The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear
Translated by Professor D. L. Ashliman. I hope you will enjoy this fairy tale. The significance of it in the context of male maturity will be discussed in a few days. A father had two sons. The oldest one was clever and intelligent, and knew how to manage everything, but the youngest one was stupid […]
The Ghost Writer
Known to US audiences as The Ghost Writer, the perhaps slightly misleadingly UK-titled The Ghost appeared on screens across the UK in April last year to pretty mixed reviews. Recently, it was given a new lease of life as part of the new Orange Thursdays offer, which lets customers download a film from iTunes every […]
The Lion King
Today we don’t have any myths to tell our children in the modern world. Fortunately we can rely on the myths that are transmitted through the movies. A good example of a movie that I let my boys watch is Disney’s modern classic The Lion King since it contains many good lesions for a boy […]
The terror of young men
About a week prior to the Oslo terror on July 22, I was in a part of town I rarely visit. I was en-route to an exciting adventure at IKEA and was waiting for the bus that would complete my journey. As I was scanning the features of the recently erected mosque there, I noticed […]
The victim cramp of cultural relativists (and how dropping it could save us all)
I read this short article over at the Good Men Project. Something about some right wing Republican talking about African Americans and who said this in an interview: Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and […]
Groundhog Day
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from Masculinity-Movies.com. Masculinity-Movies.com is not associated with the ManKind Project, Inc. Posts from Masculinity-movies.com do not necessarily represent the views of the ManKind Project. Click here Masculinity-Movies.com Groundhog Day is a comedy far outside of the trodden path. The story of Bill Murray’s “Phil” and his journey to free himself from an eternity reliving the same...