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To the women lurking on the fringes

So. You’re a woman. And you’ve read about us recently, or stumbled on us by accident. Aimee McGee would like to give you some pointers on navigating this place. It’s neither as scary nor as weird as you may have heard. Here’s a handy roadmap.

In His Own Words: Another Beautiful Sociopath

It is day 20 of Domestic Violence Awareness Month for Men and Boys, the invisible victims of domestic violence. Today’s In His Own Words is yet another example of the meat grinder men find themselves in when they don’t have an understanding of abusive, sociopathic women. The following is just a fraction of what “Matt’s” …

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Black man’s burden: myth of the deadbeat

You’ve heard the rumors, for they are everywhere, and although unproven, they still resonate as “facts” throughout much of American society. The untruth that Black men don’t want to care for their children has become a staple in American folklore. Even sadder is the fact that these rumors are not only postulated by the numerically dominant white majority of this country, but are actually created, maintained and reinforced by the Black community itself.

Women do not benefit: the science

AVfM Senior Editor Alison Tieman says, “Every time we knee-jerk seeing women as ‘acted upon,’ absent evidence, or in the presence of evidence that refutes it, we are engaging in furthering this archaic gender socialization that limits and belittles women. Every ‘but women are hurt more’ or ‘women are the real victims’ or ‘women and children first!'”