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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.
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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.
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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.
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Guest Article... by Steven Stosny, PhD.
The Age of Anger and Resentment - Part Two
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.
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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.
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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.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, 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.
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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."  
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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)

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