Darren Deojee – “Positive Masculinity: Standing on the shoulders of giants” (ICMI18). Video #259 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (44:24). The first and only time a speaker has walked into an ICMI venue, preceded by a bagpipes player.

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Labour MPs propose specialist sexual offences courts to help trials backlog

Our thanks to Nigel for this in The Guardian. He writes:

“You have to hand it to them the feminists have stamina and guile. Lammy’s Reforms will in fact have little direct impact on sexual offences because the threshold is the potential length of custodial sentence. And of course Sexual offences have long sentence tariffs. However the trouble he’s having with what is a gross denial of basic rights has given an opportunity to get the “special courts” for Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences slipped in. Having failed in Scotland due to the opposition of practically the entire legal professions in Scotland. It seems quite possible they’ll appear to get Lammy’s Bill through.”

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More men than women die as a result of domestic violence

Our thanks to Tony for this paper from 2010:

From the Abstract on the first page (p.44):

“When domestic violence-related suicides are combined with domestic violence homicides, the total numbers of domestic violence-related deaths are higher for males than females.”

From the seventh page (p.50):

“Women request and are issued restraining orders far more often than men, and women initiate divorce or separation more often than men. Restraining orders and divorces are most often based on the perceptions of those involved rather than empirical evidence-based data (www.mediaradar.org).

It is most often men who lose the children, the home, and perhaps their sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem along with being ordered to pay alimony and child support. All of the above are issues that include emotional and psychological life-altering stressors, that may depress some men and drive some to suicide because they now have lost everything they have worked for (Frankel, 2009).

The NVDRS [J4MB: National Violent Death Reporting System] may have revealed that some of the least recognised wounds that are not physical may be the most lethal. And if divorce follows years of constant criticism of a man, the diminishing of his abilities and name-calling, followed by the issuance of a restraining order that often damages his relationship with his children, this behaviour might fit the OVW definition of ‘abuse’. Most often, society views the divorce process as ‘a person’s right to choose’ and rarely is that process viewed as ‘abusive behaviour’ (Frankel, 2009).”

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58% of Deaths Relating to Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland are Men (and other realities)

Our thanks to Nigel for this from the Men’s Alliance, Northern Ireland. From the Executive Summary:

“On homicides alone, PSNI [J4MB: Police Service, Northern Ireland] data shows that 41 percent of domestic homicide victims are men. These deaths receive little public or policy attention. Once suicides are included, the scale of male mortality becomes clearer. Men account for around 75 to 80 percent of all suicides in Northern Ireland. Applying conservative estimates from national research indicates that hundreds of these deaths over the last two decades are linked to domestic abuse, coercive control, false allegations, and loss of contact with children. Northern Ireland does not currently record domestic abuse involvement in suicide data, leaving a major part of the harm invisible.”

Nigel writes:

“As far as I know this, just out, is the only research that looks at the impact of the domestic abuse of men in a holistic way. Linking the high male suicide rate with the various ways in which abusive partners, official bodies, courts and Police end up creating a web that ensnares men in a Kafkaesque web. Well worth reading for anyone concerned about abuse of men.”

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Jonathan Ezard, ex-GMP inspector who quit force over ‘sexist’ messages about female cop, died after falling from M60 bridge

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“A Police Officer ends up dead because of foolish jokes about a colleague he made over what he believed a private messaging. Of course the family won’t ever get “justice” because in today’s world if a man does anything a bit off colour, no matter its intention or triviality all his service dedication and bravery is trashed and he’s simply ejected. This report from the Mirror gives more details of his career and life (including raising money “In 2013, Mr Ezard took on a trek across the Sahara, raising almost £10,000 in memory of murdered PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes”). Man who died after fall from M60 bridge was ex-GMP cop who quit over ‘sexist’ messages – The Mirror I hope people read it so as to know the quality of person trashed.”

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Mike Buchanan – “Equal rights for men and women” (ICMI18). Video #258 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (29:31).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Man jailed for killing abused wife who jumped from bridge

Our thanks for Ken for this. He writes:

“When will we start to see equivalent prosecutions of the many women who’ve denied their former partners access to their children after family breakdowns, leading those men to commit suicide?”

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William Collins: “Men and boys in the UK: Edited lowlights” (ICMI18). Video #257 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (46:46).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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