Interesting (59:57).
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Enjoy (video, 59:37). In the discussion Paul reveals he’s planning a new series, “Repairing the Manosphere”.
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Today’s file is here (11:54).
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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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Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
“Any way one looks at it our women are consumers par excellence. Hence the media focus on women as an audience and pander to that audience. For almost all media relies on advertising to consumers in one form or another. This also has a deeper aspect, and one with big implications for us all. The link takes you to one of many similar pieces.
The content is not new or surprising, the collapse “de industrialisation” from the mid 1970s to 1980s generated vast numbers of retired and/or redundant men to be research subjects. By the first decade of this century it was the norm and for instance was one of the workshops run by Councils and NHS to encourage Retirement and VER [J4MB: Voluntary early retirement?] following the financial crash. I took the advice, took VER and worked part time. Now one version of this logical result of men being “work oriented” (Preference Theory) “human doings” (Myth of Male Power) is the common one these days. Its all the fault of the men themselves, they should pull themselves together and “open up” and more recently that “opening up” to female partners/wives adds to women’s oppression because they “force women to do emotional work”. Importantly they all agree that being the sex that works the most has a cost once work stops.
This particular article does touch on the vital role of this orientation for our society.
The study also found something important about how men frame identity. For men whose sense of self was deeply tied to employment, the key was not finding a hobby. It was finding a new role. Something they could do for others. Something that answered the question of what they were for.
That’s worth understanding. Because if you’re trying to help a retired man in your life who has gone quiet, offering him a puzzle or a golf membership is unlikely to do much. What he needs is to feel useful again. Not entertained. Useful.
Not entertained. Useful. Not a consumer but a producer, being useful a core part of being a “human doing”. Many Male suicides, where they leave evidence, are because the man believes others will “be better off without me”, they have no purpose, they cannot do what they believe they should do for their children family and themselves. Clearly its an important issue for men’s mental health, one well understood yet as yet rarely really prioritised. But it says a lot about the future of our society. Because our complex, comfortable affluent lifestyle, the “consumer society” was built by men who were, and are “work oriented” and its continued good health requires huge numbers still to produce and maintain.
Even all the many opportunities to consume Disney’s myriad of products actually requires armies of workers to produce. In reality the Disney Adults, “Entitlement Princesses”, “Amazing” women in media and entertainment and so on rely on “someone” to keep turning up and producing both the goods and services and indeed the funds to “consume”. And still the “someone” is much more likely to be male. As has sort of sneaked in in the panic about “disconnected” young men, if men simply become consumers par excellence too there may not be a future at all. Even at Disney the lights will go out and the rides rust and collapse. It might not be a bad idea to be just a little kinder and show a smidge of support for the sex the feminists rightly accuse of building the modern world. A world where they can marry themselves in a princess frock in front of a fairytale castle.”
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Interesting (video, 35:52).
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Our thanks to Gerry for this (video, 20:14). He writes, “A new species of animal called ‘Disney adults’ has evolved. They are mostly female and frequently obese.”
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Today’s video is here (26:12).
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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Our thanks to Greg for this (video, 2:20). The comedian at the outset of the video is the late, great Bill Hicks. He died at 32 of pancreatic cancer.
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A piece by the young feminist Poppy Sowerby for Unherd. The top comments are from Sandra Harrild (217 upvotes, 9 downvotes):
“Agree in the main about not blaming women alone , but the emasculation and demonisation of male rituals and behaviour that allows them to be put in their place by good older men role models has contributed greatly to the extended adolescence of men.
Come on Poppy, you can’t have it both ways.
Feminism, or rather today’s version of feminism has all but eliminated any trace of traditional masculinity which ironically enough is what is needed to make a successful father.
When Boys, especially white lower class boys are continually treated as potential rapists, what is there to grow up for? When someone cries sexual assault on the basis that they regret the drunken sex they had the night before, who would ever want to go out with a woman nowadays, let alone do anything else. [J4MB emphasis]
Boys are much more emotionally fragile than women and need an older man and, as you say work, preferably with a high content of physical activity ( boys need large muscle movement regularly; which is why they should all play sport), to allow them to concentrate and focus long term .
They learn the rules by being first dominated by and then encouraged to socialise property, with other men.
Now masculine places where they could learn this without being a pain to girls has vanished in the name of women wanting access to everything; those opportunities are no longer there.
It’s no good destroying the idea of a traditional family set up and then complaining that it’s no longer there. [J4MB emphasis]
The set up worked so well because it allowed women to concentrate on the child for at least the first five or six years of its life and to make the home a stable family place.
The rule of unintended consequences has never been more appropriate.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 