Reminder: Guys Studies, this Wednesday, April 7

April 5, 2010

Since you won’t be hearing about it on Oprah – since, among other reasons, chances are, being a guy, you don’t have the luxury of lazing around the house all day watch TV – I’m giving you this reminder about the special program scheduled for this Wednesday, April 7, which you can attend by teleconference for only $15.

The program is a gathering of academicians drawn from a range of disciplines to examine the declining state of guys.

As most of us have figured out by now, if we don’t stand up for ourselves and our fellow guys, no one will. “Equal opportunity” long ago gave way to “empowerment.” Women just managed to have gender rating eliminated from health insurance – so now those of you that don’t get laid much or who do get laid but are vigilant about condom use – will have the honor of underwriting the cost of HPV-related health care treatment for chicks that refuse to fuck you – or who at least refuse to fuck you unless you pay them one way or another.

Meanwhile, of course, gender rating in auto insurance, which generally keeps the cost lower for women than guys, will continue.

I have long warned than a substantial segment of the Western female populace seeks as their unstated end goal a sort of reverse Saudi Arabia, albeit one where guys can drive, but only to work.

If the thought of that doesn’t concern you, bear in mind that one of the few statistical disparities that feminists rarely complain about is the extraordinarily lopsided combat death ratio. They don’t mind that they so rarely get killed in battle. By contrast, Saudi sheikhs don’t send their women off to war. Indeed, they take very good care of them, even if just with sexual purposes in mind. But Western women, increasing in love with their vibrators, dildos, and each others’ bodies, would have far less such incentive if they are in charge.

Don’t assume anything uglier than anything you can even conceive of is possible if we don’t start defending ourselves now. If your over 40, your mothers and grandmothers are probably too old to be influential, or will be soon. If your under 40, its likely that when your mother thinks of “men” she thinks of her ex-husband(s), babydaddy(ies), and the thugs that fucked her and dumped her. Unless you’re under 18 and your mother happens to be friends with a female Florida school teacher, you can expect little more than refuge. Like Anne Frank. And you know how well that worked out.

We need to defend ourselves now, within the system, so it doesn’t have to be resolved in the street.

The live teleconferenced colloquium will be co-chaired by Judith Kleinfeld, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Boys Project at the University of Alaska, and Lionel Tiger, PhD, Rutgers University Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology. It will encompass a broad range of topics relevant to the study of guys in contemporary society ranging from our roles in the family and workforce, as well as our physical and emotional health, to the growing problem of misandry—the hatred of guys, an unacknowledged but underlying socio-cultural, economic, political and legal phenomenon endangering the well-being of both genders.

As I said, it is only $15 to sign up online for the two-hour teleconference. You can sign up by clicking on the above banner.

The teleconference runs from 11AM to 1PM, so you can listen-in over a cell phone during lunch hour and neither your wife nor girlfriend nor employer will even know.

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