Michael Kimmel has been hard at work drumming up support, and some badly needed dollars, for his crowning career achievement, a center a men’s studies initiative with women in charge who hate men. And he has just scored the cash to get it done. Paul Elam dissects his news release on the subject.
Feminists claim they want equality, but British feminists in particular lately have been brazenly arguing that women should be given special preferential treatment in the prison system. Michael Reed takes a look at this disgusting hypocrisy and sexist double standard that, once again like so many feminist ideas, demonizes men and infantalizes women.
Erin Pizzey founded the first nationally and internationally recognized refuge for battered wives in England in 1971. She has two children and two grandchildren from her first marriage. She has written: Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear, Infernal Child and The Slut’s Cookbook. Here she shares with the AVfM audience serial excerpts from her seminal work on domestic abuse, “Prone to Violence”.
The Australian government is currently run by feminist extremist Julia Gillard, who holds an iron grip on Australia’s Labor Party. She has this iron grip despite the fact that her party is slipping badly in the polls. On the face of it, it would seem like Labor should dump Gillard, but Jim Muldoon explains why this is unlikely to happen.
Are you addicted to gynocentric outrage? Have you ever woken up amid waded up kleenex, spent tubs of ice cream and crumpled printouts of the latest Facebook damsel in distress to a message from your boss firing you for missing work three days in a row? And all you could think of was to turn on Oprah? August Løvenskiolds offers a suggestion to turn your life around.
Psychotherapist Tom Golden has spent many years treating men in need of help. He finds much of his own profession greatly lacking both in terms of how they treat men who are suffering, but even in how they bother to research men’s issues. He begins his exploration here in Part 1 of an ongoing series: Misandry in Psychology.
Dan Perrins gives a review of the recent Canadian Federation of Student’s decision to block the formation of men’s issues awareness groups on college campuses in Canada. And their declaration that Men’s Human Rights Activists “endorse misogyny, sexist, cissexist, heterosexist, and homophobic cis-male-privilege in society.”
Howdy y’all. Have a good weekend? We hope you did, and whether you did or didn’t, we hope this roundup of everything interesting that’s happened on AVfM the last week will give you a stimulating start to your week! That’s right, Dean Esmay is back with the Monday Roundup! What goodies does he have in store for us this time?
Scholar and Man Going His Own Way Peter Wright has a look at people’s ideas about love and marriage throughout history, and concludes that much of what we today call “romance” is a historical aberration starting in the middle ages with the concept of courtly love and the image of white knights on bended knee, begging for a token from their Lady.
August Løvenskiolds throws a question into the MGTOW ring. If a savvy, monied man can’t chose the right woman, what chance does the average man have? And why make it worse by shaming Mr. Average for throwing in the towel when Mr. Ultra Successful gets KO’d in the first round at Divorce Court?
