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Guest Article... by
Robert Glover
Boys Falling through the Cracks...
While educators and academics focused on how to help girls fare
batter academically, few have paid attention to the staggering
number of boys who are falling through the cracks of the American
educational system. The following information is not meant to take
anything away from the need to tailor educational policies that
benefit girls, but to illustrate that while girls have moved ahead,
boys have fallen way behind.
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Guest Article... by Warren Farrell, Ph. D.
Do Women Belong in Combat? Part
two...
Item.
Mohammed and Jessica. In the war in Iraq, an Iraqi attorney,
Mohammed, witnessed P.O.W. Jessica Lynch being slapped and abused.
He was upset enough that he walked six miles, found a U.S. Marine
patrol, and, at the risk of his own life, alerted them to her
whereabouts.
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Guest Article... by
Marty Nemko
What the
Hell is the Meaning of Life?...
When I was
a teenager, I thought money was the answer. So, I took after-school
jobs, and tried to buy my way into contentment: clothes, nice car.
That didn’t do it.
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Guest Article... by
Michael
Gurian
A
Friendly Look at the Male Brain...
This amazing brain is formed in utero, and therein
begins its journey into a "male" or "female" brain. The tissue and
neurons are genetically wired to form in certain ways, and then
hormones act on the fetal brain to make it a male or female brain.
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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks and
Jeffery Leving
PBS Declares War on Dads...
The controversial new
documentary Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories airs Thursday
on Public Broadcasting Service stations across the country. In the
film, co-producers Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur sound the
alarm over an alleged crisis of fit mothers losing custody of their
children to abusive husbands.
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Guest Article... by Kathleen Parker
Feminism's Devolution from Hoaxers to Whores
"So
was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax? Do women get less
desirable as they get more successful?"
Columnist Maureen Dowd posed those questions in a recent issue of
New York Times Magazine in an essay adapted from her forthcoming
book: Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide.
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MEN IN MARRIAGE...
monthly column by Marty Friedman
Pursuing Your Wife - After
the Wedding...
Everybody
knows that single men like to pursue women, especially the special
ones they hope to keep with them forever. A man will bring his
beloved flowers, plan beautiful evenings, and even share his deepest
feelings with her.
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COYOTE...
monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Just When I Had
Gotten Settled...
My second
opportunity to parent came with Elizabeth and her three girls. I
came into this situation because of love and believed that I had
been trained to be a better parent; after all, I had a "Master's
Degree in Clinical Social Work" and had been a therapist for close
to fifteen years. Surely I had learned something. At least I was
under the impression that I could figure out how to do it "right"
this time. Then I'd be both a good parent and a good person.
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THE NEW
INTIMACY...
monthly column by
Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James
Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Gratitude Becomes You...
Yes, it's
that time again, when giant turkeys and homemade pies entice us to
stay at the table longer than we otherwise might. With Thanksgiving
as our national day of gratitude, we typically celebrate it with
wonderful home
cooked meals. We gobble them up, ask for seconds, and then return
for left overs before we're finally ready to call it a day.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly
column by Jeff Stimpson
Really Special Needs After
Katrina...
For me, dad to an autistic son,
New Orleans and Katrina confirmed what I believe we've all thought,
usually to ourselves, about the disadvantaged: We'll help them when
their city floods. I'm no fan of our government's "response" to
Katrina, of course, but I think our attitude toward those who can't
motor it out of town when a hurricane's coming has been fermenting
for generations. Not to mention our attitude about maintaining
levees.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS...
monthly column by
Mark Brandenburg,
M.A
Tell the Truth with your
Kids...
My
son fumed in the back seat, angered by the injustice of my decision.
I felt badly as well, but it had nothing to do with stopping for ice
cream. My decision to give my son a “maybe” answer, when I knew the
answer should be “no,” was the problem. My desire to avoid an
argument was the problem.
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TOWARD MANHOOD...
A book in progress
by Larry Pesavento
From chapter 12
Part 2... The
Elderless Society
The new elders of our culture, our new priests, seem to be the
priests of the mental health religion. These are the psychologists,
psychiatrists, social workers and counselors who supposedly work
with the inner life. When someone has a problem of the inner life,
including disorders of the emotions or soul, they are usually told
to see either a minister or a counselor. Increasingly, over the last
3 decades, counselors are chosen overwhelmingly over ministers.
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NEW
REVIEWS
REVIEW:
Why Men Earn More: The
Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap—and What Women Can Do About It.
By Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
A new book from Dr. Warren Farrell is of course eagerly awaited by
all of us who care about gender equity. I dare say that each of his
books represents an evolution since the publication of the previous
one, both in terms of Warren’s own growth and in terms of society’s
developing awareness of, and willingness to hear more regarding,
pertinent men’s and women’s (and people’s!) issues.
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REVIEW:
SPIN SISTERS: How the
Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of
America. By Myrna Blyth
Every now and then, it’s fun to try something a little different.
Even if it isn’t quite your cup of tea, it keeps life interesting to
try walking in the moccasins of someone with whom you might have
previously thought you had nothing in common. Myrna Blyth has
written a book specifically designed for, and often directly
addressed to, politically conservative women. People such as myself
who don’t fit into these categories may seemingly have little to
gain from reading Spin Sisters. And in fact, Blyth could have
written the book differently in a way that would have carried the
same essential message while allowing her to speak to a wider
audience inclusive of males and non-conservatives.
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REVIEW:
TAKING SEX DIFFERENCES SERIOUSLY. By Steven E.
Rhoads.
University of Virginia public policy professor Steven E. Rhoads’
latest book purports to be a meticulously researched and elegantly
written, provocative and groundbreaking exploration of the masculine
and feminine. I found Taking Sex Differences Seriously to be
a solid though unexceptional book that makes a number of interesting
points. Career women, we learn, have higher average testosterone
levels. Rhoads provides interesting detail on how modern university
textbooks ignore women who choose to focus on volunteer and/or
homemaker careers, ironically implying that the only careers
acceptable for women are those traditionally defined (presumably by
the patriarchy) as successful. Along similar lines, the author
deftly points out the absurdity of prescribing and proscribing
activities for our children based on our political wishes.
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Archive of All Reviews & Interviews...
by J. Steven Svoboda.
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