Our thanks to Douglas for this. An extract:

Mr Daubney, from Nottingham, has also had a colourful career in the public eye.

The 48-year-old father-of-two (he describes the EU referendum result as the third best day of his life) had an eight-year stint as editor of Loaded, where he revelled in his nickname “The King of the Lads”.

“I loved every minute of it,” he says. “I got drunk with Noel Gallagher, I drove across America with Abi Titmuss with a pillowcase full of booze.

“Often I had to pinch myself that I was doing that job. It was every lad’s dream. I get it thrown back at me now that it was all sexist, but we were in an era when we were paying a cover girl more for a day’s photo shoot than we paid the writer that interviewed them in a year. It was a working class, primal product that taught me a lot about life.”

He’s now a men’s rights and mental health awareness activist, and talks passionately about issues including male suicide and social mobility for working class men.

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Heather Savigny is the “Professor” of Gender, Media and Politics at De Montfort University. In the context of academic job titles “Gender” means, of course, “otherwise unemployable whiny taxpayer-funded feminist parasite”, but maybe that’s too long to fit onto business cards. Our thanks to Mary for pointing us to “Professor” Savingy’s latest whineathon, on the LSE website, Gender and the ‘impact’ agenda: the costs of public engagement to female academics. The start of the piece:

In 2014 I was interviewed for the Independent on Sunday about a paper I published on women’s experiences of sexism in academia. The interview, I was advised, would be another excellent dimension to my ‘impact case study’. Here was an example of ‘public engagement’ and the kind of thing that the Research Excellence Framework (REF) agenda is seeking to foster.

Shortly after that interview I received an email telling me that I had been awarded ‘whiny feminist of the month’. The man who had sent this email blind copied in some of my senior male colleagues. His email and publicly available blogpost were clearly designed to humiliate and potentially silence me. (Although I was reassured I was in excellent company: Harriet Harman, Laura Bates, Jo Swinson, Caroline Criado Perez have also been ‘recipients’). [J4MB: If this is “excellent” company, what would bad company look like?]

Reflecting on this experience led to a discussion as to whether this constituted ‘impact’ in relation to the requirements of the REF. The institutional response was no. Which in turn got me thinking about what it is that counts as impact. Is it only something that leads to positive change? And what about the negative consequences of engaging in impact and public engagement strategies? Do these not ‘count’, especially knowing women are more likely to be subject to online abuse?

Ms Savigny won our “Whiny Feminist of the Month” award in November 2014, details here. Her award certificate is here. Whiners gotta keep whinin’…

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Our thanks to Lars and Rick for this. An extract:

Victoria Derbyshire has presided over programmes about parental alienation and so she should recognise that this issue is particularly important to tease apart and discuss in a balanced and dispassionate manner.  Unfortunately, flanked as she was by a woman whose children were tragically killed in a house fire by their father and Jess Phillips – she of the snorting, sneering, self righteous wing of feminism, Victoria upped the ante in what I can only call a bear baiting approach to asking questions of the men on the panel.

Tim Loughton MP spoke lucidly and was courageous in getting across the message that actually in the UK more children are killed by their mothers (and at times their new partners) than are killed in contact with a father after family separation. Jess Phillips however, scenting an opportunity to blame men further, pointed out that the new partner is almost certainly a man and so there you have it, wherever children are killed, a man is involved.

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A message from Alison Tieman, the key organizer of the Chicago conference:

ICMI tickets will be increasing from their current not-so-early bird rate of $359.99 on May 18th, to $389.99. So act fast to claim your savings and your ticket to the biggest Men’s Rights event of the year!

Since we’ve sold out our current block of hotel rooms we’ve negotiated with the hotel to provide an additional 30 rooms at the current discounted room rate to you! This discount saves you $150 off the regular room rate at our venue. After this room block is filled, room rates will be going up, so secure your accommodation now and stay in the same hotel as the stars of ICMI 2019!

Honey Badger Radio is hosting the International Conference on Men’s Issues 2019 in Chicago, Illinois, August 16-18th! The Conference features an all-star cast of presenters and all the gold advocacy you can eat! Support men’s rights and represent!

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[Note added 16.5.19: You can order your ticket(s) for the talks here. Tickets for the event are free, but we highly recommend reserving a ticket. Doors will open, and registration for ticket holders start, at 5:30 pm. Seats will be reserved for ticket holders until 6:00 pm, those without tickets will then be allowed into the event on a first come, first served basis. The first talk will commence at 6:15 pm.]

