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In Honor of Uvalde, Let Us Reimagine the Texas Two Step as the Texas Peace Step

Posted on May 25, 2023June 22, 2023 by raokun

Too many guys—wrongly stereotyped as having two left feet—nevertheless too often stand flatfooted on the sidelines while women are at the forefront of actions aimed at preventing gun violence.

Posted in All posts, Editor's blogTagged gun violence

And Now They Want to Arm Our Children?

Posted on February 16, 2023February 21, 2023 by raokun

Parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, need to get off the couch so the Parkland high school generation of anti-gun activists doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting to end the scourge of gun violence.

Posted in All posts, Editor's blogTagged gun violence

In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See: Sandy Hook 10 Years Later

Posted on December 20, 2022 by raokun

If we are ever to radically reduce, if not prevent, this almost exclusively US phenomenon, the murderer’s gender must move from the periphery to the center of the discussion.

Posted in All posts, Editor's blogTagged gun violence

Seeking a Vaccine Against Meanness and Hate

Posted on December 20, 2022 by raokun

Recently, the connection between men’s extremist behavior and right-wing terrorism has come into focus.

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Making “Impregnators” Pay Their Fair Share

Posted on June 10, 2022 by raokun

Making wrongful conception a civil offense would allow pregnant people to financially recover 50 percent of all pregnancy-related costs.

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Will Smith’s Slap Harms the Antisexist Men’s Movement

Posted on April 4, 2022 by raokun

One small step backward for man, one giant leap backward for kind men.

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Putin, Manhood, and Mad Coward Disease

Posted on March 9, 2022March 15, 2022 by raokun

It’s Women’s History Month and in an act of unthinkable atrocity, Mad Vlad Putin is indiscriminately killing women and children across Ukraine. Men, too, of course.

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Voice Male Anthology (by Globe Correspondent Jan Gardner)

Posted on April 9, 2014December 23, 2017 by raokun

For more than 30 years, Voice Male, a newsletter that evolved into a magazine, has published personal essays and articles about domestic violence, sexism, sexual abuse, masculinity, and fathering.

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Voice Male: the Book

Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement
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