A modest proposal for gender equality
By: Peter Mills
Tags: Feminism, Legal, Mens Rights, Equality

1. Reproductive Rights

1.1 Paternity testing available on demand by the father and mandatory before ordering child support from the father as well as potentially mandatory after the birth of any child.

1.2 Legal paternal surrender: also called a “paper abortion” which allows men to opt out of fatherhood or some other measure to give men equivalent options to women when it comes to parenthood.

1.3 Easy access to surrogates so a man can father a child without access to a romantic partner.

1.4 Prosecute women guilty of paternity fraud for fraud. All past child support payments returned; future payments cancelled.

1.5 Married men who’s wives give birth to an illegitimate child have the choice: to accept the child and raise it as their own or reject it and disavow all involvement.

1.6 Prosecute women who trick men into fatherhood for sexual assault.

1.7 Equal-shared parenting the default in the case of divorce or separation.

2. Legal System

2.1 Train police, prosecutors, judges and juries so that they treat men and women equally under the law. Make them aware of the issues.

2.2 Eliminate bias in domestic abuse cases. Treat reciprocal abuse as a social not a legal problem. Abusive romantic couples are referred to counselling.

2.3 Make infant genital mutilation illegal for both sexes.

2.4 Eliminate alimony payments between divorced couples.

2.5 (Canada) Eliminate infanticide as a crime separate from murder.

2.6 (Canada) More restrictions on abortion so that women can no longer kill fully-formed human beings capable of independent life. (The fetus is a genetically distinct organism, therefore not part of a pregnant woman’s body.) Suggestions: 2 month cut-off date for abortion except in exceptional circumstances such as danger to the mother. Make it official policy that abortion is not a right but rather a privilege granted women as a form of harm-reduction.

2.7 (USA) Remove mandatory draft registration for males or extend it to

females.

2.8 Eliminate special protections for complainants in rape cases. Make them equal under the law to all other complainants. Rape is not a “special crime”.

2.6 Eliminate university campus sexual harassment “witch hunts” and refer all incidents of sexual assault to police. Return the definition of sexual harassment to its original meaning: attempting to trade sexual favours for job or academic favours.

3. Affirmative Action

3.1 Eliminate preferential hiring of women in male-dominated professions or institute equivalent measures for men in female-dominated professions.

3.2 Restrict female-only scholarships or allow an equivalent number of male-only scholarships

3.3 Prohibit businesses that serve female-only clientele or allow those that serve only men. No double standards.

3.4 Prohibit female-only “safe-spaces” such as women’s hours at the gym or make it obligatory to have the same amount of time or space set aside for men.

3.5 Eliminate differential hiring standards such as lower test score cut-offs in professions such as firefighting, police and the military.

3.6 Enforce equal pay for equal work standards in athletics: no more equal prize money in tennis, for instance, where the women play fewer sets and play at a much lower level than the men.