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Karen Straughan’s address at Ryerson University will undoubtedly go down in history as a watershed moment. We have previously shown raw footage of the event, we now present a version more cleaned up for sound and video, provided by Sandman.
We hear the same old arguments trotted out against men’s human rights advocates, and feminists, and how we’re supposedly the same, over and over. Sage Gerard has a useful response to the most common arguments.
I never thought my transition from female to male would lead me to the Men’s Rights Movement, says Steven.
It was called the “Heart Balm Racket”: the ultimate gold-digger scheme. And it was epidemic in early 20th century USA. Here is one female journalist’s exposé of the scam in in 1911, just as it was becoming a full-blown epidemic.
Bax was the first to describe the twin monsters he called ‘Sentimental Feminism’ and ‘Political Feminism’, a distinction having striking similarities to Naomi Wolf’s ‘Victim Feminism’ and ‘Power Feminism’ (coined 80 years after Bax). We’ll let Mr. Bax fill you in on the details with commentary from his 1913 book The Fraud of Feminism.
Alice Schwarzer, the face of German feminism, is responsible for perpetuating decades of hatred against men and boys. While previously lauded by the media as an “expert” in gender affairs, she has recently come under attack by the same media for setting up a Swiss bank account for the purpose of evading tax. Jon Gunnarson gives his thoughts on the matter
Hanna Rosin’s idea that this is the End of Men is an idea with the same tenacious stickiness as the wage gap myth, only male perpetrated domestic violence and the rule of thumb. No matter how completely debunked, it lingers like a bad odor. Paul Elam gives you five reasons it isn’t true. Feel free to add more.
Despite efforts of Ryerson Student Union (RSU) to impose barriers to CAFE’s planned talk featuring YouTube sensation Karen Straughan, University President Sheldon Levy has come out in support of CAFE’s right to engage in free speech. Jim Byset gives us the details.
