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Never Knowing when to shut up!
Why isn’t there equality for Men? Regularly in the media I see advertisments that are insulting to men, but these are allowed because ‘Men can take a joke’, but if a role reversal were to occur and Women to be put in positions that I regularly see on TV there would be uproar because it would be labeled as sexist etc…
Now all I have is anecdotal evidence so far so take a look at some of this sexism that effects people like me. I’m an engineering student which is generally regarded as being quite difficult and also being predominantely a male course of study. To address this gender imbalance the government have created MentorLink. The program is funded by the government so it has in my opinion a duty to not be sexist but it clearly is.
Mentorlink aims to address the following areas:
* The lack of young women entering engineering programmes
* The retention of female students in engineering courses
* Equality of opportunity and support structure for female graduates entering the workplaceThis innovative project is based on the need for a support structure for young women entering the engineering field, whether as a student or in the world of work. It is widely acknowledged that mentoring on an individual basis provides this support but no provision exists for this at present.
Now why the hell is this needed, who cares who does engineering as long as people do it. There is a shortage of people doing engineering in the country and yet the government has decided to focus on one subsection of society in it’s efforts to increase these numbers. Now maybe an arguement could be made for a program like this is one’s existed in course where the gender imbalance is the other way around, but to the best of my knowledge no such programs exist. In Medicine where 3:1 female:male ratio exists there are no support structures to address the imbalance.
I want to know where is my support structure? Where is my mentor to guide me through college? Why doesn’t anyone get upset about sexism like this?
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Female favouratism is the affirmative action of today. Such positive discrimination will peter out once its agenda has been served. Suggest you examine promotion of nursing to males?
I totally agree! I never hear people talk about male rights - it’s always female rights …. The West, in my opinion, is very soft on females. Males are much more accountable under the justice system in every western country. It’s about time we started making females more accountable in our society! In NZ, it has been legal for females to have sex with boys under 16. This only became illegal in late 2003. Until 2003, females couldn’t be charged with indecent assault of males (of any age) either. Also females in NZ do not get charged properly for false rape. They only get charged with making a false claim - often a 3 month sentence at most. Instead they should face a very severe penalty for this as false rape can and has lead to males being locked up for up to 20 years. Also males get twice the sentence for domestic assault as females in NZ. Females also get much, much lighter sentences when they kill children. Equality for males too! Looks and tears don’t make you innocent! Just look at the big fuss made of the Chapelle Corby case - pretty white girl …… Who know’s if she is innocent or guilty? People just feel sorry for her regardless because of the tears and the looks. But if it is a male, then they are alot tougher on them - that isn’t equality!
Ok I know I came in on this late but I was just looking up “equality for men” to see what thing’s I’d find, n I was inspired to post on this topic.
Agreed! The funny thing is that when you say these things and ask for equality as a male, you are looked at as sexist, so that expresses the deep deep problem in our human race’s view of men and what they deserve…Men are vilified, it’s gotten to the point where most of us from the generations born during or after the 80’s are starting to not identify ourselves with being masculine, maybe because if slave is what being masculine means who would want to be that? Or maybe it’s a sign that males are breaking out of their gender role restrictions – it depends on the individual case…
The cause of the continuing inequality toward men: Primordial chivalry, in other worlds, global unconscious pussy whippedness
For the most part men are providers/givers, women are takers, but our society always says it’s the opposite.
The most evil one can do is do evil while appearing to be doing good…
But heterosexual men never question what they deserve, they’re too busy feeling sooo lucky to get laid…imagine if straight men needed women sexually as much as straight women need men sexually…I wonder…I have to wonder if ALL the inequalities would begin to dissolve…Could this big problem be based on this dynamic?
Seriously tho…until men start waking up, (and waking each other up) women will continue to take. Just like there’s so many programs for women’s health, the hospital in my town just opened a women’s health center, when in reality it’s men who live less healthy lives, die earlier, are treated with lower quality care, research for cures for male-specific illnesses are funded by the government much less.
A side note: You’d think that women would be doing something to help the men they supposedly love wouldn’t you? Nein, it’s a battle you have to fight yourself, but it can be an easy battle, if your brave. And it’s not a battle against women, it’s a battle against human inequality, just don’t expect to find many allies among women, after all, one who benefits from injustice wouldn’t want that injustice to end, for example, a slave owner wouldn’t help in the ending of slavery, unless he was prepared to lose that wrong advantage.
Host / Parasite… that relationship must end, eventually men will ask for equality in dating and the unwritten laws of relationship/courtship. After all women didn’t stop at just breaking down a few inequalities they faced in the work force, they kept going and are still going, and they’ll go further and further, which would be a good thing if men were moving forward at the same rate.
Another side note: isn’t it interesting how baby blue has now become a girl’s color? Also, ever wonder why females are called girls they’re whole lives but males are rarely called boys even if they’re underage, I wonder, maybe it has something to do with the fact that women want men to be utilitarian, providers, protectors…rather than be cherished and adored, privileged, supported to explore themselves and loved…common language reflects attitudes…I always call myself a boy, but I’m young so it’s not like a 30 y.o. lady calling herself a girl. Oh btw, it’s time to take back baby blue, and watch out because they’re working on bright green too…if you don’t do something eventually boys will be left with only black, brown and gray, the colors of work, dirt and death, the colors of a slave’s clothing…
And finally, I’d say the MOST important quality any man can carry in this quest is: Never hold back the truth in fear of being thought of as sexist. Bar-B-Q sacred cows for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And always maintain that all you’re demanding is equality.
equality = equality, clear across the board, there is no argument to that. And if you get the argument that women need more support from men because they give birth etc, well, what percentage of relationships you have during your lives end with your girlfriend giving birth? 1%? So that excuse is only valid when that happens, and only during the time that she’s nursing or shouldn’t work. A woman using nature’s design to gain power and special privileges is as bad as a very strong guy using his physical strength to push people around. It’s disgusting. Weaponizing sexuality is abuse… I see life this way because I don’t need women sexually, it seems a law of life is, he who needs, is powerless…Especially if the person you need is aware of your need and uses that to extort things from you, whether those things be self esteem transactions, or financial transactions.
Guard your self esteem…don’t be undermined during courtship….
Light be with you!
Skydin
The Omega Boy