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Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffery Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann.
" should be required reading for every high school student in America and every parent as well." -- Carl Lewis, Olympic champion
"This is not a book you are just going to read and then forget about. You're probably going to read it again sometime. And you'll definitely want to tell family and friends about it. By sharing with others, you will be helping to make this a better world." -- Ronnie Lott, NFL Hall of Famer
Guest Article... by Jeffery Marx, author of Season of Life He Turns Boys Into Men
Young faces usually filled with warmth and wonder were now taut with anticipation and purpose. Eyes were lasers. Hearts were pounding. It was nothing unusual for the explosive combination of testosterone and youth to unleash a wild display of emotions in the minutes leading up to the start of a high school football game -- and this was no ordinary game for the boys of Gilman School. This was the season opener, being played in front of three thousand screaming fans, and it featured the type of marquee matchup typically saved for a championship contest at the end of a year. Gilman was the top-ranked high school team in all of Maryland. Its opponent was second-ranked DeMatha. Go to Article...
PRESS RELEASE... U.S. Department of Education
Study Shows Educational Achievement Gender Gap Shrinking "It is clear that girls are taking education very seriously and that they have made tremendous strides," said U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. "The issue now is that boys seem to be falling behind. We need to spend some time researching the problem so that we can give boys the support to succeed academically." Read Press Release
Guest Commentary... by Jed Diamond Basket-Brawls, The Irritable Male Syndrome, Torture at Abu Ghraib and the End of Civilization Night after night on every news and sports report we were bombarded with images. Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons shoving Indiana Pacer’s Ron Artest. Players from both teams throwing punches. Artest charging into the stands after a fan who had thrown a cup of beer on him. Steven Jackson and Jermaine O’Neal assaulting fans who came on the court. Players being spit on and dowsed with beer and soft drinks as they left the arena. Males, all males, with fists raised and aggressive eyes looking for a fight. Go to Article
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Guest Article... by Dr. Scott Haltzman Superdads Need Love Too! Let’s be clear about the term “Superdad.” I didn’t invent it. Several months ago, a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor contacted me to talk about my professional and personal experience with fathers who tried to balance work and home life. Later, a TIME reporter interviewed me about men who feel lost between a world of unstable economic security and a home life of unmanageable domestic duties. In both of these articles, the writers applied the Superdad label. Go to Article
Guest Article... by Joe Manthey Behavioral Sex Differences Originate in the Brain Be it "men and the remote control" complaints about men from women or "women talking on-and-on" groans about women from men, the "Battle of the Sexes" continues unabated. If only people understood that these behavioral sex differences originate from the brain. Go to Article
COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio Fantasy Football
On this particular day I was playing with some fairly good players from all over the country. No one in pads or anything of course, just a touch football game, but I was putting myself into it fully, getting into the offensive backfield through any one-on or two-on defense they put up to stop my penetration. In those days, the mid-fifties, a 165-170 pound defensive player was not uncommon. The age of the behemoths had not dawned just yet. There were occasional big guys to face to be sure, but these were "legendary" players, scattered here and there among lines that averaged less than two hundred. So, a regular sized guy could still do the job. Go to ArticleCoyote Archive
Guest Article... by Steven Stosny, PhD. The Age of Anger and Resentment - PartTwo A natural consequence of self-empowerment through anger and resentment marshals reason, creativity, and public policy for one primary purpose. Victim-identity seeks to confirm the various ways in which we seem victims of other people’s carelessness, manipulation, selfishness, incompetence, or insensitivity. The result is loss of power over internal experience, as responsibility for self-regulation is abdicated through chronic blame. The "damaged" self becomes a monument to the transgressions of others. Self-worth is measured by the never quite adequate apologies of others, by the amount of damages awarded by a court, or the degree of "validation" garnered on the Oprah show. One teenage client admitted that he did not want to relieve his depression because that would let his abusive father "off the hook." This boy needed his suffering to serve as punishment for his father. So long as identity revolves around injury or damage, as it must in this Age of Anger and Resentment, wounds cannot heal. Go to Article
Article Update... by Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH The Foreskin Is Necessary: Part one of two parts Millions of years of evolution have fashioned the human body into a model of refinement, elegance, and efficiency, with every part having a function and purpose. Evolution has determined that mammals' genitals should be sheathed in a protective, responsive, multipurpose foreskin. Every normal human being is born with a foreskin. In females, it protects the glans of the clitoris; in males, it protects the glans of the penis. Thus, the foreskin is an essential part of human sexual anatomy. Go to Article
Guest Article... by Maxine Marz Husband Abuse Erodes Dignity: Part 3 of Four Parts Many abused men hold out faint hope that their situation will eventually change for the better without involving outside help for their partner or themselves. Some who are even physically abused opt to not involve the authorities because they fear that they will not be believed and that the system will take the side of their abusive spouse – who will portray herself as the victim and them as the abusive villain in the relationship. Go to Article
DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by , M.A Fathers and Holidays
This year, it’s going to be different. Like many fathers, I’ve felt a bit disconnected from the holiday season. It’s not that I don’t buy my presents and help with decorations. And it’s not that I don’t spend some wonderful time with my kids. It’s something deeper than that. Go to Article
TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento A Journey to the Wilderness of the Soul From chapter 6 - Part 2...The Age of the Father An uninitiated, traditional father will ignore his son because he is in pursuit of patriarchal masculinity. He does not know better. Yet he unknowingly abandons his son, withholding the needed masculine energy. Because of the boy's hardwired need for the masculine, he will go elsewhere, randomly picking up bits and pieces of masculine stuff from his environment. He will imagine what being manly is. He will create a montage of masculinity as his model, like a lifeless poster hung on the wall in his bedroom. In the words of Frank Pittman, "Without a 'father in residence', we may go through life striving toward an ideal of exaggerated, even toxic, masculinity." Read Chapter 6 - Part 2
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MENSIGHT Magazine is another free service of The Men's Resource Network, Inc. (MRN). It has grown out of the response that we have received from articles posted on TheMensCenter.com (TMC), our official web-site. The first issue went on-line on May 1, 2000. (Archive)
MENSIGHT is dedicated to publishing diverse articles for and about men. We believe that there are valuable lessons to be learned from the advocates of all the various men's issues.
MENSIGHT will publish articles, stories and information that will be welcomed by many and controversial to others. We offer the magazine for your edification but you are free to disagree or reject what you do not like. Be advised that we do not necessarily agree with every position that is expressed here.
We hope that you will be entertained, informed, educated, stimulated, and/or motivated by what you read here. We seek to empower men to be the authority of their own lives. We do not seek to tell men what to think or feel.
An uninitiated, traditional father will ignore his son because he is in pursuit of patriarchal masculinity. He does not know better. Yet he unknowingly abandons his son, withholding the needed masculine energy. Because of the boy's hardwired need for the masculine, he will go elsewhere, randomly picking up bits and pieces of masculine stuff from his environment. He will imagine what being manly is. He will create a montage of masculinity as his model, like a lifeless poster hung on the wall in his bedroom. In the words of Frank Pittman, "Without a 'father in residence', we may go through life striving toward an ideal of exaggerated, even toxic, masculinity." 