| Film Details | 38 - Equal Opportunities - 21m 18s |
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| Age Rating | 15 (strong footage/language, possibly including violence and sexual imagery) |
| Synopsis | Examines discrimination in society and how the activities of the Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission EHRC) benefit women and ignore men. • Equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome • Lifespan and disparity in health spending for men and women • Retirement age and pension rights discrimination • Women’s greater spending power • The psychology of men and men’s rights • Which sex has more choices in life? • What jobs can women do better than men? • Roles of men and women • Car insurance • Should there be a battle of the sexes? |
| Interviewees | Stephen Fitzgerald, National Organiser of the Mankind Initiative Men’s Charity. Angry Harry, Psychologist and Men’s Rights activist, angryharry.com. Simon, Psychologist and Writer. [identity protected] Fireman, London Fire Brigade. This man’s identity has been disguised in order to protect him from sanction by his employer for speaking the truth about Fire Brigade policy with respect to equal opportunities. Oliver Curry, Evolutionary Psychologist at the London School of Economics and contributing author to Demos, the independent think tank and research institute. Professor Colin Francome, Professor Emeritus of Medical Sociology, Middlesex University. Author of the book “Improving Men’s Health”. All interviews recorded in 2004 |
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Stephen Fitzgerald: Please take a look at this link. It represents important (and completely unknown) historical information on the Men’s Rights movement’s origins in 1926. I will link to a a few detailed articles from the period. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42981430@N05/5125396818/in/set-72157622489186290/
There is a lot of generalization in this video–that women aren’t good for anything outside the home. Some women find being “trapped” in the home boring, and never plan to have children. Isn’t it generally assumed that homemakers are/will be mothers? That kind of falls apart when you take children out.
This misrepresents the film. Obviously, women can do plenty outside the home. This film only talks about the relative abilities and choices of men and women in the workplace.
I. Cannot. Fucking. Believe. How. We’ve. Been. Being. Fucked.
Something I’m beginning to notice, especially where I work and other places that I work alongside is how women are beginning to crowd out men. I don’t know if it’s a widespread thing, but I’ve been talking to a lot of men who have been fired or laid off lately and one trend I notice is how it is almost always a woman who gets the ball rolling to get them out.
One example happened at a processor-chip manufacturer. The man who had gotten a job there was placed in a section where he was the only man there among something like ten or fifteen women. He worked hard there for about three months, and one day he got a little frustrated at a co-worker who wasn’t too clear about what he wanted him to do. He raised his voice at her, and that was all. I know, because I was there when the incident occurred.
The next thing I know, he’s being escorted off the premises.
I’ve got at least a dozen stories along these lines, most of them involving office employees. I do know that at that particular incident the women there were very cliquish, and had a particular manner of doing things. I noticed that he wasn’t really involved in their clique. I see these sorts of cliques all the time, and I can’t help but feel they do conspire to eliminate any man who is sent into their area of work.
I disagree with ‘firefighter.’ When my son was born, my ex (awed, I think, by the responsibility for this new life) said ‘oh my god what do we do now?’
‘We make sure he is comfortable, clean, clothed, fed, nurtured and loved,’ I told her. And that is what I (not she) did for both our children from birth, which counted for exactly nothing in family court.
Schopenhauer has some interesting comments about this. Men are better at this too, if they decide to be.
I think that the balance of comparisons of single fathers and single mothers, for example, has shown that the father’s achieve better outcomes for their children. So, I agree with Schopenhauer.
An excellent video, especially the Black Vs White runner bit, it cannot be made any more clear can it.