My place of work (a well-known UK higher education facility also) has numerous women-only 'support' and 'networking' groups which actively exclude against men from opportunities . The goal of these, I understand, are to empower and consolidate women students in suppossedly male-orientated subjects. When I obtained attendance figures for the university the gender split in most of the schools was equal. In fact, the largest (and by a long mile) gender gap was in health, where women outnumbered men by a factor of ten. Male support groups to address this imbalance: none. I now take much of the feminist movement with a pinch of salt.

all legally sanctioned social movemenst are supposed to be promoting peace n fairness,not fighting fire with fire,let alone piggybacking on a miscontrued theory of it which hurt innocents.the very latter is radicalism n no different from terrorism.

i would like to remind those dolts like jan,that her own grandfather might have been involved in her own alleged interpretation of oppresing women.so what are they gonna do,renounce her own family tree?her concept towards the 'boke' is piggybacking on that of fighting fire with fire,but isnt true to the word.because to be so,uve gotta be the victim,n who u're atrgeting gotta be the guilty party.neither holds true,shes just working on gender stereotyping,shes a damned sexist.real feminists should attack her if they are really against sexism.not just keep silent n act dumb,n only become alert when their benefits are at stake.since they brand themselves as community servers,not some darn profit making company seeking to slash costs n raise prices.

Gender Studies should study femininity and masculinity. How can it be called "Gender Studies" if it does not? I had to dip into Gender Studies for my PhD and found a dearth of literature on masculinity, despite this academic dicipline being very important, in my opinion. On the sexist issue, there are sexists in all walks of like, among men and women, masculinists and feminists. There also non-sexist people in all walks of life. People who think otherwise need to broaden their social circle. Personally, I find all sexism distasteful, just as I find discrimination on the grounds of race, orientation, class, religion, politics and disability distasteful, though I am tolerant of people who think differently to me.

feminists want equal?they should advocate ban on skirts n dresses;all women should go to work in shirt-tie-pants suit.why should they have that extra degree of freedom,often to manipulate the standards around?

"should men's rights ever be feminism's responsibility?"

Feminism is supposed to be about gender equality, right?

Well what happens when women are more advantaged than men?

Look around you.

Yes.

Feminism is sexism as ethos, lifestyle, art, belief and philosophy that infects important areas of public policy.

I was told last year by a boke, of course, that women had already been allowed by men to achieve equality! Worse - it had all gone too far and now men were society's victims.
I told him to come back and complain in 2,000 years.

@james - please do some research into patriarchy and then you will see that it shapes structural inequalities that affect both men and women.

@Matarij - Yes working class men are not the victims of capital, they are the victims of patriarchy

I have just heard that Tom Martin has lost his case.

I get the distinct impression the author will be pleased to hear that news.

I, though, am not.

and I expect I was in gender studies departments as a student and a lecturer/researcher longer than her, to have some sense of the discrimination they exhibit.

janlog
13 March 2012 at 18:30

I told him to come back and complain in 2,000 years.

Well Jan, leaving the actual discussion aside as im afraid that might upset you , your answer to men being discriminated against is that they have to be discriminated against for a few thousand years for things to be equal ?? do you realise just how undeniably sexist that way of thinking is ?, its women like you that killed feminisim as anything but a power grab.

Feminists just need a good meat injection .

Why would a bunch of fat ugly lesbians want to defend men?

"Men may not be the enemy, yet with so few people prepared to identify as feminist in the first place, many "feminisms" are understandably wary of providing a critical male platform that might be used against women."

Nichi,

The likes of Mary Daly, who were powerful leaders of feminism during its second wave, used Women's Studies as a means of promoting hateful lies about men, children and 'patriarchy'.

Do I have to list all of the other radical homosexual second wave feminists who promoted misandry and openly lied about men? If you're unaware of them then you're not qualified to say you "speicalise" in sexual politics.

Has it ever occurred to you that the reason feminazis refuse to acknowledge men's issues in "gender studies" is because the evidence refutes their rhetoric about patriarchy?

If there was a patriarchal bias in society, as the feminists claim, and as you seem to believe, then why is it that male issues are systematically ignored?

For example, men account for the vast majority of the homeless; are four to five times more likely than women to commit suicide; account for the majority of victims of violence, including homicide; are shunned by the family courts during custodial disputes, and, on average, are punished more severely than women when they commit similar crimes; receive far less funding for their health, even though they're more likely than women to die from the most prevalent diseases; experience bias in the education system from kindergarten through to the end of tertiary education, and so on. I could list a whole page worth of other issues that affect men, but for the sake of not making my message any longer than it needs to be, I'll leave it at that.

The reason feminism refuses to acknowledge men's issues is because its bigoted followers are running a scam. Their state-funded occupations rely on them convincing people that women are victims and that all men are evil. Anyone who "pretends" to not realise this is either an evil liar or a dullard.