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Hugo Schwyzer explains how a handful of men are angry for all the wrong reasons. When I was getting clean and sober in a Twelve Step program many years ago, there was one phrase from the literature...
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Josh Kleinberg rejects the idea that feminism and men’s rights are incompatible aims. In our fight for equality, he argues, we’ve got to weed out the reactionary behavior. I’ve spent a fair amount of...
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Jamie Reidy boos an Arizona high school baseball team that forfeited a championship game rather play against a girl. They literally took their balls and went home. ESPN reports on the lack of a...
View ArticleWhat Is My Body For?
Telling your daughter she can be strong and capable will never be the same as letting her find it out for herself. What is your body for? Ask a little boy and he will tell you it is for running and...
View ArticleTo Pay or Not To Pay: O’Bannon v. NCAA
4 years ago Ed O’Bannon noticed that his image was being used without his permission. His subsequent suit threatens to upend the NCAA. Chris Parisi reports. To pay or not to pay. Not to misquote the...
View ArticleDear John Harvard: A Plea to Stop the ‘Second Rape’ That Follows Campus...
A student’s anonymous letter, ‘Dear Harvard: You Win,’ and a law lecturer’s stinging follow-up underscore why Harvard must fight fiercely for affirmative consent. ___ Last week, Slate published an...
View ArticleThe Tip of The Sexual Violence-Berg
This past week was a big week if you know anyone who’s ever been to or who is ever going to go to college in the United States of America. ♦◊♦ The US Department of Education released a list of 55...
View ArticleTop 10 Roadblocks Colleges Are Coming Up Against in the Fight to Prevent...
Is Your University’s Programming Complicit, Compliant, or Comprehensive? By Dale Thomas Vaughn A dozen years ago I stepped into a triage unit of a war zone, the front lines of a tragic conflict where...
View ArticleA Personal History Lesson — On Turning 65
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View ArticleThe Conversation About Sexual Assault is Missing the Mark
From UVA to the White House, James Lorello says when it comes to sexual assault we’re not getting to the root of the issue. — When I engage in conversations about sexual assault, I am reminded of an...
View ArticleThe Hunting Ground, A Film That’s Honest About The Hypocrisy of Campus Assault
There are 3 steps in social change movements: awareness, attitudes, behaviors. If everyone saw this film, we’d suddenly be able to focus on attitude and behavior… which is a huge leap. 12 years ago,...
View Article5 Key Elements to Discuss About the Safe and Fair Campus Acts
Division and debate regarding this legislation stems from the question, “Who is this meant to protect–the accuser or the accused?” ________ In July 2015, Representatives Matt Salmon, Pete Sessions,...
View ArticleWomen’s Half Marathons Dominated by Men
What do the Nike Women’s Half Marathon and the Disney Princess Half Marathon have in common? Men won them both. The Wall Street Journal reports on the recent growth of women’s road races. This year,...
View ArticleHow Men’s Rights Activists Get Feminism Wrong
Hugo Schwyzer explains how a handful of men are angry for all the wrong reasons. When I was getting clean and sober in a Twelve Step program many years ago, there was one phrase from the literature...
View ArticleHow Feminists Get the Men’s Rights Movement Wrong
Josh Kleinberg rejects the idea that feminism and men’s rights are incompatible aims. In our fight for equality, he argues, we’ve got to weed out the reactionary behavior. I’ve spent a fair amount of...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10
1. We don’t like Congress. 2. Unemployment is down this month. 3. Is the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry still a rivalry? 4. Brazilians are celebrating Heterosexual Pride Day. 5. Is President Obama the new...
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