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Michael Conroy / Men At Work
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I work with people who work with boys / young men. Sometimes I work with men who abuse in relationships. Sex realist, in all cases. Am supposed to be writing a book. Also @menatwork_mc on Twitter/X
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Important reporting from Louise Callaghan

Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves

www.thetimes.com/article/23c8...
Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves
A Sunday Times investigation finds that woman have been raped, imprisoned and forced into degrading acts at 24-hour streaming factories in Colombia
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

•PORNOGRAPHY EXPOSED: HOW A NORMALISED INDUSTRY DESTROYS LIVES•

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#Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton #AbolitionNow
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I’m looking forward to the next @libvoice4women.bsky.social event,
talking to Michael Conroy ‪@michaelconroy.bsky.social on Monday, 14 July.
All welcome!
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Select tickets – Michael Conroy: Men at Work – Zoom
Liberal Voice for Women invite you to join us in conversation with Michael Conroy, founder of Men At Work C.I.C - an organisati...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I wrote an Op Ed for @thetimes.com on how adults might best respond to #Adolescence

‘Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen’

If we don’t listen, we can’t learn. If we don’t learn, we can’t help

www.thetimes.com/article/d822...
Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen
To find out what’s going on in the lives of our boys and young men requires time, humility and structure, not a Netflix TV series
www.thetimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Thanks to Helen Pidd @theguardian.com for interviewing those young men and this old one. I hope people find the podcast to be a conversation-starter.

www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn – podcast
Boys face a barrage of toxic influences. We talk to sixth-formers about the pressures and joys they experience
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Upcoming webinars and training dates

On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working…
Upcoming webinars and training dates
On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working with boys and young men Booking links here:
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March 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I've been overwhelmed by the excellent response to this 😍
March 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Excellent to listen to this brilliant man on BBC’s Politics Live today… @michaelconroy.bsky.social Wisdom and clarity about what kids get from social media and the manosphere. As a mum of two boys, a feminist and a believer in equality we need to counteract harmful messaging for everyone’s sake.
Michael Conroy / Men At Work (@michaelconroy.bsky.social)
I work with people who work with boys / young men. Sometimes I work with men who abuse in relationships. Sex realist, in all cases. Am supposed to be writing a book. Also @menatwork_mc on Twitter/X
michaelconroy.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Did a brief slot right at the end of BBC R4's Today prog this morning. I wasn't gr8 but the intended gist:

Find out (about the #manosphere & its various facets)
Show up (as a positive, curious, collaborative and reliable presence in the lives of boys and young men)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/03/2025
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘Consent’ is a red herring, here. Ersatz ‘consent’ is easy enough to manufacture, coerce &/or extract through lack of risk awareness. One can’t consent to criminal harm

There’s #NoSafeWayToStrangle, no matter what one calls it ('choking')

cc @institutefas.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'He strangled me without asking': The dangers of choking during sex
Experts say it is increasingly filtering into real life as a result of frequent depiction in porn.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Please sign this petition - we have co-signed. There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle
There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle. External providers of Sex Ed/RSE in UK schools should be prohibited from claiming otherwise (whether through rank ignorance or ideological capture). Please sign and share.

cc @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @institutefas.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/sex-educat...
Signez la pétition
Sex Education Materials Which Normalise Strangulation ('Choking') Must Be Prohibited
www.change.org
February 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline.
It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Online forums being used to trade explicit images of local women, says charity
Revenge Porn Helpline says ‘deep-seated misogyny’ behind exchange of photos on apps such as Telegram
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle. External providers of Sex Ed/RSE in UK schools should be prohibited from claiming otherwise (whether through rank ignorance or ideological capture). Please sign and share.

cc @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @institutefas.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/sex-educat...
Signez la pétition
Sex Education Materials Which Normalise Strangulation ('Choking') Must Be Prohibited
www.change.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Check out our 12 Dialogues training & resource package for those working with boys/young men. A practical, jargon-free, safeguarding-focused, engagement framework around issues relating to being safe (for thmslvs) & safe to be around (for male peers, women/girls). No more, no less

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November 13, 2024 at 5:30 PM
If you spike women’s drinks so that you can sexually assault them, then it is desirable, imperative even, that you experience profound, revelatory shame, as a catalyst for ending your behaviour. It’s the only way you’ll ever stop, short of dying.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police probe drink spiking report in parliament bar - BBC News
A parliamentary researcher reported her drink had been tampered with at 6.30pm on Tuesday 7 January.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Men who publicly claim to be 'feminists' are often at least as misogynistic / abusive as the men who publicly say that they hate feminism.

Neil Gaiman is a classic example of that specific brand of #gaslighting

nymag.com/press/articl...
On the Cover: The Side of Neil Gaiman His Fans Never Saw
“I knew immediately there’s this dissonance between who he says he is and these stories.”
nymag.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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As a man, I find the term #VAWG problematic when really we all know we are talking about #MVAWG (Male Violence Against Women & Girls)

#TheSilentM is a problem, IMO

Too many ‘M_ _’ are silent

We should speak the ‘M’
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
I was on @lbc.co.uk Vanessa Feltz show yesterday, discussing misogynistic influencers and their appeal to boys/young men.

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December 9, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Apple is being sued for not detecting and removing child sexual abuse material from iCloud, although it has the tools to do so. Civil suits are the only measure we have to hold tech monopolies to account, in the absence of law reform from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/t...
Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Child Sexual Abuse Material on iCloud
Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Street harassment is now a crime! Learn more, including how to safely intervene & the impact of #StreetSexualHarassment

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December 9, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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December 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow)
geni.us/HagsPB
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Worth noting that the middle-aged women #greggwallace finds so objectionable are of the demographic who've been routinely dismissed as 'TERFS' for the past 10 yrs. It's almost as if there's something about mature women, wise to male abuse strategies, that abusive men don't like. Who'd a thunk it?
a man in a suit says what do we say about coincidence
ALT: a man in a suit says what do we say about coincidence
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December 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Yo #GreggWallace (and pals)

Read this - on the demonisation of middle-aged women, from the excellent @glosswitch.bsky.social

#Only13 #MiddleAgedWomen

www.amazon.co.uk/Hags-eloquen...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023* : Smith, Victoria: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Just been writing something about men who use the fact that women are losing their reproductive rights to tell women to shut up about other things and how this indicates these men don't actually care that much about reproductive rights. It's like I'm psychic.
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 PM