they deprived of a father. Since their actions were usually upheld by ignorant male judges this is, of course, also another example of discrimination by men against men.
Perhaps this is why men appear more violent – because women get away with it and men, if they report an attack, tend to be arrested themselves – and why so many men lose contact with their children each year (and then get blamed for that: the myth of the ‘absent father’ and ‘uncaring male’).
This study is available at http://www.mankind.org.uk/domabus.htm and it is worth looking at what else it says.
Portraying men as violent and women as peace-keepers is a myth which emasculates men, undermines women by perpetuating the idea of ‘weak females’, and leaves all of us living a lie.
THE NEW MENAISSANCE: TIME FOR TRUTH
It is time for a new “Menaissance”, writes Harkin: “an era in which we will learn again to glorify real [as opposed to ‘mythological’] men” so that a new truth and equality can emerge between the sexes, where no-one has to ‘win’ or ‘lose’, and we respect each other enough to work for a world that is honest and fair to us all.
This Menaissance will herald the rebirth of the Sacred Masculine: men who are proud to be men and who are able – and allowed – to integrate body and mind with emotions and spirit and are not judged for that either as ‘weak men’ or ‘sissies’; men who, despite the challenges, do not betray either sex but understand their unique place in the web of life.
These ‘new men’ will know their truth and stand up for what they believe in, using love and compassion as their guides to action in