🧵 (1/3) We just released the insightful workshop Michael (@michaelconroy.bsky.social) gave at #MACS2025 about HOW to facilitate constructive dialogues with boys and young men and WHY this is important. youtu.be/LUpfYR_qE4k In his workshop Michael explores practical approaches to constructive

Important reporting from Louise Callaghan Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves www.thetimes.com/article/23c8...

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •PORNOGRAPHY EXPOSED: HOW A NORMALISED INDUSTRY DESTROYS LIVES• 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton #AbolitionNow

I’m looking forward to the next @libvoice4women.bsky.social event, talking to Michael Conroy ‪@michaelconroy.bsky.social on Monday, 14 July. All welcome! liberalvoiceforwomen.telltix.com/events/liber... menatworkcic.org

I wrote an Op Ed for @thetimes.com on how adults might best respond to #Adolescence ‘Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen’ If we don’t listen, we can’t learn. If we don’t learn, we can’t help www.thetimes.com/article/d822...

Thanks to Helen Pidd @theguardian.com for interviewing those young men and this old one. I hope people find the podcast to be a conversation-starter. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Upcoming webinars and training dates On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working…

I've been overwhelmed by the excellent response to this 😍

Did a brief slot right at the end of BBC R4's Today prog this morning. I wasn't gr8 but the intended gist: Find out (about the #manosphere & its various facets) Show up (as a positive, curious, collaborative and reliable presence in the lives of boys and young men) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Consent’ is a red herring, here. Ersatz ‘consent’ is easy enough to manufacture, coerce &/or extract through lack of risk awareness. One can’t consent to criminal harm There’s #NoSafeWayToStrangle, no matter what one calls it ('choking') cc @institutefas.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please sign this petition - we have co-signed. There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle

“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline. It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle. External providers of Sex Ed/RSE in UK schools should be prohibited from claiming otherwise (whether through rank ignorance or ideological capture). Please sign and share. cc @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @institutefas.bsky.social www.change.org/p/sex-educat...

Check out our 12 Dialogues training & resource package for those working with boys/young men. A practical, jargon-free, safeguarding-focused, engagement framework around issues relating to being safe (for thmslvs) & safe to be around (for male peers, women/girls). No more, no less menatworkcic.org

If you spike women’s drinks so that you can sexually assault them, then it is desirable, imperative even, that you experience profound, revelatory shame, as a catalyst for ending your behaviour. It’s the only way you’ll ever stop, short of dying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Men who publicly claim to be 'feminists' are often at least as misogynistic / abusive as the men who publicly say that they hate feminism. Neil Gaiman is a classic example of that specific brand of #gaslighting nymag.com/press/articl...

As a man, I find the term #VAWG problematic when really we all know we are talking about #MVAWG (Male Violence Against Women & Girls) #TheSilentM is a problem, IMO Too many ‘M_ _’ are silent We should speak the ‘M’

I was on @lbc.co.uk Vanessa Feltz show yesterday, discussing misogynistic influencers and their appeal to boys/young men. x.com/LBC/status/1...

Apple is being sued for not detecting and removing child sexual abuse material from iCloud, although it has the tools to do so. Civil suits are the only measure we have to hold tech monopolies to account, in the absence of law reform from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/t...

PLEASE SHARE STOP STREET HARASSMENT #RespectWomen Street harassment is now a crime! Learn more, including how to safely intervene & the impact of #StreetSexualHarassment Action 15 #16DaysofAction #HollaBack #MeToo #Brighton ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-fifte...

CPD Accredited I Online I Thursday Dec 5th Coercive & Controlling Behaviour Join us for a comprehensive training session on Coercive and Controlling Behaviour (CCB) in intimate/family relationships. Last remaining places. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/aurora-new...

From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow) geni.us/HagsPB

Worth noting that the middle-aged women #greggwallace finds so objectionable are of the demographic who've been routinely dismissed as 'TERFS' for the past 10 yrs. It's almost as if there's something about mature women, wise to male abuse strategies, that abusive men don't like. Who'd a thunk it?

