Nina, I didn't know anything about you until I just looked you up, so bits of the conversation above were a bit confusing. Now, thanks to the internet, less so.
(1) People trying to get you to lose your main job must be really stressful and horrible, and I sympathise on that score.
(2) Your disingenuous response to the whole thing is bizarre. You know that the two people with you in that video, who you seem to broadly agree with on most things, are controversial for good reason. One for defending the 'right' of a space to put on far-right speakers, and one for saying needlessly provocative things in the manner of a 13 year old who craves attention.
What did you expect, not to be criticised?
(3) You seem to have a lot of ideas that are very close to the 'men's rights' schtick. "We can see society as being really anti-men in many, many ways" is a particular low point in that video - whether it's you or Jordan Peterson saying it doesn't really matter. For the examples you give, then the dominant axes of discrimination are race and class rather than maleness. Acknowledging that men have in some senses constructed a prison of expectations for themselves and other men, for example (while also acknowledging that the prison of expectations they have created for women is much worse), would avoid the bizarre implication that society had somehow been created independently of men and was now returning to victimise them.
IN response 1) thanks - the letter is a very strange business: no one is quite sure who wrote it, both those who want to agree with it (thanks guys!) and those who clearly know it's beyond insane. Some people - artist Luke Turner, for example - have linked to it as if it were real, but he has a habit of accusing everyone of anti-semitism without foundation, so I'm not sure what that means. I don't think it's ok to also try to lose me things that are not my 'main job' either for the record. These people rampaging around trying to get everyone cancelled on the basis of paranoia and hearsay - who do they think they are? Who do they think other people are that need 'protecting' from 'dangerous ideas' - not that I am making any, beyond suggesting people should be free to think, read and discuss anything with anyone.
2) This is a mean-minded and reductive description of both people. But I am ok with being criticised for sure, for appearing with people we are - what - supposed to shun? I think Justin's situation is absurd - hauled over the coals for tweets - I mean, really. His case tells us a lot about academic freedom today, which is to say, its disappearance. That Daniel protested the closure of an art gallery - so what? It doesn't make him a fascist.
He wrote about the whole thing here: I reject the idea that we should accept on good faith the ideas of whoever wrote that mad Open Letter because they seem nominally 'left' and reject anyone who questions them because they might be accused of being a 'Nazi' for doing so. Justin writes a thread here about the whole recent thing as well:
3) I don't see caring about men as being in opposition to caring about women. They are not and should not be in opposition. It's not a zero sum game.