As a result of a recent exchange on a blog in which I felt insulted enough by the patronizing tone taken by the moderator that I decided not to participate any further, while another commenter (a male) responded with a mere “LOL”, I asked yet another commenter (also a male) why he thought our reactions …
Category: men
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 …
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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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 …
Jun 23
Men who need Mom to clean up after them
I spend a lot of time walking on the dirt roads near by place, as well as on the old logging roads through the forest. Twice a year, I take a large garbage bag with me to pick up the litter – mostly beer cans and fast food containers, but often whole plastic bags of …
Jun 09
Brilliant Piece – “Little Women, Big Men” – check it out!
“…what many unthreateningly call “the male ego” (an inadequate term to describe the drive behind men’s collective undermining of women)…” – one of the many brilliant lines in “Little Women, Big Men: Sexism and the Language of Size” by Andrea Safran. http://www.saidit.org/archives/vol4no2/language.html
Jun 05
What do you want me to say?
“What do you want me to say?” your pre-Nigel, Nigel, or ex-Nigel says helplessly, having obviously said the wrong thing, again. “Just tell me what to say and I’ll say it.”
I want you to say what you think. And if I don’t agree with it, then I’m outta here. It’s …
May 19
Brunettes, Blondes, and Redheads
So the other day I started reading Iron Shadows by Steven Barnes. He’s apparently a bestselling author. Which is really disturbing.
Because four sentences in, he describes a woman as “a small wiry brunette”. Seriously? Does anyone actually identify women by their hair colour any more? That’s so—1940s. Isn’t it? I check. The book’s copyright …
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