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Book of the Month... APRIL 2002 |
By Paul Nathansen
"Spreading Misandry documents the hostility and contempt toward males that now pervades much of North American popular culture - including films, daytime television, Disney cartoons, movies-of-the-week, and greeting cards... No other book does what this one does - analyses pop culture from the perspective of what it says about men. Genuinely intelligent and insightful." Donna LaFramboise
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Book Excerpt... by Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Preface to
We began this book, the first volume in a trilogy called Beyond the Fall of Man, by noting that many pop cultural artifacts and productions from the 1990s said very negative things about men. This led to our initial hypothesis: that misandry, the sexist counterpart of misogyny, had become pervasive in the popular culture of our society – that is, of Canada and the United States – during that decade. But how pervasive? And why? These questions presented us with several problems: (1) defining popular culture; (2) overcoming conventional wisdom; (3) describing the artifacts and productions of popular culture in a disciplined way; (4) interpreting them as potential carriers of misandry; (5) demonstrating that misandry in popular culture has become a significant phenomenon and is thus worth being taken seriously by scholars; and (6) examining our evidence in relation to the many studies on misogyny in popular culture.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn J. Sacks
Confronting Women Bashing in the Men's Movement
It is said "choose your enemies carefully, for someday you'll resemble them." The men's and fathers' movement is gaining in strength and slowly making progress. However, there is a disturbing fringe element whose woman-bashing very much resembles the vicious man-bashing which men and fathers have endured for the past three decades. It is important that men's and fathers' activists confront this fringe rather than turn a blind eye to it.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
What Are We Afraid Of?
A few weeks ago the "car guys" on NPR started a little "bit" with each other over the state of women's cars. The interior of women's cars that is. I think it was Ray who said that the interior of women's cars are always a mess. Tom immediately distanced himself with, "Oh! That was my BROTHER who said that. Not me!" and they carried on with the back and forth stuff about that for awhile. Not that both of them didn't have the same opinion, but that one of them, Ray, wasn't going to get in trouble about it.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by J. Steven Sviboda
Circumcision: A Violent Ritual in Search of a Rationale
The fact that infant circumcision still happens today is astounding. (This article is principally concerned with non-religious circumcision.) If we are male, when we are just hours or days old, doctors cut off the most sensitive part of our body. The operation is violent, usually performed without anesthesia, and unspeakably painful to the infant. The screams, the shaking, the frantic attempt by the newborn to escape this unexpected and unbearable pain can be truly horrible to watch—let alone experience.
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GUEST COMMENTARY... by Donald Walker
Crying in the Wilderness
The role of an "elder" in traditional societies is culture carrier. When young men pass through the rites of initiation they are initiated not into some higher order of understanding but simply into the mainstream of the tribe's culture and values. Nor are the culture and values somehow kept secret from the boys until initiation. After all, they live in the same village. They see men going about men's business and mimic that business in their play and in their own interactions. On a daily basis they see the adults of their society at work and play. The only mystery is the invisible barrier that keeps them from full participation.
This commentary is in response to the article, Everything Has Changed
by Larry Pesavento from the February MENSIGHT.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
The Old Ball Game
Between the time Ned gets tired of screeching after his bath and submits to the indignity of being wiggled into a onesie, and the time he gets tired of screeching after the indignity of being placed in the crib to go to sleep, he and I play. Ned has varied tastes and many toys -- his current favorite toy is whatever Alex is playing with at that moment, for instance -- but he seems to key on two toys for playing with me: a big green plastic ball, and a set of stacking cups. The cups are cognitive stuff, and I know they're important, but they're nowhere near as crucial on the Potential Tickets For Dad meter.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Integrity
In simple terms, when someone has high integrity, we can trust that he or she will walk their talk. There is a consistency between what is in one's heart and what one says and does.
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