Month: August 2017

Trevor Phillips: ‘My comrades on the Left flaunt their moral superiority. But many of them are the most racist and sexist of all.’

/ Mike Buchanan / 1 Comment

A piece prompted by Jess Phillips’s comments about left-wing sexists, spoken at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Jess Phillips is possibly the most sexist MP in parliament, so it tells you all you need to know about Trevor Phillips when he writes this:

Three cheers for Jess Phillips, one Labour MP who tells it like it is [J4MB: She invariably tells it like it ISN’T] — even if it involves exposing the sanctimonious self-righteous posturing of the trendy Left in British politics…

For the record, we’re not related. I’ve met her once. But DNA aside, I can only describe her as my No 1 soul sister.

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Brian D Earp, ethicist, University of Oxford: “Does female genital mutilation have health benefits? The problem with medicalizing morality.”

/ Mike Buchanan / 1 Comment

Outstanding. The 15-page PDF can be downloaded in seconds, we’ve saved it here.

Please take a minute to send Brian a message – through the link – to thank him for this important paper. He’s written numerous important papers on the ethics of MGM and FGM over the years. His University of Oxford profile:

Brian is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics.

Brian is the recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in Psychology and the Ledyard Cogswell Award for Citizenship from Yale University, where he was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society as an undergraduate as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review.

He then conducted graduate research in psychological methods as a Henry Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, he completed additional coursework in the philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, which he went on to publish in peer-reviewed journals.

He also conducted graduate research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, and medicine as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipient at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

He is currently a Gordon Fellow at Yale University conducting doctoral research in philosophy and psychology, having been jointly admitted to both departments. His essays have been translated into Polish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

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‘Imnotmrabut’ on Reddit: “Oh Hell, Mike Buchanan has created yet another WordPress blog to make publicity of events as bad as possible – International Conference on Men’s Issues (2018)”

/ Mike Buchanan / 4 Comments

Our thanks to George for spotting this. ‘Imnotmrabut’ is objecting to the website of ICMI18. It’s perfectly suitable for the task, and readily updateable 24/7/365 – a key requirement – as was the website for ICMI16.

The idea that more sophisticated websites would lead to greatly enhanced attendances at ICMIs is, in my view, deeply flawed. The target audiences for ICMIs are those with an interest in men’s issues, and the ICMIs soon come to their notice. What would help would be mainstream media exposure in advance, but those media are hostile to MRAs in general, or at best indifferent. Martin Daubney and Peter Lloyd (referenced in the rant) aren’t publicly hostile towards feminism and feminists, hence their mainstream media exposure.

I have a strong hunch who ‘Imnotmrabut’ is, but I’ll keep that to myself. I’d prefer that he have the courage of his convictions, and revealed his identity, as I have for many years. He’s just posted another rant on Reddit. It’s full of inaccuracies, but I have neither the time nor the will to correct them, other than to say the media were NOT banned from ICMI16 or ICMI17, and were present at both. They were banned from recording the presentations, for practical and other reasons. Those presentations (36 across the two conferences) can be found on Paul Elam’s YouTube channel, and ours.

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