When we observe the relationship of the sexes in the past, we find woman solely of the ménage, a menial, subjective, subjected. The male holding the centre of the human drama. From this point to the next point -the present- can be traced the line following an upward trend, economically, intellectually, and politically, which forecasts …
The Trend Of The Sexes – The Men’s Review (1948 Article) Read More »
History doesn’t remember Peter III of Russia fondly. The grandson of Peter the Great, he’s ridiculed by historians. This is captured effectively by the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica that had this to say about him: Nature had made him mean, the smallpox had made him hideous, and his degraded habits made him loathsome. And Peter had …
I don’t go to the cinema much. I concluded decades ago that Hollywood would only change if they were starved of funds. That was before they went really woke of course. At the time I just wanted them to put out better content. Since then the movies produced by Hollywood have become significantly worse. The …
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 …
Telesphorus tortured & killed for witty criticism of Arsinoe Read More »
Almost everyone has heard of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They fought against Octavian for control of what would soon be the Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. They lost to Octavian. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But there is so much more to the story. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, …
Written 43 years after Mary Wollstonecraft wrote ‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman,’ and a decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, this essay provides a very different perspective on the power, and status of women of the time.
Feminism is about equality, how can you possibly say it’s a hate movement? Robert St. Estephe looks at the history, quotes the leaders, and proves that they said so themselves.
