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Almost a month ago I published a piece relating to a new Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit. The good people at Regarding Men yesterday published their critique of the series, Queen’s Gambit: A Fairy Tale (video, 40:26). Enjoy.
My ICMI20 video Women Fail to Compete Successfully Against Men, And Why They Will Always Fail (46:46) included some commentary on women in chess (16:51 – 17:59). Some people were alarmed at my apparent consumption of a bottle of vodka in the video – it was water, the sound effect of a metal seal being broken was added later.
There may have been one or two other inaccuracies in that video, and the Boris Johnson video… Please join Regarding Men and join me in one or both of the two meetings I host for them, 2pm and 5pm GMT on Sundays. The second is The Humour Group, for creators and enjoyers of humorous material.
As the Conference Director and chairman of the organizing committee for ICMI21, I am delighted to report that Professor Janice Fiamengo has accepted our invitation to be the keynote speaker. Her talk will be titled:
Why Men and Women are Working Together to Create a Non-Feminist Future.
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My thanks to Julian for alerting me to the activities on this site.
The Centre for Social Injustice promotes anti-father propaganda and unhinged conspiracy theories about the power of “the Christian Right” in modern secular Britain. From the ‘About’ page:
This website shows how everything about the child maintenance reforms, right from the Green Paper itself, was based on lies. It is mainly about child support, but veers off into related territory. I have uncovered some previously unreported information about key individuals in the British Religious Right, which will be of interest to people who are interested in separation of state and religion, the rise of the Religious Right in eastern Europe, Russia and the United States. I’ve also discovered how closely the interests of single mothers and our children are entwined with LGBT rights – both are under attack by the Religious Right, but to different proportions in different places. In the UK it seems that David Cameron willingly sold single mothers down the river to placate the Religious Right, who opposed his legalisation of gay marriage.
A caveat: I hope my theme of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t confuse, distract or put off. Hardly anyone I know watched it, but I was horribly gripped. I watched the two series while conducting this investigation into child maintenance, and was intrigued by the misogyny of the commanders’ wives and the Aunts.
Obviously, the sabotage of the child maintenance system and the deliberate impoverishment of single mothers and our children is nowhere near on a par with what happens in The Handmaid’s Tale. But the psychology and ideology beneath it comes from exactly the same place, and I have no doubt that some of the Religious Right would like to take us back to the days of the workhouse and the Poor Law, the Magdalene laundries, and the deportation of our children for hard labour.
The men in this real-life tale of misogyny – Iain Duncan Smith, Tim Loughton, Steve Webb, Nick Woodall, while repellent, are irredeemably boring. But, just as the most villainous and most compelling characters in Margaret Atwoods’ “Handmaid’s Tale” are women, the key figures driving the child maintenance reforms were anti-feminist women, who I find weirdly and horrifyingly fascinating.”
The Centre for Social Injustice makes the claim that withholding child maintenance payments is domestic abuse and that Conservative governments have been complicit in enabling men to abuse women with whom they have children via such methods whilst referring to “bogus parental alienation ideology” on Twitter. Statistically poor outcomes for fatherless children are dismissed on the site with cherry picked examples of people from intact families who’ve committed crimes. It’s clear that in the complex and nuanced situations that arise after family breakdowns, The Centre for Social Injustice is convinced that mothers are significantly disadvantaged as compared to fathers and is committed to perpetuating narratives that emphasise women’s victimhood and subsequent entitlement to special protection and to denying truths that promote the importance of father involvement in their children’s lives.
To recap:
* See: The Empathy Gap, William Collins, 2019.
The Centre for Social Injustice writes extensively about Karen Woodall and one of the most notable posts links the work of the “therapist, writer, commentator on family separation politics, gender specialist, helper and observer of all things to do with family relationships” to Men’s Rights Activists including: A Voice for Men’s Paul Elam, Families Need Father’s Vincent McGovern and J4MB’s founder, Mike Buchanan. In this post it is claimed that “The Christian Right and the men’s rights movement have found common cause in battling feminism and women’s rights for nearly half a century.” and it is true that those of us who may well be more atheistic and libertarian within the Men’s Human Rights Movement do find ourselves with points of agreement with those on the Christian Right regarding battling against the hate-filled supremacy movement that is feminism and women’s privileges more generally, and it’s a point of pride that we can bridge our moral and philosophical gaps in order to pursue sex equality in our societies. The Christian Right are far more tolerant and compassionate bedfellows than the Ideological Left, that’s for sure!
