Are bad boys really sexier?
A man can be both a male with very masculine desires and attitudes and a self-aware, responsible, and thoughtful person.
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Jorge Pena and Danay Howard shine a light on the real street harassment taking place across America
The stereotype of the “strong Black woman” has some interesting consequences for Black men that play out in “street harassment.”
Stop fibbin’ White Ribbon Campaign!
The Canadian White Ribbon campaign received a $300K boost from the government, but like other White Ribbon campaigns, most of that will go directly into the pockets of staff who continue to ignore half the victims of domestic violence.
Will the real Richard Dawkins please stand up?
Richard Dawkins is a distinguished scientist and thinker. He made some public remarks recently, however, that seem to draw both of those distinctions into question.
The impact of parental alienation on children
Professor Edward Kruk looks at the damage done when a child is taught to hate or treat one of their parents with contempt: it’s an insidious form of child abuse.
Feminist WARS: The FARCE awakens
Once you’ve gone Full McIntosh you really have no one to blame but yourself if smart people notice and make fun of you.
Orwell’s nightmare: Intensified
Synopsis For this response, I will be using stopstreetharassment.org and ihollaback.org, the two largest groups working to end “street harassment.” I will analyze an excerpt from a Made Man article entitled “How to Compliment Women Without Being a Skeeze or a Catcaller” by comparing it to the statements found on these two sites and seeing …
Music & Men’s Issues: The approach, female space, and “street harassment”—”Let Me Down Easy” by Chris Isaak
Author’s Note: There’s been a rapidly ramped-up cultural shift toward pathologizing male initiation of contact on multiple levels, starting with initial approaches to get women’s attentions. We are told that “street harassment” is not only culturally normative and epidemic but part of the “rape culture” continuum, emblematic of a wider cosmological worldview that men are …
#ShirtStorm proves Matt Binder both shallow and unfunny
Sam Seder’s munchkin and MSNBC drone Matt Binder is one of the most unfunny excuses for a comedian we’ve ever seen. His dishonesty doesn’t help.
Men are exceptional
Men and women vary in many ways. The debate has raged for a long time about whether this is more likely to be a result of nature or nurture. Some feminist groups tend to maintain that the differences are socialised and thus very much within the nurture camp. Recent research has shown that there are …
