The net effect of this ideological stranglehold is a sinister culture of persistent degradation of men and masculinity, a feature of everyday life which has become so pervasive and mundane as to form a critical and largely unchallenged part of the received wisdom which informs our laws and cultural norms, and which provides the cornerstone for the foundation of a feminist matriarchy, the hegemony of which in some respects has already begun.
The importance of this domination cannot be underestimated. Unlike openly totalitarian societies, where the seizure and control of the channels of mass communications and political debate are obvious to all, the informal sequestration of such channels in our society is made invisible by the relatively free nature of our media. Even to point to the fact is to invite ridicule. It is conveniently deniable.
Yet it is so nevertheless, readily demonstrable by observing the ideological bias of almost every professional media commentator in matters of gender issues. The few exceptions to this rule are easily (and always) swamped by a committed, alert cadre fully determined to ensure that no effective opposition to their socio-pathological certainties will be tolerated, and in no way reflects the strength of numbers of those who have something different to say.
Put simply, it is our contention that men are being systematically and deliberately denied equal participation in the most important political debate of our times, with the exception of the collaborationist contributions of compliant "male feminists" and the sycophantic stay-safe acquiescence of career-hugging hush puppies, all of whose cosy connivance in this shameful charade provides an invaluable fig-leaf for those whose ultimate objective of a feminist-controlled society would otherwise be apparent to all.
The women's movement expanded its position from a simple demand for equal - as opposed to balanced - rights for women to an adversarial critique of society itself, ending in its contemporary and divisive revolutionary programme for the transformation of that society into one based on wholly theoretical notions of the claimed defects of "male" attributes and culture, the logical outcome of which, by definition, will be the oppression of men.
We would not wish to see the men's movement make the same mistake, or it will merely succeed in replacing one oppressive ideology with another. The temptation to expand a rights movement into an ideological program for society at large is seductive but misguided, and must be resisted. It is for society as a whole to determine its optimum structure and rules of behavior; conceding those functions to any partisan pressure group is a near-guarantee that the outcome will be self-serving and unbalanced in favour of its own interests, irrespective of whatever lofty claims may be made to speak for the interests of all (claims that are usually made, and are always fraudulent).
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promotion of men's rights and men's issues, and
nothing else. We do not endorse or advocate specific theories of the "correct"
organisation of society or the "correct" behavior of individuals, regardless of
their perceived merits or theoretical justifications. Advocacy of any such
theories by individual members is solely on their own behalf, and does not
reflect the position of the Men's Media Network unless otherwise stated.
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