ICMI 2016 In London Just Ahead

The second International Conference on Men’s Issues, this time in London, is now just a few months away. 20 speakers from around the world will participate in the three-day event. - That will be the topic today as Paul Elam launches a series of hangouts leading up to the conference. Today, he will be joined by conference host Mike Buchanan of Justice for Men and Boys (and the women who love them).

“She Wants You To Be Her Prisoner”

“She wants you to be her prisoner.
She wants to have your body
For herself, not even your heart
To be free.” “Surely,” he answered,
“I agree. I’ve no objections. I want to be her prisoner.” [1]

By Douglas Galbi: So said the knight Yvain in the late-twelfth-century Arthurian romance Yvain: The Knight with the Lion. Yvain had killed the lady’s husband in a foolish bid for knightly glory. He then fell madly in love with the grieving lady.
At great risk to himself, Yvain sought out a meeting with the lady. He surrendered himself completely to her:

“Lady! Rather than beg
For your mercy, I’ll thank you for anything
You wish to do with me.
Nothing you do could displease me.”
“Really? And what if I kill you?”
“Lady! Your will be done.
You’ll never hear me complain.” [2]

The repeated, exclamatory address “Lady!” emphasizes Yvain’s desperate desire to serve the lady.

The Inner Circle's "Rom Wills Explains Female Fuckery!"

The Inner Circle's comment, as follows: "How many likes can I give to a post like this? What you and Rom stated is dead on, a bullseye on the mark. Because we have lived in a society that has been puritanical in nature for so long, speaking about such issues is shunned upon, especially in the black community. As you mentioned earlier, a lot of us were fed a ton of BS growing up that was based on fairy tales and the cultures of generations' past; Steve Harvey waxing poetically about a man 'needing to earn a woman's time' by courting her for months on end is a prime example of that.

If Men Behaved Like These Silly, Self-Important Wimmin There Would Be An Outcry

By Kathy Gyngell: I just can’t wait to share my news with you. Forgive my bragging, but I have just had a very special invitation and I am so, so honoured by it. Nearly breathless in fact.

The Women’s Leadership Association (Empower Yourself, Empower Others) has just emailed me to inform me that my 2016 membership with The International Women's Leadership Association has been approved! And I didn’t even know that I had applied. It is truly wonderful. Beth Johnston, the Executive Director of the IWLA, tells me that I have been considered for this honour based on my outstanding leadership skills, commitment to my profession (what’s that I wonder?) and contributions to my community.
Well who would have known? And there was me thinking that the feminists hated me! Now all I have to do, they tell me, is to make one click to register to take my place among other remarkable women. “You have earned it and you deserve it!” Beth assures me.
Well fancy that! The thing is that the IWLA recognises women from around the world - from aspiring professionals to the most accomplished! I wonder which I am - aspiring or accomplished?!
It doesn’t matter does it? Inclusion in The IWLA is a privilege shared by thousands of women throughout the world. And that should be good enough for all of us. The message is clear, isn’t it?

Comedy Festival Discriminates Against Straight Men

So once again, discrimination is deemed OK as long as it isn't against a "protected group". Raging Golden Eagle

How Society Controls You, Faux PUA Sasha Daygame

Luke Rudkowski interviews pick up artist Sasha Daygame about how society conforms and controls our minds from actually achieving true happiness and love. We go over the stereotypes of PUA and how we can be our worst enemies with limiting beliefs.

A Commentary On The Shared Parenting Myth

By Ruth Nichols: There continues to be a growing trend toward shared parenting time arrangements throughout the United States, and New Jersey is no different. The theory behind shared parenting is that the children benefit from the ongoing, consistent contact with both parents. Sounds good. However, depending on the age of the children, this is very hard to implement and very hard to manage. Even in traditional homes where two parents live together with their children, keeping the house rules clear and what the household expectations are is very hard. Imagine this in two different homes, where the parents are often at complete odds with each other. Who sets the rules? What if the rules are not followed? How confusing is it for the child?

Is Male Infant Ritual Genital Mutilation [Soft Name Circumcision] Legal? Does It Matter?

