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I'd particularly like feedback on this one. If it is useful/fun then I'll do it next year. There is a rise of suicides, mostly men, around/after Christmas. I put in a lot of jokes and music. It should be fun for everyone, so let me know what you think.
P.S. Scott, you had snow! And I thought it was cold here! Hope you had a nice Christmas. I shall be looking for your comments about 2002/2003 for men's issues for the programme on Jan. 19th.
Raymond Cuttill
Men's Books/ Men's Radio /Bracknell Home for stray cats, old computers and political incorrectness.
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Ray - I enjoyed the program. The strength of this one is what I have seen as the strength of others: The interviews with men who are activists. The Matthew O'Connor segment was fascinating and inspirational. He is brilliant and lacking fear! A great combination. Hearing him talk of the "Father Christmas's" and their protests and the card etc was a great model for us all. Every man out there reading this needs to check out this interview to hear a fascinating man describe his latest "stunt" to call attention to the plight of fathers.
It is very helpful to hear what men around the world are doing and to know that this sort of activism is slowly chipping away and the stale misandry that has been rotting away men's lives for years. My hat is off to Matthew O'Connor and to you for bringing him to us.
I applaud your Christmas message. Yes, we do have a dream and it's good to think about it. Nicely said.
I think the message to men was okay. I worry a bit about men who are depressed hearing that we should be able to "shake it off." For a deeply depressed man this doesn't work too well and may have the impact of proving to him that he can't do what everyone else can and therefore is lacking in worth. I think we need to tell men over and over that their emotions are a part of being male and that is just fine. We need to get the message out there that men do have very different ways than women of dealing with emotions. The culture here in the US and even the therapists here have a profoundly feminine view of emotions and how they should be handled. In a nutshell this is "crying and talking about it." These are fine ways of dealing with emotions but they are far from the only way. Men often have different ways to do things but these ways are not honored as being healthy since they differ from the feminine model.
I had a bit of a problem with the jokes. I laughed. I thought they were funny. With that said I think we need to avoid jokes that are directed at women in general since this is exactly the tactic that we despise in the fembots. Just my .02.
Thanks for all you do Ray! I think you are doing great work.
Stand Your Ground Forum
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Thanks for the comments. I'll take on board your comments about the jokes although I think that ultimately I don't want a PC world in which no one is allowed to offend anyone. (There was an advert recently pulled in Britain, because it suggested President Bush was an idiot. Apparently the advertisers have to get President Bush's permission to use him in their ads) None of the jokes I use should be like the unfunny ones feminist use ("How do you stop a man drowning? Take your foot off his head" - What's funny about that?), but genuinely funny and not with an undercurrent of hatred. I also don't mind jokes about men, but object if it is hateful and not funny.
I'm definite now that I'll do a Xmas message next year too. Not many people seem to have tried Live365, with the music, but I'll keep that anyway. I'll try for something bigger and better next year.
Raymond Cuttill
Men's Books/ Men's Radio /Bracknell Home for stray cats, old computers and political incorrectness.
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