The Mainstream Feminist Case For Not Tolerating Castration Jokes in the...
Ok, so this is fairly long post inspired by a NSWATM post. It's about the question of whether someone who thinks him or herself a feminist could ever imagine there could ever be a circumstance where...
View ArticleEchidne Paraphrasing Anders Breivik's Message to Women: It Might be The Devil...
Following up on Anders Behring Breivik's murderous "implementation" of conservative dogma Echidne says I have written about the odd bargain the race-war conservatives offer women: You can submit to us...
View ArticleCool Site: Gender Across Borders
Let me take a moment away from my chronic writer's block* to say that the large group blog Gender Across Borders - a global feminist blog kind of rocks. Just today there have been posts aboutChild...
View ArticleOzymandias: Boys to Men, Not Boys to Dogs
I might be struggling with writer's block but fortunately (since she's saying something I completely agree with) Ozmandias can still write with aplomb.[W]hen people are given low expectations, some of...
View ArticleRed No. 3 on Alt-Objectification in Particular and All Objectification in...
So over the years you might have noticed that some people stereotype the owl-poop out of whole classes of people. It's not always malign or dismissive. Sometimes stereotyping can arise from positive or...
View ArticleWell, At Least MRAs Won't Have to Worry About Being Banned for Trolling These...
So evidently some Going Their Own Way (separatist MRA) men have so much spare time on their hands that they're (at least talking about) setting up straw-feminist websites in order to... discredit...
View Article"Angry" Feminists Echidne and Amanda Marcotte Stand Up For Men and Boys,...
Y'know, Echidne of the Snakes is a pretty four-square feminist. So check out how she "hates" men.It's hard for me to address [anti-feminist Caitlin] Flanagan's theories as they are based on such an odd...
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Tragedy #204 From Things Could Be Worse: Questioning the Brains vs. Beauty...
Image by Benjamin Dewey of Things Could Be Worse. Order a print here.Benjamin Deweysays draws Do You know a ravishing scientist who deserves more attention for her mathematical derivations than for...
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Heads Up for Evo-Psych Theory of Hypergamy: Hetero Relationship Formation...
Photo by Flickr user Eoin Gardiner. Used under a Creative Commons license.Em & Lo report from the Institute for Public Research that really nail shut the coffin on the misogynist fantasy that women...
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Common Feminist Critique of the New TV Show "Girls" Is Itself Steeped in...
Image from dontknowreally.tumblr.com. In her review of the new show GirlsAmanda Marcotte totally gets how some feminists still fall for the patriarchal-pedestal stereotype that women are naturally...
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Everybody Knows But Her: Except For Swallowing One Myth About Feminism...
Photo by Flickr user Sharon Drummond. Used under a Creative Commons license. /> So. Was the crucial fallacy of early 2nd-wave feminism in the 1970s the idea that women could somehow possibly live in...
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Rest in Peace Shulamith Firestone
Cropped image from TheAtlanticWire.com. I was sorry to hear Shulamith Firestone, author in 1968 1970 of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, passed away late last week. Her book is,...
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Searching for the Other Elusive Unicorn: Single Mothers Who Reject Men They...
Photo by Flickr user misocrazy. Used under a Creative Commons license. According to Polyamory from the Inside Out in polyamory circles "A unicorn is a mythical beast with a horn. It also refers to a...
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Hey Douthat! What Does It Say About Men If Wanting to Work 8 Hours a Day...
Photo by Flickr user Providence Public Library. Used under a Creative Commons license. No. Seriously! If it's right and proper for men to work only 8 hours a day how can it possibly be decadent for...
View ArticleElizabeth Esther On How to Recognize Unhealthy Personal Boundaries in...
One of the things I've been realizing over the last year, something that's shaken me up quite a bit, has been the way my nominally normal if somewhat libidinous upbringing was overlaid with wide,...
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