Date: Thursday, March 1, 7pm
Location: Wallberg Building (WB), Room 116 – 184 College Street, University of
Toronto
National Post Columnist Barbara Kay, who writes frequently on gender and culture, will discuss a variety of topics related to misandry, defined as contempt for men. The event will touch on areas like the boys crises that has seen boys left behind in our educational system, violence against women and men where policy calls often rely on misleading statistics, the often explosive issues surrounding gender in the workplace, and especially a failed family court system that systematically discriminates against fathers. Kay will comment on her impressions of cultural, social and academic forces of misandry.
From a recent interview for the event:
“When [radical feminism] evolved into a kind of campaign against men instead of for women, I think they were taken unawares,” Kay said. “This whole war against men took place without a shot being fired because men were unprepared and ignorant of what was actually happening.”
She spoke of the alarmism and “moral panic” raised by public service ads against domestic violence. Many of the statistics used are widely misinterpreted. For instance, Kay said that one statistic asserting “one in three women will experience sexual violence in their lifetime” is an average – so a woman who has been assaulted a thousand times as a sex slave will greatly skew that number. Kay said some statistics also factor in “cat-calls” or similar expressions as “abuse.”
Not only do men feel their societal group is the only one that can be slandered in a politically-correct way, Kay said the social fallout has been tragic. She keeps a file of letters from men who tell of how they’ve lost their children through family courts. “They tell of how their wives are crazy or abusing the children. But it doesn’t matter –they get custody.” Kay concluded “the system is so skewed, so biased against fathers.”
Barbara Kay is an award-winning journalist, a weekly columnist in the National Post since 2003, writing frequently on gender and equality issues, particularly on society’s modern attitude towards men. She received the 2009 Award for Excellence in promoting gender issues in the media from the National Coalition of Men and was nominated for the 2008 Award for Excellence in raising issues around child abuse by Beyond Borders. Kay received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship as well as a degree in Honours English Langauge and Literature from the University of Toronto.
Oh this is so great finally!
one of the worst excuses for journalism Canada has seen.
great work, Barbara, really fighting the good fight showing that ads meant to discourage sexual abuse aren’t perfect! therefore we should definitely not see it as a problem anymore!
and of course she got an award from the National Coalition of Men. ridiculous.
Is it opened to the public? Do people have to register before attending? Is there a charge?
Thanks
FM
Oh wow this is so great. I am so happy there is finally awareness regarding this topic. Everytime I bring it up I get disregarded…people tell me not to complain because I am a man…
Discrimination has been targeted toward teenage boys at Tim Hortons and McDonalds and many other fast food chains in Canada
Occupied by teenage girls. My son has tried for two years to obtain a part-time job applying over ten times at the same location in Brooklin Ontario Canada. Each time he has noticed they hired females not males for this part-time roll. Why doesn’t he receive a call back? He is seventeen and is an honor student. A nice person and a quick learner.
Oh boo-hoo, those poor suffering white men.
This right-wing fuelled ignorance and ANTI “social justice” prissies (that’s “justice” !! > not one-upping the underclasses please ya’ jokers)is as malignant as white people crying foul because people of colour are advancing in the world (finally!!)
Buncha myopic self-righteous wanna-bees, who probably would snidely diss members of black-rights organizations given the orgnaizational chance. Uggh. Makes me ill. I hate fright-wing morons. Seriously.
We’re still living in a highly patriarchal world and these bufoons are crying foul over misandry. Too mentally lazy to really examine the causes of misogyny. What a bunch of cop outs…and their cheerleader wives and girlfriends who will do anything to hang off the arems of men. Double uggh.
***if there were no chimps (men) on the planet all us women would be fat an happy.*** :}
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Oh boo-hoo, those poor suffering white men.
This right-wing fuelled ignorance and ANTI “social justice” prissies (that’s “justice” !! > not one-upping the underclasses please ya’ jokers)is as malignant as white people crying foul because people of colour are advancing in the world (f-i-n-a-l-l-y!!)
Buncha myopic self-righteous wanna-bees, who probably would snidely diss members of black-rights organizations given the orgnaizational chance. Uggh. Makes me ill. I hate fright-wing morons. Seriously.
We’re still living in a highly patriarchal world whether you want to acknowledge it or not and these bufoons are crying foul over misandry. Too mentally lazy to really examine the roots and far-reaching harms (FOR CENTURIES!!! GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES) of misogyny. What a bunch of cop outs…and their cheerleader wives and girlfriends who will do anything to hang off the arms of men. Double uggh.
***if there were no chimps (men) on the planet all us women would be fat and happy.*** :}
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REAL MEN ARE FEMINISTS.
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In most surveys, less than 50% of women declare themselves as feminists. Are they not real women?
SO much needs to be done about the inequality that men face. Family court is so extremely biased…it is just disgusting. The woman gets custody,and for the next 2 decades the man has to support that woman and child. He has to pay support even if the woman remarries. He has to pay support even if SHE earns more than he does. HE also has to pay income tax on every penny he gives her. FOR one child a man will be paying over 11% of his income to the woman……PLUS…the income tax on that, which could be anywhere fron 15% to 50% of his income. OBSCENE!!!
And if he doesn,t pay it the government has set up punishments for him…he could have wages garnisheed, drivers license taken, passport taken, thrown in jail. She is well protected.
What about his rights?…he has none. Even if he has a court order for visits, nothing happens to the wom a n if she denies access
FAMILY law needs to be changed.
And as far as I’m concerned, the man should have the op tion of Not being a father