The Princess and the Plow Horse
If there was ever a better allegory for understanding Men Going Their Own Way, and men’s refusal to “man up” and provide, we don’t think a better one’s been done than this.
Sexual Politics
The inconvenient truth about manning up
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.
Buying the cow & other bullshit
Men only care about sex, and women are cows right? That apparently is the deep reasoning of conservative defenders of marriage. Mark Trueblood says WTF?
The Bechdel Test, or how I learned to stop worrying about it and love character development
Catreece Macleod, as a writer, considers The Bechdel Test, and why the exercise is currently pointless, and what it would take to really make it relevant.
Generation Porn? The real reasons why men are shunning marriage
Are men shunning marriage because of the economy, or do they have alternatives to marriage, like porn and easy sex? Dr. Helen Smith explores the question.
Black Men First, Then The Rest
Black men, brown men, men of all races: many the social forces we see now appear to many to have started in the 1970s in black and other minority communities, and Mr. Dawson explores the ramifications of that which he’s seen in that time.
Women in the 16th century sued their husbands for erectile dysfunction
Accusations of male impotence were epidemic in the 16th century as women rejected and humiliated men they claimed were unable to measure up.
De-constructing Sentiment 2: Female Power
AVfM writer Nat Godot explains, when we speak of ‘value’ in the context of human behaviour it is not money that is the currency, it is sentiment
