TIL that some people were so upset by the creation of a Male Psychology Section in the British Psychological Society that they created a "no to male psychology" site.

2019-06-17T01:11:24+00:00

Imagine such lack of empathy.

Ignis_Vespa · 2019-06-17T05:18:01+00:00

To relieve disproportionate incarceration, workplace deaths, homelessness and mental health. If this is the aim of the section than it is important to understand that these issues do not exclusively or necessarily disproportionately affect men relative to women.

You sure?

denyjunctionfunction · 2019-06-17T11:41:34+00:00

Don’t you care about men?

Others of us have brothers, sons, fathers and husbands. So yes, we care about men.

“I’m not racist, I have a black friend”

IaMbEEFYnACHOS · 2019-06-17T01:24:24+00:00

It seems to me that the issue they have with it is that it’s solely about men.

Consilio_et_Animis · 2019-06-17T08:55:36+00:00

Good news is that it got a YES vote from the BPS members. And note that there has been a female section of the BPS since 1988.

https://malepsychology.org.uk/male-psychology-network/vote-for-a-male-psychology-section/

peepeeandpoopooman · 2019-06-17T09:16:53+00:00

They seem very desperate to downplay issues that can affect men.

iainmf · 2019-06-17T01:56:03+00:00

Archived http://archive.fo/Z54pm

AllMyObjects · 2019-06-17T06:06:40+00:00

A space for informed discussion of the implications of the proposed BPS' Male Psychology Section (MPS)

From their website. Hilarious when you realize there is no comment section. Really shows what the person/people who built this site meant by "discussion".

-manatease · 2019-06-17T13:12:52+00:00

Even for suicide, it is not clear cut that men are disproportionately affected. This is because as whilst men do tend to kill themselves more often than women, women consider and attempt suicide at the same rates or more frequently as men. Women just use less effective means for a variety of reasons.

I'm sick of this getting rolled out every time male suicide is mentioned. Suicide is pretty straightforward - although genuine and serious attempts do sometimes fail - and women aren't stupid.

Also only one suicide per person can be recorded while multiple "attempted suicides" can be recorded for a small subsection of troubled individuals, which inflates the figures. Somebody posted something official a while back about how self harm is recorded as attempted suicide, which was backed up by anecdotal experience from people who work in these wards. Can anyone remember what this was (it was from a charity pamphlet or something)?

But really, what kind of insult to women is saying that they are really bad at suicide? The reality is that attempted suicide is - more often than not - something else.

Onlymgtow88 · 2019-06-17T04:07:31+00:00

Psychology really needs take a hard look in the mirror at what it wants to represent. Recently they declared masculinity itself toxic, it’s really depressing and will drive men away from therapy.

BlueOrange22 · 2019-06-17T13:27:27+00:00

Indeed, feminist psychologists (e.g. Willott, Griffin, Edley, Wetherell etc.) have produced some great work on men and masculinities that shows men can be bound by expectations and practices that harm them.

This is an example of how feminism does not help men, and why we need a specific men's movement for male issues. Feminists take it upon themselves to oppose any such effort to address male issues that they do not control themselves; what gives them THiS right? What gives them the presumed authority to decide what male issues are,and how they should be addressed?

ifelsedowhile · 2019-06-17T12:59:53+00:00

whenever you read these kinds of things remember that the authors look like this in real life: http://upl.stack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Scrawny-629x353.jpg

they are the first to attack people with opposing views resorting to sexual shaming and yet they are the archetype of wimpy nu-males with zero success with women.

tenchineuro · 2019-06-18T01:00:58+00:00

They did not present any clear argument that I could see, but I did see comments like 'that women also suffer from or suffer more'.

I did not read every page, but they made the myths up to knock them down.

Probably the implications they refer to are of the 'less for women' variety.

LeJacquelope · 2019-06-17T08:32:52+00:00

Spineless British men won't stand to defend the Male Psychology Section. And that is why it will go away.

Title	TIL that some people were so upset by the creation of a Male Psychology Section in the British Psychological Society that they created a "no to male psychology" site.
Author	UsedToBeRadical
Upvotes	125
Comments	28
Date	June 17, 2019 1:11 AM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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