Media Watch

< color="#000000">16/5/00

< color="#000000">More Feminist ClapTrap from The Guardian and The Observer.

It's their 'journalists' that I laugh at. I imagine them creeping on their knees before their feminist viragos begging for commissions and pleading for work, so desperate that they will say anything, do anything, to ingratiate themselves.

And I'm still gobsmacked that someone with Will Hutton's brains has anything to do with them.

Take a look at these.

1. This article (The Guardian 16 May 2000) talks about the fact that 1 million 'people' in Scotland are functionally illiterate. "400,000 of them are unable to work because they lack the basic skills to hold down a job; and 1.2m cannot do the basic sums needed to calculate how much change they should get."

Read the article, and notice that NOT ONCE does it mention the fact that three times as many men as women are affected by this appalling indictment of our education system.

Can you imagine the outcry if we were letting down THREE TIMES more women than men in this way? The Equal Opportunities Commission would have a field day. The government would be bludgeoned into action. They would provide millions of pounds. There would be a month of national hysteria.

But The Guardian doesn't even want you to know about this massive gender difference which discriminates against men. They want to hide it. They don't want you to see it.

Guardian readers are hidden from the reality. They're too precious and politically correct to face the facts.

2. In this article in The Observer (7 May 2000) we are told about Moaning Men. Apparently, an astonishing (and, frankly, unbelievable) piece of 'research' overturns what GPs and doctors have been telling us for years, and it overturns what we all seemed to agree upon. According to this new 'research', it is, apparently, not men who are reluctant to go to the doctor, it is women!

We men, apparently, are so wimpy that we creep along to the doctor even for a sniffle!

(And no-one ever noticed, not even the doctors! After all these decades! Astonishing!)

Here's what The Observer says.

"Men are the real moaners about their health. By contrast, women are much more stoical about their ailments.

... British researchers have found that men are more likely to exaggerate their medical woes, while women underplay them.

... As a result, women are often denied proper health care for quite serious conditions - even heart disease - while men are given preferential treatment when they complain of these illnesses."

Guess who did the 'research'?

A certain Professor 'SALLY' Macintyre, of the Medical Research Council.

(Well. Well. Well. We knew it wouldn't be 'SAM' - unless he wanted to ingratiate his way up the feminist jobs ladder.)

And notice how this pathetic newspaper deals with these issues.

For example, for years we were told that men were less likely than women to seek help from doctors because they were wimps - too scared to go and find out what may be a problem. Women, on the other hand, were far more 'intelligent', more 'brave', seeking advice and sorting out matters responsibly, in a mature and adult fashion.

Now, apparently, the opposite is true. It is men, apparently, who seek the doctors help more often.

Are men now, therefore, at last, to be seen as the 'intelligent' ones? The 'brave' ones? The 'mature' ones? And is it now the women who are to be seen as the frightened wimps?

Of course not. According to this ridiculous 'news'paper, this new finding means that women are being 'denied proper health care' while the men are simply deemed to be "MOANING" and taking up valuable resources.

It's as amazing as it is sexist as it is pathetic!

And it's as transparent as glass.

But what do you expect from creeping journalists who have to lick the shoes of every feminist in the office if they are to keep their jobs?

It doesn't matter what the facts are. According to this newspaper, men are crap, whatever they do, whatever they don't do, whatever the research discovers, and whatever the truth is.

3. Who suffers most, men or women? In this, the Letters page of The Observer (14 May 2000) we see one brave soul, Brian Abbott, writing a letter that casts some doubts on the findings above. Of course, this pathetic newspaper follows his letter immediately by one from DR Mary Joannou (a doctor notice, not a humble 'Brian') who tells us that it is, in fact, mostly "women who suffer in silence". (And she's a doctor, she should know!)

Well. Well. Well.

And, of course, Dr Joannou refrains from pointing out that it is men who, statistically speaking, suffer by far the most from serious illnesses. And, of course, she doesn't even bother to point out that men have some seven fewer years of actual life in which to suffer!

I can already see The Observer headlines.

'MEN only average six short years of suffering while WOMEN average a whopping THIRTEEN."

And there won't be a mention of the fact that this is because the men have died!

If men don't go to the doctor's, then they're wimps, and, presumably, they should be treated with the contempt that they deserve. If they do go to the doctor's, then they're 'moaners', and, as a result, women are being 'denied proper health care'.

Goodness me! Does this newspaper have any integrity at all? Do its journalists have to lick every feminist orifice whichever way it points?

Men die seven years earlier. They suffer more from nearly every medical disease and ailment that there is. They are educationally disadvantaged massively compared to women. They make up 80% of the homeless. There are more of them in care homes (as BOYS) and in prisons. They are more likely to be wrongfully arrested, wrongfully imprisoned, mugged, assaulted or murdered. They are 5 times more likely to lose their children, 4 times more likely to commit suicide, 3 times more likely to lose their homes, 20 times more likely to be killed or injured at work, and, probably, about 1000 times more likely to be demeaned, denigrated and ridiculed by the media.

However, according to the fawning creeps who work for these two papers, it is the women "who suffer in silence".