By Gary Costanza: Does the law protect the right of every adult, child, or infant to bodily integrity?
There is mounting evidence that this is so, and has been argued by Mike Buchanan of Justice for Men and Boys, and now also by Peter Adler’s “Is Circumcision Legal?”
To answer the question, I’ll discuss Adler’s work and also discuss aspects of the well-known Chase Heronimus lawsuit to prevent the forced circumcision of 4 yr. old Chase against his mother’s will.
First, an excerpt from “Is Circumcision Legal?,” italics mine:

Origins of circumcision
Almost all mammals have foreskins. The male and female genitalia, which are identical in early gestation, have evolved to function together during sexual intercourse over sixty-five to one hundred million years.
Male and female circumcisions have been practiced for thousands of
years, usually for religious, cultural, and personal reasons. Male
circumcision has been performed as a religious ritual, a painful obligatory rite of passage, to mark or brand slaves and members of religious or tribal groups, and to suppress sexuality.

Democracy Suicide Ft Boris Johnson And Alex Jones

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss democracies committing suicide (as John Adams had warned) and the ominous “BoJo Hair Formation” taking place in sterling as the pound plunges on Mayor of London Boris Johnson announcing his support for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum. In the second half, Max interviews alternative media star Alex Jones about his first-of-its-kind interview with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and what role the mainstream media has played in Trump’s rise by refusing to cover certain stories important to Americans outside the Beltway.

Cut Off From PA Aid, Relatives Of Slain In Gaza Face Destitution

By Isra Saleh el-Namey: Hanadi al-Qayid looked tired.
The 45-year-old lost two of her children when fighter jets shelled her home in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah during Israel’s assault in the summer of 2014.
Now she attends a regular sit-in demonstration outside a branch of the Palestinian Authority office responsible for the welfare of the families of the dead and wounded. Relatives of the martyrs, are they are known, gather weekly in Gaza City to protest the decision to suspend the payment of allowances to families of the those slain by Israel in 2014.
“Officials tend to say that it is a great honor for them to serve the families of martyrs. But we have become beggars due to these offensive practices,” al-Qayid told The Electronic Intifada.
Walaa, 15, and Ahmad, 12, were not the first of al-Qayid’s children to lose their lives to the Israeli military. In 2003, their oldest brother, Mahmoud, was shot and killed by the army and as if that wasn’t enough, her husband, Said, suffered a heart attack five months ago and had to undergo urgent surgery to save his life, surgery the family needed to borrow money to pay for.
“I’ve found myself alone in consecutive ordeals,” she said, another reason her anger at the PA is so acute.

Meyer Lansky’s Lawyer Still Runs Las Vegas

Commentary by Dr. Patrick Slattery: You just cannot make this stuff up. This article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is a fluff piece about Oscar Goodman and his wife Carolyn. Oscar Goodman was Las Vegas mayor from 1999-2011, and when he bumped into the three-term limit he got his wife elected. She is now in her second term. 

What is remarkable is that the article below reveals that the Goodmans moved to Las Vegas so that Oscar could work as the lawyer for Murder Incorporated’s Meyer Lansky, the most notorious Jewish mobster of the Twentieth Century. Moreover, it mentions that he was introduced to the gang by none other than the late Jewish Senator Arlen Specter, who at the time was a Philadelphia prosecutor and asked Goodman to take two mobsters accused of murder out to dinner. The article makes no effort to justify or rationalize this bizarre request. Maybe the Jewish author just assumes that the Jewish readers will understand that Goodman was being a mensch.

If you are wondering why it is okay for Specter, Goodman, and his wife to be so chummy with Jewish murderers and mob bosses, don’t expect the article to explain, because it doesn’t. But it does mention that Mrs. Goodman has been deeply involved in the Las Vegas Jewish community for over 50 years and would like to “make aliyah” if it weren’t for the fact her children live in Nevada. And most of all, her husband, Meyer Lansky’s lawyer, “is really a very good Jew and very religious and very loyal to it.” And that’s want really matters, isn’t it.

Western Peoples Are Being Re-Enserfed

By Paul Craig Roberts: Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, free farmers were defenceless in the face of Viking, Magyar, and Saracen raiders. The need for protection led to the enserfment of free people who accepted the suzerainty of those able to provide walled defenses and armed fighters to ward off attacks. As time passed, the attacks ceased but the feudal arrangements persisted, and the system became exploitative.
Today jobs offshoring and the financialization of the economy are again enserfing the people, but the cause is debt, not armed invaders.  
Today’s rentier class, unlike the one that emerged from feudalism, has never provided any service in exchange for the debt peonage that it has imposed.