ICMI17: Anil Kumar - How Life Coaching Can Help Male Victims Of Domestic Violence And False Allegations

Mike Buchanan

The Feminist Toolbox

Gary Orsum:
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Western Childhood Is Creating An Authoritarian Society

Overprotective parenting is a threat to democracy.

By Pratik Chougule: American childhood has taken an authoritarian turn. An array of trends in American society are conspiring to produce unprecedented levels of supervision and control over children’s lives. Tracing the effects of childrearing on broad social outcomes is an exercise in speculation. But if social scientists are correct to posit a connection between childrearing and long-term political outcomes, today’s restrictive childhood norms may portend a broader regression in our country’s democratic consensus. 

Since the early 1980s, American childhood has been marked by a turn toward stringent adult control. Support for “free range” childhood has given way to a “flight to safety” characterized by unprecedented dictates over children’s routines.
More so than any other generation, parents and educators have instilled in millennials the idea that, as Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it, “life is dangerous, but adults will do everything in their power to protect you from harm.” Indeed, strong social pressures have so hardened against parents who believe in the value of a free, unsupervised childhood that psychologist Peter Gray likens them to past Chinese norms on foot binding.
Hard numbers illustrate these trends:

• The amount of free time school-aged children enjoyed plummeted from 40 percent in the early 1980s to 25 percent by the mid 1990s.

Daniel Holtzclaw: The Feminist Agenda Frame Job

The C.O.C.K. Fairy: Let me take you on a journey into how corrupt the state of Oklahoma really is. Find out what you need to know about Daniel Holtzclaw- he's not the monster of Oklahoma.

Wizard Of Ponz - William Banzai7

Anita Sarkeesian Has Sargon Arrested For Man-Splaining (Or Something)

Regards, Bearing.

The Battle For Syntagma Square - 2011 Athens Warzone

Perseus999: Striking images of the anti-austerity movement that took over the squares and streets of Greece and turned them into self-organized open assemblies in the summer of 2011.

Toxic Masculinity And Suicide

StudioBrule: Professor Fiamengo shows how CBC misrepresents research on male suicide and reports #FakeNews.

Otto Warmbier, Philando Castile, And The Out-Group Derogation Of Men

By Jewel Eldora:

Otto Warmbier

Typically, when a human being dies, no matter how despicable, their families are awarded the ability to grieve, and the departed is granted some dignity. (See: Death and Funeral of Richard Nixon) This however, is not true when we believe the departed or their family to be subhuman. People we believe we are superior to are known to social scientists as an out-group.
Out-group members (a.k.a. “them”) when viewed by in-group members (a.k.a. “us”) are not perceived as individuals, but as part of a subhuman group. All humans are subject to in-group/out-group dynamics. All out-groups are perceived as non-individual, subhuman examples of their group’s stereotype.
When bad things happen to out-group members, including death, in-group members justify the suffering and claim that the group is the cause of their own misfortune. Usually, this will be justified by alluding to the behaviors of the stereotype.
For example, the New York Post reported that 62 year-old Professor Dettwyler, an Anthropologist from Delaware, apparently did not recognize Otto Warmbier, the young American who’d died days before, as part of her in-group.

Molar City

Max and Stacy discuss ‘Molar City,’ the Mexican town on the U.S. border where American ‘dental refugees’ arrive in the thousands for medical care because ‘drooling at the slot machine’ is the American Dream and that don’t pay the bills. In the second half Max continues his interview with Jose Rodriguez, VP of payments at Bitso, about bitcoin, ethereum, cryptocurrencies and the local economy in Mexico.

Mark Latham, ‘The Myth Of White Male Privilege’

Mike Buchanan: Possibly the most highly-anticipated talk at ICMI17 was that of Mark Latham, which kicked off the final day. Mark Latham is a former Australian politician who was the leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. He led the party at the 2004 federal election. For some time he hosted Outsiders, an Australian television news and commentary programme broadcast weekly on Sky News Australia, and now hosts Mark Latham’s Outsiders. We had a very amicable conversation.

Ultimate Cuckold Recorded In Medieval Flanders Near Ghent

By Author Douglas Galbi: As medieval literature makes clear, medieval men sought to avoid being cuckolded. Medieval literature advised men to believe what they saw, rather than what their wives told them. Men were advised that, if their wives told them they were dead, not to believe it. Before he left on a business trip, one medieval husband even painted a guardian lamb on his wife’s abdomen. Underscoring men’s concern about being cuckolded, a twelfth-century Latin text written in Flanders near Ghent recorded the ultimate cuckold: Ysengrimus, an elderly wolf.
One day, Renard the fox entered Ysengrimus’s home while he was out hunting for food for his family. Ysengrimus’s wolf-wife, weary from having recently given birth to cubs, was in bed. Renard pretended to have friendly relations with Ysengrimus. Renard even referred to him as his uncle. Renard chatted warmly with Ysengrimus’s children about their father:

Then, raising his leg and pouring forth a stream from both orifices,
he said, “Here’s a milk-soaked rusk — doesn’t it taste good?
Lap it up, dear little cousins, lap it up! To you
I present this tidbit, which I was retaining for my own children.