Podcast involvement. Join me.

[Percy]

I have started drafting a podcast for recording over Easter.

As an exercise for the Activism Group members, I invite you to contribute.

Here is my draft, so far. Please feel free to suggest things, criticise, add bits, suggest wording changes, provide footnotes etc. You might even want it shorter and cut out huge swathes. !

Just put them in, in a different typeface and colour of your fancy so they stand out.

You can put your input here, on this thread, and/or send me an email (pm me and I will give it), or send it all in a pm ! Up to you.

So far it is 2300 words. That's about 20 mins or so, speaking in my beautifully modulated voice.

If it went to 2800 or 3000, I would split it into two parts. ( I have done that before !) of around 15 mins each.

The words in bold are there simply to show me where to emphasis as I speak and will no dount change as I practice speaking it three or four times before recording.

Percy.

Oh, by the way, I get the old man to do it from time to time.

So.....

Hello. This is Amfortas, and the title of my podcast today is:

Give a dog a bad name - and expect it to bite you.

I dedicate this podcast to my estranged daughter who I miss so much and to my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

Feminism has long drawn attention to and fought against stereotypical and sexist portrayals of women in mass media, but new research shows that media portrayals of gender have largely executed an about-face in the past decade or so.

There is a deliberate and unprovoked “gender war” and the main target of discrimination is not women, according to research - it is men.

So called feminist ‘Gender studies’ have claimed that mass media portrayals and images are key influences that both reflect and shape society’s views of women and women’s self-identity. They do not consider men.

As well as attacking obvious sexist media portrayals such as page three girls and “girlie” magazines, - which, incidentally feature young ‘empowered’ women doing what they want to for copious amounts of money - feminists have challenged objectification, marginalisation, trivialisation and other negative portrayals of women in movies, advertising, TV drama and other media content.

Although it is increasingly hard to find any such representations not driven by women themselves, their argument that such portrayals are damaging have won eager support from legislators and from most media professionals including film makers, advertising producers and editors. After all, it is women who are the primary consumers.

Until recently, gender theorists and media researchers have argued and lied or simply assumed that media representations of men are predominantly positive. Men have allegedly been shown in mass media as powerful, dominant, heroic, successful, respected, independent, they say, and in other positive ways conducive to men and boys maintaining a healthy self-identity and self-esteem. All things that feminists do not like one bit. But hey, Errol Flynn died decades ago. Marlbro’ man too.

The mendacious feminist view has come under challenge over the past few years. John Beynon, a Welsh cultural studies academic, examined how masculinity was portrayed in the British quality press including The Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times over a three-year period from 1999-2001. he didn’t look deeply at the more crass press where matters are considerably worse.

Susan Faludi’s 2000 best-seller Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man, also finds and exposes the myths and lies.
Beynon concluded in his 2002 book, Masculinities and Culture, that men and masculinity were overwhelmingly presented negatively and as “something dangerous to be contained, attacked, denigrated or ridiculed”.

An extensive content analysis of mass media portrayals of men and male identity undertaken for a PhD completed in 2005 through the University of Western Sydney focusing on news, features, current affairs, talk shows and lifestyle media, found that men are widely demonised, marginalised, trivialised and objectified in non-fiction media content that allegedly presents facts, reality and “truth”.

The study involved collection of all editorial content referring to or portraying men from 650 newspaper editions (450 broadsheets and 200 tabloids), 130 magazines, 125 TV news bulletins, 147 TV current affairs programs, 125 talk show episodes, and 108 TV lifestyle program episodes from 20 of the highest circulation and rating newspapers, magazines and TV programs over a six-month period. All that concentrated into such a shirt time. Media articles were examined using in-depth quantitative and qualitative content analysis methodology.

The research found that, by volume, 69 per cent of mass media reporting and commentary on men was unfavourable compared with just 12 per cent favourable and 19 per cent neutral.

Men were predominately reported or portrayed in mass media as villains, aggressors, perverts and philanderers, with more than 75 per cent of all mass media representations of men and male identities showing men in one of these four ways.

More than 80 per cent of media mentions of men, in total, were negative, compared with 18.4 per cent of mentions which showed men in a positive role.

The overwhelmingly negative reporting and portrayals of men in mass media news, current affairs, talk shows and lifestyle media was mainly in relation to violence and aggression. Violent crime, including murder, assault, armed robberies and attacks such as bashings, accounted for almost 40 per cent of all media reporting of male violence and aggression, followed by sexual abuse (20.5 per cent), general crime (18.6 per cent) and domestic violence (7.3 per cent).

