So What is a Zeta Male Anyway?
Social expectations of both alphas and betas (being providers, chivalry, etc) are tossed aside, and we refuse to see ourselves as inferior because of it. We are doing what we want, taking our lives into our own hands.
Social expectations of both alphas and betas (being providers, chivalry, etc) are tossed aside, and we refuse to see ourselves as inferior because of it. We are doing what we want, taking our lives into our own hands.
What Sacrifice Is, and What it Isn’t What is Sacrifice? So apparently I don’t get to not make a sacrifice, huh? But a sacrifice always has a collector. Who is this collector, and what does he intend to do with my repeatedly sacrificed selves? Let me offer my most concise, distilled definition: Sacrifice is an …
The ‘Value’ of Self-Devaluation Author’s note: Before anything, I want to make it absolutely clear that this article is a criticism of the idea of sacrifice as postulated and celebrated in our society as a standard of living and expectation, especially upon men. It is not an admonishment of veterans who have suffered physical …
The question still hangs over the whole thing though. How the Hell did we allow things to get this bad? How did it become so acceptable to treat men and boys like disposable robots that exist only to please women; to produce and pay taxes?
For 13 years I worked as a case manager and investigator handling child abuse cases for one of the largest child welfare agencies in the U.S.. During that time I saw the results of some of the most horrific violence and abuse imaginable. I saw the striped scars from shoulder to heal on the back and legs of a …
Long before CGI, humans being menaced by giant creatures they had previously dwarfed had great cinematic allure. In particular, the 1950’s were rife with science fiction films involving tiny creatures grown gigantic. To wit: YEAR CREATURE(S) TITLE 1954 Ant Them! 1956 Tarantula Tarantula 1957 Scorpion The Black Scorpion 1957 Grasshopper Beginning of …
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The lives of most boys and men are now more unfulfilling than ever before in postmodern America. It is situation the beginnings of which arguably can be traced back to the post-World War II generation of men. That is an important history to be told. In general, misandry—typically dressed down in the media in the …
Ten years ago today Janice Fiamengo spoke at the University of Toronto. The events of that day have passed in to lore.
My name is Travis Scott. You don’t know who I am, but I’m here to tell you I’ve suffered from suicidal ideation almost my entire life. (For those who don’t know, this means I’ve suffered from thoughts of killing myself). I’ve kept my suicidal ideation under the rug for many, many years. Never in my …
The Washington Post recently published a review of a book Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis by contributing columnist, former Indiana governor, and recent Purdue president Mitch Daniels.i The book “…depicts in deeply documented fashion the ‘invisible crisis’ that is the ‘decimation’ of the adult male workforce in America.” Much of Mr. Daniel’s article discusses …
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