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New MANN Admins to Replace Scott
posted by Scott on Thursday January 16, @06:08PM
from the announcements dept.
Announcements It has come time for me to announce that soon I will no longer be administering Mensactivism.org on a day-to-day basis as I have since the site was started. We have taken on some new people who will be working with some of the older co-admins to keep this site running smoothly and in the spirit that it was created. This is a decision I have not made lightly and I think will improve the quality of this site as a resource to men's activists. Read on for more explanation...

Mensactivism.org has been running for almost three years, and I have found administering the site to be a very rewarding experience. The time commitment it takes to keep it going is significant, and it has always been worth the effort. However, for several months now I've found it very difficult to maintain all of my time commitments, and far too many worthy news stories haven't been posted out of neglect simply because I've been too overwhelmed with things.

Much of this had to do with a very challenging (and also rewarding) semester I had at UNH this past fall. I am in my final year at UNH and the upcoming semester will be my last in the Computer Science program. My academics have pushed me to many new limits, and I'm finding that I enjoy the work immensely. However, due to the intense time requirements these classes have, I found myself in way over my head last semester, to the point that I was making a lot of compromises with my personal health and relationships. I've decided that I can't do this to myself again. My final semester is going to be even more challenging than the last, and in this depressed tech economy, I am going to have to put even more resources into finding a job for when I graduate.

Now, there's no way I could stop being active in men's issues - it means so much to me that I could not be complete without being a men's activist. However, I've decided that in order to maintain my physical and mental health for the next six months, I will have to focus on local men's issues activism at the expense of some of the wider scale things I've been doing, such as running Mensactivism.org. One of the things I intend to do is make a final attempt to get a seat on the NH Commission on the Status of Men, for which I now have support from several key people.

I also didn't want to consider shutting down Mensactivism.org. Such a vibrant community of activists have kept this site going, and I wanted to see what could be done to allow this community to sustain itself. Thus we have taken on four new administrators who will work with the three we currently have, to edit and post user submissions to the site. I'm confident that this new team has the resources to keep the spirit of the site going strong, and to maintain Mensactivism.org as a useful resource for men's activists in a wide variety of issues.

I'd like to thank Adam, Thomas, and Brad for helping me keep this site going for so long. Nightmist will not be forgotten for his enormous contributions to this site as well. And now I'd like to welcome Steve, Tom, tparker, and Dan as new admins. I'll be helping them get up to speed on things over the next couple of weeks and will be acting as an advisor when needed by the beginning of February. Some of the info pages in the "Navigation" section of the site will be updated to reflect the new status of things over the next week, and e-mails to admin@mensactivism.org will be forwarded to the mailing list of MANN admins so they can keep track of e-mail submissions and such.

Mensactivism.org is really run by all of its readers, the admins just keep a consistent image and "smooth out the edges" editorially. I'm confident that this site will only improve because of these changes. Thanks for sticking with us through all this!

- Scott Garman
scott@mensactivism.org
(who started this site as an "experiment" to learn apache and mysql) :)

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Creating New Things (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday January 16, @08:31PM EST (#1)
Scott,

Your experiment has become a life form of its own!

In early 1995, because of a problem with the mails, I received 2 successive issues of Transitions a week apart. With the regular newspaper's daily onslaught of bigotry, it was wonderful to imagine a weekly men's rights magazine. Of course, that never happened, but then, I didn't foresee the internet, or a website that covered mens' issues on a daily basis, or a worldwide community of activists. Thank you for making all of that happen.

I hope that you will still post here, and let us know how you are doing, and how men's rights are faring in New Hampshire.
Thank You, Scott (Score:2)
by Thomas on Thursday January 16, @08:50PM EST (#2)
(User #280 Info)
Thank you, Scott, for your support for all good people. Your continued efforts will be appreciated.

And "Welcome" to all new admins.
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday January 16, @09:30PM EST (#3)
"There is nothing so certain as change."

Scott, I wish you the best in all that you do. It's not everyday that one gets a chance to help the lives of so many good men and women as you have with the availability of Mensactivism.

Welcome to all those who are now signing on to keep this wonderful site running.

Your Friend,
Ray
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday January 16, @10:45PM EST (#4)
Many thanks. The mental, physical, emotional,financial and social pressures of your workload must have been staggering. I feel the abscence of Government funding for Mens Studies is the most factor slowing the growth of the Mens Rights Movement. In contrast, the Government provides hundreds of millions to "womens studies" colleges. This enables thousands of feminists to work full time at promoting the feminist agenda. It's a bit like the way the human body feeds a cancer that's destroying it.
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday January 16, @11:21PM EST (#6)
Thanks Scott for all your work. Does anyone have any ideas as to the best way to get more money for the Mens Rights Movement?
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday January 17, @12:03AM EST (#7)
Does anyone have any ideas as to the best way to get more money for the Mens Rights Movement?

