Just as it is today, men criticizing women in the ancient world was dangerous. Whether it was the foolish lad Ascalabus criticizing the goddess Demeter for boozing, or the high official Telesphorus criticizing King Lysimachus’s wife Arsinoe for vomiting, the results were the same: disaster for the man. The goddess Demeter threw her drink onto …
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“Something has clearly played havoc with the relationship between the sexes.” But men have options
Fewer men are teaching boys how to be boys, and it seems that even fewer men are interested in teaching young men how to enter in.
History of Mass Hysteria An early occurrence of a new form of irrationality was surfacing in the age of ‚enlightenment’, when a mob was yelling (rather unenlightened) “Hang to the lanterns, who has a handkerchief!”, and “Hang to the lanterns, who hasn’t got horny skin!”.[i] The people who had soft skin, faced the danger to …
Today marks 10 years since the Canadian Association for Equality held an event at the University of Toronto at which Big Red made a spectacle of herself and provided us with memes that will last a lifetime. The featured image of Big Red is taken from Wikimannia Commons.
For 13 years I worked as a case manager and investigator handling child abuse cases for one of the largest child welfare agencies in the U.S.. During that time I saw the results of some of the most horrific violence and abuse imaginable. I saw the striped scars from shoulder to heal on the back and legs of a …
The obvious first place to look is male genital mutilation. Nothing says “I’m afraid of horny men” quite like lopping off most of their erogenous zones and turning them into face cream for rich old white chicks. There are few areas of social concern which so blatantly flaunt sexist double standards upheld by fear of male sexuality quite so clearly as in this instance.
