Tamihere Featuring At Men’s Forums
Disgraced former cabinet member John Tamihere is doing the circuit on behalf of men’s groups. He featured at a men’s issues forum held in Auckland in April. The same event is being staged now in Christchurch.
Other speakers include Auckland men’s personal development guru and author of the book ‘Fatherless Boys’ Rex McCann, Massey University’s director of the Centre of Public Policy Evaluation Stuart Birks, and independent economic researcher Paul Callister.
When speaking at the Auckland forum, Callister pointed out that the sum of paid and unpaid hours worked is higher for men with children under five than for women, although the public perception is the opposite.
A former director of Lifeline, Bruce Mackie, claimed men are systematically being denigrated and that ‘begins early in the lives of boys.” He said that in Britain children aged 9 or 10 were taught that the reason for war was the violent nature of men. “The boys sat crumpled, apologising for their existence”.
