But as the social pendulum swings away from chivalry and more toward male self-preservation, and as the unavoidable collective anger begins to mount and find its way into common discussion, there may come a tipping point that will tilt in a cataclysmically bad direction.
In the United States and Canada, violent crime has been steadily diminishing for the last 30 years. In 1980, in the United States, there were 49.5 instances of violent criminal victimization, not including murder, per 100,000 people per year.
Well, I said I was going to wait a while, but recent events have put me in the zone. I will, though, keep it brief, as it is time to put the recent fiasco orchestrated by the Good Men Project Magazine in the rear view, along with the site itself. I was contacted some weeks …
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Again we have implied sexism where none exists. Men have to compete for sex, thus sex is an accomplishment. Women, by contrast have only to select from among competitors.
Let’s talk about men being raped by other men in prison, and the fact that most of these men don’t belong there in the first place.
Lecture #7 “They prided themselves on belonging to a movement, as distinguished from a party, and a movement could not be bound by a program.” – Hannah Arendt Last week, we looked at how the concept of domination has become a justification for encroaching despotism. It should not come as a shock to attentive readers …
Nowhere is there more of a gap between common understanding and documented realities than in what happens when marriages, civil partnerships or even transient romantic couplings devolve into physical violence.
People sometimes like to make things complicated, and I sometimes find that their motive in avoiding simplicity is to avoid realizing, or thinking about, something which they find mentally indigestible. Consider, for example, the matter of rape. Rape is a complicated subject, and yet . . . in certain connections it is very simple. I would like …
Hypergamy is the practice and custom among women of marrying upwards. It is the tendency of women to seek male partners who earn more than they do, or have a higher social status than they do.
The phenomenon complimenting this is males marrying socially or economically downward. Men do this as a means of reducing the probability that their spouses will cheat on them.
Multi tasking it seems is something that a person is only capable of doing when the tasks are menial. Any highly skilled job or operation requires absolute concentration on the task at hand. This is why a surgeon does not take the time to answer his phone during heart surgery. If you want something done well you give it your full and undivided attention; it’s that simple.
