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The 20^th century was a time of enormous social and political upheaval, perhaps in centuries to come as we look back we will realise this was the most challenging period in the history of humanity.

The start of the 20th century was marked with the awareness of the inequality facing women. Women suffered discrimination in many aspects of social and political life. Women were not entitled to vote, were not entitled to own property, were restricted in education and careers and were disadvantaged by the church. So the feminist movement was born.

In 1913, Emily Davison threw herself under the kings horse and died a few days later in hospital. She was a suffragette and gave her life in the pursuit for women to have the right to vote.

But there is a vital part of our history which has been overlooked for too long. In 1913 when Emily Davison threw herself in front of the Kings Horse, some men were also denied the right to vote.

The pursuit of the right to vote for the common man & woman had begun in the UK approximately 80 years before, when voting was the preserve of the ruling classes. It is in fact the basis of that very expression.

The denial of the vote for women was an extension of the denial to vote for the common man. In those days not only was there sex discrimination but also class discrimination. In those days it was true women were not allowed to vote, it is true women were culturally denied education, work opportunity, but it is also true women were barred from serving in combat roles in the armed services and were spared from participating in front line combat.

In the UK Common men were given the right to vote in England in 1918, that year in particular because over 700,000 British men had just given their lives in defense of democracy, a significant number of whom were denied the right to vote for the principle they had just given their lives to uphold. Some women also won the right to vote in 1918, all women won the right to vote in the representation of the people act in 1928, but it has been overlooked all men had won the right to vote only ten years before.

The era was characterised by the Pankhurst dynasty and the birth of the Suffragette movement.

A book written about that era: The blood of Our Sons : men, women, and the renegotiation of British citizenship during the Great War / Nicoletta F. Gullace, states:

“Through recruiting activities such as handing out white feathers to reputed “cowards” and offering petticoats to unenlisted “shirkers,” female war enthusiasts drew national attention to the fact that manhood alone was an inadequate marker of civic responsibility. Proclaiming women’s exemplary service in the nation, feminist organizations tapped into a public culture that celebrated military service while denigrating those who opposed the war. Drawing on a vast range of popular and official sources, Gullace reveals that the war had revolutionary implications for women who wished to vote and for men who were expected to fight.”–BOOK JACKET.

The following quotations are from a book written by E. Sylvia Pankhurst, one of the Pankhurst dynasty who were undisputed leaders of the Suffragette movement: The Suffragette Movement. E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Her own words from her own book:

Sep 1914

“On September 8th 1914, Christabel [Pankhurst, eldest daughter of Emmeline] re-appeared at the London Opera House, after her long exile, to utter a declaration, not on women’s enfranchisement, but on “The German Peril.”  Mrs. Pankhurst toured the country, making recruiting speeches.  Her supporters handed the white feather to every young man they encountered wearing civilian dress, and bobbed up at Hyde Park meetings with placards:  “Intern Them All.””

April 1915

“The Suffragette appeared again on April 16^th, 1915, as a war paper, and on October 15th changed its name to Britannia. There week by week Christabel demanded conscription of men, and the industrial conscription of women, “national service” as it was termed.”

For a hundred years humanity has taken a sentimental view of these events, it is long since time we all took an objective view.

Women in the suffragette movement asserted they were campaigning for “equality”, we accepted that assertion due to the extent of discrimination women faced, but men also faced discrimination. For example: Class discrimination for those not entitled to vote. The direct discrimination of conscription. The cultural discrimination of the expectation they would fight and die for their country, the consequences of this aspect of sex discrimination alone would mean death for 700,000 British men, who were exclusively expected to make the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of others.

There was a timeless, widespread and enduring acceptance the safety and well being of women was of greater social importance than the safety of men. Equality should have also meant front line military service for women but that was inconceivable.

These and other aspects of sex discrimination were never recognised by our society or the feminists who claimed they were fighting for “equality”.

We accepted the feminist assertion of equality, but who amongst us would claim the feminists fought against the injustice men faced with the same enthusiasm they fought against injustice faced by women. Perhaps that task should have been undertaken by men, but my point is the pursuit of the true ideology of equality was not defined or undertaken at that time. I do not have a problem with women’s fight against discrimination, what I have a problem with is the assertion and our acceptance that equality was being pursued. It could be said the suffragettes fought against discrimination. It could also be said that as a result of that fight our society would be more equal, but were the feminist movement pursuing the true meaning of the ideology of equality: No they weren’t.

