Voices of Reason About the Gender Wars

Article here. Excerpt:

'The talk itself was powerful, definitive, supremely logical – and also suitably provocative. Noting, for example, the obsession of feminism with male-on-female violence, Fiamengo pointed out that there are, in fact, “more male than female victims of violence,” that women in lesbian relationships are just about as likely to be the victims of domestic violence as women married to men, and that husbands are physically abused by their wives almost as frequently as wives are physically abused by their husbands. Fiamengo also cannily observed that while “children under the age of twelve are far more likely to be killed by their mothers than by anyone else,” there would surely be a massive feminist outcry “if the media focused relentlessly on mother violence against children” and if there were, say, regularly organized marches and a “ribbon campaign” expressing concern about the innocent victims of such murders.

Last weekend saw another CAFE lecture at the University of Toronto. Either because CAFE provided extra security this time, or because protest fatigue had finally set in, the rioters stayed away. The speaker, whom I profiled here a few months ago, was Miles Groth, editor of New Male Studies and professor at New York’s Wagner College. In his Toronto talk, Groth issued a call for universities to establish Men’s Centers to balance out their ubiquitous Women’s Centers. His argument: thanks largely to “an often noxious and even toxic sociocultural and educational environment” for boys and young men – which is, needless to say, largely the product of man-hating feminism – young males are today undergoing something that fully deserves to be described as a crisis.'