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Here are some miscellaneous things that never made it into the announcement:
- I'd love to take on some new admins, if I know you and you'd like to volunteer some time to help run this site on a regular basis, please e-mail me.
- MANN will continue to post some user-submitted news stories until I can rewrite the content of the site (ie, most of the informational links in the Navagation box).
- What should we change our slogans to? I'd love some user feedback on this. Our current slogans, "Men's Rights News & Info" and "Tracking Men's Rights News Around the Globe!" both will need to be replaced. Also, I think "Men's Activism Network" should probably replace "Men's Activism News Network", so it will be MAN instead of MANN, right? :)
Scott
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- What should we change our slogans to? I'd love some user feedback on this. Our current slogans, "Men's Rights News & Info" and "Tracking Men's Rights News Around the Globe!" both will need to be replaced. Also, I think "Men's Activism Network" should probably replace "Men's Activism News Network", so it will be MAN instead of MANN, right? -----
Hello Scott!
Glad to see this site back up and running.
About the slogan. With the new emphasis on personal activism, how about;
"Mensactivism.org----helping you make the most out of your activism."
Again, glad to see you back!
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Marc,
I agree with your argument on not identifying gender to make an argument. However, here is a quote from George Will's article(Feminism Hijacked:
"On sexuality, the theme of many textbooks is, Stolba says, "How do I love thee, let me count the heterosexist, patriarchal ways." The textbooks are morose about the idea that "women need men for sexual arousal and satisfaction," which produces "compulsory heterosexuality" resulting from the "dichotomous thinking" that men and women are different and represent the full range of human types. The "culture of romance"? Not good. It "entails male privilege." The "marriage myth"? Don't ask."
Mr. Will and Ms. Stolba seem to be making it clear that feminist studies attack even the very notion of heterosexuality as being a compulsory Patriarchal ideal. As I understand it, only a lesbian group would make such an accusation, or do most feminist heterosexual women believe they were forced to be heterosexual by the patriarchy? I suppose some might, but they cannot legitimately claim that in today’s culture that they have no option to live a lesbian lifestyle. I believe such a claim is absurd and an outright lie.
If that is true then there would be some truth in Dan's claim that feminist studies are being heavily influenced by lesbian ideals. Perhaps he just has a poor choice of words. I have seen some pretty tart male hating statements from lesbian groups lately. I believe we should not discount their contribution in the current culture of male hate. I do not see heterosexual women claiming they are compelled to be such. I do see lesbians making these claims. So yes, it would seem that lesbianism is influencing the hate and is significantly responsible for the hate taught in feminist studies.
Warble
Disclaimer: My statements are intended to be personal opinion, belief, sarcasm, or allegation.
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"I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity to focus MANN more strongly on the activism side of things."
Scott, on the Activism side of things, I've started forming a group in my community for the purpose of addressing issues concerning Men, Fathers and Non-custodial parents. I would certainly like to share advances, events and protests with the others. Is this the type of ACTIVISM you want to present on MANN?
Dan Curry
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"Is this the type of ACTIVISM you want to present on MANN?"
Hi Dan,
Absolutely. That and many other forms of activism. I'd like to see men's groups be able to make use of this site as a "force multiplier" - to help enhance collaboration and organization, to the extent they want to make use of it. Posting things from organizational meeting announcements to protest ideas are definitely within the scope of this.
Scott
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Welcome back, Scott. What a dark world it was without MANN. And congrats on taking care of things.
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by Anonymous User on Sunday May 19, @06:45PM EST (#6)
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any chance of a chat tonight?
- brad
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"any chance of a chat tonight? [Sunday]"
Hi Brad,
Not on MANN, but ifeminists.com might be having one. I won't be available for it, though.
Scott
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"...but also certain civil liberties issues related to free speech and the rights of internet users. "
Scott,
In the business world it is best if the mission statement is limited in scope to a single issue or group of issues. By adding civil liberties and Internet issues, it broadens the scope of your mission statement to include too much, and broadening your mission statement will cause you to loose focus and fail.
I suggest sticking with the men's issues and focusing you how this medium acts to unite the many men's groups. That is the real strength of this site. It is a major and significant contribution to the men's movement. It is a medium where we can focus on a single issue and have diverse men's groups air ideas. This is the only medium that has been successful in uniting the diverse groups in this way.
Warble
Disclaimer: My statements are intended to be personal opinion, belief, sarcasm, or allegation.
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I agree with Warble, Scott. If a particular civil liberties or Internet issue relates to men's issues, then we should consider it on this site. But it could water down the focus of MAN/MANN to get spread out on too many different topics.
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