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Book of the Month... October 2002 |
Compiled and Edited by Don Koberg
Every man knows it takes courage to resolve warm compassionate mothered beginnings with social expectations that he develop into an impassionate, hard-edged gladiator, but real men do it each day. To generalize men as either raging bulls or dull-witted patsies of feminine guile is no longer tolerable in today’s more open arena of homogenized gender. The laughable oaf depicted in sitcoms and feminist backlash and the drooling sex-crazed dullard popularized as a male stereotype by Howard Stern, South Park, and The Man Show are but masks for the truly multi-faceted creature capable of a full spectrum of emotional and creative behaviors. In short, in our own widely varied yet comprehensive way, we men are far more interesting and complex than advertised.
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Columns and Articles... |
GUEST ARTICLE... by Keith Thompson
Battered Men: Research Reveals A Secret Side To Domestic Violence - Women Are Doing The Abusing, Too
When I first heard the phrase “male victims of domestic violence” I rolled my eyes. My mind served up an image of a sniveling bully with a bandaged hand wishing he’d had the presence of mind to pound his wife’s head with an ashtray instead of his fist. But the men I encountered two months later weren’t perpetrators; reports of police and prosecutors made that obvious. Yet neither did they describe themselves as “victims.” This greatly surprised me, because the accounts I heard that day were nothing if not anguished: an auto mechanic whose fiancée pushed him down a flight of stairs, causing a concussion; a teacher whose wife went to jail after stabbing him with a coiled coat hanger and leaving her teeth marks on his leg; and a 40-year-old insurance broker whose wife kicked him in the groin, propelling him through a sliding glass door.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn J. Sacks
The 'Boy Parent Dilemma'
Modern schools are not suited to boys' personalities and learning styles. This can be seen from the time boys enter school, when many of them are immediately branded as behavior problems. The line of 10 kids who had to gather every day after school in my son's first grade class for their behavior reports--all boys. The names of kids on the side of the chalkboard who misbehaved and would lose recess--all boys. The kids as young as five or six who must be drugged so they will sit still and "behave"--almost all boys.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Appointments With Destiny
We're doing one appointment a month. When Alex first came home, we used to do no more than two doctors' appointments a week. More than that and Alex used to get frazzled; throw in the inevitable "The doctor's running late," and we'd wind frittering our days flipping through People while hoping no ambulatory kid tripped over Alex's tubing in the waiting room. More appointments than that and we got ragged -- as I discovered one wintry afternoon in December of 1998, when, on the way to our fourth appointment of that week, I looked down to see Alex's tubing unhooked from the oxygen tank and dangling in the slush.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Selling Cars and Other Masochistic Acts
Right next to the threat of a colonoscopy I hate selling cars. You wouldn't think so to look at my record. I've had about half a hundred of them since I was a teenager, trading for fantasy or reality. From Buick's to Toyotas, domestic to foreign. Passenger, sports, big trucks, light trucks, gas and diesel, I've owned them all. In every case, while I had them I made them better than they were when I got them. In every case, I lost money when I sold them.
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