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Guest Article... by Martin Nemko, Ph.D
In Defense of Men
What do the following people have in common: Aristotle, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Monet, the Wright Brothers, Jonas Salk, Steven Spielberg, the key scientists behind the development of every drug from aspirin to breast cancer breakthrough Herceptin, from anesthetic to heart bypass surgery, from refrigeration to heating, from the electric light bulb to the radio, the car, the television, the computer, and the mapping of human genome? They’re all men.
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Guest Article... by Will Courtney, Ph.D
COLLEGE MEN'S HEALTH: An Overview and a Call to Action
Men in America live 7 years less than women. For all 15 leading causes of death, men have higher death rates. While this is true at every age, the gap is greatest at college-age. (The term college-age represents all men aged 15 to 24 years. Nearly half of all men ages 15 to 24 are students. The term college men is used here when data specifically regarding college men is included.) Three out of every 4 college-age deaths are men. Every day, 75 college-age men die.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
"Get Over It"
That's what I found in my mailbox last week. The sender was referring to the piece on my colonoscopy and, if I had decided to respond I would have said, "I agree."
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Working Day...  Jeff's wife Jill contributes this month's essay.
Here’s something I didn’t know: when you call an ambulance for your child in New York City, they send the police.
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A Story from Life... by Joe Mancini Jr.,Ph. D.
The Fisherman - Part 2 of 3 parts
The sweatshirt reaches only to my navel now, and my elbows poke through the holes.  Splotched with sea-stains, the pleated pants lie where I dropped them, one leg draped over the rubber knee boots thrown into the corner.  He’d found the boots in his father’s toolshed under the rakes and hoes.  A legacy.  He’d taken them, but did not wear them, these boots his father had worn for years when he would work isolated in the manure of his quarter-acre garden, burgeoning with escarole, broccoli, green beans, and those huge Italian tomatoes my mother called “beefeaters” and used in her sauces.  “My father said they were for you,” he would mumble to her, dropping the bag on the kitchen table and then stepping down to his place in this cellar. 
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Article... by Steven Stosny, PhD.
Anger at Children: Who Has the Power?
Every parent since the beginning of time has been painfully aware that children can do a great many things to irritate, frustrate, and otherwise turn the pleasant feelings of their caretakers into moods from hell. Those same creatures who look like little darlings when they sleep can almost at their whim produce headaches, upset stomachs, jangled nerves, strained muscles, aching bones, and overloaded emotional and sensory circuits
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Guest Article... by Ryan McAllister, Ph.D
CIRCUMCISION : Health, Sexism, and Human Rights
Circumcision may not be something you’ve thought about before, but it might be one of the most important decisions made for our children today. It is also a decision that illustrates how we perceive and care for our boy children differently than our girl children.
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Guest Article... by Joe Carmichael
Entering the Forbidden Room: Opening the Door to the Secret World of the Father
Modern psychology relates most everything to the mother. Perhaps this is because both Freud and Jung were so maternally focused. Fathers, at least in the traditional, or non-postmodern view, have been away at the office while a female, the mother, provides the care. Perhaps we should take a moment to reexamine the patriarch’s house and see what happens when the son’s yearning for a father image is replaced by empty rooms which he fills with media images, mythological creations, and an imagined life of the father.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
The Big, Mean Dad
I groped at the dagger in my heart. And as I did, I was aware of the two feelings I held simultaneously. The first one was guilt. I had lost my patience with Michael a couple of times during the day, and I had set boundaries that I needed to enforce. Had I been too strict with him? Could I have done it differently?
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento
A Journey to the Wilderness of the Soul
From chapter 7 - Part 1... The Vader Voice
Many competitive fathers call their sons losers by word or action, magnifying the patriarchal voice. Actually, these fathers are the true sons of the patriarchy. They have a need to feel like a winner, at least in their own family. These fathers also have a need to control their sons and keep them subservient to the father's will. This voice, on top of the patriarchal voice, is doubly damaging to men unfortunate enough to have a competitive father. As Kindlon and Thompson point out, "a father's ultimate psychological weapon is criticism, because most sons remain acutely sensitive to a father's put-downs well into adulthood."

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The Whole Man Program: Reinvigorating Your Body, Mind, and Spirit after 40... by Jed Diamond
Jed Diamond is a mensch’s mensch. He understands why men neglect and even abuse their bodies because he has been there, and he cares enough for the rest of us (and for himself!) that he is devoting his life and career to promoting our health. I have attended men’s conferences graced by the presence of Jed and his wife Carlin and have been lucky enough to get to know them both a little bit. In fact, the reason I finally got around to reviewing this book is a lingering sense of guilt that it was sent to me two years ago but never made it out of my review stack until now.
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Keys to the Kingdom... by Alison A. Armstrong
Alison Armstrong, creator of the workshop for women Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women, has written a most remarkable novel. It is axiomatic that novels, to be successful, must typically depict some striking conflict that engages the reader’s attention. Keys to the Kingdom manages to succeed both as a work of fiction and as an exposition of Armstrong’s engaging gender theories while telling the story of a series of characters that are by and large uniformly nice, likable, and even at times inspiring. 
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MILITARY HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to the Veterans or Active Duty military in your life on our perpetual Military Honor Roll page
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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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