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Feminist writer Rebecca Traister and I debated the question "Is America Bashing Its Men?" in the June issue of Atlanta Life Magazine (pictured). Traister is a staff writer at Salon.com who has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and others. Traister and I didn't agree on much of anything. We were asked the following three questions: 1) Why are men’s issues in the areas of divorce, child custody and support, false accusations of rape, and discrimination in the workplace and in society almost never covered by the mainstream news media? 2) It seems atypical to see men...

There are legitimate arguments on both sides of the immigration debate, but most reasonable people on both sides acknowledge that most immigrants are hard-working, decent people who (understandably) came to the US for a chance at a better life. Not the National Organization for Women. In a recent statement I would've more expected from the Ku Klux Klan than from NOW, NOW president Kim Gandy (pictured) describes immigrant men as men who "hit their [wives] frequently," threaten to put their wives and children on the street if they "ask them to buy groceries or clothes for the kids" and make...

A school board's message: Women good, men bad Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2007Note: this column ran on hard copy's Editorial Page The Peel District School Board is one of Canada's largest, as its $1-billion budget, 13,000 academic staff, 145,000 students and 226 schools attest. Imagine the burden of responsibility felt by its trustees, knowing so many tender and malleable young minds are in their hands. So if signing off on an official school board document, a pamphlet say, tasked with guiding thousands of teachers in negotiating sensitive domestic issues with certain students, such a board...

Hotel Reservation: Floor For Women Only New Hotel To Open In September POSTED: 8:46 am EDT May 17, 2007 E-mail this story | Print this story GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- No men allowed. That will be the rule on the the entire 19th floor of a new J.W. Marriott hotel being built in Grand Rapids, Mich. A lounge at the hotel also will be reserved for women only when the hotel opens in September. Spokeswoman Andrea Groom said more than half of all business travelers are women. She told The Grand Rapids Press that they want be able to relax...

Does getting him a beer count as work?Have women turned what were once leisure activities into chores? Meghan Daum The Los Angeles Times April 28, 2007 IF YOU'RE ONE of those women for whom the only hobby more satisfying than aromatherapy wreath-making is complaining about how men don't work hard enough, I'm afraid your lament license has just been revoked. A new study by researchers in Berlin, Brussels and Texas asked participants in 25 countries to keep track of how they spent their days...

For want of a father Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Earlier this month, the Vanier Institute of the Family published a report -- The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents who exhibit Problematic Behaviours: Multiple Causes -- claiming to identify the sources of a well-documented rise in youth behavioural problems since 1970. According to lead author Anne-Marie Ambert, a retired York University sociology professor, the situation is dire. She alleges that a "disturbing shift of behaviour" over the last 35 years is producing severe behavioural problems in one of five children today; and...

Where men can be men John Turley-ewart, National Post Published: Saturday, January 13, 2007 There comes a time in every man's week when he wants a little time away from womenfolk--a time when he can unwind with other fellows in the congenial surroundings of a men's lounge at his golf or tennis club; where the Scotch is old; the big screen TV lights up with football or hockey (instead of some ninny reality show about refurbishing a kitchen or remaking some secretary's makeup and hairdo) and a ticker tape runs across the bottom telling him how wealthy his stocks...

Lone gunman: The Ecole Polytechnique massacre was a freak tragedy. So why is every man made to feel guilty for it? Barbara Kay, The National Post Published: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 Seventeen years ago today Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada's worst mass murder. From this human tragedy of no inherent political significance, a political industry emerged, which produced in the massacre's name: gun control laws, lavish public spending on women's causes, feminist-guided school curricula and a high tolerance for overt misandry. In the massacre's wake, ideologues elevated Lepine's rampage...

Sins of the mother Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, October 11, 2006 We have heard the story before. The names change, the province changes, the particulars of the custody case change, the age of the dead child changes, but some things stay the same when a mother kills her own children: Any objective observer can see the tragedy coming a mile away, the children are not removed from her toxic embrace before it happens, and the mother is not only insufficiently punished (if at all) for the crime, but receives public sympathy on the assumption she was driven to...

Misandry and why men have a right to complainhttp://www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2003/03/06/Commentary/Misandry.And.Why.Men.Have.A.Right.To.Complain-387438-page2.shtml?norewrite200610060901&sourcedomain=www.dailycampus.com http://tinyurl.com/n3xmf Posted: 3/6/03 Philip Wylie, in his prophetic book on American culture, "Generation of Vipers," places much emphasis on the Law of Oppositeness. The Law is not his, as he acknowledges, but is an old idea that there is an inherent dichotomy in the world around us. Natural phenomena would include light and dark, good and evil, or man and woman (one can see that Taoism plays a large part in Wylie's theories). Wylie also extends the law to include responses to environmental stimuli. He writes that the law recognizes "Newton's...

