AngryHarry asked on these pages why no Large Men’s Rights Organisation had got off the ground and my answer is that it is being made like a Learjet, in various places all over. The bits need to be brought together and a few rivets put in. Carefully, mind you.
The internet is awash in men’s rights movement sites. They are ‘organic’ rather than manufactured. They are growing rather than fabricated. Many have been around for a while, while some burst upon the scene and disappear in a year for want of nurture. Each is built around one man, often working in the evening in a small room. These string & waxmen are paving the way, often with an idea to help society by gathering information and opinion and ‘friends’. Creating the necessary elements of the MRM.
It is astonishing what a little technology and wit can produce. There are forums, mini-communities where discussion and ‘education’ goes on informally. There are more formal and directed efforts which focus attention on specific issues. There are sites which gain a reputation either as a small centre of critical opinion limited only by the verve of the owner or because of a striking personality or both (AH for example) or because of a strong and maintained focus. They become Nodes.
Most remain small and have little or just small effect. Some rise to prominence and lead aspects of the Movement. Repetition of content or view is rife and often the ‘next step’ is not taken, whatever that step might be. Unless one comes across them almost by accident, they remain unidentified by the public even when Joe does a ‘search’. We remain ‘obscure’. In the factory on the bench; in the greenhouse on the shelf.
Men’s Rights Organisations are on the ground too. You might be surprised to know just how many there are. In fact I doubt anyone actually knows how many there are or where they are or what they are doing. And not just in America, the land of the Unknown Braves, but elsewhere in the world.
They are all tackling many aspects of MRM issues, Father’s issues, Children’s issues, social issues, educational and legislative influence issues, sometimes – I suspect – completely oblivious to the efforts of the others or what works and what doesn’t.
Now we can all name a few, our ‘favourites, local to us or far afield, but who is to be asked? And if I ask YOU, what ‘coverage’ can you give? What is the depth and breadth of your knowledge?
There are people, men and women, who have written books of essential interest to men. I have never been able to find a list anywhere of all the books that are relevant to the MRM. Where do I find such a list? I have had people react in surprise when I have mentioned a particular book with ‘I have never heard of that one’. I am not at all surprised. New people coming into the MRM could be directed to a wealth of material, but who is to do that?
I could name perhaps ten Journalists in five countries that I would consider MRM-friendly. How many more are there out there? Barbara Kay in Canada. Who has read any of Barbara’s work? Who gets it regularly? Andrew Bolt in Australia. That woman, Wossername in the UK. Thingy in WosseState in America. Who do YOU know of and do you have a list of their articles relevant to MRM matters?
Several fine MRAs have taken it upon themselves to provide ‘Service’. Our own Leader here is Mike LaSalle. What a publication he has started. Our best so far. There is John Dias with his Misandry Review. A great servive to your email in-box. There is Pierce Harlan with his False Rape reporting. Yep, a good Lawyer. Thare had to be one ! There is Glenn Sacks with his tireless efforts that have galvanised people to action around a variety of issues. There are already stellar organisations – again, born in and living in small rooms in the evenings – like RADAR, for example – reliant on just a few people. Small stars but shining Light into darkness.
Such people have a vision and a drive to share themselves unselfishly. We need courageous men like this who answer the question – Who does the Grail Serve. It does not serve them as there is neither fame nor fortune in their sights. They serve us.
We need such men. We also need some more who can do the dogged work behind ‘service’. We need the chaps in their small rooms to do a variety of ‘Taxonomy work’. Of vital need are men who can find out who is doing what. Men who can collect basic information; identify all, and I mean all, the Groups, the sites, the blogs, the forums, the Organisations, the men’s charities, the legal provisions for men, the health providers, the Journalists and the newspapers the TV stations and radio stations that are MRM-issue friendly, the Men’s academics, the men’s writers, etc etc. In every country. And we need a central organising effort that can direct this modest task and collate the information, the lists, the types etc and act as a repository.
So, some of you might comment here on this small offering, this small voice on a page. Please, append with your comment an identification of five or six MRM ‘elements’ that you know of.
Make a start. Someone, somewhere might take it up.
In fact, if the idea of doing six month’s work appeals, an hour here, an hour there, collecting and collating information, volunteer and get to it.
A good mechanic could bolt them all together in no time.
Ask, ‘Who does the Grail Serve’.
And answer with your service, even a small service.
By the way, do we have any Learjet pilots around?
