Despite about 100 protestors blocking the entrance to my presentation on Boys to Men at the University of Toronto this past Friday, Nov. 16, I was ultimately able to speak. (You can see footage of the protest here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TLyRvmrdsJI)
This video is a post-presentation interview with me (Warren Farrell) and one of the event organizers representing the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFÉ). I address the following:
Why the physically and verbally violent protestors who tore down and defaced hundreds of posters? In part, because my Boys to Men presentation was sponsored by CAFÉ. CAFÉ is a non-profit, self-funded group affiliated with the U of Toronto. It's only a year old. Some feminist-oriented groups, and especially the Socialist Workers Party, objected to their efforts to bring to the U of Toronto an understanding of the boy crisis and the importance of incorporating boys and men's issues into the discussion of gender issues. From their perspective, boys and men's issues equal men's rights; men are the oppressors and the rapists; and a university shouldn't be allowing "hate speech." From my perspective, boys and men are in the same family boat as women and girls, and boys are experiencing a boy crisis throughout the industrialized world that is hurting boys, families, the economy and those of our daughters who wish to parent their children with motivated and loving men.
Of course, the media is covering the heat, but if you're interested in: the causes of the boy crisis; solutions; and how you can more effectively help boys avoid the "failure to launch," go to whitehouseboysmen (www.whitehouseboysmen.org), CAFÉ (www.equalitycanada.com), and The Myth of Male Power (www.warrenfarrell.org). My homepage is www.warrenfarrell.com .
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