TDOM | July 30, 2010
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Pet Peeves With this article I am launching a new category of posts for my blog. It will consist of short blurbs about various things that irritate me. They may or may not fall into one of my other categories. “Don’t Blame the Victim” “Don’t blame the victim” is one of [...]
TDOM | July 29, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Hip Hip Hooray! I’d like to say a great big thank you to everyone who come to visit. Today the blog reached another big milestone and should reach another in a day or two. Today we reached 10K page views and are quickly approaching 2K visitors. I started the blog in June [...]
TDOM | July 29, 2010
Will men be granted equal protection under the law? I recently wrote an article discussing Rape and False Rape Allegations. A recent news story from Israel raises several questions regarding consent and the definition of the crime of rape. The story, Arab man who posed as Jew to seduce woman convicted of rape, states that [...]
TDOM | July 28, 2010
With privilege comes responsibility I found this on another blog. The author has granted permission for it to be used by anyone provided the reference to Peggy McIntosh, who apparently inspired it, remains. In 1990, Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh wrote an essay called “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. Her work was about White [...]
TDOM | July 26, 2010
Is it The End of Men? Hannah Rosin recently published an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled The End of Men in which she claims that men are (or soon will be) second class citizens. One of the issues discussed in that article concerned unemployment and the failure to pay child support. She mentions a [...]
TDOM | July 19, 2010
As is often the case, this post is inspired by a discussion on another blog, True Equality. What follows is a comment (modified) that I made on a discussion about the nature of truth. What is or is not true is frequently dependent upon perspective. How one defines truth is a fundamental philosophical argument. There [...]
TDOM | July 8, 2010
Image via Wikipedia A man is nothing more than a penis with legs and a woman controls a man by controlling his penis. That’s the message of 40 Days and 40 Nights. The movie is misandry personified, and it’s not exactly complimentary to women either. Matt (Josh Hartnett) is using cheap sex to try and [...]
TDOM | July 6, 2010
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Accepting a challenge A few weeks ago, I was asked by a commenter on another site (True Equality) to define rape. A legal definition could have sufficed and I will present one here, however, such a definition is insufficient to comprise a complete discussion of the topic. A complete [...]
TDOM | July 4, 2010
Image by The U.S. National Archives via Flickr Happy 4th of July Most Americans don’t realize that the Continental Congress did not declare indenpendence on July 4th, 1776. That was done on July 2. July 4th was the day they adopted the Declaration of Independence. The declaration touched of a fierce war with England that [...]
TDOM | July 3, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Burn Baby Burn In general, the harder the wood, the higher the heat, but wood should be chosen as much for flavor as temperature. So choose carefully. I like mesquite for most anything. It has a great flavor and it burns really hot. But hickory, fruit woods, and grape are also highly [...]