Men’s News Daily, a popular online men’s magazine, is closing down after nine years of reporting on men’s issues, politics and the general insanity that has come to characterize gender relations in the United States. Staunchly anti-feminist and unapologetically pro-male, the site has helped create and inform a community of men and supportive women who have gone on to spread the word and offer important resources to those who are coming in from the cold reality of state-sponsored misandry. Publisher Mike LaSalle, a California native, has established himself as a pioneer in online activism for men, bringing us the work of many insightful writers, editors and professionals who have exposed Governance Feminism for the harmful, unnatural and intrusive regime it has become.
Although I was only dimly aware of MND when I started The Spearhead along with other contributors, I soon found that the old guard of online men’s activism was already well established there, and we were fortunate enough to benefit from some cross-pollination of ideas and writing from men who had previously contributed to MND, including Spearhead contributors Paul Elam and Zed.
Mike LaSalle is shifting his efforts to Hawaii, where he will focus on Hawaiian politics and news with the site Hawai’i News Daily.
Although I don’t know Mike personally, I’d like to wish him success with HND and give him a hand for running a popular, influential site for most of the last decade. His efforts deserve both praise and respect, and will be remembered as a great example of how a man can make a difference through determination and professionalism.
Aloha, Mike.
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much of my awareness of men’s issues came from my father (of whom i am the female version to a T) sending me some one off article from MND that he came across in the course of his web surfing. i think its existence will prove to have been pivotal in a mass male reawakening to come one day in the future, of which this blog is a part as well
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Sad.
Was even MND not making money? Or was that not related to him wanting to shift focus specifically to HI politics? Can a living even be made with online news and information sites?
Welmer, it’s up to you to fill the void some. It would be a shame if any regular MND readers stopped keeping up with MRA type issues due to this.
Paul, I’d imagine you’ll have some more time on your hands to work on a Voice for Men (“cough” plug “cough”).
Aloha and Aloha. I wonder what’s going on in Hawaii?
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MND was one of the first places I landed when I became a fully aware MRA.
There, I became familiar with the writings of Bernard Chapin, Paul Elam, and many others. MND was a blessing to me in many ways.
Happy trails to you, Mr. LaSalle, and thank you for your service to the cause.
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All the best to you Mike LaSalle. You’ve transformed men’s lives for the better.
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A sad day. Although I didn’t share completely MND’s point of view, it was an incredibly positive resource and one of the few voices for men in a gynocentric media world.
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9 years is a long time to be managing something like that, for very little coin.
Men’s Rights Activism (or anti-feminism) can be very draining. It’s hard to try and not think about what you’re up against, politically, financially and socially.
All you can hope to accomplish is enlightening a few souls through the internet. Web sites for men are a much needed port in the storm and the men who run them are the best among us. Subjectively analyzing and criticizing female behavior is not something men are inclined to do in a public forum. Which makes it all the more commendable for an individual man to oversee the discussion and disseminate information.
Thanks Welmer!
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Some say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Perhaps.
I say that the sword is mightier than the pen.
Words are cheap. They get nothing done.
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As keyster and others pointed. it can be draining when the odds are stacked against you.
In honesty we need more sites such as MND and the Spearhead.
the gynocentric media is armed to the teeth. I noted that homosexual sites contain unfavorable views against men. Sometimes it feels like the struggle between reasoning and foolishness rages on.
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I wonder if there are sites that women run who are pro-male. But I doubt it, if there are sites like those. I can wonder how long before they degenerate into man hating sites.
But then again, it would be an attack from behind.
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“I wonder if there are sites that women run who are pro-male. But I doubt it, if there are sites like those. I can wonder how long before they degenerate into man hating sites. ”
There are a few.
Here is one:
http://thecomingnight.blogspot.com/
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MND is a little right-leaning for my tastes but has produced some good writing.
Misterb, I suspect that some sites purport to be pro-male but are in fact run by women, which is like letting a woman choose your clothing. I may be wrong but think “AskMen” is run by fems, not to mention several male-oriented magazines (Playboy, Men’s Health) that are in fact, run by females.
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Very classy send-off, Welmer. Well done.
MND will be missed.
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Rebel, I usually agree with you but this time you’re way off target, pal. Words are far more powerful than weapons. Feminists own millions of minds and they did it without firing a shot. Socialism led to communism in America with the help of PC, men’s reputations are ruined by words. If you can’t see the power of words you’re looking in all the wrong places. If you control words you control minds.
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Just learned of this site in it’s demise… I like the way you can vote for or against people’s comments. Hope something comes soon to replace it.
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I could implement that here, but I don’t know whether people would like it or not.
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All we want is truth, honesty and fairness.
Not half-truth hyperbole made to sound like overwhelming de facto majority. It’s the “they want it both ways” problem that needs to be exposed and/or resolved. Do you want to be a woman, or a man that looks like a woman with unique entitlements?
As long as the facts on the ground and truth exists, there will always be power in sites like this that report and analyze it. And there’s always hope when you’re on the side of the truth.
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I’d like it!
Make sure it’s visible on the website, not just the forum, though.
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I don’t understand, why don’t other men take up the torch of MND and keep it going? Let me ask you this, are they going to pull the site and all its content down, 9 years of valuable work and commentary of men gone in an instant?
Someone tell me the site will not be pulled down.
