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Month: August 2018
Jordan Holbrook – “The prison sentencing gender gap” (ICMI18)
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The “Cultural Event of the Year” is getting near
In an email from Dan McKinnon, CAFE/CCMF Calgary Branch Director:
The Canadian Centre for Men & Families (CCMF) – Calgary and CAFE National are co-marketing/supporting THE CULTURAL EVENT OF THE YEAR that the Men’s Educational Support Association (MESA) has organized. MESA has now opened up ticket sales for the, Dr. Warren Farrell (The Boy Crisis) and Cassie Jaye (The Red Pill), culture-shifting all day event here in Calgary on September 8th. The tickets are a real bargain, $40. It is on the University of Calgary campus and will most likely sell out as well as create quite a social frenzy.
Get your tickets sooner, rather than later.
Here’s the link: https://mesacanada.com/programs/seminars/
Male academics at Leicester University urged to say the word ‘menopause’ three times a day to be in solidarity with female colleagues.
Our thanks to Danuta for this. The start of the piece:
Repeating the word ‘menopause’ three times a day at work is enough to show solidarity with female colleagues, men have been told.
The University of Leicester is trying to encourage middle-aged male academics to open up and talk about the taboo subject.
Dr Andrea Davies, from the university’s School of Business, organises the monthly Leicester Menopause Café, where male and female colleagues are encouraged to come together and chat about the middle-aged phenomena.
She also puts together menopause roadshows at the institution and says workplaces need to become more menopause-friendly.
Cruise passenger Kay Longstaff had row with partner before plunge into sea
A piece in today’s Times:
A woman who survived ten hours in the Adriatic after falling from a cruise liner is said to have had a row with her partner after drinking all day.
Kay Longstaff, 46, dropped into the water from the seventh deck of the 2,300-passenger Norwegian Star shortly before midnight on Saturday. Fellow passengers alleged that she had been drinking and had fought intermittently with her partner throughout the day.
She told her rescuers that singing and good levels of fitness from practising yoga had kept her alive in the water.
Ms Longstaff, originally from Cheltenham, now lives in Spain and works as a corporate flight attendant on private jets. After being rescued she was taken to hospital in Pula, Croatia, and kept in overnight for observation.
The exact circumstances of the accident have yet to be confirmed but there was speculation last night that she may have fallen in after a row with her partner. Passengers claim to have heard a late-night dispute involving members of Ms Longstaff’s party on the night of the accident. One told The Sun that she had been drinking and had been having rows with her partner all day.
An anonymous source in Italy said that the police were investigating a range of theories, including that Ms Longstaff may have jumped, The Sun’s website reported. Her partner is thought to be Craig Rayment, owner of CR Electrical in Marbella, southern Spain.
Experts said accidents were rare and cruise lines went to great lengths to secure decks with railing and glass. “It is extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible, to just fall off a cruise ship,” Adam Coulter, of the website Cruise Critic UK, said. “When it does happen the person tends to either be very determined, drunk or doing something very stupid such as climbing on the railings.”
The industry does not keep official figures of man-overboard incidents. Unofficial statistics compiled by the Cruise Junkie website suggest, however, that there are an average of 20 accidents a year, most of which end in death. Often the height of the fall and impact on the water, said to be almost the same as hitting concrete, is the primary cause of death. Others drown in the time it takes for a search mission to be launched.
A Croatian navy patrol ship, three civilian vessels and a helicopter began searching for Ms Longstaff at dawn on Sunday after an appeal by the coastguard. Three hours later she was spotted by rescuers on the helicopter swimming more than a mile from where she went into the water, and more than 60 miles from shore. Lieutenant Marina Deli, one of the patrol ship’s crew, was lowered into the water to rescue her. Lieutenant Marina Deli, one of the patrol ship’s crew, was lowered into the water to rescue her. Lovro Oreskovic, captain of the patrol ship, said that Ms Longstaff was exhausted. “We were extremely happy to save a human life,” he said.
Ms Longstaff told reporters that she had been “sitting at the back of the deck [and] fell off the back” of the ship. “These wonderful guys rescued me, I am very lucky to be alive,” she said.
Experts said that her gender and the fact that the sea was warm and calm had contributed to her survival. Mike Tipton, a physiology professor at the University of Portsmouth, said that it was possible to survive for up to 25 hours in water temperatures above 20C.
