ITEM In 1920 women in the United States lived one year longer than men.3 Today women live seven years longer.4 The male-female life-span gap in­creased 600 percent We acknowledge that blacks dying six years sooner than whites reflects the powerlessness of blacks in American society.5 Yet men dying seven years sooner than women is rarely […]

ITEM Imagine: Music is playng on your car radio. An announcer’s voice interrupts: "We have a special bulletin from the president" (For some reason, you decide not to switch stations.) The president announces. "Since 1.2 million American men have been killed m war. as part of my new program for equality, we will draft only […]

The weakneu of men is the facade of strength, the strength of women h the facade of weakness.1 There are many ways in which a woman experiences a greater sense of powerlessness than her male counterpart: the fears of pregnancy, aging, rape, date rape, and being physically overpowered; less socialization to take a career that […]

The Myth ofMale Power violates both sexes’ biologically inherited instinct to protea the female. Proteaing the female implied listening to her needs and repressing his own — even to the point of dying. It will therefore literally be natural to find flaws as a defense against hearing the male world view. There are flaws enough […]

The challenge to women will be to be as open to the man’s experience of powerlessness as you would to the woman’s — to care as much about a man who joins the army for money as about a woman who has sex for money. Men will compound that challenge because they have not had […]

It will be tempting to discuss this book with a feminist because that’s probably the person you know who’s most interested in sex roles. But this is like a man bringing a book that questions the Bible to a born-again Christian because that’s the person you know who’s most interested in religion. The person who […]

Like everyone else, I prefer to be listened to rather than labeled. But labels do give us a foothold in a complex world. And any movement that has impact develops an identity — or label — in the public mind. So. . . I am a men’s liberal ion ist (or “masculist") when men’s liberation […]

It will be tempting to see The Myth of Male l*ower as the flip side of feminism. It is not. Feminism says, "The world Is patriarchal and male — dominated." The flip side is, "The world is matriarchal and female-domin­ated." I explain why it is both patriarchal and matriarchal, both male- and female-dominated. The book […]

Have we been misled by feminists? Yes. Is it feminists’ fault? No. Why not? Men have not spoken up. Simply stated, women cannot hear what men do not say. Now men must take responsibility to say what they want — to turn a war in which only one side shows up into a dialogue in […]

Feminism suggested that God might be a she but not that the devil might also be a she. Feminism articulated the shadow side of men and the light side of women. It neglected the shadow side of women and the light side of men. And neglected to acknowledge that each sex has both sides within […]