The death of manlinesshttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52283 Posted: October 5, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Mark Foley is a sick man in a sick culture. He apparently was abused by a priest as a child, and then he, too, abused House pages (how extensively is uncertain) before it ruined him. By the way, as his attorney affirmed on Tuesday, Mark Foley "is a gay man." Aside from the political tides generated by Foley's resignation, there are much larger cultural tsunamis swashing round. The Foley scandal intensifies the strain on relationships between youth and adults. It is particularly damaging for relations between old men and...

Status of Women Canada should go London Free Press Wednesday, October 4, 2006 By RORY LEISHMAN In announcing plans last week to cut $1 billion in wasteful government spending, the Harper government disclosed that it will eliminate the Law Commission of Canada and the federal Court Challenges Program, while cutting spending for Status of Women Canada. These reforms are all to the good, except that the government should not just cut, but also eliminate, all funding for Status of Women Canada. All three of these bodies are holdovers from the big-spending era of the 1970s when the Trudeau Liberals...

Let boys be boys Calgary Sun Fri, September 29, 2006 By JOSE RODRIGUEZ For the love of God, turn off the gender blender. No man in his right mind would argue that women don't deserve equal pay, equal respect and equal status. But mandating that girls have the right to play on boys' teams has nothing to do with advancing women's rights, and if anything, it will only end up hurting both sexes. Back in 1992, Canadian goalie Manon Rheaume made history as the first woman to lace up for an NHL team. She gave up two goals on...

Losing the right to a mommy and daddy Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, September 27, 2006 "I believe children have the right to a mother and a father, and preferably their biological parents." These words -- I agree with them, and so do the UN Conventions of the Child -- were once the equivalent of saying you believed in peace on Earth and goodwill toward men. But in postmodern societies obsessed with gender equity, as ours has been for the past quarter-century, "mother and father" and "biological parents" have become politically incorrect locutions when joined to "children's rights." Just...

Disenfranchised dads Barbara Kay National Post Thursday, June 29, 2006 A simple way to confirm that a particular ideology has captured mainstream culture is to monitor the political vigour or sluggishness around the causes that it deems "correct" and "incorrect." Gay marriage, a "correct" feminist cause, affects 2% of the population and enjoys about 50% public support -- yet was passed into law at the speed of light, without meaningful consultation or debate. But decades-long appeals for reform to outdated custody laws, affecting 40% of the population (many more tangentially), languish in near-obscurity. And though eight years have passed...

Ideology trumps equality Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, June 21, 2006 'For Heaven's sake, a man is cheating on you, you do what every wife in this country does: You take him to the cleaners. Get his house, car, kids -- make him wish he was dead." Those were the words of a female assistant district attorney explaining to a Texas jury in 2003 that there was no need for defendant Clara Harris to have resorted to murdering her philandering husband (she drove his new Cadillac back and forth over his body before horrified onlookers -- when family law...

A day for men to hope David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, June 18, 2006 Well, just in time for Father's Day, two thick tomes have landed in my snail mail, with a third promised. They are from the courageous McGill-Queen's University Press, and I will give you their full titles, for these give a fair idea what's inside. One is Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture. The other is Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men. Both are by the team of Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young. Spreading...

Father's Day lament By Phyllis Schlafly townhall.com Jun 19, 2006 On Father's Day we will again hear paeans of praise about the importance of fathers. This year, we will also hear extra rhetoric from those who argue that we need a federal Marriage Amendment because children need parents of both sexes, a father and a mother. But the elephant in the parlor is the millions of children of divorced parents, who need their father just as much as children in intact marriages, if not more. Maintaining the father's love and authority is crucial when a child's life is turned...

Welcome to the matriarchy Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, June 14, 2006 TORONTO - If you live in Toronto, you may have noticed the Bathurst Street billboards sponsored by Jewish Women International Canada (JWIC). They all display the same emotive ad, featuring a shame-suffused, Jewish-looking woman, submissively tilting her face to offer a brutalized eye to the public gaze. The caption reads: "There is a Jewish woman you know being abused." Community response has so far been equivocal, but muted. Now imagine public reaction to an alternative billboard message: an anguished man staring down from a 12-story ledge, captioned...

Viroqua, WI - Viroqua High School officials chose to cancel tomorrow's Diversity Day activities after Liberty Counsel presented legal precedent requiring inclusion of the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals. The school scheduled sessions for the students that presented the viewpoints of Hmong, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, African-Americans, homosexuals, Latinos, Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged, and the economically disadvantaged, but not Christians or former homosexuals. Diversity Day would have been held tomorrow, March 23, 2006. After a school official stated that the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals would be excluded, a resident contacted Liberty Counsel on behalf of many other...