They’re nasty creatures, evil males.

They build most of what is built, invent most of the inventions, grow most of the food, supply most of the music, make most of the films, write most of the text books, develop most of the software, make most of the discoveries, develop most of the sports, do most of the work, and pay most of the personal income tax.

Nasty creatures those evil males.

There's not a single anti-male statement in this article, simply a call to find better ways of doing masculinity. You can see this fact unpacked further at http://masculinityconspiracy.com

Males are sad creatures. Most of them are programmed (genetically and environmentally) to impregnate women and kill other males and take their possessions. Our history over the last 10,000 attests to these unfortunate facts.

Genetic engineering and pacifying drugs could alter this sad reality assuming a nuclear war doesn't come first. If it does, we won't have to worry any further.

I'm not sure that talking about conspiracy theories will change anything!

David G,
I haven’t killed anyone to my knowledge. It is true that I have impregnated, and I also changed most of the nappies during the night (because she wouldn’t do the night shift).

Males occupy a fairly broad bell shaped curve, but the number of academics that focus on what bad men do, and then attempt to define this as being representative of all men, makes it more than conspiracy.

It is now prejudice and bigotry.

Really? I think men are pretty good on the whole: it's the type of masculinity they are encouraged to enact by the "conspiracy" that I find problematic.

There is no conspiracy--just a vast historical power and control seeking PATTERN, patterning. A pattern which is rooted in the assumptions at the base of Western DOMINATOR "culture" altogether.

A pattern which is now completely indifferent to the well-being of either humankind, and Earth-kind altogether.

Where then does one find the red pill when every minute fraction of our culture is permeated with, and thus communicates and reinforces the blue pill "waking" consensus "reality" (the invisible PATTERN patterning)

Look at how hostile main stream Western culture is towards hallucinogec drugs--especially in the USA.

Why is ecstasy so popular with young people, despite the known risks.
Why is the use of marijuana so wide-spread?

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream--IT is only shining.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out (of the consensus nightmare)

I am not advocating the use of drugs by the way.

This image, from one of my very favourite books, describes what patriarchal culture is all about about.

http://amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0553348639/rcf=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

This millennia long deadly drama was also featured in the recent Avatar film. Having already "created" a dying planet, the psychotic patriarchal techno-invaders tried to monster the Navi. They even tried to use anthropologists as a kind of soft power strategy--winning hearts and minds as it were. Just like the Pentagon uses anthropologists in its various colonization projects.

At a basic level the film was very much about the "culture" of death versus the culture of death. It was therefore very interesting to see the entirely predictable group-think response to this film by those on the right of the culture wars--they all essentially came out in support of the "culture" of death.

Patriarchal "culture" in its current form is essentially psychotic and saturated with death. And has inevitably reached its terminal phase.