Narratives

Feminism is ubiquitous in fairy tale studies. Donald Haase edited a book about it: Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Nancy Canepa, in Teaching Fairy Tales, called it “groundbreaking” and responsible for “stimulating” conversations within the field. Jack Zipes declared Laura Gonzenbach more important than the Brothers Grimm in his introduction to Beautiful Angiola, because …

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Feminism is ubiquitous in fairy tale studies. Donald Haase edited a book about it: Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Nancy Canepa, in Teaching Fairy Tales, called it “groundbreaking” and responsible for “stimulating” conversations within the field. Jack Zipes declared Laura Gonzenbach more important than the Brothers Grimm in his introduction to Beautiful Angiola, because …

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Verses 3 to 11 of Chapter 14 of the Gospel of Matthew contain one of the accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee at the time, a story from which red pill men can learn some important lessons where it concerns what their own consciences tell them …

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Can scholars and writers be wrong about a story they know well? That question might seem odd since academics and authors are generally knowledgeable, but the quality of their analyses depends on a variety of factors – including their ideology. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with philosophical or political interpretations of a text; at best, …

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It has been said that there needs to be a restoration of a sense of meaning in men’s lives. In a world where man is attacked as a people and as an archetype, there is no objection to this fact. The crisis is existential when the worth of a male individual is under extreme duress, …

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Verses 3 to 11 of Chapter 14 of the Gospel of Matthew contain one of the accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee at the time, a story from which red pill men can learn some important lessons where it concerns what their own consciences tell them …

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*The following speech was delivered at the 2020 digital ICMI.  We inhabit a world of things – literally observable objects and facts, and, for the MRA, literally measurable evidence of male disadvantage. And we MRAs collectively do a good and necessary job of measuring and cataloguing such disadvantages. It escapes none of us however, though …

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The Men’s Rights Movement exists to recognize and ameliorate problems, institutional or social, that predominantly or exclusively harm boys and men. To that end, activists have adopted strategies ranging from filmmaking to legal action. Media analysis has also been done (Allemano, 2012) but with folktales largely ignored. This is unfortunate since folklore in its various …

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Following on from his previous exploration of male archetypes in The Aeneid and the horrors of a blue pill existence, Andrew Exeter investigates the same work in search of female archetypes, with particular emphasis on the goddess Juno who embodies feminist attitudes. Juno, as many here will be familiar, is the Roman version …

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