On International Men’s Day this year (November 19th), advertising and marketing company M&C Saatchi released a White Paper titled The Modern [Aussie] Man. It was attacked mercilessly by three significant publications. Here is what they got wrong, and then some.
We often use memes at A Voice for Men to make points, and quite often to give us a badly needed moment of laughter in the midst of our very serious work. Collegiate Activism Director Sage Gerard brings you another meme today. This time, we are not laughing at all.
Some called it “polite blackmail,” some called it the “alimony racket.” For German immigrant to the United States, George Wacker, it was more than a racket, it was a death sentence.
Like the flu sweeping through a densely packed workplace during the height of the season, the feminist narrative, warts and all, has a way of spreading through all our established institutions. Sports commentary is no exception. It seems wherever you have men, you have white knights. And man, are they ever full of it.
There was a time when women were responsible for a significant amount of domestic labor. Thanks to technology ‘housewives’ today have very little work to do in the home save one or two hours of relaxed housework which they can weave among their leisure activities. However, the leisure class would like to forego those remaining few chores and are increasingly asking full-time working husbands to take the weight off their petite shoulders. Clint Carpentier provides an overview of the conundrum.
We appear to be on the cusp of the release of a viable birth control pill for men. This has profound implications in the realm of reproductive choices, especially for men. Unsurprisingly, this potential new world of options for men is not being well received by some. Peter Lloyd thinks it’s a great thing.
After being asked to answer some questions for a journalist at the University of Oregon, Paul Elam did what he often does in these cases. He answered the questions and also decided to post them here so you could see his answers regardless of what is done with them by the university newspaper.
An honest whore sets her price up front and collects on delivery. A dishonest whore makes promises she doesn’t keep then does this: If you thought Debtor’s Prison and Indentured Servitude were things of the past, think again.
Having experienced false allegations and escaped prison only because he could definitively prove his own innocence, Attila Vinczer now works to free other men from false accusers who were not fortunate enough to make sure to Always Be Recording. He has sent a letter to Queen Elizabeth and a number of other dignitaries, and asks for your help with a petition to the Prime Minister of Canada.
In 1991 Naomi Wolf wrote The Beauty Myth where she claimed that women are oppressed by patriarchal pressure to be beautiful. What she failed to tell us is where the beauty-mandate originated, or how it is used to gain and maintain power over men. Peter Wright fills in some of the gaps left by Wolf’s victim narrative.
