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 Testosterone won't make you aggro: study
A new study challenges the common belief that testosterone causes aggression in humans and proposes instead that the hormone encourages status-seeking behaviour. The study involving 120 women also showed that folk wisdom about the effects of the sexual hormone is so strong that people behave more aggressively if believe they have been given a dose even if they have not. "It appears that it is not testosterone itself that induces aggressiveness, but rather the myth surrounding the hormone," says University of London economist Dr Michael Naef.
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 Stop attacking the gender gap
Julia Gillard and her fellow travellers are primed to use Labor’s job market reregulation to impose intrusive new concepts of “gender equality” on employers and the economy. They are frustrated that, despite impressive gains in female workforce participation over the past generation, men still earn more than women from paid work. But turning the gender pay gap into a target of public policy confronts several problems.
First, as the “Making it Fair” report notes, Australians do not share the longstanding “anger” of committee chairwoman and former union official Sharryn Jackson. They see pay equity as a “non-issue”. Nearly two-thirds of Australians “incorrectly” believe it is about paying men and women the same for doing the same job. They don’t share the frustration that some occupations remain “segmented” by gender. They accept that some women pass on promotions because they become more reluctant to put in long hours of work after starting a family.
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Why the joke is now on men
Since the feminist movement came into power some four decades ago, men have been the butt of countless jokes, but woe betide any man who decides to get his own back with the women. Men-bagging has become a popular pastime among females, with men often portrayed as self-obsessed, hopeless, lazy, aggressive, smelly and clueless. They can’t cook, won’t clean, don’t listen and refuse to ask for directions. Even the media and marketers have jumped on the men-bagging bandwagon, while sexist-joke emails at his expense now take up a considerable amount of cyberspace much to the amusement of the fairer sex in particular. Man jokes are based around tiresome generalisations and gender-based stereotypical myths but at the end of the day, does this phenomenon have an effect on men?
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Men's Health SA Media Watch Report
In November 2007, Greg Andresen was contracted by Men’s Health SA (at that time the South Australian Men’s Health Alliance - SAMHA) to conduct a one-day-a-week Media Watch role on behalf of SAMHA and its collaborative partners, the Men’s Health Information & Resource Centre and the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. This role was to involve the critique, analysis and, when appropriate, challenging of mass media statements and commentary and other forms of institutional, academic and government literature and media that:
- depicted men or boys or masculinity in an unfair, negative or disparaging way
- were misleading, inaccurate, or prejudicial towards men and boys
- detracted from a general positive affirmation of men, boys, and masculinity
- undermined the endeavour to approach men and boy’s health and issues in an intelligent, respectful, positive, equitable and constructive way.
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How the male brain can't see the laundry pile up
For almost 40 years, that era's Western feminist critique of rigid sex-role stereotyping has prevailed. In many ways, it has eroded constraints that turned peaceable boys into aggressive men and stuck ambitious girls in low-paying jobs. Feminists understandably have often shied away from scientific evidence that challenges this critique of sex roles. Because biology-based arguments have been used to justify women's subjugation, women have been reluctant to concede any innate difference. But, in view of recent scientific discoveries, has feminist resistance to accepting any signs of innate gender difference only created new biases? The feminist critique, for example, has totally remade elementary-level education, where female decision-makers prevail: the construction of male hierarchies in the schoolyard is often redirected for fear of "bullying", with boys and girls alike expected to "share" and "process" their emotions. But many educators have begun to argue that such intervention in what may be a hard-wired aspect of "boy-ness" can lead to boys' academic underperformance relative to girls and to more frequent diagnoses of behavioural problems.
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Women as keen as men to have group sex
AUSTRALIAN women are as keen as men to take part in consensual group sex, and they initiate it almost as often. These are the key findings of a survey conducted among members of the nation's second biggest online dating site. Almost 40 per cent of respondents report an equal gender split in the group encounter, while a further 30 per cent report a majority of men taking part and 30 per cent a majority of women. Almost as many women as men instigate the idea of group sex - 46 per cent compared with 54 per cent, according to the sizeable RedHotPie.com.au survey, which drew 8763 responses from among its 1.5 million member listings.
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