The Glass Blindspot - A Welcome Return After an Attempted Cancellation
Image: A welcome return. Created by John Barry using AI image generation (GPT 5).
The Free Speech Union (FSU) defines cancellation (and cancel culture) as a mob-driven or institutional effort to punish, silence, ostracize, or terminate individuals for expressing lawful, yet politically incorrect, or controversial opinions. In September 2026 they published research highlighting just how traumatic cancellation can be. Of the 255 victims in their sample, 80% said their mental health had been adversely affected, with 20% in the most severe depression category, compared to just 3% of the general population. Such is the impact of being thrown under a bus for wrongthink.
One regular contributor to Male Psychology Magazine has experienced two cancellation attempts for expressing the lawful and yet somehow controversial opinion that male victims of domestic abuse should be afforded equal human rights protections and regard by Public Bodies.
“Male Psychology magazine agreed to remove his contributions as a precautionary measure during an ordeal that significantly impacted on his mental health“.
For over a decade Brian Drury’s research project The Glass BlindSpot has documented evidence of gamma bias in media, politics and public policy settings. At his request, Male Psychology magazine agreed to remove his contributions as a precautionary measure during an ordeal that significantly impacted on his mental health and resulted in him withdrawing entirely from male human rights advocacy for some time.
He described the ordeal as follows: “My experience involved a catastrophic and simultaneous crumbling of cognitive resilience across all five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; from the sense of psychological safety that comes from job security, all the way to the self-actualisation apex devastated by the realisation that i had to abandon over a decade of research and advocacy work that I had come to recognise as my natural vocation.”
Happily Brian survived the ordeal and in April returned to MPS with an article considering implications arising from an Oxford Law Professor’s controversial opinion that the solution to the problem of keeping women and girls safe is to implement a countrywide night-time curfew, restricting and tracking the movements of all men at all times.
Today we are delighted to confirm that Brian’s previous contributions are available once again and we look forward to further insights from him over the following months and years. Look out also for his new video series on gamma bias and human rights which premieres in November and follow him on X for a winter season drawing from his extensive vaults to celebrate his first decade of pointing at the elephants in the room.
You can find the four reinstated Glass Blindspot articles here:
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John Barry
Dr John Barry is a chartered psychologist, researcher, clinical hypnotherapist and co-founder of the Male Psychology Network, BPS Male Psychology Section, and The Centre for Male Psychology (CMP). Also co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology & Mental Health, co-author of the textbook Perspectives in Male Psychology: An Introduction (Wiley), and presenter on Centre for Male Psychology training courses.