It was called the “Heart Balm Racket”: the ultimate gold-digger scheme. And it was epidemic in early 20th century USA. Here is one female journalist’s exposé of the scam in in 1911, just as it was becoming a full-blown epidemic.
The most culturally acceptable target of violence is the male body, with violence toward men and boys widely encouraged – especially in popular sports. Jason Gregory brings you his thoughts on this wrong-headed tradtion.
Hanna Rosin’s idea that this is the End of Men is an idea with the same tenacious stickiness as the wage gap myth, only male perpetrated domestic violence and the rule of thumb. No matter how completely debunked, it lingers like a bad odor. Paul Elam gives you five reasons it isn’t true. Feel free to add more.
Despite efforts of Ryerson Student Union (RSU) to impose barriers to CAFE’s planned talk featuring YouTube sensation Karen Straughan, University President Sheldon Levy has come out in support of CAFE’s right to engage in free speech. Jim Byset gives us the details.
Canadian lawyer Elizabeth Sheehy lives in a country that does not employ capital punishment but, after twenty-five years of diligent work, she has found a way to get around that inconvenience with a legal backdoor. A carefully stylized form of lethal vigilante justice. Sheehy has written a book explaining to Canadian women, and their lawyers, …
We need to be careful when we start singling out only one group of people based on their genetic code and demanding that they “respect” another entire group of people. Yet that’s what UK school officials look set to do.
Chilvalry justice: the tendency of men to allow women on trial for homicide to get away with murder is well documented throughout the last century and a half. The detailed commentary dating from 1912 by Illinois State Attorney E. W. Wayman provides the most compelling report of the phenomenon yet to have been discovered.
The Canadian feminists are at it again. They are going after CAFE again and their plans to have anti-feminist Karen Straughan speak at Ryerson University. Now the university wants a chunk of cash, because they are concerned about security. Paul thinks we should help, one last time.
Editor’s note: This article is also available in Romanian. Most people who have visited the Balkan area will contend that at least the Serbo-Croatian-speaking men are usually people who take no bullshit, and once you meet the Serbian women (be they traditional or more modern) you’ll probably get the impression that feminist policies have little …
Fascistic ideologues at the National Union of Students at the Sydney University are offended at the idea that men may be human, and seek to destroy any literature or discussion which advances that point of view. Dr. Greg Canning reports.
