Mensnewsdaily.com’s publisher Mike LaSalle made the announcement yesterday that MND is shutting down operations as of the end of this month. After nine years as the flagship of the men’s movement online, an important voice will fall silent, marking an end to an era in the men’s movement.
Any way you look at it we are taking a hit. MND reaches over a million people a year and was the only men’s movement website indexed by Google News.
Like I have read in a lot of the comments and emails I have gotten already, I am saddened by this development and sincerely wish that another path had been taken. But this isn’t, IMO, a time for hindsight- or for armchair quarterbacking.
Mike LaSalle is to be commended for nine years of dedicated, largely unparalleled service. He certainly has my thanks for all he has done. And in response to many of the anticipated questions that will arise, I can say without hesitation that there is nothing under the surface of these events of a darker political nature. Mike needed a change of direction and went for it. Wherever he is going, I hope he arrives in style.
But now, it is simply time to move on. As Mike alluded to in his article, the men’s movement is first and foremost a shift in consciousness. It is the process of men revising self perception and their ideas of the world around them, sometimes one painful bit of insight at a time. With or without MND, this is a process already happening, and I dare say that the operations of one website don’t have any real significant impact on the big picture.
In fact, if Angry Harry, Glenn Sacks, The Spearhead and this site were to all shut down today, others would fill the void and this “movement,” for lack of a better word, would continue to trudge slowly forward.
Men are changing because they have to change to survive, and we are not dependent on any one entity to facilitate our efforts.
If there is anything to be immediately gleaned from all this, it is that for however long any of you are out there posting comments, writing articles, running blogs or -most importantly- refusing to be complicit with feminist governance and female hegemony, you are as valuable as Mike LaSalle. And if you grow tired or burned out, which is completely understandable, there will be someone to lift their voice after you take your leave.
I used scare quotes around the word movement because I think what we are really talking about here is a simple dialog. It is a conversation about ourselves, about women, and about our collective condition in this world.
That conversation will continue, and the number of men involved will increase.
Personally, I have every intention of doing what I do till I pass from this world, but if that were to happen today, some other voice for men would rise up and shake the rafters even harder.
This train ain’t stopping for nothing or no one.
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ThoughtCriminal:
Paul Elam:
Jared White:
4thtroika:
Rad:
I agree Paul, the men’s movement is not going to be thwarted by anyone or anything. I can also say based on firsthand knowledge that many activists, including me, are attacked by powerful forces who do not want us to even exist for we are exposing the truth and reality of what is and has been happening to men and even women!
I believe that the tiny ripple each of us create in this vast body of oceanic proportion will become a moving wave so powerful that nothing will stop it as the tide will turn for the betterment of all in our society. If we all do that little bit, it will add to the cumulative force that no single human being can achieve on their own! We must focus our energy as one force!
Moreover, men have fought fervently in many cases of difficulty to bring change for everyone’s benefit and had succeeded to do exactly that. Sometimes the battles were seemingly impossible, but brave men soldiered on, thus my brothers and friends we must solider on together in this battle that has been needlessly brought on within our own society against men who deserve dignity and respect just like anyone else!
Respectfully,
Attila L. Vinczer
No doubt that Mike LaSalle should be commended and this is a great loss. It’s like the MRM has been hobbled just as it was learning to walk. I could understand if he was retiring or following his own interests, but this raises more questions than answers.
What direction is “M”ND going and is it about “M” or just ND?
Is Paul Elam involved in the new project?
No, I won’t be, and truth be told I had already informed Mike of my decision to leave MND before he embarked on this big change. Again, there was nothing under the surface going on, I just have too much to do.
I so see this as an opportunity, though, at least for me. I can go back to doing some of the things I like to do, like making videos, which I have not done since this sgullarite re-launched.
I can also take some time to recruit more writers to come here. One thing for certain, this site will remain focused on men’s issues. That means it will suffer from a lack of more diverse content, which MND was really good about providing, but also it means no party politics or regular straying from the mission at hand.
And speaking of the mission, very soon this site will take on an activist agenda as well. Things are in development for that as we speak.
So stay tuned guys, we are just getting started here. And without being beholden to google or advertisers, we can take the gloves off with whomever we choose.
THINGS ARE IN DEVELOPMENT, INDEED.
“In fact, if Angry Harry, Glenn Sacks, The Spearhead and this site were to all shut down today, others would fill the void and this “movement,” for lack of a better word, would continue to trudge slowly forward.”
It’s always funny to me how nobody talks about the Misandry Review website, which is another old and good one.
MND
2001-2010
RIP
It is sad to see MND go, but the men’s movement will continue to grow. Change will always be the rule rather than the exception, and I see a growing awareness of men’s issues that will continue to grow. So for MND, RIP and we will continue the struggle.
Thanks Paul I like your writing and feel the need to be involved in some form of activism,but am lacking direction.Hopefully your site will provide some.
Last night I sat at a neighbors table as he smoked his Michigan legal Marijuana for his cancer symptoms.Compassion has many aspects,repression has fewer.
Hey Snark, no teasing!! LOL!!
@ recluse
Thanks for your kind words. Stay tuned, sir, I assure you there will be plenty to do for those that want to lend a hand.
@Paul Elam
“Thanks for your kind words. Stay tuned, sir, I assure you there will be plenty to do for those that want to lend a hand.”
I’m always available. (unless I’m busy)
Sometimes great trees must die to make room for new growth. RIP MND.
