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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By Robert Yourell, NCFM Baja Liaison Misrepresentation of domestic violence even from Mexico… As if fear of violence in Mexico hasn’t done enough damage, there is now a statistic that gives a very bad and wrong impression about Mexican households and Mexican men. You will hear it interpreted to mean that 67% of Mexican...
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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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Penn and Solomon Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:49 p.m. Regarding the article, “Sean Penn stumps in Petaluma for congressional candidate,” that appeared on petaluma360.com on Aug. 23, I found it ironic that Norman Solomon would use a Hollywood celebrity in order to attract...
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Male Electorate Up For Grabs In 2008, men represented 47% of the total voting public. But of all the major blocs of the American electorate, the male electorate is probably the least-understood and most-ignored. As TV commentator Tucker Carlson explains, men represent “America’s single most important voting bloc.” Male Electorate Swings Most Races Although...
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Mumbai Surabhi Vaya, Hindustan Times Mumbai, August 18, 2011 The state has decided not to proceed with perjury charges against the domestic help of Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, convicted of rape, who had turned hostile during the trial after claiming that the actor had raped her. Public prosecutor Kashinath Dige told the Hindustan Times...
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By Carl Agustsson NCFM Liaison Democratic Republic of Georgia With the 10-year anniversary of the horrible attacks of September 11th right around the corner, I decided to write an article about one of its effects: the introduction of the Supplemental DS-157 Nonimmigrant Visa Application Form. The existence of the Supplemental DS-157 form for nonimmigrant...
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