David Futrelle is nobody important. He’s not a Jessica Valenti, a Melissa McEwan, or a Hugo Schwyzer. He’s not even a Barry Deutsch. He’s a miserable mediocrity who’s trying to get famous, an ant in our blog ecosphere. All you’re doing is feeding his ego. I feel bad about even having to pollute my abode with his name.
Baghdad, Iraq, Spring 2004 “49 weeks down in this desert” said Ian to Elliot as they walked through the rail station on one of their last days of work before handing the reins over to their replacements. Just three weeks until their boots hit the soil in the States after a year spent in the …
Last year at Wagner College at Staten Island, New York, we witnessed a first in academic history with the first annual conference on male studies. It raised a minor media firestorm and for good reason. At long last there was a group of esteemed academicians recognizing and asserting the need for the study of men …
Consider the following taken from a police report: The victim is a sixteen year old male who delivers groceries and a local convenience store. At 5:45 p.m. he makes a delivery for the second time that day to a motel room. On the second visit, the forty-one year old female suspect invites the victim in …
Everybody’s got an opinion about how bullying starts. Apparently, the best the educrats in charge of your brats have been able to come up with is inventing a new term for kids who kill themselves instead of being subjected to further bullying: bullycide
As some of you have surely noticed, my offerings here have been scant of late. I have had some medical problems, mainly some rather nasty kidney stones and the resultant treatments and medications that go with that. Add to that the wonderful experience of getting my medical treatment through the Veterans Administration and it is …
A man’s sperm is a necessary component of reproduction. It is impossible to reproduce without it. Therefore ownership and control of a man’s sperm must remain with the man. Anytime a woman obtains and uses a man’s sperm to impregnate herself without his consent, it must be considered theft.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against men, especially against men by female intimate partners, has always been a hot button issue. The mere mention of male victims in a gathering of traditional domestic violence advocates creates great controversy. While domestic violence advocates may know men are victims they insist that their victims service agencies (over 2,000 of them …
Press Release- Domestic Abuse Service Includes Men Read More »
In response to my first article, Legally Obscene the question arose about the difference between civil and criminal liability. The argument was posited that while the female perpetrator of a statutory rape can be held criminally responsible for her actions, the male victim was in fact a willing participant in the act and should therefore be held …
Legally Obscene II: Equal Protection, Consent, and Liability Read More »
The term stop-loss has been wildly abused in the media, often being used in reference to an IRR recall as discussed above or in instances when active duty soldiers have had their deployment extended.
