Tag: Men

October 27, 2014 Michael Kaufman

A nasty, woman-hating group of men has created a fake White Ribbon website. Their goal is to spread myths about rape and violence against women, confuse people about the very real problem of men’s violence against women, and con people into giving them money. I’m very proud to reprint the response by the Canadian White…

February 6, 2014 Michael Kaufman

A version of this post originally appeared in The Telegraph (London, UK) on January 30, 2014 It’s been many years since I’ve heard anyone utter the words, “Act ladylike.” But it’s hard to go more than a few hours without hearing some version of “be a man”. I couldn’t even escape it this week while…

March 5, 2011 Michael Kaufman

It’s another day for most women in the world: breakfast is cooked, diapers are changed, fields are tended, computers switched on, patients treated, students taught, and houses cleaned. In the distance, groups of men thump the drums of war. They talk of the cleansing power of explosives stuffed into a car.  They anonymously rain missiles…

February 18, 2011 Michael Kaufman

A million women hit the streets in 230 Italian cities on February 13.  400,000, alone, marched in Rome.   Media around the world played it up as a march against the sleezy, likely-Mafia-connected, Prime Minister Berlusconi who seems to have a thing for hair dye, plastic surgery, and buying sex from young women. I wondered if…