Oh yeah, 12 year old Johnny should be high fiving it because his 36 year old math teacher groomed him into satisfying her perverse sexual needs. Maybe his celebration will end when she comes back pregnant and sues him for child support, and wins because the same judicial system that convicted her for raping him now thinks he is liable for the child that rape produced.
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 …
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 »
If we want to teach men to quit killing, we must first teach them to quit dying.And to do that, we first have to go where no one really wants to. We have to teach men to reject the pressures put on them to be protectors and providers first, self valuing human beings a distant second.
Nothing sucks worse than asking people I like for money so that I can do something I love, and that I will keep doing no matter what. Well, O.K., there are probably lots of things that suck worse than that, but it isn’t my favorite thing to do, nonetheless. I wish I had a much, much better …
Our good friend Bernard Chapin has come up with a plan for some real activism. A men’s voting block. It is such a good idea that I really can’t imagine why no one has done this before.
In a world where men and boys are facing an ever increasing challenge to simply remain free and stay fed, the world around them is obsessed with incredulously vapid and trivial female minutia, and imagining there is a plot within it all that is targeted directly at reducing them to insignificance. Through that kind of hypervigilant perspective comes even more of our difficulties with the mainstream.
Part of a recent four part series by Uncle Bern on the daughter of Alice Walker. It’s classic Bernard.
