William Collins has answers to some of your questions in "The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect" (2019). 700+ page paperback, ebook under £5 on Amazon.

The muted empathy both men and women have towards males which Collins describes is possibly the #1 problem. Plus most men are easily shamed and simply won't say 'No' to women often enough, no matter how much they should. As Paul Elam says, a test of a men's character is his willingness to say 'No' to women, and most men fail that test dismally.

The inevitable consequence of ever-increasing female privilege is ever-increasing male disadvantage. How can the individual man, probably with plenty of his plate, fight feminist hegemony? Very difficult, and he may well run risks if he tries e.g. loss of employment, social exclusion.

As far as politics is concerned, every significant British political party tries to attract women's votes, never men's votes specifically. Philip Davies - a British Conservative MP - is (to the best of my knowledge) the only elected politician in the English-speaking world to have spoken out consistently on men's issues, in particular with the International Men's Day debates he hosted in the chamber of the House of Commons for many years (Jess Phillips MP did all in her power to stop the series from starting).

One of those IMD debates was about MGM, illegal under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, being the infliction of ABH or GBH. Philip has only been able to speak out because he said in his maiden spech in 2005 that he had no ministerial ambitions and wanted only to be a good constituency MP. His wife, Esther McVey, was a cabinet minister for some years.

Philip has spoken at several of our International Conferences on Men's Issues including London in 2016 icmi2016.icmi.info and Chicago in 2019 icmi2019.icmi.info. The series started with the conference run by Paul Elam and A Voice for Men avoiceformen.com near Detroit in 2014, I've hosted four of them (2016, 2018, 2020, 2021).

I look forward to hosting my next ICMI in Budapest in August 2023, a few details here j4mb.org.uk/2022/07/15/…. We have a great line-up of speakers including Philip Davies MP and Esther McVey MP, Professor Stephen Baskerville, William Collins, Ed Bartlett, and more. The keynote speaker will be the legend that is... Professor Janice Fiamengo!!!

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS

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