Norwegian Cruise Line, which owns the Norwegian Star, said that Ms Longstaff had been taken ashore for treatment, was in a stable condition and would soon be reunited with her friends and family.
Fellow passengers said that they were angry with Ms Longstaff for the disruption she had caused. Scott Bailey, a businessman from Derby, wrote: “Just upsets me that she is there smiling away and loving the publicity saying she ‘fell’. The only way you could get off the ship is by climbing over the protective barriers and then jumping.” [J4MB emphasis]
Bethany Joyce, 21, from Long Island, told The Daily Telegraph that her mother planned to claim compensation because they had had to spend an extra two nights in Venice.
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Five-minute steam treatment for prostate pain
A piece by Jonathan Page in today’s Times:
Millions of middle-aged men who suffer from enlarged prostates may soon be relieved by a steam treatment.
The procedure, which takes five minutes, should help to reduce the need for surgery. Side effects are said to be minimal and it is expected to be approved for routine NHS use this week.
Enlarged prostates can cause problems with night-time urination, where men rush to the bathroom but then cannot pass any liquid. Other symptoms may include frequent urination, trouble starting to urinate or loss of bladder control, while complications can include urinary tract infections and chronic kidney problems.
The condition has been diagnosed in two million men in Britain, but it is thought to affect as many as half of all men over the age of 50. The treatment, Rezum, involves nine-second bursts of steam being injected into the prostate via a tube inserted into the urethra. Enough tissue is killed by the procedure to shrink the gland.
The procedure has been trialled on 150 men at Imperial College Healthcare Trust in London and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
It is hoped that men who had been reluctant to have more invasive surgery, which can affect sexual function, may try the steam procedure. The procedure is also expected to save the NHS money because it takes up much less theatre time than surgery.
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BBC3: A Quickie in the Office
Our thanks to Raymond for this piece (10:16) on BBC iPlayer (you’ll need a BBC licence to watch it). At 2:35 there’s the start of a sequence with which we’re familiar, and have assumed was a spoof purporting to be made by BBC3. But it’s a genuine piece by the (online only) channel. The BBC can do it, if it tries. In the meantime, the funniest thing on the BBC today is Dad’s Army, which goes back 50 years. We assume the BBC shows Dad’s Army endlessly because it portrays often absurd men of a certain age.
Manchester United Women FC 0 – 9 Salford Academy boys
Our thanks to HEqual for this, published in The Sun three weeks ago. An extract:
Rebecca Golledge tweeted: “@ManUtd women’s team have been together a very short period of time. These lads have probably been playing together since they were 8. Makes me sick to see all these sexist and derogatory comments, it’s just wrong.”
Feminists: The cold steel – they do NOT like it up ’em!!!
Just a few minutes ago we posted a link to the video of Dr Jeffrey Ketland’s talk at ICMI18 – A feminist witch hunt at Oxford University. Shortly afterwards, the piece received two downvotes (hence my reference to “the cold steel”, which will be familiar to fans of Dad’s Army).
I think it reasonable to assume the downvotes were made by feminists based at Oxford University. Paul Elam published the video on his “An Ear for Men” YT channel a few hours before we did, here. Numerous responses to comments on the piece have been made by “jobod92”, mostly in the same vein as this, the first such response:
Paula Boddington was NOT involved in this ‘feminist vigilante’ campaign. She did not endorse the letter signed by several students requesting Ketland’s suspension, nor did she sign it. She advised the students against it. The idea that a lecturer in the philosophy department specialising in ethics would be part of a witchhunt is ludicrous. Paula Boddington was trying to diffuse the situation, while supporting the students in their grief and this can be proven with the articles she published at the time, and emails to and from the faculty. Nor was she Brooke B’s supervisor. Jeffrey Ketland should publish PROOF of his accusations about Paula Boddington being a part of this ‘vigilante group’. He has been badly misinformed, the question is, by whom?? This is outrageous slander on his part. He has been conducting a witchhunt against PB for the last 4 years online, with no basis in truth whatsoever. Paula Boddington is not, and never has been a ‘feminist vigilante’.
On balance, I find Dr Jeffrey Ketland more credible than jobod92.
Dr Jeff Ketland – “A feminist witch hunt at Oxford University” (ICMI18)
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Justice for Men & Boys 