[Harrison Bergeron]

I don't know abou the prostitution thing, I couldn't even find a reference to the sex trade or prostitution in the CEDAW TOCs except for "Trade in Persons," and they seem to be against that. But this [MSWORD DOC] Outline: Men, Masculinities and Development report from a CEDAW sub-committee certainly gives one a glimpse into one slice of their agenda:

"Resistance to the emerging global capitalist order has been similarly mobilized by appealing to biological determinist notions of masculinity. Scholars have pointed out the ways in which religious fundamentalism and ethnic nationalism use local cultural symbols to express regional resistance to incorporation by a larger, dominant power (see especially Jurgensmeyer 1995 and Barber 1995). These religious and ethnic expressions are often manifest as gender revolts, and include a virulent resurgence of domestic patriarchy (or militant misogyny); the problematization of global masculinities or neighboring masculinities (as in the former Yugoslavia); and the overt symbolic efforts to claim a distinct "manhood" along religious or ethnic lines to which others do not have access and which will restore manhood to the formerly privileged. In effect, masculinity becomes a rhetorical currency by which opposition to global integration, state centralization and increasing ethnic heterogeneity can be mobilized. In such cases, we expect to find ideas of traditional, local masculinities and their accompanying hierarchies reaffirmed. Typically, as Connell notes (1998: 17), "hardline masculine fundamentalism goes together with a marked anti-internationalism"."

This is another one of those examples of feminist activism where if you take the word "man" and replaced it with the word "Jew" or "Black" you would assume that you were reading something spewed out by the PLA or the KKK. This is the real reason you want to get on the horn and tell your congresscritter to oppose this bigoted piece of international socialist garbage before their chivalry hormones kick in and somebody convinces them that it's "for the children."

[Harrison Bergeron]

Another tidbit... the last paragraph of the report:

• "Sexuality. It is difficult to think about gender inequality without also talking about sexuality, and the sex-gender system that mandates gender relations be grounded in a specified sexual relation (i.e., heterosexual relations). Being able to recognize diverse expressions of sexuality disrupts traditional views of the sex-gender system, and may be a good analytical tool for practitioners to think about the options and potentialities of gender relations"

I translate this as "Straight men bad, gay men good."

[Nick Danger]

In effect, masculinity becomes a rhetorical currency by which opposition to global integration, state centralization and increasing ethnic heterogeneity can be mobilized.

It's been clear for some time now that the global socialist matriarchy, envisioned by those seriously radical feminists who swarm around the UN, doesn't have any men in it. The precise method by which men are eliminated is never discussed, but "masculinity" always seems to have disappeared. Those women are really creepy.