What an image of men to present to the Primary consumer – women. Disregarded is the fact that crime is a feature of a tiny minority in our society and the vast majority of men are law-abiding, family supporting, self-sacrificing chaps going about their lawful occasions.

Other major topics of media coverage of men were fatherhood and family, male sexuality, work and career, and men’s social behaviour. In all of these categories, men were predominantly reported and portrayed negatively.
Fatherhood was also a prominent subject in relation to men, discussed in 361 media articles and features during the period of the study.

Some media coverage positively discussed men as fathers, pointing to increasing recognition of the importance of fathers in children’s lives. However, along with recognition of the importance of fathers and the depth of many men’s emotional connection with their children, discussion contained an almost equal number of criticisms of men as “deadbeat dads”, “commitment phobic” and as perpetrators of domestic violence and sexual abuse within families.

That sexual abuse is far less common in a family with a biological father in it – in fact statistically negligible - than without, is totally ignored or suppressed.

The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau reported in 2005 that TV commercials drew a record number of complaints from men during 2004 and that the number of complaints by men is increasing while those from women are decreasing.

The Australian Federal Government’s 73 Million Dollar advertising campaign against domestic violence which targeted only men as perpetrators of domestic violence was labelled “propaganda against men” with many men criticising its “stereotypical portrayals” as reported in The Age, January 3, 2005).

Doris Lessing, the British early feminist author, said at the Edinburgh Book Festival, on August 13, 2001:

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests …

One could add that intelligent, educated TV presenter and news editor women are as bad as their crude sisters seeking every opportunity to twist an image to suit their anti-male agenda. Indeed their education in Women’s Studies lies at the root of their misandry.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can’t fight back, said Doris, and it is time they did.

Now, how does one expect men to do this when there is so much legislation that forces them to keep their opinions to themselves and so much misandric vilification in all arms of our media-driven culture; The media that just won’t give men a voice?

Men are generally seen as doers rather than talkers, present company excepted.

Anthony Nazzaro has pointed to incidents.

The Baltic Sea; Estonian-Swedish ferry sinks, over 800 die. A disproportionate number of women drown. Many say the "Law of the Sea" (women and children first), was forgotten, and "The Law of the Jungle" (every man for himself) prevailed. The screams of women drowning were heard by many men.

Montreal, Canada; 14 women students were killed by a mentally disturbed man. Many media commentators were bothered by the fact that the male students didn't risk their lives in an attempt to save them. Feminists used this as yet another male-bashing exercise. They have an anuual ‘protest’. A note; had he been a mentally disturbed woman he would have been captured and given probation and counseling instead of being shot dead on the spot.

New York City, the Twin Tower Bombings: in the panic to get out of the buildings, some women reported being shoved out of elevators by men. Was that the case? Maybe it was just a whine from a women or two who broke a heel. But…

In the book “Male and Female - A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World’, the author says "that men have to learn - to want to provide and protect others, and this behavior, being learned, is fragile and can disappear rather easily under social conditions that no longer teach it." Or deride it.

Phyllis Schlafly has written that male soldiers are now being trained to disregard female soldiers' pain and suffering if captured, since the sexual assault of a U.S. female POW during the gulf war (who turned out not to have been sexually assaulted at all, by the way). She's afraid if this attitude gets out to the general public, it could be devastating to male-female relationships.

Well it has and it is.

Losing chivalry by continually criticizing it and blaming men for being polite and helpful is one thing, but are women willing to forfeit the paternal feeling that most men still have for them?

Ooow now there’s a provocative word, but when did feminists every keep to real meanings of words?

Many men are no longer more outraged by women being abused than by men being abused.

Today, men are starting to refuse to see themselves as the providers and protectors of women. In an equal world why should they be? Women are hardly noted for stirring themselves to provide for and protect men. Quite the opposite in fact.

Women can take back the night on the one way streets all they like.

Feminist legal scholar Professor Catharine MacKinnon has said that the increase in domestic violence and rape are symptomatic of male attitudes toward women. Hah! She would say that, wouldn’t she.

What increase? Listeners might like to get a transcript of this podcast with its footnotes and citations proving her not only completely wrong but deliberately so. More lies and vilification from the Women’s Studies Departments infecting our Universities, but then what can one expect from such a rabid woman as Catherine McKinnon.

Could gender politics have changed men’s attitudes to see men and women as just people? Have feminists pushed women off the pedestal? Is this a good or bad condition for our society?

According to a recent poll, many fewer men would give up their seat in a lifeboat to a woman today. Quite a difference from the 1912 Titanic disaster where mostly women were saved. Even more than children. In a riot, disaster or war, will it mean every man and women for themselves?

