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Researching Reform For Jordans: Did Our Predictions Come True?

05 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by Natasha in LexisNexis Family Law, Researching Reform

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This month for our column over at Jordans we revisit the child welfare predictions we made in 2015 to see how they developed. From pioneering pilot schemes to legal aid, we made a series of forecasts about how they would evolve over those 12 months.

You can read our article to find out if we were right.

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Neo Masculine Movement With 40,000 Members Flirts With Legalization Of Rape

05 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform

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A prolific blogger calling for the return of what he calls ‘neomasculinity’ has  begun to attract scrutiny for his often violent and anti-female views.

Daryush Valizadeh has been accused of wanting to legalise rape in private settings, (though in a self written interview post he says he has never raped a woman, and any suggestion of legalising rape on his blog was purely satirical in nature) and considers his movement, called The Return Of Kings, an effort in restoring old fashioned masculinity.

The website has a substantial page ranking of 5, suggesting that the Return of Kings has a large following online at least, with around 40,000 people subscribing to the site’s newsletter. We have just subscribed to receive his free book “The True Nature Of Women”, which we will read with interest.

It is a popular enterprise. There are currently 13 meeting points across America, though current meetings scheduled have all been cancelled, as it was feared there might be an unpleasant backlash this time round, given the growing concern over Valizadeh’s agenda.

The banning of women and gay men at these meetings, and Valizadeh’s own self professed talents for luring women into bed have made him rather unpopular. A White House Petition to have the movement’s membership classified as a terrorist threat (Valizadeh is a Muslim, which may have fed into the fear), has garnered nearly 9,000 signatures so far.

But Valizadeh begs to differ. He claims that his views on sex and rape have been taken out of context, that he has chosen to exclude women from meetings (currently though we don’t know about past meetings) to avoid what he considers to be a confused Feminist backlash and insists that he simply wishes to give men back a sense of ‘traditional masculinity’.

And Researching Reform finds the conundrum very interesting. There is no doubt that men in the twenty first century increasingly feel confused about how they should behave and what women want, however it remains to be seen whether Valizadeh is the old fashioned gentleman he professes himself to be.

What do you think about The Return Of Kings? Is it more chauvenistic than chivalrous or is this movement just a cry for help in a world where men feel consistently more marginalised and women continue to suffer appalling inequality?

We leave you with this somewhat paradoxical image we found on the site…

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Many thanks to Alexandra Gucci-Losio for bringing this item to our attention.

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The Buzz

05 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform, The Buzz

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News items making the rounds this morning:

  • Ten men convicted of Rochdale child abuse offences
  • Lord Bramall launches scathing attack on Met after abuse claims
  • Man caught with child abuse images four times has sentence cut after judges deem him not dangerous
  • Latest deprivation of liberty ruling has ‘huge implications’ for children’s social workersBuzz

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