Category Archives: Gender Equality

More Seen than Recognized:

Essay review of Vincent, Norah, 2006. Self Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man. New York: Viking Penguin. (c) 2016, Davd I first chose to review this book because i was writing a review of John Howard Griffin’s … Continue reading

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From White Supremacy to Female Supremacy?

The Status of Canadian Men and Families Compared to the Former Plight of Afro-America (c) 20161; Davd Martin, PhD The “Moynihan report” was controversial from its publication. Cited as Anonymous, 1965. The Negro2 Family: The Case for National Action. United … Continue reading

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Patriarchy and Social Class

… The Correlation, the Apex Fallacy, and the Value of Fathers: (c) 2016, Davd As i review and edit this reflection, it’s about half way between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. More money was spent, more fuss was made about … Continue reading

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Stick to the Truth on Mother’s Day

It might make for silly jokes—and better family relationships. (c) 2016, Davd What would Mother’s Day be like if everyone told the truth, the whole truth1, and nothing but the truth? Visualizing such a Mother’s Day, this year, one can … Continue reading

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Intimidation:

…Not the Way to Motivate Good Men (c) 2016, Davd. As Nathanson and Young [2006] have detailed and i have summarized in my review, as Brown (2013) has further detailed for “family law”, much Feminist success in “changing society” has … Continue reading

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Fragile’s Not the Word:

Essay Review of Pinker, Susan, 2008. The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap. [no city listed in flyleaf] Random House of Canada; New York: Simon and Schuster. (c) 2016, Davd I borrowed this book from … Continue reading

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The Devil Herself

… is hiding behind male pronouns. (c) 2016, Davd Evil is not male. Lorena Bobbitt cutting off her husband’s penis, and a few parallel, less famous incidents were no less evil because their perpetrators had ovaries. Nor was what Amanda … Continue reading

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The Apex Fallacy

The Apex Fallacy: ..Sketching and Understanding the Distortion (c) 2015, Davd Here’s an exercise to help us understand how Feminists (some of them male!) can seriously believe men are privileged when we plainly are disadvantaged, why so many girls (and … Continue reading

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If The Genders Be Reversed:

… a Test for Equal Treatment (c) 2012,* Davd, lightly edited 2014, 2015 Even when we know intuitively or from reading that something “is so” or “isn’t so”, it helps to have a measure, or at least an indicator of … Continue reading

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Second Class Like Me[n]:

… To What Extent is the Predicament Ours, 55 Years Later? Essay Review of John Howard Griffin, 1960. Black Like Me. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. cited in the pocket sized Signet edition, New York, “New American Library”, 1961. (review (c) 2015, … Continue reading

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