Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling; or ice hockey, rodeos, and auto racing. All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team — or our society — could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice […]

The Christian Soldier As He died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free. . . "Battle Hymn of the Republic’’ •Men s hesiuncy is documented in Wby Men Are dbe Way They Are, in the section called The Worst Infidelity. Male bashing is in the chapter called The New Sexism. A […]

Women’s scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men’s involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protea women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, […]

Heroism had its hazards: teaching a boy to kill and then expecting him to kill only to protea; instruaing him to kill males, but not females or children. The tragedy of the warrior is that the more he fights the enemy, the more he begias to be like the enemy; the more he kills beasts, […]

When I was a boy and went to a museum 1 can remember seeing a head cut off from its body and being told by the curator that it was thought to be die head of the captain of the uinnmg team in a Mayan ball court game (roughly a Mayan and Aztec equivalent of-football). […]

Men were not thought of as property or animals, they were just used that way. The fifteenth-century Incas did not have horses to speed messages over the long distances up and down mountain paths. The men were given coca leaves (cocaine), which allowed them to run fanher and faster. . . until they burned out.7 […]

Patriarchy is "the universal political structure which privileges men at the expense of Encyclopedia of Feminism’ I. A SLAVE BY ANY OTHER NAME… IS STILL A SLAVE If power is defined as having control over one’s life, then myths, legends, and Bible stories were often ways of gening both sexes toforfeit power. . . The […]

In brief, our genetic heritage is in conflict with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love To love the other sex, to love our children — by a Stage II definition of love. The […]

Pan of women’s anger at men comes from the belief that men made the rules, and made them to oppress women and benefit men. Since most institutions are headed by men, when these institutions don’t meet our needs, we tend to blame men. The challenge is twofold: first, to recognize that these institutions helped women […]

When divorce occurred, women’s greatest fear was of economic depriva­tion. Men’s was of emotional deprivation. Stage II divorce laws helped Alice make a transition from economic dependence to economic independence. No Stage II laws helped Jack make a transition from emotional dependence to emotional independence. (Which is why Alice rushed to a court for economic […]