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Writer • Evie Magazine • Institute for Family Studies • Advocate for fathers and the mental health, education and well-being of our boys. Views my own.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2014
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It’s time to find compassion for boys and men. A shift in public perspective is overdue, and progress can accelerate if women—particularly those with liberal values—champion this cause, because the future isn’t female: The future is everyone. New from me for the @latimes 🙌 latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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This is great! I love progress. The International Council for Men and Boys (ICMB) just released their first Global State of Men and Boys Report in time for International Men’s Day! It documents 12 major disparities affecting boys, men and fathers worldwide. We need more work like this. Glad to see it. Now it’s time to take action! Let’s share it around. Read the report here: menandboys.net/foundations/
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“Men started the sex war.” I… don’t think that’s accurate.
🇬🇧 Author Kathy Lette demands men "surrender" to feminism Speaking amid scandals involving David Walliams and Russell Brand, Lette claimed men must negotiate terms of surrender to be liberated from being macho breadwinners. “Men started the sex war. It's time we called a truce. How lovely it would be to be liberated from being the breadwinner, having to be macho all the time. Feminism is good for men.” Writer: Naz
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The UN is doing it again… Their sexism and discrimination is flabbergasting. Shouldn’t we put all people at the “heart” of climate action? Why only girls and women? It’s like boys and men don’t even exist to them.
1.5 billion women & girls live in climate hotspots. At #COP31, @UN_Women urges stronger #ClimateAction that puts women’s rights at its heart, warning that the climate crisis could push up to 141 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2050. unwomen.org/en/news-stories/…
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Why is the answer to boys’ challenges always “the boys need to change”?
When someone complains that there are no modern books that appeal to boys, and your response is that they should be required to adjust their tastes and read books made for girls, you're demonstrating the opposite of empathy through your refusal to model the minds of others.
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International Men’s Day is one week away. This year’s theme is “The Future is Everyone.” I hope our leaders in America and the UN officially say this year, unapologetically, that boys and men matter, too.
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We’re seeing progress around the world. Slowly, yes, but women are recognizing the need to support men and address the challenges they face, too. I hope we see more and more of this in the year to come. The future is everyone!
Women are rallying in support of men, side-by-side in recognition of the challenges being faced by boys, young men, fathers, and men in general. In April and May this year, thousands of men and women took to the streets in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. There were dozens of marches in cities throughout Mexico, including the video that's attached to this post. Participants waved banners declaring “I am a father, not a criminal”. This is how women and men of goodwill create positive change. Awareness raising. Consistent pressure. Organising and coalition building. Specific asks. Building support, from an ever-expanding number of people... endtodv.org/pr/thousands-tak…
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The average prison sentence for drivers who killed women were over twice as long as for drivers who killed men. Why?
"Drivers who killed women received substantially longer sentences than those who killed men. As we see in the table below, the average sentence for killing a woman was 9.7 years, whereas the average sentence for killing a man was 4.4 years." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/b…
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Happy Veterans Day to all the brave men and women who put their lives on the line for all of us, today and throughout history. Thinking about my grandfather today. Such an amazing, brave man who fought for America in WWII. He was one of many. Heroes.
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Moms speak with me all the time who aren’t worried about how their boys will treat the world, but how the world will treat their boys. I was chatting with a young mother with a five year old son and she told me she’s terrified of one day, her son upsetting a girl by breaking up with her or something and the girl throwing false accusations his way. She said fears like this for her son keep her up at night. She saw it happen to a young man she knew, and it destroyed his life. I think more moms need to speak up about the fear of false accusations.
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You’d think if women learned that boys are struggling with reading, there are fewer and fewer books being published to appeal to their interests and have role models, they would have empathy and demand change to help boys. Children. But what we see is contempt, bitterness even mocking of the boys. By grown women. This is because women have a victimhood mentality and us vs. them mentality, instilled and fueled since childhood. It’s destroying women and who we’re meant to be.
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Most research is done with “Men are the problem” as the starting point. This… is the problem.
Is psychology only looking for problems when it studies men? A review of 50 years of masculinity scales found that 78 percent focused mainly on harms, and many overlooked culture and social context. dlvr.​it/TWGjHQ
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“There’s a significant opportunity for the party that takes the time to understand young men and helps them achieve their American dreams." 🎯 @dellavolpe nytimes.com/2026/11/08/opini…
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The aggression and lack of empathy from women I’m seeing go viral towards boys is truly sickening. It seems like first, men were the enemy and shamed. Then young men were the enemy. Now they’re moving on to targeting boys—with so many likes. What kind of a world is this?
Women and girls read books with male protagonists all the time. Maybe boys need to suck it up
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Outrageous. Women have been taught to hate men since we were girls. To view them as oppressors. They are “the enemy.” We have to compete with them. This needs to end. These women are now raising boys and teaching boys with an instilled anti-male bias.
When we say that school isn't great for boys, it's in part because they are increasingly taught by people who hate them. A pipeline of young women has been brainwashed into despising males—so much so that some are comfortable saying publicly that we should abort all boys. She teaches special ed in MD.
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Props to @BBC for highlighting how male spaces and groups benefit men. Liam Powell said his local Andy's Man Club network saved him. "What you realise when [you're] sat in that room with like-minded men is that you're not alone… There's no pressure to talk, there's no pressure on anything. It's just to come and listen and if you feel comfortable [to speak as well]," he added. bbc.com/news/articles/c63elk…
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Chatting with a woman last night who didn’t know me and she was reminiscing over 10 years ago when men paid for everything on dates. “There was none of this 50/50 bullshit.” Why do women expect to have their cake and eat it, too? “Gender expectations for thee but not for me!” I’m tired of the hypocrisy.
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Women are more likely to marry a man with less education than her these days (more are going to have to with the increasing gender gap in higher education!) but research shows they still desire men to earn more. Income is more important than education, and that gender expectation doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
"college-educated women are dipping down into a group of men who do not have a college education, but who do make a good living financially…they’re marrying, for example, someone who’s a general contractor and has his own business" robkhenderson.com/p/women-ha…
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Whenever girls and women face challenges, it’s society’s fault, and we change society. Whenever boys and men face challenges, it’s boys’ and men’s fault, and they have to change for society. This is a problem.
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Men do write these books. They are less likely to get published these days because men are discriminated against—publishing is mostly female and they focus on different topics, their interests and “inclusion” that doesn’t include men.
Men would rather scream at women for the lack of boys reading, rather than, you know, sitting down and writing and some goddamn boys YA novels themselves.
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People think it’s totally acceptable to mock men’s height or other features 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, yet if you mock a woman’s weight or other things that 𝘤𝘢𝘯 be changed, you’re misogynistic and evil. The double standards are so frustrating.
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