Author’s Note: This is a summary of my entire theory of how our society’s gender system operates and how it originated. It is intended to be a ‘road map’ of society’s norms about masculinity and femininity. I believe that it can explain all gender norms in our society.…
In a time when laws and constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage are falling almost daily – Utah, Nevada, Virginia (especially poignant); and Michigan will probably be next – to federal court decisions resting on United States v.…
Feminists will tell you that “Patriarchy” is the reason fathers are discriminated against in criminal court, via the presumption that women are better caregivers. That assertion is on a list that is being circulated and repeated by grassroots feminists in “debate,” without ever questioning its validity.…
Anita Sarkeesian will receive the Game Developers Choice Awards Ambassador Award, a prize honoring individuals who help the video games industry “advance to a better place” through advocacy.
We here at Honey Badger Radio don’t think the GDCA has gone far enough.…
Twenty years ago Nara Shoenberg and Sam Roe challenged feminist myth making about rape. Let’s take a look at what they had to say in their article, The Making of an Epidemic.
The article shows the connection between Koss, Steinem, and the 1 in 4 myth.…
And now for my first piece of original content exclusively for GendErratic! Again I wish to extend my gratitude to Ms. Tieman for inviting me to contribute to this blog, and I can promise there is plenty of theoretical analysis and discussion of cultural issues to come in the future.…
Mary Koss is the feminist researcher behind the factoid that one in four women will be raped in her lifetime. In Mary Koss’s original survey only one in sixteen women said “yes” to “have you been raped?” So how did she get her one in four number? By asking women “have you ever been physically forced to have sex or have had sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol” and disregarding if...
This is Jill.
This is Jack.
This is rape.
This is not rape.
When a man physically forces Jill to have sex we consider it rape.
But when Jill physically forces Jack to have sex, we don’t consider it rape.
We think that Jack’s sexuality negatively affects Jill in a way that Jill’s does not negatively affect’s Jack’s.…
This is a repost of an article I posted at /r/GenderEgalitarian here:
I would like to point out that this is my last Reddit Repost!…
We’ve all heard the jibes “The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys” and seen the commercials that show husbands as bumbling idiots with their indulgent wives looking on in amusement standing by to make sure they don’t harm themselves somehow.…
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