‘Nasty’ Men’s Rights Ad Banned
Sorry I’m a bit late with this one, but some bad news – that excellent Fathers4Justice advertisement that I reported on a few months ago has been banned.
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints leveled against a men’s rights group’s controversial ad campaign.
Fathers4Justice’s ad depicted a crying baby, his body emblazoned with perjoratives such as “pig” and “rapist”, with text attacking Mumsnet, a popular online hangout for mothers of young children. According to Fathers4Justice, Mumsnet presided over an anti-male hate campaign as objectionable as homophobia and racism.
However, after a complaint from Mumsnet, the Advertising Standards Authority declared that the claims of the ad were false, as it was the contributors to Mumsnet and not its editors who were making the anti-male statements.
“F4J had not sent us anything to suggest that Mumsnet endorsed any of the views expressed on its web forums or any editorial content,” wrote the ASA, which ordered F4J not to run the ad again or to imply that “forum postings on Mumsnet’s website indicated endorsement or support from the website itself.”
This is odd, as normally, forum moderators and site editors are held responsible for what their members say (and are allowed to say).
The British PC police-state shows its true colors once again.
Granted, American ‘free speech’ is unequally enforced too and has serious flaws in its application, but there’s no way the government could have banned an ad like this over here (at least not yet).
Eric
10 Jul 12 at 7:20 pm
JUSTICE FOR MEN
R SIHL
10 Jul 12 at 10:52 pm
I also thought that website owners were responsible for removing extreme comments. I think it depends on whether those extreme comments are in agreement with the political agenda of the enforcement agency. In the case of Mumset, obviously they were.
@ Eric
I dunno. I think the ad would have been banned in the US. Femminist control much of the media & a large section of the justice system. I think they would have found a way to get rid of it.
Rob
11 Jul 12 at 12:41 am
Rob:
They would have found a way to suppress it here too, but it would have a more difficult process. Here the media is nominally ‘free’, but it’s largely a feminist-controlled enterprise.
Eric
11 Jul 12 at 1:31 am
not odd in the least, why would the matriarchy prosecute (or in any way limit) the matriarchy?
ray
11 Jul 12 at 3:27 am
The next step will be to prevent news reports of child abuse committed by women against male children from being published. Events such as this censoring of a Fathers For Justice ad form the foundation for such obscenities.
Deano
11 Jul 12 at 2:34 pm
Lol, it’s turning into a right war isn’t it? I can see one day a society of completely seperated men and seperated women and chaperoned when they have to meet at times in the middle. Otherwise pretty lures can lead hormone fuelled men into some nasty stitch ups later on down the line.
Dave
11 Jul 12 at 6:42 pm
Here’s an interesting little dispute involving a respected Medical Practitioner and esteemed AVfM writer from Downunder, who recently resigned form his position as a lecturer at a renowned medical faculty at one of Australia’s most prestigious universities, in protest over the total lack of action taken by the university, following his formal complaint regarding a text-book femi-hag lectuerer from the same university’s School of Arts and Social Sciences; who posted a typically misandric story to infamous blog: Radfem Hub, in June last year.
While this well known MRA’s bold statement against the sexual trade union was admirable, he should know better: Like most of these Academic institutions: it’s Board of Directors (to which he submitted his complaint and his eventual resignation), would be comprised entirely of sympathetic feminist and mangina colleagues (of femi-hag Dr McLellan), hence their statement to the newspaper: “There was no evidence Dr McLellan had breached the university’s code of conduct, nor brought it into dispute”.
His actions will probably not be afforded very much in the way of support from the faculty’s feminist indoctrinated students either…
Alan Vaughn
13 Jul 12 at 3:42 am
UPDATE:
I’m pleased to admit that it looks like my comment above was wrong!
This is the most overwhelming rebuttal against the feminazi bigots in a mainstream media publication I’ve ever seen…
Please add your comments.
Note the number of WOMEN dissenters too!
Alan Vaughn
15 Jul 12 at 1:41 am