Where have all the men gone?
Wouldn’t it be grand if young men, shamed into compliance, would spontaneously “man-up” and start families with young women? “Finally they took heed of all our combined scolding!” – the elites would exclaim.
Men
Jake and the Map of Men
Wow, men . . . women? How do we deal with that most complex of beasts and what do they want anyway? Here’s a simple map to help you find out where you are with respect to them and where you might want to go. I repeat might. The flat map you read in your …
The Men of Old and the Men of Today
Once upon a time in western culture, the manly way, at least in the noble classes was to submit to God in the form of the King or Queen. Letting my imagination roam, I can see the archetypal image of the man kneeling before the sovereign being knighted into service. Both shoulders are touched with …
How To Stop School Shootings
The seemingly endless cycle of school shootings by young men continues in the USA, and as always more students lay dead. The usual scapegoats are wheeled out for blame: its the fault of Democrat policies, Republican policies, fatherlessness, gun availability, misogyny, inadequate school security and check-in cards, or perhaps people choose to blame police lethargy …
Down and Dirty
My regular light rail travels regularly take me past a mural that depicts a plumber standing tall above a crowd of people with planet earth in the background. The picture is captioned “The plumber protects the health of the nation.” Now I have heard any number of stories about what is or is not in …
ANZAC Day
Feminists are experts at revising history. Well, as far as expertise goes when it goes unchallenged. That does not sit well with Greg Canning, a man Down Under whose sense of history is deep and highly personal, as well as accurate.
Men’s Movement and Black History Month
In 2019, I drove from Minneapolis to Chicago to meet with the leadership of the International Conference on Men’s Issues. Black comedian Tommy Sotomayor had been booked as a keynote speaker. The conference was the largest ever gathering of its kind (500 people) so it was difficult to get one on one time with leadership. I …
The trouble with testosterone: Will boys just be boys?
When ‘soccer moms’ enroll boys in aggressive team sports to provide an outlet for male testosterone, are they helping boys to release aggression or rather creating an aggressive attitude that will need to draw upon the hormone to fuel it? Renown biologist Robert Sapolsky has some uncomfortable answers.
Men Made This
I remember reading when I was younger a biography of the artist Jean Cocteau, how on his first plane trip he remarked how wonderful man was, enraptured by the technological marvel that was carrying him across the sky. Of course, by “man” he likely meant “humanity.” Years later I note how I have spent much …