In 1914 women were barred from serving in combat roles in the armed services, something which our society is reluctant to relinquish to this very day. There were women handing out white feathers as a symbol of cowardice to men. The feathers were being handed out by women in general, but more specifically women of the feminist movement who were gathered at a rally to protest about the sex discrimination which women faced. They handed out their white feathers during a time when they were not required to fight, a time when it was inconceivable for women to be required to join the armed services and be assigned to front line combat, it was inconceivable a white feather would be handed to a woman by a man. With every feather those women handed out, they handed out a token of their own sexist hypocrisy.

Whilst those white feathers were being handed out, the Pankhursts, the undisputed leaders of the feminist movement were fuelling the call for only men to be conscripted, forced by the Government to fight and die for their country whilst calling for the “industrial conscription” of women. Christabel Pankhurst was fuelling the call to go to war with Germany, the feminist movement was denigrating those who opposed the war whilst deliberately popularising a culture of ridicule for those men who would not fight. Christabel Pankhurst apparently viewed the death of hundreds of thousands of men as an opportunity for women to take their place in industry. Christabel Pankhurst was a war enthusiast in the safety of the knowledge that she would not be required to make the ultimate sacrifice and neither would her female colleagues or countrywomen, because they were women. I believe her motive was to pursue the feminist political objective. Christabel Pankhurst wanted “equality” for women from the safety of a democratic process which was paid with the blood of men. Christabel Pankhurst evidently cared less how many men would die in order that women achieved it.

The circumstance of men was for hundreds of thousands of men to die in a war of attrition paid with their lives for the benefit of all. Whilst men exclusively faced this circumstance feminist women chose to mock, ridicule, patronise, denigrate and discriminate against men, in order to pursue their corrupt version of equality which was based upon the interests of themselves and other women.

During the era women organised marches, acts of civil disobedience, wrote placards, chained themselves to fences and one notable feminist threw herself under the kings horse and died, all of these things were done as women demanded equality. None of these things were undertaken to demand women’s right to risk their lives in defense of the democratic process in which women demanded the right to be treated equally. Instead women chose to mock and ridicule the men they expected to do it for them.

At this time it was inconceivable to confront feminist women and assert, if women wanted equality it would surely come if women would fight and die for the principles of freedom, justice and democracy just as it was expected of men. 

Women demanded the right to participate equally in a democratic process they were not equally required to defend.

At the very conception of the feminist movement when women were complaining of being the victims of sex discrimination, the feminist movement failed to pursue the true ideology of equality, its rank and file were committing acts of sexist hypocrisy, whilst its leadership were committing the ultimate act of sex discrimination against men. All of which was possible due to the sacrifice of men and all of which was done from the comparative safety of the female gender.

The fight against sex discrimination was the issue feminists claimed was the basis and objective for their political movement. At the conception of feminism, feminist women proved beyond any doubt they failed to understand the concept of equality, the circumstance or characteristics of men and they excelled at committing acts of sex discrimination against men.

It has been almost one hundred years since these events took place and in that time the central characteristics of feminism were conceived and galvanized and have endured from that day to this despite the most rudimentary observations which clearly show their view of equality is sexist.

A question which is now a century overdue: Do feminists claim to be pursuing equality on behalf of men and women who face sex discrimination, or do feminists claim to be pursuing equality exclusively on behalf of women.  In asking those questions we should all realise the true basis of equality has never been defined or pursued objectively, we should also realise feminists, Government and society have never aspired to pursue the ideology of equality for men on an equal basis with women.

Feminists failure to pursue the ideology of equality which they claim is the basis for their political movement, could not be more complete.

Unfortunately the characteristics of feminism continue to be widespread in our Government and society. For those of you who ask the question why the need for a men’s movement, I start the answer by exposing the sexist hypocrisy of feminism, the feminist tendency popularise the belief that men’s lives are devoid of discrimination, the belief that we live in a man’s world where men and society pander exclusively to men’s interests at the expense of women, the belief that women are societies eternal victims men are societies eternal perpetrators, the feminist characteristic of popularising the belief that women continue to suffer the predominant extent of sex discrimination. These beliefs have been created by feminists and are perpetuated in order to justify the pursuit of a false feminist version of the ideology equality. These beliefs have been held for almost one hundred years even though they don’t stand up to the most obvious and rudimentary scrutiny.  The reality about equality is anti female injustice, inequality and discrimination it is widely exposed, reported and is given a high level of concern and action, whilst and anti male discrimination is ignored by our own Government and society.

Why the need for a men’s movement:

It is necessary due to widespread misunderstanding about the basis of sex discrimination, or the true ideology and pursuit of equality.

It is necessary because the ideology of equality has been misrepresented and put to divisive use by feminists.

It is necessary due to the sexist hypocrisy of feminism.

It is necessary because our Government and society only aspire to treat women equally.

It is necessary because our Government and society believe women suffer the predominant extent of sex discrimination but the reality is our Government and society simply don’t give a damn about discrimination and injustice faced by men.