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The Irish columnist and journalist John Waters is an interesting man. From his Wikipedia profile, one of the reasons he has long enjoyed a public profile beyond his native country:
“From a relationship with singer Sinéad O’Connor, he has a daughter, born in 1996 in London.[5][6] Following her birth, a long legal custody battle ensued resulting in Waters having custody of his daughter…”.
As a long-term campaigner for fathers’ and children’s rights, his interest to MRAs runs deep. Some years ago Elizabeth Hobson and Natty Raymond organised “Messages 4 Men” conferences in London. His 2018 keynote speech is here, his 2019 speech here.
Professor Stephen Baskerville today posted a piece, Tour de Force Review of “Who Lost America?” by John Waters. It links to a lengthy but fascinating article – mostly reviews of Stephen’s books, including his latest, Who Lost America? – on John’s Substack channel, titled, How the War Against Humanity Kicked Off. References to Janice Fiamengo’s work start about halfway down. Enjoy.
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Our thanks once more to NIgel, surely our most indefatigable commenter, who has posted so much excellent commentary over the years. He’s just posted comments on a piece we posted yesterday about a video, Richard the Fourth: Labour’s Plan to Criminalise Masculinity. His comments take up the remainder of this blog piece:
“Yes Jess [Jess Phillips MP] waffles and yes young men are likely to get fed up with being fed the establishment view, just as in the past young men revolted against the establishment in the past. But I think the video underestimates what is at stake here. The movement of non-feminist views from being simply supposedly atavistic sexism or old fashioned religious ideas to being a form of terrorism is part of the long term project of “making the personal political”. The objective is to make all the “personal” a matter for the state to intervene and control.
The idea, borrowed from Marxism, is to ensure the state is able to manage all aspects of life that were considered “personal”. Far from an apparently daft notion of deciding such things are “terrorism” it is to continue to grow the role of the enlightened state to manage its people. We can see this in the way more and more aspects of life that were once considered the province of the family or morality from Churches and other religious institutions have become considered the business of the state and its agents. At the sharp end of this have been “rape” and “domestic abuse” long considered to be morally wrong but generally outside the sphere of marriage and family relationships, with the agents of the state reluctant to address such things within the “private” sphere. Over the years this then gets extended to more and more intervention and control and then what is considered to be included widens and widens to “Domestic Abuse”, “Dating Abuse” “coercive control” “rape culture” “sexism” and now “misogyny”. The practical effects are seen in complaints from the Police that they are expected to be “social workers” and “turn up to very dispute about who controls the TV remote” policing relationships rather than “catching the bad guys”.
This latest move to further turn the private into political may look a bit silly, but it is more sinister than that because it is about following through on making the personal political, and being clear that contrary or private ideas are in fact terrorism, because they are a challenge to the state’s management of the individual and their relationships and their thoughts. In fact if you read the Istanbul Convention this is quite explicit. In that non- or anti-feminist views are “terrorism” and the state is to crush them.
This isn’t a new thing, after all the DV industry had a go at getting “domestic terrorism” used to describe DV in the late ’90s, it didn’t stick probably because after “9/11” “terrorism” was very obviously political and ideological.
So despite Jess’s disingenuousness the agenda is to further increase control over the personal through state intervention. It is part of the long-term project of making no part of life “private” nor leave any space for any ideas that are not approved by the state. On the assumption of course that the state follows the “correct” view. In eastern Europe before the Wall fell this was Leninist Marxism. In the current UK this is Feminism. And it’s perfectly logical, for if from the very dawn of time men have been appallingly evil oppressors, you do need to take complete control of them to prevent this millennia long evil from re asserting itself.
Expect to see a proliferation of cases whereby boys are visited by police to deal with their “misogyny” when they don’t want to play with girls etc. Just as we have seen such interventions for “racism” (and a few for sexism).
“Making the personal political” is not just a silly slogan, it is a real political project and its truth is masked by Jess’s waffle.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 