Over 50 of the UK’s leading charities, academics, journalists and campaigners have come together to form the UK’s largest ever coalition to tackle gender-specific issues affecting men and boys.

dontpet · 2016-11-15T14:42:54+00:00

The conditions of membership for the new coalition include an agreement that progress for men and boys should never come at the expense of the interests and wellbeing of women and girls. The Coalition’s gender-inclusive approach asserts that solutions to male-specific issues should complement campaigns on women’s issues, rather than oppose them. The Coalition will not accept or work with organisations or individuals who express misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism or any other form of bigotry or discrimination.

The co-founders of the Coalition are: Dan Bell, Features Editor, insideMAN magazine; Mark Brooks, equalities campaigner and chair of the ManKind Initiative; Martin Daubney, journalist and broadcaster; Ally Fogg, writer and journalist; Dr Ben Hine, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of West London and Glen Poole, UK Coordinator of International Men’s Day.

I don't know any of those names, might as well be huffpo editors or hillary supporters. Im not optimistic.

Imnotmrabut · 2016-11-15T15:41:29+00:00

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TheCitizenAct · 2016-11-16T01:32:46+00:00

Why are we prioritising identity ahead of individuality? We aren't feminists.

Second-wave feminism was spawned by middle-class communists; like all class warriors, they wanted to manufacture conflict between identities (except it was no longer proletariat vs. bourgeoisie; to manufacture statism they had to co-opt an identity the purveyors of individuality could never oppose: women. Thus the debate is no longer big state vs minimal state, it's women vs. men, non-white vs. white, etc.). Prejudices were officially reversed, state-sponsored and deemed socially acceptable.

Betty Friedan's propaganda, that of the tired and frustrated suburban housewife, has been proven to be a sham of the highest order; she was a communist, with the intent to divide people along arbitrary, biological lines for her own political ends (in the same manner liberals play reductionist in most debates: they don't want to talk issues, they want to talk identities).

International Men's Day? Are we slowly manufacturing a similar narrative to that of the feminists? eg, you can only pass judgement on women if you are a woman; you can only pass judgement on men if you are a man.

This is the same form of cultural relativism - advocated almost universally but not explicitly by liberal politicians and mimicked by their followers - which erodes social unity, creates virtue out of weakness and creates preferential treatment and conflict in the context of ethnicity, sexuality, gender and religion.

It's the same form of morality which would have determined interfering in the holocaust was an act of racism (it determines passing judgement on another's culture, or identity, is a form of 'ethnocentrism').

It's why we've got a segment on 'Black Heroes' (white heroes?) and 'black culture' (white culture?) on the homepage of the BBC today; it's why Trump exists. I've written so much more about it here http://www.thelastcitizen.com/ and here http://www.thelastcitizen.com/the-liberal-wall-of-hate/

It's all relativist nonsense. Why don't we be genuinely radical and propose something that resembles, you know, ACTUAL liberalism (not Marxism) and assign rights and responsibilities to PEOPLE, not identities? That would be TRULY revolutionary; in a world where everyone has an identity, being an individual is a TRULY revolutionary act.

How about, rather than international men's day we call it international people's day? Better yet, how about we just don't have a day?

Better yet, how about on the day we refer to as 'international men's day' we do something even more radical: we talk about issues affecting humanity, a humanity which is divorced from the dehumanising categorisation it is forced to assume under the dictatorial, socially acceptable religion colloquially referred to as identity politics?

How about we talk about suicide rates of people; workplace deaths of people; rape and sexual assault of people; domestic violence against people; homelessness among people; education of people; and, most importantly, the liberty of the people?

Because guess what...while we continue to live under the tyranny of identity, we don't have any!

Wisemanner · 2016-11-15T13:36:20+00:00

I didn't know they had it in them.

trampson · 2016-11-16T09:58:54+00:00

Feminism finally coopts mens rights.

It a been a blast guys. Pray for your sons.