Are you addicted to gynocentric outrage? Have you ever woken up amid waded up kleenex, spent tubs of ice cream and crumpled printouts of the latest Facebook damsel in distress to a message from your boss firing you for missing work three days in a row? And all you could think of was to turn on Oprah? August Løvenskiolds offers a suggestion to turn your life around.
Clayton Craddock explains how fatherhood is far more than being a walking wallet. How motherhood is just as much about maintaining your children’s relationship to their dad as being a mom. And how the best father’s day gift a mother can give her children’s dad is letting him be a father.
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.
The one thing that the Cultists of the Bearded Clam have always lacked is a Bible. Sure, there has always been the biblically referenced Jezebel.com, and the Church of Gay and Arjuna, but let’s face it, that is no replacement for Holy Scripture. Diana Davison comes forth with the gospel!
Jose Canseco has outed his accuser. He’s challenged dangerous anonymity in the sports world and now he’s challenging the dangerous anonymity in rape cases. Dangerous because a rape accusation can kill.
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.
What do ideologues do when their lies are exposed, their reliance on intimidation and ad-hominem is laughed at, and the mainstream begins to call bullshit on their continued violent antics. They censor, obviously, and in dong so, prove their critics correct.
Michael Kimmel, a noxious bigot and sycophant with a PhD, recently got a large private grant to start a center for studying men’s and boys’ issues. Peter Allemano, in a devastatingly on-point review of Kimmel’s famous book Guyland, helps people get to know Kimmel’s scholarship a bit better.
There’s no question when writing comedy, there’s always a danger that you’ll offend someone. Nevertheless, sometimes what a culture thinks is funny, or not funny, says far more about that culture itself than it does about the nature of humor. It can tell us what we choose to see, and also what we choose not to see.
The University of North Carolina Women’s Hospital is just one of many, many women’s hospitals scattered across the western landscape. They are staffed almost entirely with specialists in women’s health. Michael Sharron can’t help but be thankful that he has a daughter, and not a son.
