Major announcement here: As of today, I am the new editor-in-chief of the Good Men Project. That’s why I haven’t posted much here in the past week; getting and preparing for a new job has taken all my attention. I will still be posting here, as well as at GMP, because this is my place for my own voice, and GMP is a place for a lot of different voices. Voices which I will now have to spend forty hours a week, if I’m lucky, editing and managing and generally being responsible for.
Oh dear.
I’m off to make more coffee: discuss in comments how this is irrevocable proof that NSWATM, GMP, or things in general are going straight to hell. Everyone always says that anyway, but now it can be my fault.
Viz GMP. Any chance of having a more balanced editorial policy on sex work? Namely, some articles on sex work actually written by sex workers rather than the constant (at least once a month) stream of shamey, misinformed articles from mostly right-wing “abolitionist” types. That would be a definite improvement on what’s probably GMP’s weakest area.
Hooray. that site needs you.
Wow!!! You blink and everything changes. 😀 Congradulations! TGMP is lucky to have you.
Congratulations!
Also, holy shit the commentariat there. What is that I don’t even.
Well, you have a lot of work on your hands, that’s for sure. Good luck!
Oh, but, congratulations! You’re too good for them :P.
@debaser: Personal attacking the admin is not usually a good idea…
@ Daisy “WOW, I didn’t know it was gonna get HOT over there (((fans self))).”
You mean you haven’t heard the “Miss Whiplash” theory on feminism? It’s rather….. good.
P.S. There was supposed to be an apology in there, but I must have missed adding it back in after the second time the internet ate my post. I apologize, the english fail was my fault. I certainly did not mean to call you incompetent or a liar.
@Daisy: The “you”‘s were not supposed to be directed at you, Daisy specifically. It was using “you” as a general person. Daisy, you specifically didn’t have anything to do with the reasons I listed for why this site would be disliked (the MRA defenition, and the blogroll).
Schadrach… oh, I see. I just saw him reading me the riot act again.
Comment from the thread on GMP, the article by Noah, linked above:
There IS a gender war. Feminists are fighting to enslave men, boys, and fathers in a binary mistress-servant relationship.
WOW, I didn’t know it was gonna get HOT over there (((fans self))).
@Daisy: I think that quote was describing GMP, as part of an explanation as to *why* it might be “widely despised”, as you said.
Lamech: If you simply are too incompetent to figure out what there essential ideology and smear them at the end of it the results will be the same.
Wait, what did I do now with my incompetence? Huh?
As if I needed more reason to not go there. Thanks for the warning.
Daisy: Well for obvious reasons this site would be widely despised among MRA’s. If you tell lies about someone’s “essential ideology” they probably aren’t going to like you very much. Ditto if you tack smears onto the end of it such as “knee-jerk anti-feminism that the acronym is understood to indicate.” If you simply are too incompetent to figure out what there essential ideology and smear them at the end of it the results will be the same. Also a number of sites on the blogroll are going to reflect really poorly on this site. Especially when you look at… Read more »
Oh my god I just went there to read your article Noah, and while it was good the comments there are terrifying. I was intending to head over and try and follow it but I don’t think I can handle that type of hate right now.
Believe it or not, in dialogue with one of those hard core MRAs. Well, sorta. You can’t really “dialogue”–but I am listening politely while he types at me. 🙂 Fascinating.
He assures me that this site and GMP are ‘widely despised’. So I don’t know how yall get any traffic–oh wait, I get it. People LOOOOVE to be offended, I forgot.
Keep up the good work!
Congrats Noah.
While I echo Xakudo’s concerns let me say congratulations.
Congratulations! You’ve earned it and you’ll do amazing at it.
Congratulations Noah! 🙂
Congrats Noah! I respect much of your writing and look forward to your hand in gmp. My only concern is that I hope you not allow your distain for mra’s to influence your decisions too much in your editor-in-chief role. Because, as you say, gmp is a place for many voices. I value gmp’s mra contributions just as much as its feminist ones, and I hope you will too.
That’s quite the fixer-upper you’ve got on your hands! Congratulations and good luck!
So many congratulations!
Hellzyeah! Good work Noah. I’m sure you’ll do a brilliant job.
I was going to say something about the GMP going straight to hell, but I don’t possibly see how you could do a worse job than Hugo. Do you plan on spewing blatant rape apologism?
@Lamech: To be fair, Mr. Schwyzer was never editor-in-chief at GMP; I believe he was just a contributor. It would be unfair to compare my influence and his. I do intend to try to be a positive influence, though. Witness my first post as editor there: https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/there-is-no-gender-war/
Congrats! 🙂