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To: SilentZ who wrote (559750)	4/9/2010 1:14:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578290

I just did a search.....apparently there is a virus connecterd with Mailer-Daemon. I think that just means that the virus is sending out more and more e-mails to more and more people. Do the e-mails you're getting back say who the intended recipients were? It turned out they were sending them to the same two people over and over again. I am pretty sure both addresses were defunct and they were using them in some way to spam other people in my address book. I deleted the two addresses and put my email account under a password. So far, I have not gotten any return emails and my files continue to be clean. So I think I am over the problem. Major waste of time and effort!

To: SilentZ who wrote (559750)	4/9/2010 5:44:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578290

Its about time! Dudes by Daniel Luzer Professors of anthropology, religious studies, and presumably the hard sciences are working on creating a new academic discipline, male studies. According to a piece by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed, future male studies experts held what may be their first academic conference. Male studies is apparently different from men’s studies. As the article (sort of) explains: Scholars of boys and men converged Wednesday at Wagner College, in Staten Island, N.Y., to announce the creation of the Foundation for Male Studies, which will support a conference and a journal targeted at exploring the triumphs and struggles of the XY-chromosomed of the human race — without needing to contextualize their ideas as being one half of a male-female binary or an offshoot of feminist theory. Organizers positioned themselves in contrast to men’s studies, which is seen as based on the same theories as women’s studies and is grouped together with it as gender studies. Men’s studies dates from the 1970s, mostly as a critique to the largely reactionary men’s rights movement that emerged in response to feminism. Men’s studies is usually taught, if at all, within gender studies departments and is, in many ways, a subdiscipline of women’s studies. Well male studies appears to be pretty hostile to women’s studies and feminism in general. “I am concerned that it’s widespread in the United States that masculinity is politically incorrect,” explained American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, who once wrote a book called The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. Rutgers University’s Lionel Tiger, a professor of anthropology, characterized feminism as “a well-meaning, highly successful, very colorful denigration of maleness as a force.” Rocco Capraro of Hobart and William Smith Colleges explained that that “men are both powerful and powerless. Today’s discourse on individual men is not a discourse of power — men do not feel powerful in today’s society.” The president of the American Men’s Studies Association, Robert Heasley, declined to speak at the Wagner event, saying that male studies as an intellectual discipline was unnecessary and “kind of a Glenn Beck approach.” “Their argument is that they’re inventing something that I think already exists,” Heasley said. Men’s studies came out of feminist analysis of gender, which includes biological differences.” And this is, according to the Epstein article “the very thing male studies says is different about its approach.”[Image via] Daniel Luzer is higher education blogger for the Washington Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com