Written 43 years after Mary Wollstonecraft wrote ‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman,’ and a decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, this essay provides a very different perspective on the power, and status of women of the time.
Now that feminists are suing for peace, opening a dialogue with feminist men’s groups like the 200 year-old “Good Men Project” seems a good first step. Our Senior Editor Peter Wright joins the celebrations.
It may surprise some readers to learn the Men’s Human Rights Movement (MHRM) is at least 130 years old. Peter Wright provides an overview of the history up to the present.
“It must always be borne in mind that Woman’s social superiority lies at the root of rules of conduct for men.” Such is the expectation of male servility toward women detailed in traditional etiquette manuals; evidence that puts a lie to feminist mythology of male dominance.
“Civility is particularly due to all women; and, remember, that no provocation whatsoever can justify any man in not being civil to every woman; and the greatest man would justly be reckoned a brute if he were not civil to the meanest woman. It is due to their sex..” Written a century and a half ago, is this reasoning much different today?
Written over a century ago, pioneer sociologist Lester F. Ward makes a case for where and when romantic love (aka. gynocentrism) arose.
Men’s human right’s activists (MHRAs) frequently debate partisan stances on a variety of topics. But there’s a more commonly-shared goal within the movement. The Ace that trumps partisan positions is the securing of a greater and better range of choices for men and boys.
Many people have read Orwell’s 1984, but few have heard of the equally prophetic 1971 pulp fiction novel The Feminists which predicted events that have subsequently come true in the area of gender politics. Peter Wright provides a brief overview of the book and its portrayal of a decline and failure of feminist governance.
In the year 1900 a burgeoning bachelor subculture was thriving in America, and a magazine entitled The Bachelor Book circulated for that audience. Here’s a sample article, Bachelorhood As a Fine Art.
The Ancient Greek story The Odyssey describes a man attempting to go his own way while enduring temptation by the Sirens, those femme fatales who pull men away from their chosen paths and into inevitable destruction. Our hero Odysseus shows that with awareness and skill, we can sail right past the temptresses and on to our chosen destination.
