So I'm sure most of you know by now that many of the Men's Rights blogs out there are FREAKING OUT right now because several organizations, like MADRE, have made a commitment to focusing their aid efforts in Haiti on women and children. If you're not familiar I'll let the blogger at The Spearhead explain his take on this situation:

However, some relief groups have decided that women deserve more aid, and have come up with a number of reasons why men should be left to die from injuries and disease while women get preferential treatment.

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It is not clear whether such discrimination in the wake of disaster is legal in Haiti. In any event, if men are needlessly dying because these women’s groups are hoarding supplies for women only, the Haitian government should send troops in to seize the supplies and distribute them equally to needy men and women alike. That would be a true act of mercy.

          "I hope their plane crashes on the way to Haiti."

Better still, I hope it gets blown off course and makes a crash landing on a castaway island somewhere, the women-only crew/passengers all survive, they have to get by as best they can for a year with no men around, and at least one of them records what happens (because I wouldn’t be counting on any of them to still be alive to tell the tale).

Misandry is a bubble. Bubbles always pop.

I am waiting for a time when women are paid a cash bonus for aborting a male fetus. This, of course, will distort the gender ratio and make such a civilization ripe for replacement.

There is no law in Haiti beyond the flickering lights of a few UN/InternationalAid Camps. Machete wielding gangs are the real arbitrator of who gets what everywhere else.

Stupid feminists. When they go there and announce that their aid is for women only, they will be unceremoniously chopped up and dismembered. Unless, of course, they can induce some American guys to help them deliberately starve Haitian guys. But that can only work in the very few places where any kind of Law prevails.

1. Women and children are 14 times more likely to die than men during natural disasters.
2. "Women have less access to resources – social networks and influence, transportation, information, skills (including literacy), control over land and other economic resources, personal mobility, secure housing and employment, freedom from violence and control over decision-making - that are essential in disaster preparedness, mitigation and rehabilitation."
3. "Women are [...] overrepresented in the agriculture industry, self-employment and the informal economy, in under-paid jobs with little security and no benefits such as healthcare or union representation. The informal and agricultural sectors are usually the most impacted by natural disasters, thus women become over-represented among the unemployed following a disaster."
4. "Because housing is often destroyed in the disaster, many families are forced to relocate to shelters. Inadequate facilities for simple daily tasks such as cooking means that women’s domestic burden increases at the same time as her economic burden, leaving her less freedom and mobility to look for alternative sources of income."
5. "Disasters themselves can serve to increase women’s vulnerability. Aside from the increase in female-headed households and the fact that the majority of shelter residents are women, numerous studies have shown an increase in levels of domestic and sexual violence following disasters. "
6. "As one of the primary aspects of women’s health in particular, reproductive and sexual health are beginning to be recognized as key components of disaster relief efforts, however attention to them remains inadequate and women’s health suffers disproportionately as a result."