463 cases of female genital mutilation are identified in English hospitals every month. (The Sunday Times) Despite the fact that it is illegal, it has been estimated that over 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK each year, and that 66,000 women in the …
38% of British women believe in God, compared to just 24% of men. 61% of women and 35% of men think there is an afterlife. (1970 British Cohort Study/The Daily Telegraph)
Yesterday I discussed the changing role of men in the Western world, and the background to male confusion in the face of feminism and feminibe assertiveness. I believe Epicurus, were he alive today, would say that the problem was not really that great. What men should do is to abandon the idea of “women’s work” …
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Women are typically supposed to be better at planning, cooperation and synthesising information, listening and nurturing. If this is, in general, correct then what qualities are essentially masculine? Thoughtful men are asking themselves what their role now is in a world (a Western world, anyway) in which gender is cessing to matter so much, and …
