ICMI20: Mike Buchanan - "Why Women Fail to Compete Successfully With Men, and Will Always Fail"
This video is a lightly edited version of the video originally published for ICMI20. No alcohol was consumed before or during the making of this video.
Mike Buchanan is a Men's Rights Activist, author, publisher, and events organizer. He's the Conference Director and chairman of the organising committee for the next ICMI, another virtual event http://icmi2021.icmi.info.
Mike is also an occasional fantasist. This video was recorded in the main library of his principal summer residence, Buchanan Castle, near Loch Lomond in Scotland.
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=_YmQHU6A-cE
Four of William Collins's pieces on MGM:
Male Genital Mutilation http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=519
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 1 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1604
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 2 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1655
MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 3 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1675
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Our thanks to The Forgotten Man of TheLondonGroup for giving us permission to post this video, first shown on the Tlg YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jakA0gYILc0
Our blog piece on this protest:
https://j4mb.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/thornhill-clinic-protest-a-resounding-success/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTObX2u7FPQ
Hannah has witnessed women's use of criminal and family courts to abuse men in five different counties, and began writing after she saw one man's ordeal drag on for seven years, continuing even when authorities had substantial evidence that the accuser was gaming the system. She is the author of Breaking the Glasses, written from an anti-feminist perspective, with a focus on men's rights and sometimes social issues. She has a YouTube channel (also called Breaking the Glasses), and has also written for Honey Badger Radio, the Honey Badger Brigade blog, and A Voice for Men.
This video is one of 120 videos published for the sixth International Conference on Men's Issues (2020), 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 (and this one) are here, as well as 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/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/playlists
The conferences deal with the social and legal issues that disproportionately (or uniquely) affect men and boys.
This year’s conference is being held online, with the publication of 120 videos (one per hour, every hour) from midday, Saturday, 14 November, to midday, Thursda
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRX8CYO0MFA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8J1-HzRFM4
Background details and list of speakers here:
https://cafp.uk/2022/07/06/central-london-branch-families-need-fathers-litigant-in-person-conference/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDLXZHFEorg
Our Male Genital Mutilation playlist (45 video / audio files):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMscr0TpRqgDT--hnKe3XOKXypbM_R2K
On a freezing cold day, a number of us engaged people at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park - mostly Muslims, some Jews, a few neither. We generally find Muslims more willing to engage with our arguments than Jews. The video starts with a discussion with two Christian women, both proponents of MGM. I was as aggravated by them - particularly the second woman - as a woman campaigning against FGM would be by men turning up to defend FGM.
The placards a number of us were carrying advertised the Muslim case against circumcision on one side - https://tinyurl.com/QP2017 - and the Jewish case against it on the other, a leaflet produced by Jews Against Circumcision - https://tinyurl.com/JAC2017.
A tip of the hat to Mike P and men from The London Group - including Rod, Ewan, Richard, Lynton, Haydn and George - for speaking publicly on a number of issues and/or assisting with the anti-MGM campaigning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUkE8dLKxk
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=z5z2WRIeC34
Our playlist of 50+ MGM-related video and audio pieces is here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMscr0TpRqgDT--hnKe3XOKXypbM_R2K
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Thanks.
Mike Buchanan should have been interviewed along with Manzoor Moghul (chairman, Muslim Forum) at the start of this programme, but wasn't, due to a mix-up - he appeared as a caller later on. The key contributors:
Yasmeen Khan's introduction 0:00
Manzoor Moghul, chairman, The Muslim Forum 00:42
David Smith (15 Square) 8:19
Patrick Smyth 10:22
Manzoor Moghul 13:27
Patrick Smyth 15:37
Mike Buchanan 23:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBSi2Rxx4c