Archive for June 10th, 2008

Free to be a real man - escaping negative male programming - following on from Robert Bly, Jackson Katz and Steve Biddulph

Despite 4 or 5 decades of the women’s movement and a quieter men’s movement positively impacted by Bly, Katz and Biddulph, the old male stereotype is still dominant - you know the idea of a “real man” based entirely on big muscles, big macho bravado, big stud, big drinker and of course, fearless big fighter. These are not the qualities of manhood which will ensure good families, communities, nations and survival for humanity. Read more »