OUR CONTRACT WITH MEN  

As citizens concerned with the long term direction of our society and the maintenance of our traditions of individual freedom and responsibility, we view with apprehension the increasing practice of our political and social institutions to view our society as composed not of individuals, but of classes and races and genders; of religions and sects; each to be pitted one against another as groups, for the rights and privileges that our society may bestow.

We believe that this practice is inimical to the long-term stability of our culture, and to the bonds of mutual respect and trust that individual citizens must have toward one another in a free society, if that society is to prosper.

We therefore seek the eradication of group entitlements, group preferences, and group assignment of rights and responsibilities of any kind; by our government, and by those subject to its laws.

In pursuit of the above, we commit ourselves to working toward the achievement of the following specific objectives:

1. THE RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT BASED SOLELY ON ABILITY

We seek federal legislation barring ANY consideration of gender, race, creed, color, ethnicity, or sexual orientation in hiring, firing, promotion, or school or university admission; or in determining access to or eligibility for any taxpayer-supported institution or program. We demand an end to group set-asides and preferences which treat persons not as individuals, but as members of a class when determining eligibility.

2. EQUAL RIGHTS IN PARENTHOOD AND MARRIAGE

Men demand a truly equal place in the lives of their children, whether or not they remain married to the mothers of those children. In an age when 60% of women are in the work force, the current practice of awarding physical custody of children to the female parent in 92% of divorces can only reflect a long-outdated vision of stay-at-home parenting that no longer obtains. We demand an end to gender bias in the family court system and reform of our custody and support laws to reflect the actual conditions of family life as it exists in the 1990s.

3. THE RIGHT TO BE JUDGED BY LAWS THAT APPLY TO ALL

We seek a restoration of the normal rules of evidence used in criminal trials and the Constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process when persons are charged with a sexual crime. We have in recent years been moving toward a caste society in which female defendants and accusers have been given special privileges and victim status, while male defendants have been losing rights that have existed for hundreds of years.

We shall work to see that criminal laws which are not gender-neutral be made so, especially in those states where statutory rape is not a crime when committed by a woman; boys deserve equal protection under the law.

We demand an end to Sexual Allegation kangaroo courts; schools, universities, corporations, and government agencies should be held fully accountable before the law for the persecution of individuals, usually men, on the basis of unproven and often disproved allegations of sexual misconduct; those responsible for such persecution to be liable for both criminal charges and civil damages.

4. THE RIGHT TO BASIC HUMAN DIGNITY

We seek an end to the use of taxpayer money and governmental support to universities and other educational institutions for the purpose of promoting anti-male propaganda, generating unscientific surveys and studies which denigrate males, or for producing masculophobic curricula and literature.

5. AN EQUAL RIGHT TO REMAIN ALIVE

We seek and end to government policies which treat males as second-class citizens whose lives are worth less than women's. First and foremost among these is the male-only draft, which treats men as expendable humans while requiring no comparable sacrifice from the female population. We also seek equality in the apportionment of research funds used to fight gender-specific disease; currently the amounts spent on research into diseases specific to women exceeds the amounts spent on male-specific diseases by more than two times; this while the life expectancy of males -- once equal to women's -- is seven years less. 

NOTE: By signing this contract and sending a copy to your Congresscritter, you are not joining the Non-Existent Organization for Men, which has no headquarters, no president, no phone number, no nothing. We're all too busy working for a living to have time for that stuff. So if you support this, please take it upon yourself to make a few extra copies and pass them around, ecause there's no one else to do it.