A Primer, Almost

Okay, if you've never been exposed to the fathers' rights or mens movements, or if you have, but think they are silly or sad, it might be worth taking a gander at Glenn Sacks' latest newsletter. Glenn is one of the most well known figures at the moment. There are others like Stephen Baskerville, author Warren Farrell, and I suppose even Tom Leykis, to some degree, but Glenn is very moderate and inoffensive, and surprisingly, happily married.

The newsletter has several interesting stories, including an article in California Lawyer Magazine about a male-only lawyer for some very tragic men that has some shocking statistics (Massachusetts research found that fathers, as a group, received joint or primary physical custody less than 7 percent of the time), a bit on false hate statistics, a feminist who is rejected by her online community for saying that campus rape ideology is biased against males, and some great summaries of the proceedings from the recent "From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence" conference.

It is some dense going, and there's stuff in his newsletters that makes even me roll my eyes, but it's worth taking a look for the view it presents which casts an entirely different and eye-opening picture of how our society views and treats men.

And of course, if you really want a primer, written in a sort of "chicken soup for the soul" manner, there's always Jack Kammer's "If Men Have All The Power, How Come Women Make The Rules".