At present I am busy on a campaign to encourage equality under the law. While I know most on this subject in respect to my own country, the UK, my understanding is that discrimination against men (or discrimination in favour of women, depending on one’s view) under the law is common throughout the western world.
The common narrative is that women come off worse under the law. Feminists often make the claim that there are laws discriminating against them. Whether such people are in the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, or elsewhere I tend to ask them to state the specific legislation that causes any discrimination against women. I have yet to receive a single answer. I am able to expose legislation that specifically discriminates against main or that favours women.
A member of the United Kingdom Parliament, concerned by his country’s stated mistreatment of women under the law, started looking into why there is this discrimination. What he discovered was that there is no such discrimination against women but there is a notable discrimination against men. Indeed he found that in every category of crime, across all age groups, men are more likely to be convicted, when convicted are more likely to be imprisoned, and when imprisoned are likely to be imprisoned for longer, with less chance of early release despite typically behaving better in jail.
When the Member of Parliament blew the whistle on the government lies and revealed the falsity of the feminist narratives that insists that women (who only form 5% of the prison population) are more hardly done by under the law he was vilified not only by opposing politicians but by feminists and feminist organisations the world over. His attempts to champion equality under the law are being met with mockery, open hostility, calls for his sacking or resignation, and feminist petitions against him.
I support equality under the law. I like to think most people do, and I was disgusted that the only voice was radical feminists trying to block him and his message any way they could. So I set up a counter-petition for people who support what this politician did.
If you like, look up one of the petitions against Philip Davies MP and join the feminist calls to silence an elected politician for speaking the truth. Or, if you want, you can go to a petition to publicly approve a politician who, for once, is exposing the truth and who is going against the trend by calling for genuine equality. The choice is yours and supporting neither feminism nor equality is as much a statement as supporting one or the other.
I obviously hope that people will support a politician who cares that someone who suffers at the hand of a criminal can get justice regardless of the criminal’s gender.
Philip Davies’ words, in which he lays the blame for the inequality of justice at the feet of radical, or zealot, feminists and details the research based on the government’s own data is available as video or as an imperfect but close transcription.
