Additionally, the male unemployment rate is currently 3 times the female rate, even though more men than women work, and these men work longer hours. On average, a full time employed male works 42 hours per week, as opposed to the female’s 37 hours per week. This could be because traditionally ‘male’ industries such as mining, steel works and shipbuilding are being closed. Nothing is being done to restore the manufacturing industry, comprising hard, dirty and dangerous jobs, that women don’t seem to want, but men are happy to take on, as long as it means being employed. This could be why industrial injuries at work are overwhelmingly of men. When was the last time you saw a female garbage collector, for example?
In the social security realm, bias against males is obvious. There are benefits that are purely unequal. One such case is that there is a widow bereavement allowance, but none for a widower and higher benefit levels for women with children then men in the same situation. What makes females more needy of financial support than males?
Also, there is a 5 year difference in eligibility for pension. Women retire at 60 and male at 65. Is this equal? Is this fair? Is there one logical reason why this is the case? No. In fact, if you look at it biologically, women live on average 7 years longer than men, so technically, it can be said that men receive 12 years less benefits for 5 years more work. Although we cannot change our scientific make up, we can change the biased pension age to reflect balance and equality.
In the health care avenue, screening programs are available for women related cancers such as breast and cervical cancer, however there is no screening of equivalent cancers effecting men such as prostate and testicular cancer. This is despite deaths from prostate cancer are 6.7 times higher than deaths from cervical cancer. Research spending is overwhelmingly in favour of women cancers, even though the men’s life expectancy is already 7 years less than females.
The suicide rate for males is 3.7 times that of females. An alarming growth rate of 70% in suicides of young men under 21 years of age has still managed to go unnoticed amongst authorities. Or perhaps they noticed and chose not to care, as no government funding is put into male support groups at all. This could be because men are viewed as the expendable sex, around only to impregnate women so the population continues to grow. Men deserve fairness, an offering of help in termoilous times, a listening ear that specialises in male problems, but nothing has been done, and nothing is intended to be done.
My final topic for tonight is that the feminist movement has been taken too far, so much so that it now is prejudice against males.
The feminist movement was put in place to achieve equality amongst the sexes. They build on the ethos of assisting women who are disadvantaged and needing protection. These bodies are now not addressing equality for women, but further privileges for women. Taxpayers, included male taxpayers, are contributing towards this industry.
Women seem to want balance, but are more than happy to accept outmoded but ongoing social provisions, based on women as the dependents of men, the one thing females were trying to break free from. It seems females want whatever benefits them best. If their being discriminated against, we all hear about it, as the case on the news just last week about the gentlemen’s club shows. But where women are advantaged, they’ll continue along on their merry way, not a peep to be heard. Feminists have established a society where it’s seemingly impossible for men to come out better than women. For example, if a woman hits a man, the response is most likely to be, ‘what’d he do?’ and instantly show compassion to the female. Whereas if a man hits a women, jaws drop open in shock and fingers are pointed accussedly in the male direction. It has been illusioned that men are in the wrong no matter what. Another example; a man fighting a woman. If he wins, he’s a bully and if he loses, he’s a wimp. Unfair again?
Women have simultaneously assumed male roles in employment, but refused to concede any female roles in the family to men. The intolerance that is allowed towards men is due to the universal dominance of feminism. Feminism has appropriated all inequalities to women. If we lived in the society described by feminists, ‘a patriarchal society organised by men for the benefit of men,’ it was impossible in logic for inequalities towards men to exist. I have shown many points that detail that men are discriminated against, thus proving the feminists, not wrong as such, but not right.
Any male that did voice their opinion that opposed feminist foundations was viewed as someone unable to get a girlfriend, or sexually inadequate, or morally defective, as was the case with Paul Aston, one who wrote a controversial article assaulting feminism. It certainly wasn’t possible that perhaps he had a good case to argue. No, he was a male chauvinistic pig.
It seems feminism is some sort of cult, where anyone who dares differ to its views are called names, shunned, and disposed of. It has been taken too far, so far that simple niceties, such as a male offering his seat on a train to a female is blankly refused, and told it is a sly way of ‘keeping her in her place’.
With the current mode of girl power, we are headed for a society where the role of men is so marginalised that they are nothing more than breeding machines. Men need to stand up, as a group, and vouch for equality just as the women did 40 years ago. We need a men’s movement, to restore equality and harmony, and strive for a balanced scheme of life. One voice can be hidden, but a group of comrades, wanting only fairness, cannot be ignored.
