Nicola’s work in relation to domestic abuse is well-known to many in the Men’s Rights Movement. She is the Professor of Criminal Justice Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire, her profile page is here. The start of her profile: “Nicola is an active researcher in the field of criminal justice and wellbeing and is a member of the Quality of Life Research Group. She is UCLan’s lead for Aggression Research within the Criminal Justice Partnership. Nicola has led a number of externally funded research projects and evaluations. She is internationally recognised as an expert on domestic violence and coercive control and is frequently asked to deliver presentations and training nationally and internationally. [For a fuller profile, check out the speakers page https://icmi2020.icmi.info/?page_id=27.] 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 the (UK) National Conference on Men's Issues, “Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too” (2020): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha4MKsoI5_w

Please support our work: http://j4mb.org.uk/donate Thank you. Mike Buchanan gave this talk at the 'Messages for Men' mini-conference on International Men's Day, in London. The 'Mike' he refers to at the start is Dr RandomerCam, who had introduced him. A link to all the conference presentations is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXQ5tehO9CYsjUcRGLjWxYrtwWW_9pTfq The final video is of Will Franken, an American comedian. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OypvVwXOE0