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Back At It

August 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments

I’ve finally got time to blog again, but I bit off a big plug this time, and it’s taking me a while to finish the latest post. Hopefully, I’ll have it up this evening, and there will be some food for thought for men who are trying to figure out what’s gone wrong here in [...]

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The Role of Women in IT: Leaders of Men

July 31st, 2009 · 12 Comments

Because there has been some discussion in the blogosphere lately concerning the role of women in the American workforce, which they are apparently coming to dominate, I thought a 2008 Financial Times (one of my favorite publications) article on women in software development and IT might be worth examining. It starts out with a story [...]

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Health Care and Men

July 29th, 2009 · 22 Comments

As Obama stumps for his new health care plan, this is a good time to start thinking about what the ramifications could be for men. Currently, most of America’s uninsured are men, despite the fact that men suffer more injuries and have a far higher death rate than women. The low priority given to men’s [...]

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Tags: Health/Science · Men

It isn’t Only Christians

July 27th, 2009 · 16 Comments

Recently, I wrote that Christianity is bearing the brunt of a feminist assault. In that post, I also wrote that Orthodox Judaism appears to be free of this problem, but I was evidently wrong. I recently came across an article on the excellent False Rape Society blog detailing the case of a couple of falsely [...]

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HR and the “Mancession”

July 24th, 2009 · 46 Comments

It seems to me that human resources has become one of those gender-specific jobs, like logger or cocktail waitress. In my experience, HR is overwhelmingly female, and these are the people who have the power to hire or fire you. In my limited experience working with female supervisors, I have found them to be less [...]

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Professor Gates’ Tantrum

July 23rd, 2009 · 15 Comments

Harvard prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been making an ass of himself by getting as indignant as he is over his arrest, but he does make a point, if not the one he’d like it to be. Gates is alienating a lot of people by suggesting that his arrest was racially motivated even though [...]

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Tags: Ideas · Men

Marching into the Mist

July 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, has died at the age of 113. He lived in three centuries, but above all was a man of the 20th century, perhaps one of the most painful eras the world has ever seen. Soon they will all be gone, and nothing [...]

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A Case of National Suicide

July 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

In most of the developed world, male and female lifespans are separated by a few years. The average difference for all countries appears to be around four years, but that is because men and women in severely deprived countries have roughly the same lifespan. As development increases, women outpace men until they live around six [...]

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The Changing Place of Women in Traditional Religion

July 17th, 2009 · 17 Comments

As women are becoming increasingly dominant in academia and the philosophically oriented professions, more and more are beginning to take on authority in matters of spirituality. It is not only in the more liberal Protestant churches and Jewish temples in America that we see this, but in the Catholic Church as well. There are even [...]

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When American Girls go to China

July 16th, 2009 · 14 Comments

America is said to be obsessed with beauty and body image, and it has long been argued that the standards of beauty in the US are unnatural and unrealistic. They are allegedly oppressive to women, as well as based on a particular racial standard that many women do not fit into. This, like much of [...]

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Tags: China · Men