Male Psychology: The Magazine
How would you know if you are discriminating against men?
This OECD research identifies gender inequality, but only when it goes against women. That’s because they literally don’t measure the inequalities that go against men.
‘We can treat people fairly and respectfully even if men and women aren’t identical on average on every trait’. Interview with Professor Steve Stewart-Williams
…people – men and women alike – respond less positively to male-favouring sex differences than they do to female-favouring sex differences.
The APA has changed its view of masculinity
The APA has been criticised for the view of masculinity in their 2018 guidelines, so it is very welcome news that the mission statement of the relevant part of the APA is no longer so negative.
You can’t reduce domestic abuse by telling people that life is a power struggle between men and women. Interview with Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan
There is social power, there is structural power, and there is physical power. What women have in our society is the power of the state behind them, and men do not. Men only have that physical power, and most men don’t want to use it
False allegations of rape: the true extent remains unknown.
…lack of a consistent definition of what constitutes a false rape allegation, as well as variations in recording practices by police and others in the CJS, make accurate assessment of the true extent of such allegations very difficult.
From Sex War to Family Union: an interview with Neil Lyndon
…the feminist movement has done inestimable damage to the mental health of boys and men. Making boys second class at school, teaching them that males are bad by nature and that women have suffered at the hands of men inevitably leads to boys feeling unhappy about themselves and adopting the unruly, delinquent behaviour which is expected of them.
Is our attitude to men based on substandard research?
Much of our attitudes, theorizing and public debate around men and masculinity is influenced by high profile feminist and Gender Studies scholars in academia. But what is the scientific quality of publications from these scholars?
‘Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud’: What’s sex got to do with it?
"I wanted to take a minute to say, especially to the young women in the room here, do everything you can to be the best in science, in math, in engineering. It's our actions that will determine this new stereotype around women being the best in science
The Cassie Jaye interview: reflections on The Red Pill movie, five years on
Gender scholars and activists were aghast a few years ago at the depiction of a feminist, in a documentary movie called The Red Pill, who unexpectedly learned to empathise with men. In a rare interview, director and star of The Red Pill, Cassie Jaye, reflects upon the impact the movie has had on herself and others.
Why it’s not ok to say ‘Kill All Men’
In 2017 Deputy Editor of HuffPost Personal Emily McCombs posted the tweet “New Year’s resolutions: 1. Cultivate female friendships 2. Band together to kill all men”.
Why would you stand up for men and boys? Milgram’s message of hope to male psychology
Milgram shows us that… we are significantly less likely to ‘do what we’re told’ … when we witness others around us questioning the legitimacy of instructing authority
Most people know masculinity is ok, and the Harry’s masculinity reports support this view
International Men’s Day 2017 saw the launch in Westminster of the first Harry’s masculinity report. The report found evidence justifying why the general public think men are basically ok, despite the fact that so many academics seem to use men as a blank screen onto which to project their negative feelings about masculinity.
One man’s experience of how the family court system can impact the mental health of fathers
During that holiday whilst not with me, the oldest boy started self-harming and talked about killing himself. …What do you think was the action of social services at the case conference? Case closed, the children were taken off the At Risk Register. The father was no longer in the family home and now the children were deemed safe.
Legal and Administrative Intimate Partner Violence
Legal and administrative violence is the manipulation of legal and administrative resources as an attempt to control or inflict emotional and financial harm on one’s partner
80% of clinical psychologists are women. What is being done to address this gender imbalance?
This is the second of a two-part article. In Part 1 we saw that men make up only about 20% of clinical psychologists. For a field so focused on equality, this is a very large elephant in the room. Here, in the second part of this article, efforts to address this disparity - and responses to these efforts - are discussed.
Why are so few psychologists male? Insights from a psychology trainee
If the situation was reversed, I would never dismiss the contributions from female colleagues purely because they were female and their experiences were different to my own.