Men’s pervasive burden of performance
Douglas Galbi and performance anxiety.
Shameful anti-male bigotry in the study of honor-based killings
Douglas Galbi takes on feminism’s sexist definition of honor killings.
Coverture, domestic violence & criminalization of men
Douglas Galby discusses the common-law concept of coverture and its negative impact on men.
Evolutionary analysis devalues men relative to women
“Psychology of devaluing men’s lives doesn’t depend on failures in modern evolutionary thought. The medieval evolutionary analysis also devalued men.”
Men should be paid for their erection labor
You probably understand that construction workers are hard workers. But do you realize that many men are continually engaged in erection labor? Women have no idea how draining men’s natural reproductive functioning can be. Men’s reproductive labor is less visible and less appreciated than women’s reproductive labor. The raucous medieval French text Les Quinze joyes …
Propertius & Prudentius show gender allocation of credit and blame
To demonstrate romantic sensibility and gain warm acclaim, a successful man often proclaims that he owes all his success to his wife. Under the common law of coverture, a husband is responsible for all the crimes his wife commits. Such examples aren’t unusual. Crediting women while blaming men underpins the modern idea of gender equality. …
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Truthful, ancient rule of the phallus: penetration provides pleasure
Almost as hateful as mendacious mainstream media reports that nearly a quarter of men are rapists is the scholarly construction of the penis as an instrument of political domination. That penal construction dominates scholarly understanding of ancient Greco-Roman sexuality. Ideology of the reign of the phallus is associated with crude stereotypes, deeply rooted hostility toward …
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Angels save Gawain from marriage
Sometimes your friends really aren’t looking out for your best interests. Especially if they’re married, and they’re urging you to marry.
