Castration culture revealed in Hesiod’s Theogony
Hesiod’s Theogony
Forgotten History
The danger of male celibacy (1707)
Male celibacy leads directly to rape, murder and the beastly use of sodomy – so claim two women who in 1707 proposed the remedy of a bachelor tax, combined with severe punishments for unmarried men.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and her ‘Courts of Love’
For the history-minded among us, this piece by professor Amy Kelly reveals the taproot of our gender malaise
Macrobius’s Saturnalia reveals constraints on men’s behavior
Men’s historical social and political disadvantages
Solon, wisdom, and men’s sexual welfare
Public provision of sex? In the best interest of men and equality of course
Men’s Rights Convention of 1851
In 1851 a women’s magazine published an article mocking a Men’s Rights Convention.
Collective amnesia regarding violence by women / call for reform
Trigger Warning: This article depicts stories and scenes of violence by women.
The Henpecked Club
The Henpecked Club existed from the year 1700 through to 1975, making it the longest running domestic violence support group in the world.
A man’s protest transformed into discourse about women
Society morphs discussion of men’s issues into one about women and their concerns. Read of an early example in the 13th century ‘complaint of Matheolus’
