Sunday January 18th 7.15 for 7.30pm
Hop Blossom Pub, Long Garden Walk, Farnham, GU9 7HX
Unfortunately Teddy Prout has had to CANCEL his talk for this date on “Music – a Humanist Perspective”.
Many thanks to Belinda Schwehr who has stepped in at short notice to provide us with a talk and a discussion on a subject of much current interest.
Violent misogyny and the “incel” subculture are usually framed as a problem of strange, isolated men online.
Belinda will explore who incels actually are, how the wider “manosphere” markets grievance to boys and young men, and what the data really show about trends in sexism, gender based violence and girls’ own roles in gender-based and sexual bullying.
She will also ask what parents, schools and services can realistically do – and where evidence runs out and ideology begins – in responding to a generation of boys who feel humiliated, hard done by and increasingly tempted by male supremacist narratives.
Belinda is a public lawyer by profession and has been running a specialist charity providing legal advice in adult social care provision. She has been chair of Farnham Humanists and remains an active member of the committee.