Men’s News Daily to Close
September 5, 2010
JESSE POWELL writes:
Shocking news has hit the men’s rights community. Men’s News Daily, the biggest men’s rights site on the Internet, is going to shut down within a month. The announcement was made on August 28, 2010, in a letter from Mike LaSalle to his readers. Though Paul Elam has acted as the manager of MND for the past year, Mike LaSalle is the person who actually owns the Men’s News Daily website and he is the person who has decided to shut the website down.
Men’s News Daily got started shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a little less than nine years ago. It has been the leading men’s rights news site for many years. In the letter announcing the imminent closing of MND as a men’s rights website, Mike LaSalle writes:
“In almost 9 years of continuous operation, MND has operated as a realty-check on the Culture of Misandry, but it has never been a “men’s club” — which is what (not surprisingly) many men still want and need.
Over time, groups of these men would coalesce around one website or forum, which would then become a vital concern. Tensions would eventually split that group like a dividing cell, thereby producing two or more separate and independent groups. These would subdivide again and again, until MRA groups of all kinds were represented everywhere.
MND started 9 years ago under the sheer impetus of all of those disenfranchised men who had no where else to go on the Internet. MND was the only game in town for many years.
For almost a decade, this website has conveyed ideas and information that is specifically critical of the Culture of Misandry and other postmodernist assumptions du jour. In 9 years of operation, I would estimate conservatively that 20 million people have visited MensNewsDaily.com at one time or another.
Yet there exist leaders and followers of ”men’s news” who think of the men’s movement as a club of grievance rather than a rite-of-passage.
But for many in the men’s movement, their hearts are set on blaming feminism.
That’s fine as well as it goes. But feminism must be given concrete characteristics, which is why it’s best to qualify the word “Feminism” as “Governance Feminism”…. or maybe Policy Feminism.
Think of ”Revolutionary Road“ as an early version of feminist postmodernism. Then think of the juridical power of feminism today. In the 1950s, postmodern feminism began as a simulacrum to the simulation. Now it’s the other way around: the oppressed have become the oppressors. Viva la difference!
So what to do with MND now that the wheel has turned?
I plan to shut down daily MND operations over the next month. MND will restart again as a general interest website, focused on world, national and local topics, with a special emphasis on Hawaii politics, events and news. Hawaii News Daily will become the inheritor of MND’s news legacy.”
MND will no longer function as a “daily” news site, but it will continue to exist as an archive, and I plan to continue automated posting indefinitely.”
In an article in which Mike LaSalle talks a bit about his personal history, he writes:
“I began MensNewsDaily.com in 2001, as a personal response to the events of history. But what began as a newslog soon became a major point-of-contact for the activist members of a genuine grass-roots movement. My personal reasons for starting the site became moot. MND became the custodian of an idea — one only now taking shape as the practical study of Males in the postmodern world.
Now in its eighth year, MND continues under the editorship of Paul Elam.
I continue to support MND as publisher and technical director.”
To read up on the reaction of the men’s rights community to this news, visit the original announcement at Men’s News Daily here. Visit the reporting of this event on The Spearhead here. And visit Paul Elam’s site, A Voice for Men, here.
— Comments —
Kilroy writes:
Why would he shut it down if it has been so successful?
