Rebecca ("Becci") is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Chartered member of the BPS. She has worked at Sunderland for over ten years, during her PhD as an academic tutor, and gaining a permanent contract on completion of her PhD in 2016. Her PhD examined competitiveness in men, taking an evolutionary perspective on sex differences in physiology, endocrinology, and how these impact on male psychology. This led to an interest in sex differences generally, with a focus on male psychology specifically. Becci is interested in distortions in the perceptions of men and women, such as the Gamma bias; the impact of gender roles on mental health and wellbeing, and sex differences in the response to trauma and psychological distress. Other research areas Becci is interested in, separately and in conjunction with male psychology, are body modifications, and mating strategies, sex and relationships. This video is one of 120 videos published for the sixth International Conference on Men's Issues (2020) http://icmi2020.icmi.info, a conference originally planned for Sydney, Australia, but later turned into a virtual conference due to Covid-19. From #metoo to the American Psychological Association’s guidelines pathologizing “masculinity” as harmful, to Gillette’s razor adverts blaming all men for the actions of a damaged few, ideologically motivated groups have used unchallenged narratives of female victimhood to promote damaging stereotypes about men and boys, masculinity and men’s relationships to each other. More than ever before, recognition of men’s issues is needed. Men and boys deserve compassion, they deserve consideration for their unique needs, and they deserve our support. Men and boys also deserve respect for their unique contributions to society and an end to the promotion of unkind stereotyping of being harmful, abusive, toxic, selfish and hateful. We would not tolerate this stereotyping directed towards any other group. We are in an era of unprecedented ideological conflict. By reducing men’s ability to take a positive identity from their masculinity we are encouraging young men to pursue ever more radical ideologies to find a place to belong. In turn we are also encouraging young women to embrace an identity as society’s victims rather than its equal co-creators. The inaugural conference was held in 2014, and since 2016 the conference has been held annually: - Detroit (2014) - London (2016) - Gold Coast, Australia (2017) - London (2018) - Chicago (2019) Playlists of all 100+ presentations at the conferences (as well as the 120 at this one) are here, along with playlists of the presentations at the Messages 4 Men conferences in London (2017-19) and ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9lfrJR2EM

Kenneth Jolivet is an American author, his latest book is "Society Kills Men". Our thanks to Elizabeth Hobson and Natty for organising this event, held annually in London in commemoration of International Men’s Day. Their event-related website: https://marchformen.wordpress.com/ Their dedicated YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0msVj8OXmsvWMz8WofDqWg/videos Our YouTube playlist of all the conference videos, including the preceding March 4 Men: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMscr0TpRqh67nVKH4Qout_XcbCmXzyz Our blog piece on this conference: https://j4mb.org.uk/2019/11/18/march-4-men-messages-4-men-conference/ Please support our work: http://j4mb.org.uk/donate ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgssKgky72Q