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Oct 15
The threats regarding Sarkeesian’s talk
This just posted at feminist philosophers:
Terroristic threats against Utah State University regarding feminist Anita Sarkeesian
An email sent to Utah State University officials threatens to terrorize the school with a deadly shooting over a talk to be delivered by feminist critic and Tropes vs. Women in Video Games creator Anita Sarkeesian, Polygon confirmed with the school’s …
Oct 02
When does the magical metamorphosis happen?
Our brothers were bossy know-it-alls, and they did cruel things to us and to animals.
The boys in our class taunted us and always got into fights with each other. They were rude and forever demanding to be the center of attention.
In high school, they became socially awkward, struggled with the material, and became …
Sep 11
Men Need to Reclaim the Moral
Something I noticed when I taught Business Ethics, primarily to male students, is that men seem to think ethics is ‘a girl thing’. What? What?! (My god, that can explain everything!)
Men routinely insult other men who express concern about doing the right …
Sep 07
Not a feminist? Feminism isn’t important?
Just so you’re ready for the next time some woman you know says they’re not a feminist or they don’t think feminism is important or what have you…memorize feimineach’s reply:
Really, feminism is a load of rubbish is it? How’s going to university working out for you? Looking forward to getting a job and earning …
Sep 01
Stop Being Complicit in your own Subordination
Although our cautionary ‘Don’t blame the victim’ is very important in the context of assault, I think we have overgeneralized.
And although I would certainly put more blame on men than on women for our sexist society, because it is men who are in a position of dominance, I do think …
Aug 17
Reporting What Women Do
What if for just one year, the media reported 90% of the time what women were doing instead of, as is now the case, what men are doing?
Not because what women do is better, or more newsworthy, but just to see how it would change our outlook, our world view.
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Aug 07
Our Androcentric Culture, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
So I’m reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Our Androcentric Culture…(yeah, same Gilman who wrote The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland…both highly recommended) – a few bits below…
“Advocates of football, for instance, proudly claim that it fits a man for life. Life–from the wholly male point of view–is a battle, with a prize. …This is an archaism …
Jul 28
On the Radfem Doctrine of Separatism
Here’s the thing. Men are already separatists. (So really we have no choice.)
Men already exclude women from anything, everything, important. (Any inclusion is tokenism: a false symbol, a PR move.)
Men already refuse to get involved with ‘women’s issues’, whether personal or political. That feminism itself is …
Jul 09
A must read –
Just finishing Esme Dodderidge’s The New Gulliver – a must read!!! (a subtle but thorough reversal…)
Jul 07
Why aren’t there any great women Xs?
A new (for me) answer to the classic question, Why aren’t there any great women Xs, occurred to me when I saw a website for a small company of composers specializing in music for dance troupes (all four composers were male) shortly after a male friend of mine confessed that if …
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