In 1975 I was working at a TV station when The Eiger Sanction was released. We aired a series of advertisements for this Clint Eastwood (as actor and director) movie that attracted a great deal of attention from the women in the office. I still remember one co-worker gushing like a teenager: “Oh, he’s so …
On publication of his paper Sokal exposed his hoax in the journal Lingua Franca. The editors of Social Text immediately cried foul and added a misplaced criticism of Sokal’s writing style. They missed the point, entirely. Sokal’s intent was to write badly (and think badly) yet have his poor scholarship overlooked due to its superficial accordance with leftist ideology.
Are there women, single mothers in particular, who use their sons as substitute husbands? This seems to describe reality for a lot of people.
Why many men struggle to talk about women and men, and why we need to. Being part of the “men’s movement” that kicked off in the early 1990s was a big deal for me. I was able to talk about many parts of my life that had never been voiced. At the same time there …
For all its salacious details and shocking moments, Depp v. Heard is not all that surprising—at least not for a guy like me. What a jury found to be rotten in Fairfax County has plagued civil and family courtrooms for some time. How do I know this? I, like Johnny Depp, had to prove heinous …
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What Is Good For The Genes And Society Vs Pedestalising Women There is a common misconception that what is good for women is good for the propagation of the genome and society. That pedestalising women is interchangeable with maximising the copies of the genome a lineage leaves behind and the survival of society. The reality …
There are many tasks necessary to maintain an industrialised society. Sometimes they are low status or low paying but they are always important. Many of them are invisible jobs where the jobs and the people who perform them are rarely thought of by the wider community. Invisible jobs are overwhelmingly done by men. A Voice …