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I recently posted about some interesting music that Mark Nevin has been publishing on his YouTube channel. If you’ve stopped to explore his channel to any degree, you’ll have noticed that Nevin is a justifiably proud family man and both of his passions – for music and fatherhood – have come together in a new radio slot he’s taken on with Boogaloo Radio, called Dad Pill. The shows air on Sundays between 12pm and 2pm and can be accessed live through the Boogaloo Radio website and app or listened to later on MixCloud. Nevin plays some great songs, I keep finding new gems when I listen, and he invites guests on to talk about music as well as having and being a dad!
Dad Pill Episode 2, with sound engineer Phill Brown.
Dad Pill Episode 3, with poet Steve Denehan.
Dad Pill Episode 4, with musician Peter Donegan.
Nevin can be found on Twitter, here.
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An interesting piece in today’s TCW, particularly in relation to the sinister World Economic Forum. The start of the Wiki page:
The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny, Geneva Canton, Switzerland, is an international NGO, founded in 1971. The WEF’s mission is stated as “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.
The WEF hosts an annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together some 3,000 business leaders, international political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists for up to five days to discuss global issues, across 500 sessions.
The organization also convenes some six to eight regional meetings each year in locations across Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and India and holds two further annual meetings in China and the United Arab Emirates. Beside meetings, the organization provides a platform for leaders from all stakeholder groups from around the world – business, government and civil society – to collaborate on multiple projects and initiatives. It also produces a series of reports and engages its members in sector-specific initiatives.
The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting in Davos are criticised regarding the public cost of security, the formation of a wealthy global elite without attachment to the broader societies, undemocratic decision processes, gender issues and a lack of financial transparency.
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Today I hosted two 90-minute-long men-only meetings for Regarding Men, as I shall be into the indefinite future – one at 2pm GMT/BST on Sundays, the second at 5pm GMT/BST, the first meeting of “The Humour Group”, for creators and consumers of humorous materials (in any form). The Humour Group meeting in particular went very well, we shared videos, and more. I can’t recall when I last laughed so much.
An Australian in the second meeting played this (video, 2:35), which has been viewed 7.4 million times since it was published in 2013. He’s a survivor of the Australian divorce court system, and remarked that the lives of men and male dung beetles have much in common…
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Our thanks to Steve for this:
A 50 year old London woman who drove while disqualified and without insurance in Cirencester in the summer has received a suspended jail sentence from Cheltenham Magistrates.
Jacqueline McCarthy of Charlton Street, London NW1, pleaded guilty on November 30 to driving a Vauxhall Adam while banned in Spitalgate Lane, Cirencester, on June 16. She also admitted having no insurance at the time.
The magistrates said she had ‘deliberately flouted’ her disqualification and they handed her a four week jail term suspended for a year.
They also ordered her to pay £85 costs and a £128 surcharge.
The justices said that although jail was merited for the seriousness of her offences they felt there was a prospect of McCarthy being rehabilitated.
So, if you’re a woman, the penalty for ignoring your punishment is… no punishment. She can’t ignore the latest punishment because there wasn’t any. That’s the way to do it.
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Our thanks to Petronella J, who has worked for the EHRC since February 2015, for this. An unprecedentedly high proportion (4 of 14, or 28 per cent) of the current Commissioner are men (or, more accurately, manginas). The first five named Commissioners on the list are of the female persuasion, because after the Chair and Deputy Chair – both women, what are the chances? – the next three surnames in surname alphabetical order happen to be women. We can be sure that if this were not the case – had these ladies been Harriet H. Xenophontos, Gloria S. Yirrell and Jess P. Zebra, for example – the names would not have been published in that order.
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A tip of the hat to Guido Fawkes for this. Good to see the reference to Laura Bloody-Bates.
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