Friday, October 28, 2016

Voice of a Men’s Rights Activist – 1929, Hoeberth (Höberth)


Sigurd Hoeberth (Höberth), president of Aequitas, a men’s rights organization in Vienna, organizer of the unsuccessfully realized First International Congress for Men’s Rights, quoted in May 1929

“We demand equal rights. The shameful condition as regards marriage and family rights has in many countries become a public scandal and disgrace. The cause is to be found in antiquated laws, and in the way justice administered so as to be downright inimical to males. For two years our organization has been fighting to change this, and often we have been slandered. Our intention is not to attack marriage nor to lessen rights for women. Our aim is to guide the lawmakers so as to place family life on a sound and just basis. We wish to have laws adjusted to modern conditions, with equal duties and also equal rights for both sexes.”

“One hundred years ago, when our present laws were enacted, it will probably be necessary to protect women, as they were shut out of most economic pursuits, and had no political rights. In those days the woman remained home until married. She occupied herself with her parent’s household, and brought with her, when married, a moral consciousness and a sense of the value of marriage. The old-fashioned woman rarely demanded divorce. and usually when she did so, she had good and sufficient reasons. And as she could not very well go into business she was justified in demanding and receiving alimony.

“Now all this is changed. The woman of today enjoys all the political and economic rights of man. Every occupation is open to her. Indeed in many cases she can advance more rapidly than a man. Under these conditions what does marriage mean for a woman who has not a moral consciousness? To her marriage is nothing more than a nose bag. And according to our laws a husband is just an animal required to keep the nose bag full. And if a man is not ready to go over the top in order to keep his nose bag full enough to satisfy the speculative ambitions of his wife, then prison stares him in the face.

“And how do the instruments of justice act? A smirking smile, a well cut dress, a few crocodile tears, and the nose bag filler is lost. A woman cannot lose in court. We have collected data showing in detail many cases where justice has been flouted. Under such conditions it is suicide for a man to marry. And this explains the falling off in marriage, and the many liaisons. What can one expect? But even in the liaisons man is the victim. The father of the illegitimate child is always the one who can fill the nose bag to the fullest, and satisfy the woman’s ambitions. Our laws require that there be a father. It is left to the unscrupulous woman to choose one. This practice has ruined the lives of many innocent men. It is high time we got together and insisted upon equal rights.”

[Excerpt from: “Equality Is Asked By Austrian Male - “Aequitas,” Viennese Society Champions Husbands and Bachelors,” (from Chicago Daily News), The Charleston Daily Mail (W. Va.), May 3, 1929, p. 17]

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Hoeberth devoted 12 years of his life to men’s rights activism. His activities were banned by the Nazis in 1938 as soon as they occupied Vienna. He died later that year.

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Wikipedia once had an article devoted to Hoeberth, but deleted it on April 7, 2015, citing the subject’s failure to meet Wikipedia’s notability standard. The editorial discussion that Wikipedia has preserved sheds interesting light on the thinking (and scholarly ineptitude) of Wikipedia’s team of home-baked editors. First the existence of Hoeberth was thought to be a hoax, then it was decided his 12 year long career of political activism, his ground-breaking magazine and his anti-Mussolini polemics were historically irrelevant. So much for “consensus” authority over scholarly work.


The deleted article:

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