NBC Teaches Courtesanship 101

Marc says:

“This is a COMMENT section, not a write-your-own-article-on-top-of-Marc’s-article section. Comments are supposed to be a sentence or a paragraph in length — MAXIMUM. Yet, some of you write and write and write and write.”

“Why?”

Mike says:

“tom of covent garden (#26) has identified the essential purpose behind MND’s legions of long-winded commenters: we are not here to sit at anyone’s feet, we are here to develop an intellectual framework through which the best ideas and arguments of the MRA community can be tested, honed and practiced.”

I think I understand what is behind Marc’s post. Posts don’t always add value to the cybergroup. They may benefit newbies or just the exchange between two posters or maybe it is done for the benefit of the poster alone, e.g. the need to be the new messiah. We men do have egos afterall.

I’ve been frequenting my friend AngryHarry’s site lately. He addresses the topic of EFFECTIVE ACTIVISM.

He says:

“Generating Heat”

“MRAs need to generate heat rather than formulae.”

“One of the things that drives me nuts – yes, yes, I know, yet another thing – is the belief among many highly-intelligent MRAs that there is some objective theory – probably based on biology, psychology, history, anthropology, law etc – that can lead us all to a state of happiness and general contentment with each other; particularly on gender lines. But there is no such thing. And, as such, it is largely a waste of time trying to figure out what such a theory might be – time, I might add, that could be fruitfully spent doing other things – such as engaging in some form of direct activism!”

He goes on:

“Similarly, in practice, most “rights” that are accorded to people are nowadays ‘calculated’ and judged not with reference to some higher authority – such as a god or a ‘theory’ – but on the basis of how much political pressure can be brought to bear on those in government, how much money supports one position or the other, how many people have a vested interest in the matter, how much attention can be attracted; and so on.”

“In other words, the various “rights” that are accorded to people largely depends, loosely speaking, on the amount of heat and pressure that can be generated over the matters of concern. There are no “just”‘ rights, just as there are no “just” prices.”

and on…

“In conclusion, therefore, my view is that until ‘men’ start undermining, or threatening to undermine, very significantly those forces and those groups of people who are the cause of the problems that beset them, they will achieve very little. And while quoting various formulae, theories, statistics and facts will very often help with such actions, on their own, they are of little value in practice. Indeed, in practice, heat alone is very clearly often good enough!”

“Let me put this into words.”

“I don’t care what you think. I don’t care what the evidence is. I just don’t like what you are doing to me and to my fellow men. And if you continue doing it, I will undermine you.”

The follwoing link has excellent commentary and ideas for activism and why “talking” is not nearly enough:

http://www.angryharry.com/esEffectiveActivism.htm

Some titles:

Generating Heat

The Truth about the Truth

Fathers Group Miss the Big Picture

Where’s the Men’s Movement When You Need It

“Respected” Academics

The Virtues of Disorganized Resistance

As Mike says:

“we are here to develop an intellectual framework through which the best ideas and arguments of the MRA community can be tested, honed and PRACTICED.”

Practiced as in Effective Activism.