Intersectionality: the study of how various forms of human rights violations and oppressions overlap and reinforce each other. Here we see a case illustrating the ‘intersectionality’ of quite a few oppressive institutions: proxy violence, relational aggression, refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions, the ethos of male disposability, plus “a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.”
Victims of acid attacks are often in the news these days. An interesting bit of history is that at one time acid-throwing was, like poisoning, considered woman’s weapon against men.
The National Coalition for Men has issued a warning and advisory to fraternity groups on American campuses regarding what can happen to them and their members in the current climate of misandry and rape hysteria. Please read and pass along to anyone you know currently involved in a university.
That we live in a gynocentric culture is not rationally disputable to anyone who looks around with open eyes. Many thinkers believe this elevation of women, and the rampant male disposability that goes with it, has been central to the human race for millions of years. But does history bear that interpretation up?
AVFM News week in review comes at you again for your reading pleasure. Or…displeasure. Bleeding vagina T-shirts and Rabbi wiseguys. What is this world coming too?
Domestic Violence Awareness: Your partner just enjoys making sex recordings with you. Or so you think. But what’s really being done with those recordings? Careful about the assumptions you make.
Despite reports you may have read to the contrary, the rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto was much bigger than anticipated, and had an impact that will be reverberating for years to come. Agent Green of Men’s Human Rights Ontario has a report.
The history of efforts to hold women equally culpable for violence and held to the same standards as men when they commit crimes is longer than you may think. Robert St. Estephe returns with some historical examples that should not surprise, but somehow do.
The red flags were all there: verbal abuse, public humiliation, physical hitting followed by minimizing mixed with loving and courtesy. The red flags are often there. Do we always see them? Domestic Violence Awareness Month continues.
Do women lack power? Is justice something one obtains only with overt power? In a bound-to-be-controversial essay, Muslim thinker Zara Faris questions the entire premise of “empowerment,” and notes the injustices faced by men today.