Many men today demand that women be obligated for the draft and combat along with men. Mel Feit, of the National Center for Men, has stated that "a male body isn't any more capable of withstanding a bullet than a female body."

Women hold political office Board-room positions and are police officers and some are even firefighters. Why should men still risk their lives to protect them?

Geraldo Rivera on a show regarding male-female violence stated, "The way I was brought up, men should always protect women." But isn't this attitude patronizing and demeaning? Feminists tell everyone it is, taking every opportunity to berate men.

Some women call this equally disrespectful attitude, misogynistic. What a friggin’ nerve. Some men call this result of societal equality, poetic justice.

If being equally respected is what women want, then perhaps women could make a start on being respectful and change history – and herstory while they are at it. They have had several generations of feminism and demand for equality but seem yet to make that start. Meanwhile being equally disrespected could be a natural and inevitable by-product, even if back-firing on women.

It seems to me that to stop this rot in society and specifically the media and the Law- sponsored, forced-redundancy of men, will need a revolution in society. Maybe brought about by calamity.

If, say, an invasion was to occur and men were to turn their backs on the defence of the nation as we are now "redundant" what would the prevailing attitude of the female gender be then?

If this invading force was one that sees women as nothing more than chattel to be used abused and discarded at a whim, would we then as men be good for something -- ahhh yes we would be good at defending the freedom and advancements that these women claim they have gained for themselves.

This shows that the claims the femanazis have made in respect to the advancement of women are nothing without the men to protect and ensure said gains. Does this mean that the aforementioned gains are actually null and void totally as they are only guaranteed existence by a willingness of men to uphold them.

Why should men stand up and defend the rights of the feminazis and their followers to label men redundant, violent, abusive, a child abuser etc as they are fond of sprouting in the main stream media.

Perhaps it will never come to be that men will en mass turn their backs in such a situation as we all have mothers, sisters, daughters and female relatives whom we hold dear to our hearts. But even these are increasingly divorcing and dispossessing their husbands and estranging themselves and the children from their fathers.

Men just might leave all women to themselves.

Western women have not raised any objection to being manipulated. They have chosen to follow a pernicious and socially destructive Marxist-Feminist path to a bed of their own making that they have to lie in.

Alone.

Thank you for listening and I hope it has given you some food for thought. Especially the women who have listened.

Please pass a link to this podcast to a friend or two.
My thanks go also to the Men’s Rights Activist Christian J for his Production assistance.
Ask: Who does the Grail Serve.


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The screams of women
Men's increasingly dispassionate feelings about women
by Anthony Nazzaro

Research findings from a PhD research thesis completed in 2005 through the University of Western Sydney and published in Media & Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men released by Palgrave Macmillan, London in September 2006.


http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4907


Regarding McKinnon’s lies, the best evidence comes from the Justice Department's annual crime victimization survey--which compiles numbers based on interviews with some 75,000 Americans, rather than from police reports. The survey found that in 1979, the rate of rape was 2.8 per 1,000 people over age 11. In 2004, it was 0.4.

Some experts say that because the survey was redesigned in the early 1990s, the most reliable data come from 1993 and after. Even here, though, the trend is the same, with a drop of 75 percent. That translates into hundreds of thousands of rapes that didn't happen.

When reporting has increased by 1/3 and rape rates dropped by 85% this can mean 2 things:

1.) An increase in false reporting:
While researchers and prosecutors do not agree on the percentage of false allegations, the consensus is that approximately 40% to 50% of charges are clearly false. This number does not include unresolved allegations held “in limbo” where evidence is too weak to try the case even under shield laws, relaxed rules, and comparatively weak evidentiary standards applied to rape cases:

• A survey of all the forcible rape complaints during a three-year period at two large Midwestern state universities found that 50 percent of the accusations were false.4
• In a nine-year study of all resolved rape cases in a Midwestern U.S. city of 70,000, the accusers recanted their charges 41 percent of the time. The 41 percent figure does not include the other accusations that the police department recorded as unfounded, for which there was insufficient evidence to establish the assault.5
• According to a report of the Defense Department Inspector General released in 2005, approximately 73% of women and 72% of men at the military service academies believe that false accusations of sexual assault are a problem.6

The culture of false allegations of violence bears unacceptably high costs. Families and innocent lives are destroyed by our wasted tax dollars, while real cases go ignored or unprosecuted. Judges and juries are fooled and make bad decisions.

2) RADAR ALERT: Beyond Duke: About Half Of All Rape Allegations Are False

[haahoo]

Good stuff percy..

The only thing I would add is that as well as the obviously "negative" portrayals of men in the media as "violent, abusive.." etc..

