The Tradwife Revisited
There’s more than one kind of tradwife
You probably understand that construction workers are hard workers. But do you realize that many men are continually engaged in erection labor? Women have no idea how draining men’s natural reproductive functioning can be. Men’s reproductive labor is less visible and less appreciated than women’s reproductive labor. The raucous medieval French text Les Quinze joyes …
“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.
While the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic are well remembered today, less well known is the Kingdom of Rome. Legend claims that the city of Rome was founded in 753BCE. Romulus killed Remus in an act of fratricide and went on to found the city of Rome, naming it after himself. Romulus then invited …
The 2024 Ipsos survey answers the question of “Have we gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men?” The graph below provides the result of interviewing a total of 24,269 adults, from the countries of Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, U.S.A., Argentina, Belgium, Chile, …
The Men’s Rights Movement: Changing The Cultural Narrative Read More »
Almost everyone has heard of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They fought against Octavian for control of what would soon be the Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. They lost to Octavian. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But there is so much more to the story. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, …
Thomas was an officer on His Majesty’s ship Britannia. Mary was a horse thief. Thomas was a 19 year old junior officer when in 1794 he proposed to 17 year old Mary. Thomas was serving in the employ of the British East India Company at the time and Mary was under a seven year sentence …
Cecil B. DeMille is often credited with shooting the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in Hollywood in 1914. Thanks to DeMille, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, John Ford and other names now familiar only to cinephiles, movies (and scandals!) became a fixture in American life by the 1920s, and low-rent nickelodeons gave way to movie …
Paul Elam suggests a plate of of beans and cornbread that could also solve the world’s energy problems.
At 16:53 on 12 January 2010, a severe (magnitude 7.0) earthquake struck Haiti. The centre was just 25 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince. Three million people – a third of the country’s population – were affected. The area around Port-au-Prince was devastated. Roads were blocked, communications and electric power were down so that little food …
What is Gender Equality? It’s not about treating men and women the same Read More »