Alexander Seguin's List: Anth498/Mens Studies

• The On Step Institute (OSI) is hosting a Symposium on Male Studies at Wagner  College in Staten Island, New York on April 7th, 2010
• to ending the feminist stranglehold on higher education and taking the fight  against misandry to the university level.

• Why does it  seem that American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are  receding, that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority  of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems  elusive?
• to fatherless young men growing up being told that natural male behavior is  wrong, and feminization is normal.
• The Masculinity Vacuum in Entertainment : Take a look at the  collage of entertainers below, which will be relevant if you are older than  30.  All of them were prominent in the 1980s, some spilling over on either  side of that decade.
• that there are far fewer comparable personas produced by Hollywood today. 
• As diverse and imperfect as these characters were, they were all examples of  masculinity. 
• represented different archetypes,
• from the father to the leader to the ladies man to the rugged outdoorsman to the  protector.
• At this point, you might be feeling a deep inner emptiness lamenting a bygone  age, as the paucity of proudly, inspiringly masculine characters in  modern entertainment becomes clear. 
• Men are shown either as thuggish degenerates, or as effete androgynes.
• they are conspicuously absent
• Modern entertainment typically shows businessmen as villains, and husbands  as bumbling dimwits that are always under the command of the all-powerful wife,  who is never wrong.
• but never to men who have suffered great injustices. 
• sympathetic portrayal to a wronged woman,
• false feminist myths such as a belief that women are underpaid relative to men  for the same output of work, or that adultery and domestic violence are actions  committed exclusively by men, are embedded even within the dialog of  sitcoms and legal dramas. 
• This trains women to disrespect men, wives to think poorly of their husbands,  and girls to devalue the importance of their fathers, which leads to  the normalization of single motherhood (obviously with taxpayer subsidies),  despite the reality that most single mothers are not victims, but merely  women who rode a carousel of men with reckless abandon. 
• women being deceived outright about the realities of the sexual market,
• normalize single motherhood and attempted 'cougarhood' are glorified,
• Genetic research has shown that before the modern era, 80%  of women managed to reproduce, but only 40% of men did.
• few top men had multiple wives, while the bottom 60% had no mating prospects at  all.
• did not mind sharing the top man with multiple other women, ultimately deciding  that being one of four women sharing an 'alpha' was still more  preferable than having the undivided attention of a 'beta'. 
• As a result, women are the first to want into a monogamous relationship, and the  first to want out. 
• women who destroyed the marriage, despite  the fact that 90% of divorces are initiated by women. 
• Furthermore, when women destroy the commitment, there is great harm to children,  and the woman demands present and future payments from the man she is  abandoning.
• The Four Sirens : Four unrelated forces simultaneously combined  to entirely distort the balance of civilization built on the biological  realities of men and women.
• 1) Easy contraception (condoms, pills, and abortions):
• 2) 'No fault' divorce, asset division, and alimony :
• 3) Female economic freedom :
• 4) Pro-female social engineering : Above and beyond the  pro-woman divorce laws,

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• I often visit feminist websites to see what they’re writing about, but recently  I’ve noticed that they are consistently boring and lacking in good material.
• but their journalism has taken a serious dive in terms of quality lately
• I have a theory: because of the increasing domination of formal news  organizations and reporting by women, there is little competition to spur on  greater effort and a zeal for work.
• When an entire industry becomes feminized, it will soon become as repetitive and  predictable as a daytime soap opera.
• Perhaps feminism will sink due to its progressive banality. Sassy women who go  through an endless series of men and complaints as they make their way to middle  age are not all that entertaining — even to women.
• Feministing, for example, has been reading like a NOW press release, with some  40% of their articles about defending abortion. Jezebel has become, for all  intents and purposes, a trashy celeb magazine with puerile writing. And Bitch  magazine, well… that’s just the special needs little sister.
• I’m a little disappointed. It would be nice to have some real, spirited  opposition, but it looks like these little feminists don’t even matter much  anymore.

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• Right now, 60 men in Manchester and 20 in Edinburgh are temporarily sterile.
• They have all agreed to be part of a trial for a ‘promising’ new male  contraceptive jab.
• Each man has had two hormone injections which will prevent him making sperm for  about two months.
• And even though the jab is nominally aimed at men, according to its inventors,  it’s really women who will benefit.
• ‘When we carried out surveys of women, they were enormously enthusiastic.
• ‘The single most common reason was that they wanted to share the responsibility  for contraception.’
• After all, why wouldn’t all women want their men to share the side-effects of  taking hormones and the responsibility for preventing unwanted pregnancy?
• And while men might be a bit wussy about being pumped full of hormones (welcome  to our world), being sterile and enduring side-effects that might include being  spotty and grumpy, surely there will be a huge demand for the jab from women who  are fed up with being in sole charge of contraception and who will rush to sign  up their reluctant partners?
• Yes, in theory it’s all great. Egalitarian, sensible and oh so very modern
• But are we women really crazy about handing over control of our fertility to  men, even men we love and live with?
  
• Of course, there is the ‘would you trust him to take it?’ issue.
• women are the ones who suffer the torments of pregnancy and the burden of  child-rearing, so have the most to lose if their partner is a bit slapdash with  taking his pill or going back to the doctor for his top-up hormone injection.
• men are so hopeless at remembering things and famously reluctant to visit their  GP that we won’t trust him to use contraception properly, and this makes it a  non-starter.
• But there’s another problem with male contraception that is rather less talked  about. And that’s whether most women really are happy giving away our power over  a part of our lives that tends to mean more to us than to men.
• utterly horrified if their men chose new curtains without consulting them, and  would be shocked to their very core if their husband came home with a new sofa,  or even a radical new haircut.
  
• So how would we feel if our man wandered off to the GP and booked himself in for  a jab without consulting us?
• To be honest, I’m not sure that most women would like that at all.
• the stuff of domestic life is jealously guarded by most women
• And there can be nothing more intimate regarding that than a woman’s fertility,  and I am sceptical whether lots of us will want to let go of our responsibility  for it.
• it could mark the end of the very common phenomenon of the  not-entirely-accidental-surprise-baby and the one-bottle- of-wine-too-many-baby  which happens to the most sensible of couples.
• Because, let’s face it, if all women had to wait for men to feel broody (and for  this to coincide with his jab wearing off), the birth rate would drop like a  stone.
• am told that there are men out there who want nothing more than to persuade or  even trick their unwilling wives into having more babies, and thus will be sent  packing to the doctor to get jabbed (will they get a certificate to prove it, I  wonder?), but, frankly, these blokes are surely in the minority.

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