The speaker is Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice for Men, and his audience, a large group of men along with a scattering of women, at the eighth National Men’s Conference, in Hyderabad. Elam is a declared anti-gynocentrist, and vehemently so. His unwavering convictions need no explanation and can be evidenced directly.
“Put all the hopelessly wishful thinking of feminist ideology aside and what remains is the fact that it is men and pretty much men only who draw power from accomplishment, who invent technology, build nations, cure disease, create empires and generally advance civilization,” he said.
Elam’s organisation has the modern façade of a legitimate movement, and the first, of their meticulously listed values, reads, “AVfM regards gender ideologues and all other agents of misandry as a social malignancy.”
This gentleman’s praise for the ‘Indian movement’ was however grounded in reality. Unlike its western counterparts, the movement here has legitimacy. What started as local support groups for husbands, coming together against the misuse of the Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (a law that protected women from crimes relating to dowry), has now evolved into a political entity, one whose members have lobbied judges, graced national media debates, and delivered TED talks.
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