October 7, 2010
The roles of dads are changing for the better. Last week we told you about the Most Mentally Sexy Dad competition in Australia. It is a competition celebrating dads who support their partners by taking on domestic roles and “normalizing men in the caring/stay-at-home/domestic role.” The winner of this competition has been announced and it ...
September 30, 2010
Australian men have a reputation for being sexist and chauvinistic, but Reservoir Dad is proving that wrong with his Most Mentally Sexy Dad competition. Morning Quickie’s resident man has been running this competition for the last year to find men who are mentally sexy. He came up with the idea after seeing a survey that showed that women’s ...
September 14, 2010
Men are useless. They are either power-hungry jerks or lazy no-good leeches. This world is all about women versus men and the only way the women can get ahead in life is to band together and fight their way to the top. This is the way the world in painted in Lipstick Jungle. It was ...
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September 7, 2010
Feminism threw a wrench in the works, not only redefining womanhood, but in many ways obliterating the foundation of masculinity. Manhood for Amateurs is Michael Chabon’s attempt to explore the issue, yet it is blessedly free from lectures about the subject. It’s salvation lies in the tagline, which reads: The Pleasures and Regrets of a ...
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August 12, 2010
Men don’t understand women. Women train their boyfriends to behave the way they want. It’s all a bit nuts, if you ask me. One men’s magazine has said that women have brainwashed men into behaving certain ways and doing things for them. What do we think about this? Read on.
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May 31, 2010
Men, is your wife pregnant? Do you want to help at antenatal classes and attend the birth? Researchers say this might be a bad idea and it would be better if you were left out. Dr. Ives, who did a two-year study, says that there is a “‘false, modern rhetoric of equal involvement that has ...
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February 19, 2010
Almost half of marriages end in divorce these days. “Why?” you ask. Well clearly it’s because women no longer submit to their husbands! At least according to Rev Mark Oden in Kent, England.
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December 11, 2009
Testosterone’s has been shown in a study to “encourage decency and fair play”. It looks like in the battle between nature and nurture, in terms of men being more aggressive because of their hormones, that nurture has won this round. When they gave participants in the study a placebo, but they thought they had been given testosterone, ...
November 23, 2009
What is masculinity? Two new university men’s groups are coming under fire for daring to have meetings to attempt to answer the question. Apparently it is undermining feminism.