One of our favorite (and our most strongly upvoted) commenters at AVfM is a mysterious fellow named “AndyBob.” Funny, bitingly insightful, a joy to read – it is always worthwhile to slow down and read his thoughts carefully – and more than once. Every now and then we like to round up some of Andy’s …
In the 1890’s feminists came up with the idea of imposing financial, occupational and social penalties on America’s bachelors as a way of pressuring them to marry. The bachelors however had a different idea, and went about setting up the first Men’s Rights group with one overriding message for feminists: get the fuck out of men’s lives and stop telling them what to do.
Right, left and centrist governments each tend to fall prey to expansionism by withdrawing power, money and freedom from individuals, and accruing it to themselves and their institutions. Kalan Chinuck suggests that courting of partisan politics will not solve the increasingly oppressive power of governments today; he points to alternative ways to help usher in the revolution.
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.
Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is a book which has our name on it. After all, the Men’s Human Rights Movement is, in reality, the most radical movement ever in the history of the human species. Andy Thomas from MRA London does a book review and then some.
A 19 year old man was sexually assaulted by four women in Toronto. He bravely reported it to police, but when Twitter users got wind of the story the ugly truth of how male victims are viewed in society came bubbling to the surface.
Winnipeg, Manitoba is a frigid place to live. Now it’s become even more frigid for men and boys with a new program set to shame and blame them for violence towards women, and which seeks to indoctrinate young men into the cesspit of feminist ideology.
Vagina-obsessed Eve Ensler, who’s written lovely things about all sorts of things including sex between older women and young girls, has published a poem for men (but really meant to shame and demonize men). Bumblebee has a poem we like better.
