The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear
Nov17

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 […]

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The Ghost Writer
Oct16

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 […]

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The Lion King
Sep27

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 […]

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The terror of young men
Sep10

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 […]

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The victim cramp of cultural relativists (and how dropping it could save us all)
Jul13

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 […]

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Groundhog Day
May08

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...

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