Every cloud has a silver lining. Our talks at Cambridge University on 24 May were scheduled to take place in the Alison Richard building, where the Politics department is based, and near the History department. It’s some distance from the city centre and the colleges. The new venue (Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX) is far more central, just seven minutes’ walk from The Regal, the JD Wetherspoon pub (38-39 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR) where I, Elizabeth Hobson, the videographer Ewan Jones, the blogger Jordan Holbrook, and other supporters, will be meeting at 1pm for lunch and drinks on the day of the talks, and returning there afterwards. Walking directions here. Most of the walk is on Downing Street.

We invite you to join us, whether or not you’ll be attending the talks.

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Charlotte Proudman, evil narcissist and man-hater

Followers of this blog will surely remember Charlotte Proudman, the narcissistic man-hating harridan who destroyed a male solicitor’s career in 2015. Our pieces on her are here, her inaugural “Toxic Feminist of the Month” award here. She went on to become a contributor to The Guardian, what are the chances?

Our thanks to Stu for a piece on the BBC website titled Call for inquiry into abusive parents’ access to children. “Abusive parents” means, of course, “abusive fathers” or more accurately, “allegedly abusive fathers”. In the long piece – by two women, clearly needed to do the work of one man – not one example of an abusive mother is given. An extract:

Barrister Charlotte Proudman, who specialises in cases involving violence against women, told the BBC she had witnessed a perception that mothers were preventing contact with fathers without good reason. [J4MB: A ‘perception’? Ha!]

“I’ve heard judges say, ‘Oh, it’s just a little bit of domestic violence.’ [J4MB: This is surely a lie, in line with feminist tradition.] It’s minimised rather than seeing the significance of that,” she added.

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Our thanks to John Barry for this. He writes:

The first Male Psychology Conference (at UCL in 2014) was a one-day affair. Although there were talks from psychologists all over England, it drew a lot upon the work of psychologists within the fledgling Male Psychology Network, plus some UK-based third-sector workers (notably Jane Powell of CALM, and Glen Poole, now with the Australian Men’s Health Forum). But looking back it’s clear that the conference already included seminal material. Sam Russ, for example, presented a study which accidently found evidence of ‘male gender blindness’, a variety of cognitive bias that we now recognise as gamma bias. Dr Brenda Todd, developmental psychologist at City University London, presented an early version of her toy preferences research which became such a popular discussion point in publications such as The Conversation. But most of all, the feedback from attendees of this small conference was phenomenal, so the decision to organise a conference the following year was a foregone conclusion.

Since 2014 the conference has grown year on year, and had speakers such as Prof Rory O’Connor, Prof Gijsbert Stoet, and Dr Warren Farrell. Each year the conference is anchored by the presence of the conference Chair, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Martin Seager, the man who first proposed a British Psychological Society (BPS) ‘Male Gender Section’ in 2010, which resulted in the creation of the Male Psychology Section of the BPS in Sept 2018. Looking back on how far we’ve come in just a few years, it’s difficult not to be optimistic about the future of Male Psychology. ​

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A piece published a couple of hours ago. Late last night someone from Varsity emailed me asking for my comments on a number of points. Very few of them made it into the article, my full response is here.

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Our forthcoming talks are scheduled to take place in the Alison Richard building, which houses (among other departments) the Politics and Sociology departments, and is very near the History department. We’ve just received the following email from an official in the building, and haven’t yet responded. Private identifying details redacted.

Dear Mr Buchanan,

I refer to your booking in the Alison Richard Building for your event on the evening of Friday 24 May 2019.  Although this booking was originally accepted, as further information came to light the risks associated with hosting the event were re-assessed and the booking was referred to our Referral Group by following the procedures outlined at https://www.em.admin.cam.ac.uk/files/uoc_event_booking_guidance_0.pdf

The decision of the Group is that your event should be moved to a venue away from students taking, or revising for, examinations at the time of your event, due to the substantial risk of noise and other disruption arising from protests.  The Group has identified space in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms for you (https://map.cam.ac.uk/Mill+Lane+Lecture+Rooms#52.201606,0.117313,18).  This is a central University site and it can accommodate the same numbers as your original booking.  The room will be available for you from 5.30 p.m. (not 5 p.m.) for your event to start at 6 p.m. and finish at 8 p.m.; the venue must be vacated fully by 8.30 p.m.  The University will arrange for security at the event; you will be advised of these arrangements shortly and asked to pay for them in due course (as per section 6 of the room booking form you originally completed).

Your contact for the practical arrangements associated with your event from this point is [details redacted]. I have copied this email to him and to [details redacted]. Future correspondence should be addressed to them rather than me.

Kind Regards,

[details redacted]

University of Cambridge I Department of POLIS I  The Alison Richard Building I 7 West Road I Cambridge I CB3 9DT

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Enjoy.

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