Are Men on Strike? Or Are We Being Fired?

Article here. Excerpt:

'I’m not on strike and I refuse to be fired so I guess that makes me Dagney Taggart, which is an odd way to open a review about a book that concerns men’s rights.

If you haven’t heard the story yet, I’m sure you’ve heard several like it. In this particular incident, while at school, a 13 year old boy intervened when one classmate pulled a knife on another. He tackled the aggressor, who already had his victim in a head lock, possibly saving the other boy from serious injury or worse. He showed quick thinking, resolve, courage, and demonstrated an ethical code that placed the life of another on a par with his own.

So of course, he was punished. He was called out of class, lectured, and sent home. His mother was told that “Sir John A. Macdonald junior high school does not ‘condone heroics,’ and that her son should have sought out a teacher instead.” When she asked about the life of the other student, the school vice principle told her that it was “beside the point.”
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What does this have to do with a book on men and why they are on strike? Well it just goes to illustrate Dr. Helen Smith’s point that men are not getting married, not becoming fathers, and not going to college, not because they are lazy, spoiled, or refuse to grow up, but because of things like what happened to the young man at Sir John A. Macdonald Junior High. She says that men are reacting rationally to a constant barrage of messages that all say the same thing, that men are nothing more than defective women and they need to be fixed.'