re cathartic value of porn: “Does social work for the child-batterer consist of showing them pictures of parents torturing the children, with the children appearing to enjoy it — as a preventative measure?” from Masterpieces, Sara Daniels
Category: gender issues
Oct 26
The Default Male
“Why the Default Male is Not Just Annoying, But Also Harmful”
check it out at http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/01/27/why-the-default-male-is-not-just-annoying-but-also-harmful/#comment-124981
Oct 15
Why Women are Leaving Law Firms
“Here’s my theory: women aren’t leaving law firms at an abnormal rate. They’re leaving law firms at a perfectly rational and normal rate. It’s men who are staying in law firms at an abnormal rate. Women aren’t the faulty outliers; men are.
“When you look at the situation that way, a lot of things start …
Oct 13
The Hawkeye Initiative – Go Take a Look NOW!
http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/
This is the best thing I’ve discovered in a LONG time. Hopefully millions will discover it and maybe, just maybe, men will begin to ‘get it’.
Oct 08
We are tired. So tired.
“We are tired of being forced to see the world through [the heterosexual male gaze].” Missfit http://www.feministcurrent.com/2014/11/19/in-defense-of-kim-kardashian-and-her-critics/
Aug 23
Rape on campus…
“Rape on campus occurs with such alarming frequency that most colleges now incorporate sexual awareness training into their freshman orientation practices (apparently students not only must learn how to find their way around campus and how to use a library, but they must also learn how not to rape their classmates)” (Michael Kimmel, Guyland, p57-58).
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Apr 14
Why Do Men Seek Arousal?
So I’m reading Robert Jensen (Getting Off: Pornography and the end of masculinity), and he says porn is intended to provide sexual arousal.
Sexual arousal? Not sexual satisfaction?
If you’re not aroused in the first place, why would you intentionally try to get aroused?
Because then you’ll just have to find a way to deal …
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 …
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