Onward and upward men!
TMOTS
Paul-
My warehouse manager job ends tomorrow. I will use my severence and unemployment to attempt to launch an art career. A life time of amateur attention whoring and button pushing has hopefully prepared me for this moment (lets be honest, if you could be an artist based purely on technical skill alone, there would be a lot more artists). You may see a lot less of me at first, but eventually it is very likely that you will see a lot more of me. I’m throwing a lot of things at the wall to see what sticks at first, as I have to make money and make it quickly, but ultimately I would like to produce MRA inspired art, even if that has to be a side endevour. Me and my hetero life-mate, Shaggy Randahl the Woozel, will eventually be implementing a web pressence/marketing storm once we have our foundation set (He’s the computer skillz guy, and honestly, a more sophisticated artist than I). From there……keep your fingers crossed. If this doesn’t work out, things might get ugly for me…..but if this does work out, then things are definitely going to get ugly, just not for me……..
It looks like we will both be beginning a journey of a thousand miles with our first steps a bit in sync. I have a funny feeling our paths might intertwine since we are headed in a similiar direction. I’ll keep you posted. I’m not sure I’m capable of doing things quietly even if I wanted to. I’m hoping that’s going to be a good thing.
Aaaaah shit! I’ve just been told they may keep me on a few more days. Just let me go already! Please for the love of God, let me have my freedom! So fucking frustrating. My job was supposed to be over a month ago. Fucking corportate bureaucratic political bullshit!
@ Jabs
By all means keep us posted on the art. Feminists came up with “This is What a Feminist Looks Like,” T-shirts and my guess is that is the extent of their creative ability. We have RulaZ and other aspiring artists to put a more creative edge to the message.
Long live Mike LaSalle…
I for one am truly saddened to learn of the untimely demise of men’s news daily. It takes a great deal of time and energy to devote to the men’s rights movement and I personally wish I had more time to give to this magnificent movement . When I have the opportunity to talk with some of the men directly involved within the movement itself I always attempt to make it a point to tell them thank you, and let them know how much I appreciate their hard work and dedication. It’s not easy making videos and writing articles. So to all who have dedicated their time and efforts to MND my hat is off to you and keep up the good fight. I wish you well in all you endeavor.
To tell the truth in the past when I visited MND saw very little traffic. No other website linked to it. Steve Sailer did for a while, but then dropped it. Determining that what I had to write would receive no notice, I slowly stopped visiting. However, when I saw Carey Roberts post on VAWA in Politico, I responded immediately; there was a string of nearly 100 letters.
Must admit however, that part of the reason I stopped visiting MND is that I am not a strong supporter of either Israel or “nation building,” which tended to distract.
There is so much now known of the physical, psychological and intellectual differences between men and women (of which women tend by a wide margin to be out measured), yet I never saw any of these studies posted on the MND website, fleshed out by an author. So I became a reader of Sailer, Mangum, Audacious E, and other members of the biological studies crowd.
@ Christo
Actually, you can still see at Alexa.com that MND is linked back to by over 500 websites. It has traffic of over a million visitors per year.
That being said, I agree with you about the politics. I am “somewhat” supportive of Israel, but think that support by our government has passed decency and reason, and I am not a fan of nation building at all. I agree it was too distracting.
There are a lot of good websites out there, and I visit as many as I can myself, but MND was the one that brought the message of men’s issues to over 20 million people in nine years.
Mike LaSalle deserves a great deal of credit for that.
I just embarked upon your site this early AM and it seems interesting (I am 100% female and straight). I am sorry to see this site might be gone? I am most curious and intrigued with your research regarding the AAC group in which I have mixed emotions having left that site about 2 years ago. I was an avid poster, but felt a BIT CONFUSED in my assumptions of the site and trollers, esp. the infamous WD that I encountered with bitter-sweet mixed words and personal confrontations. Your site has given me confirmations of my own assumptions of how the site runs andthe dangers of serious posters whom have sought that site for serious refuge, support, trust(mistakenly so), venting and advice. I had to leave it to get straightened out as I was getting in deeper remaining at AAC. I recieved personal support from SC (E-mail) at times encouraging me; that I began to feel that I had to “moderate” the site with others. Erroneous on my part, but it all became rather addictive (posting and helping others) of sorts. Long story short, I have actually made “real and live girlfriends” from the site; alas, breaking site rules to actually getting in touch phoning with these new friends. We remain friends today and have not returned to AAC. Howerver, I wish you to continue with your endeavors to expose sites with fraudulent schemes that are harmful to innocent people. My best to you, Sir! May the New World of emerging “women’s movement and men’s movement” merge to happier times and clearer understanding of each other. And no, I am not a man hater, just was in an abused situation. After 6 years of my divorce and now almost a year of reuniting with a gentleman from 34 years ago, I am blessed! “sew/sewunique”
@ Christine,
Good to see your post. I think one of the many, many things I found wrong with the site were things like conditions that members could not contact each other off site. Too cultish and too controlling. And treating it too much like therapy, which they tried to present that they were doing without saying it in so many words.
I think that is why River Smith was forced to pack his bags and go. His license number was hanging out there like a shingle. When the truth started coming out he just disappeared.
The still run some of the bogus information, but one thing is for sure, they had to change many things about the site.
If they were not in the wrong they would have never done that.
Thanks for coming here to comment.