In real life, unlike in the movies, the more a man is a hero, the more likely he is to die or be killed. A quarter of American presidents have died in office, many by assassination. Almost every liberal, charismatic male leader of the 1960s through the 80s was assassinated or mysteriously killed. Not just […]

Thelma and Louise was widely touted as a film of women’s liberation. (It was, for example the only film celebrated by the National Organization for Women at its twenty-fifth convention.) Never in American history have two men been celebrated as heroes of men s liberation after they deserted their wives, met one female jerk after […]

ITEM A Coke ad shows a man wttng to "go for the Coke” at the nsk of a shark’s fin slicing through his testicles as it simulates a buzz saw. Coca-Cola knew that only a man’s life was worth, well, a little bit less than a Coke! The average American child watches more than 40,000 […]

I saw them strap my son spread-eagle and put this steel thing on his penis. As soon as 1 heard my boy scream, I knew it was very wrong. I’ve never heard a kid cry like that before. I’ll never forget it.25 When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; […]

ITEM When a female jogger m Central Park in 1989 was raped and brutalized.20 "Take Back the Night" demonstrations were nationwide. The solution? A headline m an Ellen Goodman column read "Safety for Women? Try Removing Men."2′ ITEM When a male jogger n Central Park п 1989 was hospitalized after being brutally beaten on the […]

When we think of sexual abuse of children, most of us think of girl children as the victim about nine out of fen times. In reality, it is one boy to 1.7 girls.18 We usually think of the sexual abuser as a man. In reality, girls’ abusers are usually men, boys’ abusers are usually women […]

A 17-year-old Michigan high school student attempted to choke a male teacher.16 Afterward, teachers got no additional protection. Two months later, a 14-year-old attempted to choke a female teacher — in the same school. The school immediately withdrew all female teachers from the school, reducing the staff from twenty-one to nine. Now here’s the rub. […]

ITEM A man entered a classroom at the University of Montreal and killed female students. The incident made headlines throughout the world as an example of woman-hating. The Canadian government spent millions reeducat­ing men in their attitudes toward women. At about the same time, a Chicago woman (Laune Dann) shot five elementary school boys, poisoned […]

We have no problem seeing this last Item as a reflection of black powerless ness, but we rarely see men ’s greater likelihood of being victims of violence as a reflection of male powerlessness. When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, "Well, it’s men hurting other men." When […]

ITEM For every woman who is murdered, three men are murdered.1 ITEM With the exception of rape, the more violent the cnme. the more likely the victim is a man.2 ITEM Males are the pnmary victims of all violent crimes except rape. These violent crimes (excluding rape) have increased by 36 percent3 Rape, the one […]