Washington Initiative for Boys and Men
Advocating for improved outcomes for boys, men, and communities
Posts about issues that apply to the United States as a whole or issues that are within the U.S. but outside Washington state:
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
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
Global Initiative for Boys and Men has declared June 30 as International Sperm Count Decline Awareness Day. “We chose June 30 because it is halfway through the calendar year, symbolizing the 50% global decline in … Read more
This blog post is a guest contribution written by John Geisheker, the executive director and general counsel of a nonprofit physicians’ organization based in Seattle, Washington. In a recent post for Washington Initiative for Boys … Read more
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) embodies a political trend that cripples human rights in the guise of crusading for them. This trend is the balkanization, or fragmentation, of rights. Recently passed by the House, VAWA has moved to the Senate, where the trend it represents may well be translated into more law.