“The One Good Man sees all other men as feckless, immoral, weak, beneath him. The One Good Man is good because he knows he is the only good man. He is special.” These are the words of Alison Tieman, who gives us some brilliant insight into the nature of “good” men, or at least those who obsess on making that claim.
[As written for thegoodmenproject.com, prior to the heavy handed editing of it’s management – PE] It’s hard to decide, when approaching a subject such as this, exactly the best approach to take. Explaining the Mens Movement, in however cursory a manner, involves exploding so many of the cultural myths we live with day to day …
Let’s talk about men being raped by other men in prison, and the fact that most of these men don’t belong there in the first place.
Lecture #7 “They prided themselves on belonging to a movement, as distinguished from a party, and a movement could not be bound by a program.” – Hannah Arendt Last week, we looked at how the concept of domination has become a justification for encroaching despotism. It should not come as a shock to attentive readers …
Nowhere is there more of a gap between common understanding and documented realities than in what happens when marriages, civil partnerships or even transient romantic couplings devolve into physical violence.
People sometimes like to make things complicated, and I sometimes find that their motive in avoiding simplicity is to avoid realizing, or thinking about, something which they find mentally indigestible. Consider, for example, the matter of rape. Rape is a complicated subject, and yet . . . in certain connections it is very simple. I would like …
By Paul Elam We have a fine line to walk here sometimes and I will be the first to admit that I lack the wisdom to know the right answer to every situation. But whether I have that wisdom or not, I still have the responsibility for this site and for the investment made by …
Hypergamy is the practice and custom among women of marrying upwards. It is the tendency of women to seek male partners who earn more than they do, or have a higher social status than they do.
The phenomenon complimenting this is males marrying socially or economically downward. Men do this as a means of reducing the probability that their spouses will cheat on them.
In cases where men are the victims of DV and calls for help from the police, it will likely result in that male victims arrest[5], rather than help. If you think this isn’t violence because it’s done through state funded enforcers, you’re delusional.
And despite their meager incomes, the state is collecting their tax dollars and spending part of it to keep convincing them their poverty and discontent is a function of patriarchal sexism.
