Washington Initiative for Boys and Men
Advocating for improved outcomes for boys, men, and communities
Posts about boys and men experiencing various forms of discrimination and/or misandry (prejudice against, aversion to, or hatred of males):
Coaches of high school sports teams around the country are implementing a pair of programs that are embedded with gender bias, prejudice, and unequal regard for women and men. The Athletes as Leaders and Coaching … Read more
If you can see it, you can be it. This concept is rightly employed to emphasize the importance of girls seeing women succeeding in a variety of roles, including ones not conventionally associated with women. … Read more
The U.S. Navy denied Petty Officer Jon Stremel access to their on-base domestic violence shelter in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii five times because he is male. Now he’s trying to enable discrimination protections for ALL service members. The … Read more
There are boys in this country, and likely in Washington state, whose teachers and school administrators convey to them an ideology which paints males monolithically as “oppressors”. Let us have compassion for these boys. Let … Read more
KING 5 News has switched to a gender inclusive approach in its coverage of the problem of Washington’s missing and murdered Indigenous people. This comes after the Seattle-based NBC affiliate did not acknowledge the existence … Read more
Rey Reynolds of the Vancouver Police Department has spoken out forcefully against gender bias that favors either women or men in intimate partner violence cases. During his July 26 interview with Washington Initiative for Boys … Read more
Here we are republishing an important article written in 2016 for PsychologyToday.com by Mark Sherman, a friend of Washington Initiative for Boys and Men. Our boys don’t get the attention our girls do, with tragic … Read more
Washington Initiative for Boys and Men wants to see greater societal empathy for boys and men and less gender-based prejudice against them. This blog post is about a man, Kong Lefeau, and a woman, Iris … Read more