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Guest Article... by Lori Borgman
Yes, Maureen Dowd, men are necessary
For the most part - abusers, perverts and slackers aside - most men are stand up guys. They work hard. They create, tinker, build, engineer and achieve. They take carping, criticizing and complaining on the chin, and rarely get the thanks they deserve.
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Guest Article... by Warren Farrell, Ph. D.
How the Assumptions of Discrimination against
Women Backfire against Women...
Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of my book. But an even more important goal is helping women understand the trade-offs involved—and to determine whether higher pay is worth the trade-offs. In my research, I have uncovered 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. Taken together, these 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives—or at least more balanced lives.
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Guest Article... by Wendi McElroy
PBS Continues Probe into Biased Film
On November 29th, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)  issued a report on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories." (The CPB oversees the tax-funding and content of PBS.)  The documentary, which addressed domestic violence and children, is accused of being anti-father, factually inaccurate, and politically-motivated. Using the words "slanted" and "no hint of balance", CPB Ombudsman Ken A. Bode concluded, "The producers apparently do not subscribe to the idea that an argument can be made more convincing by giving the other side a fair presentation."
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Guest Article... by Marty Nemko
Negotiating a Better Salary...
Negotiating is especially scary today. With employers cutting labor costs in every way possible—substituting technology for people, offshoring, downsizing, and converting permanent jobs into project-length positions--how in the world can you negotiate a salary increase?
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Guest Article... by Michael Gurian
The Stages of Marriage...
Let us now explore the actual biology of marriage. In it are keys to the reasonable marriage. The neurobiological transitions from romance to commitment to marriage are perhaps the most difficult transitions an adult faces, yet, unlike adolescence, it is a hidden transition for most of us. The fact that we don't understand this transition is a root cause of our present reliance on divorce to solve marital distress. The male brain, we will find, has as much to teach us as does the female brain about the biology of marriage and the natural stages of love we go through together.
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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks
Domestic Violence Treatment Policies Put Abused Women in Harms Way...
Despite the widespread publicity surrounding the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act and October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, little attention has been given to a crucial aspect of the battle against domestic violence—the way batterers’ treatment programs are conducted. Yet there is a growing consensus among treatment providers that the strategies currently mandated are ineffective, and are placing abused women in harm’s way.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Listening to Basie...
People I know are dying. I mean people I know personally. This is new for me and though I don't take it as some kind of omen or agitate about it, there it is. Thing is, these folks are not dying of "natural causes". I mean, it's not an old age thing. It's cancer. An artist I knew back in the Texas days, must be about Elizabeth's age, her days are numbered. The neighborhood curmudgeon, no, I'm not the only one around here, his cancer is back after undergoing prostate removal! Now it's the "chemo" route. It doesn't look good.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
The Gift of Receiving...
You're busy checking off the items on your to-do list. Most of the gifts have been wrapped. And the holiday cards made it to the post office this morning. Oh, but you forgot about your daughter's teacher! And what to take to the Smith's annual Christmas Eve get together? And then the cookies for the school carnival and you used the last of the sugar in yesterday's brownies for the church fund raiser.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Our Boy...
Jill and I have met Alex's teacher. It was nearly Thanksgiving before we met her, a lapse largely due to Ned starting kindergarten this year, which sapped all our attention. Plus, Alex seemed to doing well in second grade, almost on auto-pilot, at least to tell from the notes of this teacher, Jane (not her real name).
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
A Christmas Cry With the Kids Kids...
And then a moment like this comes along. One of the moments that creates meaning in your life. The kind of moment that reminds you of why you’re doing all you’re doing. And when you experience this kind of moment, it’s easier to live each day and each moment with joy and gratitude. It’s easier to face the occasional drudgery of everyday life. And it’s easier to remember why we were put on this earth: To love each other, and to help create a better world through that love.
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento

From chapter 13 Part 1... Death
In fact, a depressive reaction is normal for a death. The healthy reaction to loss is grief. Separation naturally brings sadness. The loss of boyhood pleasures and dreams should bring mourning. A man is much more authentic by mourning than by raging or resigning. Terrence Real says we must learn as men to accept our depression and make it overt. Then we can deal with it without shame. So do all the modern elders who are familiar with the soul. Without depression a man is stuck on his road to manhood. By not accepting depression a man will not accept his loss. By not eccepting depression a man will not accept his initiatory death.
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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.

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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