There is the other aspect, the way that men are routinely portrayed as "fools, idle, good for nothing and inept" usually a second fiddle (or "foil") to their so much smarter and more decisive female partners.. This seems pervasive in all TV shows, soap opera's etc.. Not only this, but it is clear such TV shows seem to be preaching a message of "pamper the woman" as the only way of impressing her, failure to do so will result in a "much deserved" smack round the chops, or worse!!

The "mangina" is portrayed as the ideal man, yet, paradoxically, it also shows how the mangina gets little joy from his relationship. Still, no matter how much he gets the slap, gets put down, he keeps on trying to win the favour of the lady, who of course probably has several punters on the go!

And perhaps mention how, in the UK, it has been decided that the best way of dealing with the "problem" of prostitution, is no longer to arrest the women of the trade for soliciting, but to arrest the men who take their bait..

This is the equivalent of allowing drug dealers to ply their trade freely, but to subject those who buy the drugs to arrest..

To allow guns to be sold to anyone without risk of the seller being bothered by the police, but to arrest the buyer!

Worth thinking about, but the danger in asking other folk to help you out with ideas etc, percy, is that you may find it sorta alters the slant of your message!

Which seems to be pretty clear..

"Brutus" is starting to wonder why he is getting so much stick, and is thinking of biting the hand that is taking his food, his home, his pups!!

[Percy]

Your points about fools etc are good and I will be pleased to add them in, Haahoo.

It might be distracting in this pod to go on to prostitution though or manginas getting no joy from their efforts.

[Percy]

Originally Posted by Percy

Your points about fools etc are good and I will be pleased to add them in, Haahoo.

It might be distracting in this pod to go on to prostitution though or manginas getting no joy from their efforts.

I have added in (I show where):

The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests …

One could add that intelligent, educated TV presenter and news editor women are as bad as their crude sisters seeking every opportunity to twist an image to suit their anti-male agenda. Indeed their education in Women’s Studies lies at the root of their misandry.

'Stupid' is also an increasing thematic portrayal of men, especially in adverts which the Australian study did not cover.Men are routinely portrayed as "fools, idle, good for nothing and inept" usually a second fiddle to their so much smarter and more decisive female partners.. This seems pervasive in many TV ‘dramas. Not only this, but it is clear such TV shows seem to be preaching a message of "pamper the woman" as the only way of impressing her or stopping her being violent, and failure to do so will result in a smack to his face. Violence toward men is treated as comedy or ‘deserved’. Whatever happened to ‘There is no excuse for violence’? .

Men seem to be so cowed that they can’t fight back, said Doris, and it is time they did.

[haahoo]

Originally Posted by Percy

Your points about fools etc are good and I will be pleased to add them in, Haahoo.

It might be distracting in this pod to go on to prostitution though or manginas getting no joy from their efforts.

Yes, good judgement there, It was just an additional thought, indeed it would perhaps move the slant a bit.. But, regardless of whether you include the prostitutes example or not, it is a good example of how the blame for "bad activities" has gone from the one who sells the activity to the one who buys it! It could be said to be due to the new "blame men, never women" attitude..?

Personally, I think its more to do with pragmatic law enforcement..

Men WILL stop buying, women WONT stop selling!!

[Percy]

Has anyone else some points they would like added?

Or anything that should be taken out or changed?

[Percy]

Time's up.

I recorded today. 16 mins and 15.5 mins. 3850 odd words; a bit more than the 2300 odd at the first draft.

If anyone wants a final copy, just pm me.

Any ideas for the next?

[Kim]

Was it a final comment you sent me, Percy? If not, please send me one. If so, it was great.

[Percy]

End product script on its way by pm kim.

[Celtic Druid]

A good read Percy.

I'll check out the podcast also.

[haahoo]

I look forward to hearing this production!

Where is it?

[Percy]

Originally Posted by haahoo

I look forward to hearing this production!

Where is it?

Right now it is on a 'stick'. In a few hours time I will copy onto a stick of Cj's. He will then clean it up and add some bells and whistles and get it out in a week or two. He has two others in the pipeline as well.

When he has got them placed, I will post the links.

[Celtic Druid]

Originally Posted by Percy

Right now it is on a 'stick'. In a few hours time I will copy onto a stick of Cj's. He will then clean it up and add some bells and whistles and get it out in a week or two. He has two others in the pipeline as well.

When he has got them placed, I will post the links.

A good example of what can be achieved just with a few determined fellows cooperating.

Let's all do our bit to ensure the podcasts are heard by all and sundry once completed.

Well done Percy and CJ.

[haahoo]

A good read, and no doubt will be a good listen too!