RealClearPolitics - Articles by Heather Wilhelm

Save the Males Q & A

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Once I started viewing the world through male eyes - unavoidable if you live only with men, as I have - then you begin to see the hostility out there. Not just from the culture, but from girls and women. Male-bashing, the great bonding agent among women, has trickled down to boy-bashing. Otherwise, anti-male messages are everywhere and insidious. From TV shows that advance the Doofus Dad to cultural messages that men are presumptively predatory, men and masculine traits are generally treated as something that need to be treated, like a disease. Or "fixed." Kind of like Sparky so he'll leave the fire hydrant alone.

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Save The Males

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Ground zero, she argues, is the classroom. "Boys learn early that they belong to the 'bad' sex," Parker writes, "and their female counterparts to the 'good.'" In schools across America, she reports, boys are stifled, feminized, and drugged; curriculum content is gender-equitable to a near-absurd degree ("We've created a new generation of Americans who may be more sensitive, but they don't know much about history," she writes); and years of "dueling girl and boy crises" have morphed into a we're-all-the-same dogma, ultimately translating into Brave New World-style games of tag where "nobody is ever out."
Beyond the schoolyard, Parker writes, "males have been under siege by a culture...

Grand New Party

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

John Adams, HBO Style

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Return of History & End of Dreams

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Incredible Shrinking Evangelical

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Quarrelsome Nation: The 13 American Arguments

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Great American Identity Crisis

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500