Category: Video+discussion

11 a.m., August 16, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss The Masculinity Crisis.
This Sunday, we will watch a 55-minute video of a conversation between Scott Galloway & Simon Sinek on the importance of confidence and risk taking in building “healthy masculinity,” and how difficult that is in modern society.
In this episode of Simon Sinek’s podcast, A Bit of Optimism, Scott and Simon talk about the “masculinity crisis,” why young people are struggling to connect and why masculine and feminine traits are complementary rather than competing. The speakers challenged each other, listened, and ultimately agreed that building real confidence may be one of the most important skills we can teach the next generation.
Simon Oliver Sinek (born 9 October 1973) is a British/American author and inspirational speaker on business leadership. His books include Start with Why (2009) and The Infinite Game (2019).
Scott Galloway (born November 3, 1964) is an American academic, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He is professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business.
You can watch this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9Xbu1Uwq4

📍 Attend in Person:
Join fellow Humanists in the Milpitas Library Group Study Room A, 160 N Main St, Milpitas, CA 95035-4323. Often after our meeting, we find a nearby inexpensive eatery for a luncheon.

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11 a.m., August 9, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss The Lynching of Emmett Till.
Today we’ll discuss two videos about the 1955 brutal murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi and its effect on Jim Crow laws and culture in the USA.
The Murder of Emmett Till is an August 2020 episode of American Experience on PBS. Till’s death was a spark that helped mobilize the Civil Rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began.
You can watch this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvtpeKrG4I
The documentary, If Emmett Till Lived is a personal view of young Emmett Till and the life he could have had. Historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is the curator behind If Emmett Till Lived and editor of the book. She collaborated on the project with Till’s surviving cousin, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr.
If Emmett Till Lived is the second half of the August 4, 2026 showing of Democracy Now! an hour-long independent American television, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalist Amy Goodman
You can watch this video at https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/4/emmett_till

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Join fellow Humanists in the Orchard Room of the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022. We often choose a local inexpensive eatery for lunch afterward.

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Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712
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11 a.m., August 2, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we look further into discrimination and privilege in the relations between the sexes.

The first video, Sex Discrimination: Crash Course Government and Politics #30 shows the efforts to promote gender equality through political action.

Crash Course is a YouTube channel started in 2011 by John Green and Hank Green, who believe that high quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free. To date, there are 44 main series of Crash Course.  You can watch this 8-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFh4GTZH-U

The second video is MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men’s Rights movement. In it, Cassie Jaye describes reviewing her taped interviews for a documentary on the men’s rights movement showed her the importance of really listening to those you disagree with and leaving one’s pre-judgements.

Cassie Jaye is an American film director, best known for directing the 2016 documentary film The Red Pill about the men’s rights movement.  You can watch this 15-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY

The last video is I’ve lived as a man & a woman — here’s what I learned. Paula Stone Williams is a transgender woman who talks about what she hadn’t known about being a woman and what she hadn’t known about being a man before her transition. She expresses a unique understanding and sympathy for both.  You can watch this 15-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY

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📍Attend in Person
Join fellow Humanists in Study Room A of the Milpitas Library, 160 N Main St, Milpitas, CA 95035.   We often adjourn to a nearby inexpensive eatery.

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🎤Attend Online
Also, we will continue to present our forums on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here.
No password is needed — our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it’s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. You can also install the Zoom app on your computer or smartphone, and then enter:
Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712
Passcode: 250634

Join the meeting by phone: +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)
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