ByMike Buchanan: It’s been many years since I subscribed to the Telegraph, and I only read it occasionally in the library, never buying it. It’s a shadow of its former self, and reliably takes a feminist line on gender issues. So I wasn’t too surprised to hear from William that he’d cancelled his subscription to the paper, a perfectly rational response to a dire article by a ‘profeminist’ man – Rob Okun – about the recent release of an audio file of comments Donald Trump made in private 11 years ago. We’d love to hear what Hitlary says about men in private. Okun’s profile, from the end of the piece:
Rob Okun is editor and publisher of Voice Male magazine, and a former executive director of one of the earliest antiviolence, profeminist men’s centers in the U.S. A new edition of his book, Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men’s Movement is due out next year. [At long last! Alternative title, Manginas: A History] A member of the steering committees of North American MenEngage, and the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, he can be reached at rob@voicemalemagazine.org.
In the months leading up to the 2015 general election a number of Telegraph journalists attacked J4MB and myself, and in the comments section in each case there was strong support for us. So I’m not surprised that this article doesn’t offer the opportunity to comment.
Jeremy Rothe-Kushel: This was an immediate heartfelt response by Professor Tony Hall recorded moments after this tenured faculty member was suspended without pay. It was filmed & then uploaded by Jeremy Rothe-Kushel to let people know about the assault on Hall, and by implication, the assault on tenure, the bastion of academic freedom in institutions of higher learning.
By Gilad Atzmon: Baruch Spinoza left the Jews. Heinrich Heine became a Christian. A few others, such as Israel Shamir and myself, a decade ago, simply drifted away. Recently, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand announced that he too was no longer a Jew. I read his manuscript in Hebrew with great interest but soon realised that while he indeed stopped identifying as a Jew, he still hadn’t removed himself from kosher binaries. “I don’t write for anti-Semites, I regard them as totally ignorant or people who suffer from an incurable disease,” (How I Ceased To Be A Jew p’ 21). Lines like these, echoing as they do the language of the ADL, made me feel very uncomfortable and, when it came to the Holocaust, Sand, who is usually so astute and profound, somehow managed to lose it. The Nazis are “beasts”, and their rise to power metaphorically he described as a “beast awakening from its lair.” Despite my respect for Sand, I would expect a leading, inspirational historian and a former-Jew to have movedbeyond such banal Hasbara-recycled clichés. This week, in the Jewish progressive magazine Mondoweiss, Avigail Abarbanel, an ex-Israeli and anti- Zionist informed us that she too has now ‘left the cult,’. I agreed with most of Abarbanel’s arguments against Israel and Zionism but I was nonetheless alarmed at the intellectual dishonesty at the core of her argument.
Max and Stacy discuss the Wikileaks #PodestaEmails documents which shed some light on why a self-described not very charismatic speaker is paid so much for her speeches… to banksters and brokers. Max talks to entrepreneur Sinclair Skinner (@SkinnerLiber8ed) of BitMari about the startup and crypto landscape in Africa and about the Clinton Foundation’s role in Haiti.
ByMike Buchanan: On International Men’s Day, we’ll be supporting this. The march will be from the Royal Courts of Justice to the Houses of Parliament – 11:00, Saturday, 19 November. The full description:
Family lives matter. Time to talk, Time to listen, Time to act,
suicide is not an option. Fighting for family law reform and equal rights. Aiming to highlight the failings of the family/divorce courts and associated organization’s that can lead to so many men committing/considering suicide. Also a celebration of all fathers and mens groups that help in these dark times. We aim to show the magnitude of the problem by taking teddies/dolls to parliament with our children’s first names attached. Each teddy/doll representing a child missing out on the love of a father, grandfather, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins. After the event the teddies and dolls will be donated to a childrens charity. The name tags sent to parliament.
Raging Golden Eagle:"It's not all rainbow shitting unicorns!" Is it because women are getting more violent, men are getting more passive, or simply because men are just reporting it more often nowadays?
