Is the U.N. a Worldwide Threat to the Health and Wellbeing of Men?
This is a quick “heads up†that the United Nations recently has posted the “Secretary-General’s study on violence against women.â€
This one hundred and thirty nine page document can be read at:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/
violenceagainstwomenstudydoc.pdf
In my view, the key to understanding the entire report can be found in Section VIII. Conclusions and recommendations, Section 364, page 102, portions of which are quoted below:
“364. Violence against women is a violation of human rights, rooted in historically unequal power relations between men and women and the systemic discrimination against women that pervades both the public and private spheres. The broad context from which it emerges includes disparities of power, in the form of patriarchy [italics added] …â€
In short, if you buy patriarchy you buy the entire one hundred and thirty nine page report along with the U.N.’s incredible remedies and recommendations.
The major problems with this report are fourfold: ideological, empirical, national sovereignty, and family destabilization with the goal of redefining the family to include only mothers and children. This op-ed will consider briefly only the ideological and the empirical.
Ideologically, the U.S. today suffers far more from matriarchy than patriarchy. The clearest example of matriarchy is the “boy crisis†in education where boys lag behind girls in virtually all areas and where females are superior in number to males at virtually all levels of higher education in roughly a 60/40 split. This 60/40 split has very serious long-term implications for both women and men.
The more imminent short-term threat to the health and wellbeing of men, however, lies in the report’s domestic violence disinformation including the long discredited “Duluth Model†(p. 95). The report fails to accurately represent empirical research reality — at least for the U.S and much of the industrialized world. For decades sound empirical research has demonstrated that males and females initiate domestic violence at approximately equal rates, the most recent studies suggest a possible upsurge in the initiation rates for females, and approximately 38% of the physically harmed victims of domestic violence are men. More comprehensive research coverage than can be provided in this brief op-ed can be found at: www.mediaradar.org.
The threats to the health and wellbeing of men, however, can be found in the one hundred and thirty nine pages of the U.N. report:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/
violenceagainstwomenstudydoc.pdf
So, what to do?
In my view, all women and men who value gender equality rather than gender supremacy should band together to demand that the Secretary General table the present report until the U.N. produces a report of equal length titled the “Secretary-General’s study on violence against men.†Nowhere more than in domestic violence is it true that “What is good for the goose also is good for the gander.â€
Should the Secretary General decline this request, I would urge that all women and men who value gender equality demand that their governments suspend all U.N. funding immediately.
Enough is enough of one-sided slander, libel, disinformation, and hatred towards men. The time for action is now.
Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Florida International University in Miami.
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The UN is a dead loss. It is past saving. The outgoing Gen Sec is wasted, compromised by corruption. The incoming Gen Sec from South Korea will prove a caretaker whilest the body politic dies. I very much doubt he will even hear the call for a dose of medicine let alone do anything surgical. Call in the autopsy pathologist.
The UN will be replaced by a world government run by corrupt liars.
I can think of more worthy things to spend our tax money on than the United Nations.