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From what I’ve heard a null archive of the site will stay up somewhere.
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I am sure the work from MND will be archived and available for reference for quite some time, though I am not speaking for MND at the moment.
It would completely stun me if Mike were to just dump it all, and I don’t expect him to do that.
And Welmer, the comment voting was a great add to MND, I think you would like it here. I tried it on my site but it was not compitable with my wp theme.
And yes, Jabs, there is certainly more to come from AVFM now that I have more time. You will see what I mean over the next few weeks.
It’s time to get dirty.
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I too will miss MND – I read it as regularly as TS and Glenn Sacks.
I personally liked that, overall, it was a site with a strong libertarian perspective – yeah, the bible thumping and global warming weren’t of interest, but neither were they distractions. The thing that appeals to having that breadth is something I learned 25 years ago when my political passion was 2nd amendment rights (long before the kangaroo family kourts got their hooks into me). At the time I found, quite to my surprise, many in that movement were comparing the abuses of gun owners to what had been done in the WoSD. I really couldn’t conceive of how firearms owners found commonality in the drug war – then I started reading everything . . . Now I’d gladly step to the front of the line to yank the flush valve on amerika’s corrupt government.
The MRM is no different and has the same root causes – erosion of basic liberties, so covering a breadth of rights oriented issues was IMNSHO a strength of MND. I for one will miss their presence.
Welmer – the voting thing on MND was useful, it gives a bit of a pulse on where those active enough to comment are of a common mind and where issues need to be further examined. I’d be in favor of it.
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“Rebel, I usually agree with you but this time you’re way off target, pal. Words are far more powerful than weapons. Feminists own millions of minds and they did it without firing a shot. Socialism led to communism in America with the help of PC, men’s reputations are ruined by words. If you can’t see the power of words you’re looking in all the wrong places. If you control words you control minds.”
That’s odd,actually. I am, at this present moment re-reading 1984.
Here is the passage that I am reading as I peruse the Spearhead:
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?’-Syme
Strange coincidence,no?
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I found MND when I searching around for some like-minded women who thought as I did: that feminism was a mixture of venom, $h!t, and perfume. Instead, I found MND, The Spearhead, and the rest is history. MND was the second stop on my daily web travels (Spearhead being the first). I will sorely miss MND and hope some of you can list some alternatives in your posts.
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The time to be aggressive in our thoughts and actions is now!
The time to move forward in our thoughts and actions is now!
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@WGMOW
Just check out my blog listing in the corner of my website.
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This leaves a gaping vacuum.
What will fill it?
I run a blog with a niche focus. MND i am not, nor wish to be, nor could be, nor even know how to be. . . .
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I see the voting system suggested above has been implemented. I would have advised against it and still do.
I don’t see it as necessary – on either the main site or the forum. It could end up stultifying debate.
MND was not really a site in which user comments featured strongly; The Spearhead however is.
We should do our best to welcome a range of new ideas; I’m not sure that the ratings system works to benefit that end. We don’t want masculinists discouraged by down-ratings.
We also have the issue of abuse of the ratings system by feminists and manginas.
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I shall not lament the loss of Men’s News Daily. It had far too much of a neo-con and right-wing (in the worst way) focus. It was becoming increasingly so.
It was becoming an arena for the promotion of Neo-Con/Republican hobby-horses, e.g. global warming and Islam. Contributors with tenuous commitment and connection to men’s activism were being promoted.
MND was forging the “MRAism as appendage of the political right” path; one I deem to be utterly futile.
MRAism can be, should be, must be much more than simply an appendage/sycophant of the Republicans/Libertarians, etc.
I advocate quality over quantity.
While it could be argued that any men’s advocacy website is good I disagree; we want quality material out there; we don’t want men to be misdirected.
It’s a bit like feminist so-called men’s groups. They claim to help men but really they are just misdirecting them; filling their heads full of crap. The likes of MND are not as bad but likewise; they do not give the full story and misdirect.
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“Rebel, I usually agree with you but this time you’re way off target, pal. Words are far more powerful than weapons. Feminists own millions of minds and they did it without firing a shot. Socialism led to communism in America with the help of PC, men’s reputations are ruined by words. If you can’t see the power of words you’re looking in all the wrong places. If you control words you control minds.”
You are right on the power of words to brainwash, control and win wars. The power of language and discourse control cannot be underestimated.
Your “socialism” and “communism” spin is incorrect however.
Neither socialism nor communism, as traditionally defined, occurred in America; nor will they (because the intellectuals of the left have long abandoned traditional socialism/communism as a revolutionary/desirable system).
With promotion of socialism and communism, as traditionally defined, unforthcoming from either left or right, both are unlikely to happen.
You seem to be linking feminism, and discourse/language control and traditional socialism/communism up together; this is only partially workable.
Accepting the fact of discourse control should not mean reflexive references to “the evils of socialism and communism”.
Discourse control can occur in many systems, including liberal/democratic/Western ones.
As much as some would like to suggest that evil things such as discourse control can only occur in doctrinaire communist systems, the truth is more complicated than that.
Language control is like a tool and can be used by anyone really – left, right, liberal, conservative, communist, capitalist, etc.
Feminists have used it to a degree unsurpassed by anyone else (which is largely why the movement is so robust); they have done so largely independent of socialist/communist forces.
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