A hearing is underway in a Vancouver, British Columbia courtroom that has far-reaching implications for the ability of the wrongly accused to find justice in Canadian civil courts. Steven Galloway was an internationally-acclaimed author and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. He had a two-year sexual affair with one of his …
I am writing a lot of letters lately. This is my fourth, being around 13 pages in length. It’s exhausting but I can’t sleep unless I feel I have at least tried to open the eyes of yet another person steeped in wrongheaded views of men, women, society and history. This one will be mailed …
A couple of weeks ago, I published this piece about my son, who doesn’t want to be a man. I didn’t expect so many people to read it, and discuss it so thoughtfully. I was blown away by that. And so many of the people who did comment on it had taken the time to …
The Men’s Rights Movement exists to recognize and ameliorate problems, institutional or social, that predominantly or exclusively harm boys and men. To that end, activists have adopted strategies ranging from filmmaking to legal action. Media analysis has also been done (Allemano, 2012) but with folktales largely ignored. This is unfortunate since folklore in its various …
Masculine Enchantments: Fairy Tales and Men’s Rights Read More »
Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control are not gendered issues. Despite a huge body of scientific evidence showing that men are victimised at similar, or slightly higher rates, as women, male victims have been dismissed and ignored for decades. Taken from two large international surveys, here are the voices of men from the UK that have …
If you’d told me three years ago I’d be writing about estrogen and castration, I would have called you crazy. This was never something on my radar. My son was a typical kid, for the most part. He played with Legos, Pokémon and Minecraft. He played three different sports per year; he went camping, backpacking …
The temperature goes up a few more degrees, but all is well in the world. The bias in the laws of the United Kingdom, at a time of supposed sex equality, becomes more blatant by the day, but nobody seems to care. We see these laws affecting relationships, we see them affecting marriage, we see …
*See also the work of Ernest B. Bax on what he refers to as “aggressive victimhood” and “aggressive weakness.” Example Bax quotes follow: “Weakness, to whose claim chivalry may per se be granted, forfeits its claim when it presumes upon that claim and becomes aggressive.” E.B. Bax * * * I instanced the Tooting tramway …
This article has been reproduced from The Conservative Woman with the permission of the author. –Ed THE Duke of Wellington, celebrated for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, is often said to have declared that ‘the battle was won on the playing fields of Eton’. A privileged, elitist school serving the sons of the …
Eton’s playing fields are only fit for netball now Read More »
Recently an article was published in the open-access journal Nature Communications. This article, entitled The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance suggests that less experienced female scientists benefit more from mentorship by more experienced male scientists than more experienced female scientists. Of course, feminists are demanding that the …
