Tim is an author who has devoted the last thirty years to researching, pondering, and writing a four-book series on gender issues. The first book - Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics — was published in 2011 and is available on Amazon. The second book — Equal Partners: The History of Gender Equality — is due out in 2021. He has also created a series of YouTube videos under the umbrella title of Man Against the Wall. He is a board member of both the National Coalition For Men and of the ManKind Project and is president of the Chicago chapter of NCFM. His latest venture is the founding of a new internet-based organization called Gender Equalists: Transforming gender political space for unity, fairness and forgiveness.  [For a fuller profile, check out the speakers page https://icmi2020.icmi.info/?page_id=27.] This video is one of 120 videos published for the sixth International Conference on Men's Issues (2020) http://icmi2020.icmi.info, a conference originally planned for Sydney, Australia, but later turned into a virtual conference due to Covid-19. From #metoo to the American Psychological Association’s guidelines pathologizing “masculinity” as harmful, to Gillette’s razor adverts blaming all men for the actions of a damaged few, ideologically motivated groups have used unchallenged narratives of female victimhood to promote damaging stereotypes about men and boys, masculinity and men’s relationships to each other. More than ever before, recognition of men’s issues is needed. Men and boys deserve compassion, they deserve consideration for their unique needs, and they deserve our support. Men and boys also deserve respect for their unique contributions to society and an end to the promotion of unkind stereotyping of being harmful, abusive, toxic, selfish and hateful. We would not tolerate this stereotyping directed towards any other group. We are in an era of unprecedented ideological conflict. By reducing men’s ability to take a positive identity from their masculinity we are encouraging young men to pursue ever more radical ideologies to find a place to belong. In turn we are also encouraging young women to embrace an identity as society’s victims rather than its equal co-creators. The inaugural conference was held in 2014, and since 2016 the conference has been held annually: - Detroit (2014) - London (2016) - Gold Coast, Australia (2017) - London (2018) - Chicago (2019) Playlists of all 100+ presentations at the conferences (as well as the 120 at this one) are here, along with playlists of the presentations at the Messages 4 Men conferences in London (2017-19) and the (UK) National Conference on Men's Issues, “Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too” (2020): https://www.youtube.com/cha ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlWr8fCmE0

This was one of around 70 presentations or interviews filmed for the (online) seventh International Conference on Men's Issues, 2021 (ICMI21) http://icmi2021.icmi.info/speakers. Almost all were followed by live Q&As and will be published in the same order as they were published during the online conference (held over 13-19 December 2021) but over 14-20 February, 2022. The website for the 2022 conference (17-20 November) is http://icmi2022.icmi.info. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Fx_O6xmTo