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Empowering Men:fighting feminist lies |
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Male Politicians and Female Policies© Peter Zohrab 2013 |
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If you look at the ministerial positions and opposition spokespeople of male, as compared to female politicians, a pattern emerges -- in New Zealand, at least. I expect it applies in many other countries, as well.
Party
Finance/Economics
Economic Development
Associate Finance
State Owned Enterprises
Commerce
National
Male
Male
Male (2)
Male
Male
Labour
Male
Male
Male (3)
Male
Male
New Zealand First
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Green
Male
Female
-
-
Female
The above policy areas have to do with benefitting the whole population economically -- both male and female -- and the spokespeople and Ministers are overwhelmingly male (19 males to 2 females). The Green Party is the exception, accounting for the only female spokespeople in the whole table.
Now, compare that with some policy areas where there is more scope for treating men and women differently:
In these areas, the females outnumber the males (7 males to 10 females). Here the Labour Party is the exception, with the male spokespeople (only just) outnumbering the female ones.
Another instructive thing to do is to search the party websites for the words "men" and "women". Here are the results (as at 22 October 2013):
Now, the fact that the word "men" occurs does not necessarily imply that the relevant document is about men. Since all these parties have spokespeople for Women's Affairs, but none for Men's Affairs, it is likely that many of the documents are really about women, and just include men for the purposes of comparison.
The point here is that all these parties have more or less Feminist agendas, by which I mean that they are more or less conscious of a perceived need to increase the number of female Members of Parliament (MPs), but they have no apparent inclination to promote policies that benefit men, unless they also benefit women.
You might think that, when/if parties equalise the number of male and female MPs or of male and female spokespeople, then they will finally turn their attention to balancing their pro-female policies with an equal number of pro-male policies. However, the example of the Green Party proves the opposite. The Greens have eight female MPs and only six male MPs, and, in the areas mentioned above, they have more female spokespeople than male spokespeople. However, the table on searches of policy documents (above) shows that the Greens are much more anti-male in their policies than are the parties with proportionately more male MPs and spokespeople.
Since the dominant ideology (a form of software that runs on people's brains) in New Zealand -- and elsewhere -- is Feminism:
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