(Note: This post was written around Dec. 1, but I haven’t posted it until now)
I actually had almost never heard of Bob Allen until a few weeks ago. I knew that he was an MRA blogger, but I hadn’t ever gone on his blog until Robin Steele tried to have him shut down, and I had to go on his blog to warn him that she was trying to do that.
After sending Bob that warning about Steele, I stayed around a bit and looked at some of his articles. The skinny is that Bob Allen is a libertarian philosopher Although I don’t agree with everything he says, Bob’s got a real aggressive spirit and a real lust for freedom just like the early patriots did in the American Revolution, which is an extremely rare thing nowadays, even in America.
And the icing on the cake is that it says on his website that Bob is available to give speeches.
Although we’d still have to pay him for his plane ticket, meals, lodging, and honorarium, I can’t imagine us not getting some sort of a discount on the honorarium because we’re all MRA’s and all on the same side. This is good because the MRM has almost no money. Of course we’ll pay him whatever we’re able, though.
The one obstacle I see is getting an audience for Bob. In addition to the money shortage, the MRM has always had a man shortage as well (although I hear that this shortage used to be even worse than it is now, and has gotten better in recent years). This could very well cause low attendance at the Conference such that there aren’t enough people to warrant him taking the time to write and prepare a speech, and to fly out to whereever we are to give it. For example, clearly, it would be totally unreasonable to have Bob fly out to give a speech when only five people are going to be there.
All things considered, I think the lower limit is 15 people. Even that is lower than what most philosophers would be willing to fly out to give a speech to, but Bob isn’t oblivious to the fact that this is the MRM, and we have a man shortage in the MRM. Bob also isn’t oblivious to the fact that MRA’s are really hardcore people, and it takes 100 or more feminists just to make 1 MRA.
So if we can get 15 people to reserve for the 2008 MGTOW Conference, then we should give Bob a call and arrainge for him to be one of the speakers.
Again, we don’t have to agree with everything he says in his speech, that’s not the point of this. Even if you disagree with Bob Allen, it’s important to consider other points of view, especially from within your own side.
