The warrior of love versus the warrior of тоншу Men’s immediate path from the "insanity track" to the “sanity track"35 is in demanding that both sexes have the freedom to strike a balance between homeplace and workplace. Men must expea their wives to financially support them to be fathers as much as they now financially […]

If being fired or involuntarily unemployed is the male version of rape,* then the boss who fires an employee is unconsciously experienced as a type of rapist. Because this boss is usually a man, millions of men who fire a few to save the jobs of many feel they are one part rapist and one […]

■ Disaster: Co-workers spent hours after the accident counseling her and hid her from publicity for days. To this day, 1 have yet to see an article focusing on Captain Hazelwood’s grief. I am a strong supporter of the humor therapy the government supplied the woman, but I can also imagine the public’s response had […]

Remember when almost all the homeless were men? We called them bums. Then some women appeared. We called the women bag ladies When about 15 percent were women, we called them all homeless and we suddenly began to care. This distinaion — between bums and bag ladies — is only a metaphor for the difference […]

ITEM Ninety-six percent of the adult homeless л San Francisco are men.24 In other cities it is less — a median of 85 percent men.25 ITEM There are three times as many homeless men living on the streets by themselves as there are homeless children, adolescents, and adult women combined who are living on the […]

The ostracism incurred for being a gay man runs deeper than it does for being black or Indian. Black men and Indian men who could not provide adequate proteaion for women at least wanted to protea women — they just didn’t do it well enough. Gays, though, weren’t even trying to take care of women. […]

ITEM Black men. Indian men. and gay men have the toughest time among American males. And they all have something in common: they do not provide an economic security blanket for women. Thm men who couldn’t protect her: the block and American Indian man Indian men could not adequately protect their food, water, and land […]

The paper warrior is a prisoner of approval He rarely changes until his marriage fails or his career fails. The moment his career fails, he is dumped back out into a job market which demands he work even harder to prove himself again (after all, he has just failed). The moment his marriage fails, he […]

ITEM The Japanese call it karoshi — death from overwork. In the past twenty years m japan, sudden deaths among top executives have increased 1.400 percent16 A survey by the Japanese government found that executives average seventy hours per week: twelve-hour workdays, six days per week.17 It is not unusual for these executives to go […]

A male said to me once after years of standing on the platform of the subway, "I die alittle bit down there every day. but I know I am doing so for my family." BHI Moyers, cooutbor, The Power of Myth’ I’ve never done a single thing I’ve wanted to in my whole life. Sinclair […]