Category: men

MacKinnon on street harassment …

“Unwelcome sex talk is an unwelcome sex act.  When threatening, severe, or pervasive enough, it works to exclude and segregate and denigrate and subordinate and dehumanize, violating human dignity and denying equality of opportunity.” Only Words, Catharine MacKinnon, p45

So good to put into words what’s so problematic about it! (It’s not just annoying, it’s …

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Davina Squirrel on needing male allies

“‘But we need male allies’ you cry in defence. Nope! We don’t. … ‘Male allies’ have had six thousand years or longer to get their shit together. They are from the ruling class after all, so have more impact than females. …” 

from https://davinasquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/inclusive-is-bullshit/

“All Men Need their Whores” Davina Squirrel

Great post:

All men need their whores

What we say is very telling

Men are Not Broken by IceMountainFire

A must read:

Men Are Not Broken

Excellent piece re PIV

Well worth the read.

https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/why-is-there-no-counter-argument-from-the-pro-piv-side/

It’s not poverty, stupid.

Poverty is not the cause of crime. Because even when men have enough, they steal more, kill for more.

(Think of all those rich white CEOs running our planet, managing the banks, the oil companies, the logging companies …)

(And given that well over 90% of crime is committed by men, well, the cause …

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Brilliant Sarkeesian

“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian

Impact – review copies available!

Impact presents an extended confrontation between a sexual assault victim and her assailants, as part of an imagined slightly revised court process, in order to understand why they did what they did and, on that basis, to make a recommendation to the court regarding sentence.  It does not go … as expected.

REVIEW COPIES …

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Did men invent this?

So I’ve been talking with my friend about the effect on the internet (and computers in general) of the overwhelming male influence (the high percentage of male ITers, coders, what have you) and simultaneously formatting the blog-comments sections of my forthcoming novel Gender Fraud: a fiction, and I realize the ‘reply’ design (widgets?) for comments …

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