<The claim came after an ombudsman's report found bureaucrats guilty of "unreasonable and wrong administrative action" after failing to correct false and misleading information that promoted the idea men were overwhelmingly responsible for domestic violence.

South Australia's Office for Women presented erroneous statistics, such as 95 per cent of domestic violence involves a male perpetrator and a female victim, the ombudsman found. Raw data show that, overall, at least one in three victims are male.>

I did see this article, but it appears to have disappeared from the web except for this site.


http://blog.fathers4equality-australia.org/equalparenting/fidblog.nsf/dx/feminists-tilt-figures

Briar rose,
I tend to think, that you are now starting to think, outside of a closed circle.

"My experience of feminist academics is not one that suggests to me that they are the most likely people to take up an issue like this on behalf of men."

This is the point. These people live in a closed circle.

The author seems to plough through a lot of media (forever looking for oppression of women), and must have seen the Girls Night In ads, but didn’t mentioned them.

The author lives in a closed circle also.

Ill give you the full story regards the Girl’s Night In ads from what I know of it.

The ads portrayed men as being cancer (IE Tie up their man and lock them in a cupboard, and a women can get rid of her cancer.)

So complaints were made to the ASB, and the Girl’s Night In organisation maintained that the ads were funny, but obviously they were only funny to someone who thinks tieing men up and leaving them in a cupboard is funny.

Even though the ads portrayed an illegal act, the ASB dismissed the complaints, (and the as they do 90% of all complaints).

However, the Cancer Council was accredited with an international organisation for ethics in medical advertising.

Approaches were made to that organisation to have the Cancer Council lose their accreditation because of their ads.

I don’t know the outcome of it all, but I have seen that the Cancer Council no longer has a link to that international organisation on their web site, so maybe they did lose their accreditation.

Who knows, but feminist academics may have to be careful, or they could also lose whatever accreditations they may have.

briar rose:"I don't think there is anything wrong with suggesting that men take responsibility for initiating action against ads or anything else that discriminates against them."

Unfortunately, the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner agrees with you but can't do anything because the Act doesn't recognise that men are able to suffer discrimination of this form. Only women can be offended by such things, according to the Act.

Pelican:"A heroic prince would not expect a kiss otherwise it would not be a heroic act (ie. expecting something in return)."

So heroes must be unthanked or they're not heroes?

I guess the next time a fireman races into a burning building looking for the missing child we can ignore it: after all he expects to get paid on Friday, doesn't he?

Expecting minimal thanks for doing something noble doesn't reduce the nobility of the act. Most beneficiaries of someone else's assistance see nothing wrong with saying thanks either.

Those "princesses" who think their prince is going to put up with fighting the dragon out of nothing but the goodness of his heart forever are inevitably disappointed. That's why so much feminist effort has been aimed at replacing human "heroes" with a far more predictable State "hero", which will never expect a kiss and will never ask "how did you manage to get yourself into that situation" while helping you out of it.

After all, victims can't be questioned...

Vanna, Antiseptic, JamesH et al

Have you breast cancer? Men do suffer from this illness as well.

Do you care if other people, the majority women, suffer from breast cancer?

If your answers are no - then you are simply trolling.

If, in fact, you can answer yes to either question then post on topic.

Has Melissa Tank-whatever overreacted to breast cancer campaign - probably - end of story.

If you have a sincere grievance about sex discrimination then start a topic about it.

There are quidelines for setting up your own discussion thread on OLO.

Johnny Rotten:"Have you breast cancer?"

No, have you?

Johnny Rotten:"Do you care if other people, the majority women, suffer from breast cancer?"

Of course. I also like small furry puppies and teddy bears in the arms of small children. I think there should be free teddies for all small children, whether they have breast cancer or not

Glad we got that important discussion out of the way, it was obviously something that needed to be said. Thanks for bringing it up, Johnny.