NOW Toronto: Through the looking glass to an alternative world where men are oppressed

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No man’s land
I go through the looking glass to an alternative world where men are oppressed

By Jonathan Goldsbie

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“I want to begin with a song.”

There are a great many things I would expect to open with these words, but a “men’s rights” lecture had not been among them.

On Thursday, March 7, University of Ottawa English professor Janice Fiamengo kicks off her talk at U of T by playing It’s Time To Be Men Again, a mind-bending anti-feminist ditty recorded by her friend David Solway.

It describes various respects in which men have ostensibly been feminized to their detriment (“You’re gonna sweep, do laundry and cook / You’ll be reading from a book”), each followed by a call-to-arms chorus:

Oh, this has gone on long enough

It’s time we learned from the billy goat gruff

Stand our ground, defend our den

It’s time we learned to be men again

“It’s a deliberately over-the-top song, obviously outrageous, a little tongue-in-cheek,” Fiamengo tells the crowd, “but still, I think, not entirely out of sync with a growing frustration with our man-hating society.” .................(more)

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