So we can pay Scott to work on men's issues full-time after he graduates? That would be a cool idea! :-P


Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday January 17, @02:33AM EST (#9)
You Wrote:

"Many thanks. The mental, physical, emotional,financial and social pressures of your workload must have been staggering. I feel the abscence of Government funding for Mens Studies is the most factor slowing the growth of the Mens Rights Movement. In contrast, the Government provides hundreds of millions to "womens studies" colleges. This enables thousands of feminists to work full time at promoting the feminist agenda. It's a bit like the way the human body feeds a cancer that's destroying it."

My Reply:

We are currently preparing to table California college and university campuses with Men's issues flyers and want to do a section on the issue you cite. "Lying in a Room of Ones Own," by Christina Stolba is one article that we are planning to quote to talk about the taxpayer funded, Male bashing institution known as Women's Studies. If you know of any other useful info. we could cite to inform young men and women about this I'd be interested.

Sincrely, Ray
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:1)
by Dan Lynch on Friday January 17, @03:37PM EST (#12)
(User #722 Info) http://www.fathersforlife.org/fv/Dan_Lynch_on_EP.htm
Mmmmmmmm Christine Stolba.

Good work Ray!

By the way, we are not accepting Scott's resignation. We are going to give him all the time he needs to rest up and finish school. Enjoy people :-)
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Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:1)
by Larry on Thursday January 16, @11:05PM EST (#5)
(User #203 Info)
Yes. Thank you, Scott.

I started to take a better look at the world and found myself slowly exploring men's issues a few years ago. I surfed the net, read various diatribes, stories and complaints. For me it was something to think about and gripe about.

Then I found MANN and saw this steady stream of stories about real things happening to men. Incredible, crazy things! Tragic things. Each seemed like it must be an aberration, but they just kept coming. The same themes, the same looniness, over and over and over again.

There was very little discussion then. Just a succession of little newspaper stories creating this massive, undeniable picture of how hostile society had become to men. It made me realize this was serious. Not just something to gripe about, but something I had to do something about. MANN turned me into an activist. A pretty piss-poor one, but an activist.

That's what MANN does. It turns people into activists.

Thank you, Scott - for the vision to see the need and for the courage and dedication make it work.

Larry
Proud member of the Sperm Cartel
Re:Thank You, Scott (Score:1)
by cshaw on Saturday January 18, @08:33AM EST (#15)
(User #19 Info) http://home.swbell.net/misters/index.html
Thank you very much for your efforts with regard to MANN and men's rights. You have provided the means through which communications amongst men's rights activists can express their concerns,their experiences, and their thoughts with regard to men's rights. The same have given men the facts and arguments by which men can individually and collectively protect themselves individually and collectively against the discrimination that they experience by law and custom.
C.V. Compton Shaw
re (Score:1)
by Angry Harry on Friday January 17, @01:18AM EST (#8)
(User #195 Info)
Hi Scott

Your website has been a great source of support for people like me over the past three years.

Thank you.

AH
THANKS SCOTT (Score:1)
by dogfree_zone on Friday January 17, @03:01AM EST (#10)
(User #708 Info)
A commitment to any group or idea can be consuming as well as rewarding. Your effort put out far more than you received.

Best to you!

Thanks Scott (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday January 17, @03:32PM EST (#11)

This site is an excellent resource for those who understand (and for those who do not) the effects of unchecked blatant misandry... Modern feminism is not about equality, it is about privilege, and this website outlines this fact in an irrefutable manner.

Lets hope we can continue to expose the countless negative aspects that feminism has brought into reality for all people, and perhaps make this world a better place for both genders to live in as a result.

I hope your predecessors will be as committed as you were.

Thanks

CJ


Thank, Scott (Score:2)
by Raymond Cuttill on Friday January 17, @07:56PM EST (#13)
(User #266 Info)
This website has been helpful and entertaining. One day there will be Men's Studies and men can make a full time career exposing feminism at least until feminism goes away (Oh, that I should live that long).

Raymond Cuttill
Men's Books/ Men's Radio /Bracknell Home for stray cats, old computers and political incorrectness.
The great experiment (Score:1)
by equalitarian62 on Friday January 17, @10:13PM EST (#14)
(User #267 Info)
I concur with the other posters in thanking Scott for Mensactivism. It's an experiment that has taken on a life of its own, due to the fact that it fills a void in an otherwise male-hostile society (in Western nations at least).

Steve
Farewell, friend (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Saturday January 18, @09:07AM EST (#16)
Scott - thank you for your incredible work on MANN. Your act of creation has made an impact on the world. You're a good man, Scott Garman.

Mike LaSalle
Editor, Men's News Daily
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