Yo #GreggWallace (and pals) Read this - on the demonisation of middle-aged women, from the excellent @glosswitch.bsky.social #Only13 #MiddleAgedWomen www.amazon.co.uk/Hags-eloquen...

Just been writing something about men who use the fact that women are losing their reproductive rights to tell women to shut up about other things and how this indicates these men don't actually care that much about reproductive rights. It's like I'm psychic.

Sturgeon’s friend Swinney has been left to clean up the mess created by her obsession with identify politics….The lanyards are fraying now…But women are still dying prematurely because of their sex. That is Nicola Sturgeon’s enduring legacy. Me in @TheScotsman www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

There’s an awful lot of selectiveness around the types of #BodilyAutonomy which matter - how about the right to bodily autonomy in breathing clean air and walking on land owned by the rich, swimming in clean seas and rivers, stopping work before old age? Interesting, no?

A GoFundMe for a film about the #FamilyCourt Please share 👍🏼 www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-sh...

A ‘one off’ public event has been organised in Glasgow on 6th December. Would love to meet anyone there!

This from Culture Reframed looks very useful. Check it out 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-d...

This from Culture Reframed looks very useful. Check it out 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-d...

I agree with @michaelconroy.bsky.social here - please use International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW rather than ‘White Ribbon Day’, which completely hides the purpose of the day bsky.app/profile/mich...

As a man, I find the term #VAWG problematic when really we all know we are talking about #MVAWG (Male Violence Against Women & Girls) #TheSilentM is a problem, IMO Too many ‘M_ _’ are silent We should speak the ‘M’

Promises, ribbons and photo-opportunities menatworkcic.org/2024/11/24/p...

Have I got this right - to ‘bookmark’ a tweet (or whatever these things are called in here) you reply with a pin emoji 📌? It looks weird.

By blaming social media for declining youth mental health, we miss entirely what social media is itself symptomatic of - a reordering of the economy driven by high-tech finance, the dissolution of the previous order of life phases and markers, endemic economic and environmental pessimism.

Doing this in London on Tuesday www.westminsterinsight.com/conferences-...

“I have always held the view that... the state should serve a clear role. It should protect and preserve life, not take it away. The state should never offer death as a service” www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Blessed are the whistleblowers. From Children in Need to the Church it takes moral courage to speak out. My @thetimes.com column. www.thetimes.com/article/0905...

No, 25th November is NOT ‘White Ribbon Day’. It is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW This from @kareningalasmith.bsky.social is very compelling on why this matters. kareningalasmith.com/category/the...

«You've got all this control, and you're deciding what you want to do and how you want to do it, and people want to pay you for it. » Who REALLY has control? 1. Male-dominated music biz 2.The male punter How free are survival ‘decisions’ in coercive contexts? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My nephew, who’s mixed-race & fairly typically Left-wing, was called ‘right wing’ by white middle class kids in the pub last night for speaking about the need for single-sex spaces This is the madness. I’ve known it for 10 yrs+. We all know it, really. It needs 2 get in the bin

Brass Eye or Nathan Barley? youtu.be/rLtFIrqhfng

5 minutes back on L*nkedIn and I’m reminded how gruesome it is. The worst of all platforms. Twitter in an interview suit. MySpace with pretensions. David Brent as SJW. I don’t think I’ve got enough in the tank for it. We’ll see

No, 25th November is NOT ‘White Ribbon Day’. It is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW This from @kareningalasmith.bsky.social is very compelling on why this matters. kareningalasmith.com/category/the...

Well said. Better that children’s ’digital citizenship’ be postponed to 16+ than they be left to the complex risks posed by adults who either want to abuse them or don’t appreciate their vulnerabilities as things stand.

I believe it is not only ‘possible’ to be simultaneously, resolutely pro-boy / pro-young men AND anti-misogyny, but that these positions are essentially complementary. Thoughts? (hey @bsky.app, get the poll function, pronto)

Wow. Just been asked to train some prison staff in the 12 Dialogues programme. I feel a bit emotional, tbh. www.menatworkcic.org

A great podcast from the BBC about the 8 Stages to Intimate Partner Homicide www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...