19 December 2021: Natty Raymond, interview w/ Mike Buchanan (ICMI21)
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.
We’re posting on this playlist videos of the 70+ Q&A sessions which took place after the presentations and interviews at the 70+ speaker seventh (online) International Conference on Men’s Issues http://icmi2021.icmi.info/speakers (13-19 December, 2021).
The presentations and interviews themselves will be published at a later date, in March or April 2022, possibly later. If you wish to watch them before then please buy a ticket (£20.00) here https://icmi2021.icmi.info/tickets-2/. We currently expect ticket sales to end on 1 January.
You’ll find on the conference website all 70+ presentations and interviews, and by buying a ticket you’ll help ensure the continuation of this remarkable conference series, which started in Detroit in 2014. The videos will be available on the conference platform until 13 June, 2022.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stv-kZhsnM8
Rebecca ("Becci") is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Chartered member of the BPS. She has worked at Sunderland for over ten years, during her PhD as an academic tutor, and gaining a permanent contract on completion of her PhD in 2016.
Her PhD examined competitiveness in men, taking an evolutionary perspective on sex differences in physiology, endocrinology, and how these impact on male psychology. This led to an interest in sex differences generally, with a focus on male psychology specifically.
Becci is interested in distortions in the perceptions of men and women, such as the Gamma bias; the impact of gender roles on mental health and wellbeing, and sex differences in the response to trauma and psychological distress. Other research areas Becci is interested in, separately and in conjunction with male psychology, are body modifications, and mating strategies, sex and relationships.
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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9lfrJR2EM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vgVFuEopA
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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnH8mqZq1M4
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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuRAZPGIhtk
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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FQz5kjvRA
Rick Bradford (pseudonym - William Collins) is the man behind the important blog The Illustrated Empathy Gap http://empathygap.uk.
The 675-page paperback edition of "The Empathy Gap" retails for around £25.00. The recently-launched ebook edition retails for £4.32 on Amazon's UK website, and equivalent sums on other websites.
My guide to the functionality of the ebook starts at 39:55 and takes up the remainder of the video.
One topic we touch on briefly in the interview is "women on boards". My website challenging initiatives to increase the proportion of women on corporate boards, started in part because of the well-evidenced causal link with corporate financial decline, is Campaign for Merit in Business http://c4mb.wordpress.com. Launched in 2012, I presented the evidence of that causal link to a House of Commons inquiry later that year, the video of that session is on our YouTube channel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrAgcnGV9es
We’re posting on this playlist videos of the 70+ Q&A sessions which took place after the presentations and interviews at the 70+ speaker seventh (online) International Conference on Men’s Issues http://icmi2021.icmi.info/speakers (13-19 December, 2021).
The presentations and interviews themselves will be published at a later date, in March or April 2022, possibly later. If you wish to watch them before then please buy a ticket (£20.00) before 1 January, 2022, here https://icmi2021.icmi.info/tickets-2/. From 1 – 30 January, buy a ticket by sending £20.00 via PayPal to mb1957@hotmail.co.uk.
You’ll find on the conference website all 70+ presentations and interviews, and by buying a ticket you’ll help ensure the continuation of this remarkable conference series, which started in Detroit in 2014. The videos will be available on the conference platform until 13 June, 2022.
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bCAB3roWc