Damseling is a biologically-based behavior that’s as old as the human race. Technically speaking, the behaviour we refer to as damseling refers to any human being who announces its vulnerability to others – to husband, family, friend, stranger or to one’s tribe. The announcement of vulnerability stimulates a neurological system in the brain of observers, thereby eliciting reflexes of …
*The following speech was delivered at the 2020 digital ICMI. We inhabit a world of things – literally observable objects and facts, and, for the MRA, literally measurable evidence of male disadvantage. And we MRAs collectively do a good and necessary job of measuring and cataloguing such disadvantages. It escapes none of us however, though …
INTRODUCTION People are now rightly horrified about the Tuskegee experiments, where blacks with syphilis were left untreated. Of course, one could hardly miss the current coverage about blacks killed by police. What goes unmentioned, is that all of the victims of the Tuskegee experiment were men. Nor is there concern that the great majority of …
While rolling my empty hand trolley on the way to Aldi, a grocery store, I happened across a dead or dying woman, “she/her”, on the sidewalk. It was Saturday morning, March 20th, at about 9 am. She/her was motionless, lying on she/her left side, curled in the fetal position as if asleep. An empty wheelchair …
Sarah Everard, 33, vanished as she walked home in Clapham on 3rd March 2021. Her body was found a week later, in woodland in Kent. No cause of death has yet been reported but PC Wayne Couzens has been charged with her kidnap and murder. According to the latest Office for National Statistics briefing, there …
A funny thing happened to one of Alfred Adler’s theories on the way to the psychology textbook. It underwent a sex change – long before it was fashionable to do so. Adler was one of the pioneers of psychiatry. Born in 1870, appropriately enough, in Vienna, where Freud hung out his shingle. In fact, Adler …
Paul Jennings is a very successful children’s author, particularly in his homeland, Australia. I recently bought his autobiography, Untwisted. My enjoyment of the book was sullied by the endless references to female oppression, misogyny and the selfishness of men. Paul was quite blunt in his appraisal of his father as a cold, narcissistic man who …
GAB TV: Related to Tom Golden’s video above, the historical quotes below help to shed light on the question of whether women in America were ever truly “oppressed.” I think we all know the answer. In 1856, author of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine published the following summary of relations between men and women in America: …
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Contrary to popular belief, there was never a time in American history when courts treated children as the “property” of their fathers so that mothers had to wage a decades-long Equal Rights campaign to win the right to have the custody of their own children. As explained in my book, The History of Custody Law, …
Over the years, feminism has portrayed itself as a political moment that is working toward the goal of equality between men and women. But this is just its public relations angle. When you study feminist history for the last hundred years, you discover a trend not towards equality but towards inequality: putting down men and …
