a bit of reading on the topic in the past. The article looks interesting having taken a brief look at it.moonshadow wrote: You might find this interesting, if you're open minded enough to believe that not all women are faultless:
http://abusedmen.com/the-whole-truth-about-domestic-violence/
moonshadow wrote: I tried being a feminist. I keep getting kicked out of their club when I mention some man who got the short end of the stick on a matter, as though to even suggest such a thing is a blaspheme among them (feminist)
There are feminists and there are feminists and they don't all get on with one another. Second wave feminist really do not like third wave in my experience. I know many activist feminists but not one is a 'man hater' and if I do think they are overlooking unfairness towards men I will pull them up on it.