I need your help creating a name AND a motto/subheading for a website I’m thinking about making devoted to exposing corruption and misandry in academia, promoting activism and networking among student groups in behalf of male students, and ranking colleges by how they treat male students.

Video here, if you're interested in a visual explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPPfu6xygw

I’m in the middle of creating a YouTube series called “The War on Male Students.” I’m thinking about expanding operations significantly in the not-too-distant future by creating a full-blown website dedicated to exposing corruption and misandry in education and promoting activism in behalf of male students. It would be like a cross between the websites of A Voice for Men and The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. What I’m really wondering right now is what to call the website, and I was hoping to make naming it part of a collaborative effort. If you have a good idea as to what to call the website and a good subheading, I would love your creative input on the matter. For example, A Voice for Men is titled, well, AVFM, and it’s motto (which used to be “take the red pill”) is now “compassion for men and boys.”

Here are a few titles I am thinking of using:

The War on Male Students

Equality for Male Students

A Voice for Male Students

And here are a few subheadings/mottos I am considering:

Educational Equity for Men & Boys

Stop the War on Male Students

Voice and Vigilance for Men & Boys in Education

Unlearning Misandry, Teaching Empathy

So if you like any of those, and especially if you have any ideas for alternative titles or subheadings, please let me know what you think. Feel free to either comment here or email me at [email protected]. Please remember that the title and heading of the website should encapsulate in very few words what the website is about. In short, here is what the website would ideally do once it is fully running:

Rank colleges in three areas: its educational outcomes for male students, the degree of misandry on campus, and how extreme their due process and free speech policies are that deal with sexual misconduct. The ranking would be on a red light/orange light / green light scale, similar to how FIRE compares colleges in terms of how extreme their speech codes are.
Host “The War on Male Students,” a series which thoroughly covers the structural and cultural barriers male students face, in both (remastered) video and scripted form.
Host a public registry specifically for faculty and administrators who exhibit misandry, as well as those who preside over decisions that harm innocent male students (for example, presiding over a sexual misconduct hearing where an innocent male student is wrongly punished).
Provide a regularly-updated list of recording laws by state, and host recordings submitted by students publicly exposing corrupt faculty and administrators. This would be linked to the public registry page.
Host regular news updates, similar to A Voice for Men and the Community of the Wrongly Accused, exposing the structural and cultural barriers male students face in education. Guest writers would be welcome as well, if they are interested.
Promote activism and networking in behalf of male students on campus by hosting downloadable flyers, creating a list of pro-male student groups with contact information, hosting activism videos, and (if possible) organizing letter-writing campaigns.
Host legal resources and guides for students wrongly accused of sexual misconduct
Host a forum for brainstorming activism ideas, website feedback, and general discussion.
Host a database of academic studies concerning the needs of male students (i.e. what teaching methods work best with male students, etc).
Set aside a “good news” section promoting educational institutions that get it right by helping men and boys.
Host sections documenting effective advocacy strategies depending on the reader’s status. For example, sections would be divided into such groups as “Effective Advocacy For Faculty,” “For Administrators,” “For Parents,” “For Students,” “For Alumni,” etc.
Provide links to other pro-male sites (such as A Voice for Men and Community of the Wrongly Accused) and a list of recommended reading for initiates to the Men’s Movement

If you have any ideas that I did not cover about what a kick-ass website for male students would be like, please let me know. Thanks for reading.

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Ah sorry, I maybe wasn't clear enough; although I accept your initial premise that some universities have a greater gender imbalance than others, the task of quantifying that is nontrivial. For example, the finding of women-only political groups with no male counterparts might be 'harmless' misandry (in the sense that no men actually want to set up a gender-specific organisation), 'mild' misandry in the sense that men are discouraged from setting up such groups by the organisational structure of the university but not actually barred from doing so, 'medium' misandry if men are barred from creating all-male political spaces but not barred from discussing whatever they want within those spaces or 'high' misanthropy if male political groups are actively repressed.

It could also be misogyny of some form or another; perhaps men have no need to set up such groups because they are already highly privileged in other ways on campus

Simply quantifying this would be hard enough, but if you factor in that there are n dimensions on which gender impacts our lives (n might as well be infinite) and that you'll have to work out whether one incident of 'high' political misanthropy is as bad as a culture of 'mild' misanthropy on, say, sporting matters and I reckon you have a very difficult task ahead of you.

Not to mention that if your process for grading institutions is not totally transparent there is a strong incentive to avoid using it; you could be settling personal grudges or accepting payment from universities to artificially promote them (I'm not saying you are, obviously, just that you have an obligation to avoid those sorts of conflicts of interest by publishing your methodology)

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