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Canada's Department
on the Status of Women Creates "Enemy List" of "Masculinists"
to be Monitored for Potential Hate Crimes
June 24, 2003 by Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
The Perspective of "Masculinists". Among the objections of "masculinists" to the SWC report are: their feeling that the SWC assumes that to be opposed to feminism is to be anti-women (which feels as inaccurate as saying that to be opposed to Conservatives is to be anti-American or Anti-Canadian); that the creation of an "enemy list" is a Mc Carthy-type tactic-that by discouraging employers from hiring men on the government's "enemy list" it intimidates virtually any man from opposing feminist ideology; that the SWC Report seems to feel women are entitled to all the money and attention gender receives and men's increased activity is threatening the status of feminism as the one party system of gender politics. Many masculinists feel that feminist ideology hurts not just men, but also women and children-that, for example, feminist efforts to keep fathers from children hurt children, women and men. Masculinist groups are in favor of girls getting the special help they need in school, but feel that boys-who are doing worse in school in every academic and psychological measure except math and science-need attention in proportion to their problems. Masculinists agree that they do have an agenda that is different from the feminist agenda. (E.g., see The Myth of Male Power at www.warrenfarrell.com). They feel that both should be aired. They do not favor using the taxpayer money of both sexes to fund a lobby group for one sex while criminalizing the speech of the other sex. On a Personal Level. My speaking, consulting and expert witness work pays for the loss of income I endure from writing books. The institutions that hire me usually do a Google search. In the future, when my name comes up as listed by the Secretary of State of Canada as a suspect for a hate crime of being anti-woman, that is all any feminist needs to convince her employer to hire someone else. Hence, merely being listed has an effect on me similar to the effect on a father of a false accusation. That's why, when a government agency merely lists names it has the impact of McCarthyism. Register your reaction with: Research Branch (Also keep Senator Anne Cools [coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca], and David
Shackleton, editor of Everyman [editor@everyman.org ] informed of
your efforts.) Warren Farrell, Ph.D. is the author of the international bestsellers, The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are The Way They Are, as well as Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say and Father and Child Reunion. He is the only man in the U.S. ever elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New York City. He has taught at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and currently resides in Carlsbad, CA. Visit his website at http://www.warrenfarrell.com. |
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