Book Excerpt...
by Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Preface to
Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men
in Popular Culture
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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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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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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The fact
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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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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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In simple terms, when someone has
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