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A Plea for Men to be More like Women, not Less

Suicide rates among young males is a genuine social concern. The left should not back away from this simply because the right wing with its Traditionalist, anti-feminist and Men’s Rights groups have gained online hegemony over the issue. Not every conversation that begins with the chilling factual statistics over male suicide in the young has […]

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I’ll tell you who I want, what I really really want.

Emblems VIII
O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of teares

In the 14th Century a man named Francesco Petrarca, surprised at the sophistication and subtlety of the classical works he was beginning to read, came to feel that he was living in a dark age. Petrarch could not have known that six centuries later a similar feeling would wash across the academic world; a feeling […]