A small online group by the name of Manhood Academy recently invited John Hembling for a debate on the virtues of pick-up artistry and trad-con masculinity. As JTO discovered, they represent no part of the men’s human rights movement.
In Germany feminism is infiltrating classrooms and damaging the self-image of boys and men. New AVfM author Jon Gunnarsson translates the madness for us.
Prostate cancer kills an awful lot of men, and we ought to take it more seriously.. They say that men don’t look after their own health well enough, and in our experience, this is often true. Dan Schneider is on a mission to avoid being one of those “he shoulda gone to a doctor sooner” guys, and tells of his experiences in looking after himself… and why you should too.
Death is never an easy thing to deal with, especially when it happens to a loved one. When his grandfather was diagnosed with terminal cancer Phil in Utah took on the responsibility of caring for him in his final days. Here Phil describes his experience and gives us advice how to help another person who is passing. Empathy works wonders for people, and it is something that we must all embrace, male or female. [Illustration by Europa Phoenix.]
President Obama has a well established history of derogating fathers. In fact, hating on fathers, especially ones too poor and broken after the family court gauntlet to pay child support, has been a kind of political platform for the man. Neil Westlake wants to know if there is more of the same on the way.
Clayton Craddock takes on Hallmark’s “Father’s day cards for mom” line and how it promotes the dysfunctional belief that mothers and fathers are interchangeable, on the one day set aside to celebrate fatherhood. If we want fathers to value being fathers, we need to honor the unique skills they bring to parenthood and not imply fathers are an extraneous add-on to families.
Perhaps one of the greatest tragedies of the modern sexual zeitgeist is that we have lost track of the fundamentals. The things we learned as children that informed us of how to get along, with ourselves and others, seem to have been unlearned. Mark Trueblood offers a refresher course in humanity.
Paul Elam takes us through an imaginary conversation with two average, imaginary men. They talk about sports and politics and of course, tits. And they get down to the real essence of a man’s worth. His work. It is not a conversation that goes well, even in Paul Elam’s hopeful imagination.
Facts, as encapsulated by statistics of the workplace dead, or the homeless, or the male dominance in suicide – these will not move public opinion. They are moved by the connection of human experience and emotion. Men need to tell thier stories in thier own voices.
Prostitution: exploitation and domination of women? Or exploitation and subjugation of men? Or simply an honest transaction? Beyond all that debate, though, new AVfM contributor Jason Gregory notes, that until we bring men and their experience of being used as disposable utilities by women that we can even address such questions effectively.
