NCFM NOTE: If you support circumcision, regardless of your rationale, search the Internet for “botched circumcisions”. Look at the pictures. Look at the mutilated little boys, many of whom die from the procedure. Then, please, honestly re evaluate your rationale for supporting circumcision. __________________________________________ Circumcised men have more difficulties reaching orgasm, and their female...
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The Bold, Independent Woman Of Today and the “Good” Men and Boys in Her Life: A Sampling of Mainstream Media Representations Peter Allemano Abstract For decades, there has been an abundance of negative portrayals of men and boys in mainstream media, but here and there, especially in recent years, ostensibly “positive” portrayals have...
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Men’s Health Australia Media Watch Report 2011 Monday, November 28, 2011 View Source Article In November 2007, Greg Andresen was contracted by Men’s Health SA (MHSA – at that time the South Australian Men’s Health Alliance – SAMHA) to conduct a one-day-a-week Media Watch role on behalf of SAMHA and its collaborative partners, the Men’s...
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I would just like to thank Fathers4Equality for all the information and support your group has made available to me over the years, especially during the times when I felt completely dissolutioned and abandoned by the family law system in this country. Despite the hardships along the way, and for the one year when...
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by Marc Angelucci: Today the Los Angeles Daily Journal printed Marc Angelucci’s op-ed responding to the American Medical Association’s irresponsible and unexamined 11/15/11 statement that male circumcision has documented health benefits. The AMA completely disregarded what national medical associations worldwide are saying, and based on some of their responses on Facebook it appears...
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Hi NCFM! Press release: Friday, November 4th, 2011: UK student activist Tom Martin interviews clueless university students about “Learnt Sexism” and discrimination against men. Tom Martin, the man suing the London School of Economics (LSE) for discrimination against men in one of its gender studies Masters degrees, appears in a new video asking LSE...
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By Steven Svoboda NCFM Public Relations Director How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth. New York: Encounter Books, 2010. www.encounterbooks.com. 47 pp. $5.99. Review by J. Steven Svoboda. How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America by Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the sixteenth in a series of small chapbooks Encounter Books is offering in a...
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By Peter Allemano NCFM Honorary Member This Fall, I began my seventh academic year of volunteering for the Power Lunch literacy program, which is operated by the “Everybody Wins! Foundation.” Under the sponsorship of my employer, one day every week I visit a nearby elementary school and read one-on-one with my designated “buddy” during...
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By NCFM Advisor Richard Davis Above all thought, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in the process of turning into them. Phillip Larkin, (1922-1986) The Massachusetts Constitution The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was written by John Adams, Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin. It was formally accepted...
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Friday 28 October 2011 15.30 EDT Has the ‘new man’ triumphed at last The Guardian By William Leith Are you a man growing a moustache for charity next month? Do you look after the kids? The new man has triumphed, argues one father – and it’s to be celebrated There are now 10 times...
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Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System that’s Leaving Them Behind. By Richard Whitmire. New York: AMACOM, 2010. 238 pp. $24.95. www.amacombooks.org. Review by J. Steven Svoboda NCFM Public Relations Director Journalist Richard Whitmire has written and the American Management Association’s publishing wing AMACOM has published a nuts-and-bolts book about boys’...
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The Global Victim Rape of Man It is overwhelming enough to try and grasp gender reality here in our own culture without presuming to understand gender reality within foreign cultures that are alien to us. Convincing the reader that it all balances out in our western industrial culture would be victory enough for my...
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Fathers’ Day in Democratic Republic of Georgia! Saturday, October 15th, is Fathers’ Day here in Georgia (as in Russia rather than next to Alabama)! As some of you may recall, I petitioned the Georgian Parliament to create a Father’s Day, or turn March 3rd (currently Mother’s Day) into Parent’s Day. You can get more...
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Grass Roots Are Looking Nice and Blue This Year (for raising awareness about prostate cancer) “Person by person, group by group, the prostate cancer blue movement appears to be taking root nicely. LA City Hall is going blue for the first time ever September 16-18. Prostate cancer advocates who have long yearned to see more...
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MORE MALE TEACHERS NEEDED About this time last year Nipissing University Schulich School of Education professors Dr. Douglas Gosse and Dr. Mike Parr have released a new report that discusses the importance of, and the barriers faced by, male teachers in the primary/junior classrooms in Ontario. According to a 2008 Statistics Canada report,...
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According to a article in Men’s Health Forum, data from a massive study reported in the State of Men’s Health in Europe, shows that European men’s health is dismal compared to European women. MHF listed the key findings from the Report’s press release: Although men are living longer that ever before, the current decline...
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