Hi Jamie, yes, the guy who wrote that, Steve, if you google him, you'll find that he caused mayhem at the time he worked at the Home Office and "blew the whistle" on the immigration practices of that time! I've been working with him a bit advocating for a "minister for men" in the UK. I videoed a "fringe meeting" at the conservative part…
Hi Jamie, yes, the guy who wrote that, Steve, if you google him, you'll find that he caused mayhem at the time he worked at the Home Office and "blew the whistle" on the immigration practices of that time! I've been working with him a bit advocating for a "minister for men" in the UK. I videoed a "fringe meeting" at the conservative party conference for which Mike Bell had managed to bring an APPG (All party parliamentary group) together on the subject. My interest in the whole agenda, which brings me in to contact with Bettina's blog, stems from working with domestic abusers, both males and females and gays and lesbians, too. Numbers-wise over 28 years we've completed 36 hours of group work with just under 1300 men, and about 120 women, with just 2 gay men and 2 gay women amongst them. The "accredited work" which has to be to a "white male patriarchy agenda" has very demonstrably failed and been decommissioned - they failed to engage with the men - deliberately? ( I strongly suspect.) But there is a raft of research which pulls the radical feminist agenda apart on the subject. We, by contrast, have worked to an "emotional regulation" agenda. If one puts the interests of children, rather than women, first then that focus becomes very much clearer. You, Jamie, could, of course, live anywhere in the world but the very negative historical experiences of gay men, which tend to persist into today, have been very extreme in the UK. So the "victim" quality of gay men has been purely about prejudice, whereas I have not been aware of any particularly negative attitudes towards lesbians. As I understand it - and will probably be corrected - they were readily tolerated, whereas my long-dead, gay uncle had to be married and have a child to establish his "non-gay credentials". His daughter, my cousin, was gutted when, just before her death, her mother told her that her father had been gay. In many conferences I have been to, there have often been questions which female colleagues have been able to put which it would have been impossible for me to put. Equality ! (Of opportunity!) I was learning, yesterday, that ministers in the German Parliament have to be in equal numbers, male and female. That begins to explain why 3 of the last 4 defence ministers in Germany have been women, Van Der Leyen - moved to Europe - etc etc. Fortunately they now have a male minister, Pistorius, who is steadily getting things into shape, militarily, whilst Vlad begins to knock at the eastern doors of Europe! As my German father-in-law said 40 odd years ago: "the question is not if the Russian will come, but when!"
Hi Jamie, yes, the guy who wrote that, Steve, if you google him, you'll find that he caused mayhem at the time he worked at the Home Office and "blew the whistle" on the immigration practices of that time! I've been working with him a bit advocating for a "minister for men" in the UK. I videoed a "fringe meeting" at the conservative party conference for which Mike Bell had managed to bring an APPG (All party parliamentary group) together on the subject. My interest in the whole agenda, which brings me in to contact with Bettina's blog, stems from working with domestic abusers, both males and females and gays and lesbians, too. Numbers-wise over 28 years we've completed 36 hours of group work with just under 1300 men, and about 120 women, with just 2 gay men and 2 gay women amongst them. The "accredited work" which has to be to a "white male patriarchy agenda" has very demonstrably failed and been decommissioned - they failed to engage with the men - deliberately? ( I strongly suspect.) But there is a raft of research which pulls the radical feminist agenda apart on the subject. We, by contrast, have worked to an "emotional regulation" agenda. If one puts the interests of children, rather than women, first then that focus becomes very much clearer. You, Jamie, could, of course, live anywhere in the world but the very negative historical experiences of gay men, which tend to persist into today, have been very extreme in the UK. So the "victim" quality of gay men has been purely about prejudice, whereas I have not been aware of any particularly negative attitudes towards lesbians. As I understand it - and will probably be corrected - they were readily tolerated, whereas my long-dead, gay uncle had to be married and have a child to establish his "non-gay credentials". His daughter, my cousin, was gutted when, just before her death, her mother told her that her father had been gay. In many conferences I have been to, there have often been questions which female colleagues have been able to put which it would have been impossible for me to put. Equality ! (Of opportunity!) I was learning, yesterday, that ministers in the German Parliament have to be in equal numbers, male and female. That begins to explain why 3 of the last 4 defence ministers in Germany have been women, Van Der Leyen - moved to Europe - etc etc. Fortunately they now have a male minister, Pistorius, who is steadily getting things into shape, militarily, whilst Vlad begins to knock at the eastern doors of Europe! As my German father-in-law said 40 odd years ago: "the question is not if the Russian will come, but when!"
Goodness what a word salad. Why can't people express themselves simply and clearly these days?