The morality of punishing the innocent
Does punishing the innocent become morally acceptable if doing so reduces crimes such as sexual assault? TDOM untangles the twisted morality of injustice by design.
Does punishing the innocent become morally acceptable if doing so reduces crimes such as sexual assault? TDOM untangles the twisted morality of injustice by design.
If you ever note the preponderance of female bylines in print media and think contemporary journalism is now all but synonymous with women, bear in mind that it wasn’t always so. In the early years of the 20th Century, newsrooms were, for the most part, male spaces. The reporters in the Woman’s section (yes, there …
Queen Arawelo is among the best-known folktale characters. Originally an obscure figure outside of Somalia, her legend has reached international audiences due to English-language media: a graphic novel (Mohamed, 2014), an article in biographies of women in history (Porath, 2016), and a theatrical production in London. There’s even a website for diasporic Somalian women named …
Arawelo: The Somalian Legend that Endorses Men’s Rights Read More »
Matthew Steele targets his prose at the heart of men betrayed by the heart of their own home, and the courts that put the nails in their coffins. He reminds us of the power in our voices, and that we must raise them.
Man up, and other male targeting slogans remain pervasive throughout our culture and indeed appar to be spreading. Neil Westlake notes this, and correctly observes that it constitutes an anti male, violent and stifling climate pretending to humanism, while calculated to perpetuate harm.
Relationship dramas often revolve around who is going to play the child in the relationship and who is going to play the responsible parent.
Almost as hateful as mendacious mainstream media reports that nearly a quarter of men are rapists is the scholarly construction of the penis as an instrument of political domination. That penal construction dominates scholarly understanding of ancient Greco-Roman sexuality. Ideology of the reign of the phallus is associated with crude stereotypes, deeply rooted hostility toward …
Truthful, ancient rule of the phallus: penetration provides pleasure Read More »
We all know that feminism is an anti-male hate movement which germinates from a bottomless disaffection both toward men and toward all things percieved as “masculine”. And frankly, as much as that bears repeating, that is old hat. But there is another side to feminist hate. Most people aren’t much aware of this other side, …
On publication of his paper Sokal exposed his hoax in the journal Lingua Franca. The editors of Social Text immediately cried foul and added a misplaced criticism of Sokal’s writing style. They missed the point, entirely. Sokal’s intent was to write badly (and think badly) yet have his poor scholarship overlooked due to its superficial accordance with leftist ideology.