At last an academic who stands up before audiences of students and other academics and tells the truth about men in society.  Admittedly, this article describes men's rights as a "new" issue and professor Anthony Synnott's views on them as a his "unique perspective." (The Brunswickian, 10/13/09)  Of course neither characterization is true, but what's significant is that Synnott's audiences of Canadian university students and teachers are finally being exposed to a point of view too long lacking in public discourse.

According to the article, what Synnott is saying is nothing that hasn't been said on this site and many others for years.  He points out that, while men commit most of the violent crime, they're also most of the victims of violent crime.  He notes that men are far more likely to be victims of workplace accidents than are women.  He reminds us that the vast majority of university students are women.  When informed that history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc.) are men, he responds that history's heroes are too.  He points out the misandry that's so prevalent in the news media and popular culture.

And when he says men need to "man up," he means we have to start opposing the very forces that have brought us to this point of routine villification and marginalization of men.  Again, some of us have been doing just that for a long time, but his exhortations are correct; if you're not opposing the misandry of our society and culture, if you're not trying to stop the blatant injustices and inequalities visited on men because of our sex, you need to start.

Needless to say, his audiences are hostile.  Steeped for all their young lives in the toxic brew of feminist misandry, special pleading and outright intellectual dishonesty, the students Synnott tries to inform are generally not open to his message.  As I've said before, over the past 40 years or so, we've patiently built up an entire mythology of female victimization.  Like all mythologies, it is largely averse to facts, and as such, is slow to break down.

But thanks to Dr. Synnott for doing his part.  He's far behind a lot of academics and a lot of people like Glenn Sacks, who've been saying the same things for many years.  But the paths that Synnott treads at Canadian universities, others will follow.  The truth is a compelling thing.  It may take decades, but eventually we will come to a more balanced, more truthful understanding of the sexes.  And Synnott will be one who helped.

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