When I was a boy, I just could not sit still in class. I was very bored and active by nature, so I would rock my chair back, whisper and write notes to kids, even wander around the classroom–until the teacher yelled, “Martin, sit down!” This was decades ago. Today, I suspect I would have READ MORE
Author: Marty Nemkoko
Guest Contributor for Boys Initiative
Marty holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley with specializations in educational psychology and the evaluation of innovation, is a career and personal coach, and author of 35 books including A Dose of Reality. You can reach him at mnemko@gmail.com
The views and opinions expressed in this writing are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or positions of The Boys Initiative.
A World Without Men
A thought experiment Thought experiments are no-risk ways to explore extreme ideas in hopes that “thinking outside the box” will spawn new realistic ideas. Besides, I find it fun to contemplate thought experiments. Perhaps you will too. I’ve written a number of thought experiments. Today’s: What positives and negatives would accrue from a world without READ MORE
Our Approach to Men, Reinvented
I appreciate the women’s movement. For example, it likely helped my daughter become Assistant U.S. Attorney and my wife become Napa County Superintendent of Schools. And I’ve certainly heard that women deserve more, for example, “It’s still a man’s world. After all, most CEOs and all the presidents are men, and women overall earn 82 READ MORE
The Anti-White and Anti-Asian Men Era
I have tried to repress that unproductive thought: that this is the anti-white and Asian men era, but I couldn’t. It started as I was playing with two AI-art generators: Google’s ImageFX and Canva’s Magic Studio. Unless I specifically requested “white or Asian male,” every human image generated was everything but. That reminded me that READ MORE