Minding Your P's & Q's
Don't you get fed up with people some times? Their bad manners, stupidity, selfishness, thoughtlessness? Of course you do. You hate their road rage, line-up jumping, loud talking on their cell phones...
View ArticleAll You Need Is Love Part I
"All you need is love...love is all you need." The Beatles sang this interminably. "What the world needs now, is love, sweet love," sang Burt Bacharach in close harmony. "Love makes the world go round"...
View ArticleAll You Need Is Love Part 2
The two most common theories of love are, as we might expect, contradictory. These are: "Opposites attract,"- which they often do. And: "Birds of a feather flock together" - a clone theory, - which...
View ArticleWhat Is Ugly? Part 1
Ugliness is ugly. Beauty is beautiful. The two are opposed as binaries. But the words are not simply descriptors. They are also moral evaluations.read more
View ArticleWhat Is Ugly? Part 2
Dede Koswara is known as "The Tree Man." He is an Indonesian villager who is covered in warts from head to toe and has recently undergone his ninth operation to remove them. His condition is thought to...
View ArticleThe New Man: Who Knew?
Scientists have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells. Toxic chemical food contamination is feminizing men. Male birth rates are declining. Are men becoming superfluous?read more
View ArticleMan Up!
One of my friends explained her break-up with her husband: "He wasn't man enough for me." Synchronicity being what it is, unexpected, some of the women in my class (I teach a course on men) were...
View ArticleWhy Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry
The word misandry may not be in everyone's computer dictionary, but the reality is out there. A reality without a name, however, is largely invisible.read more
View ArticleMan Up! Part II
The traditional images of iconic masculinity were exemplified in reality by our military heroes; and in film by John Wayne, James Bond, Big Syl, and Arnie; and in ads by the Marlboro Man. These ideals...
View ArticleThe Marlboro Man and the Old Spice Guy
The Old Spice guy has replaced the Marlboro Man as the latest male icon. Following the appearance of the Old Spice ads, sales soared 107% in one month, from May 19 to June 19. (Are we gullible or...
View ArticleShould We Invade Pakistan?
"Should we invade Pakistan?" Newsweek asks on its cover page. (October 18). Well, duh! Of course! Why not? We invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and we're still there, and then Iraq. They're not going too...
View ArticleThe Wars Against Men
What wars against men? The wars against women are well known. Marilyn French wrote "The War Against Women" back in 1992. Susan Faludi won a Pulitzer for "Backlash. The "Undeclared War against Women" in...
View ArticleGlory Feminism
A recent issue of Newsweek celebrated International Women's Day with portraits of "150 Women Who Shake the World." Though "save" might be a better word than "shake," for these are inspirational women...
View ArticleMothers
Happy Mother's Day, belatedly, to mothers everywhere. It's time to celebrate such magnificent achievements. Mothers and fathers and gender generally have been much in the news these days.read more
View ArticleManology: The Art and Science
"Men are all the same. They only want one thing!" This was a mantra I heard in my youth. Maybe it is true, but according to Cosmo (April 1999), which I found in my files recently. Maybe it is not,...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Life
Meanings are not given to most of us, though we are socialized into some by our parents or significant others, but still we tend to construct our own eventually. So here are my Top 12. Pick yours, or...
View ArticleSunny, Anal, and Balanced: Puzzling Over Personalities
How do we know how to know ourselves? From our parents and friends? But they are biased. So are our enemies, though they may be less tactful and more truthful. From our therapists? By introspection?...
View ArticleGlory Masculinism 3
Let us now praise men - not just famous men but regular, run of the mill, average Joes. read more
View ArticleThe Suicide Sex
Tyler Clementi’s tragic suicide at Rutgers in 2010 received much publicity and opened up some discussion on the topic (New Yorker Feb 6, 2012). Subsequently, after a rash of suicides by young people,...
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