Ending the empathy apartheid: musing on the nature of gender dynamics
Long-time commenter gwallan posted this list of the reactions he got when he tried to tell about his rape as a child:
I’ve been fairly outspoken about female perpetration since the mid nineties. I wrote the following about two years ago summarising the sorts of responses I’ve experienced personally.…
I have seen some slogans and phrase around that speak to gender equality, and been inspired by them to come with one or two on my own.
Please nominate more. Please feel free to use these in any way that gets the word out.
Workplace equality:
A woman’s place is on a road crew.…
Mother Nature is an MRA!
Orchis italica is known as the naked man orchid. Orchidaceae is a gigantic family, one the largest among land plants, with around 25,000 species in 890 genera. It certainly has something for everyone.
The name of this genus and of the family in general is based on the Greek for “testicle.”…
A commenter named WowFallacies drove by with the usual clueless advice on how MRAs could sort out some misunderstandings about feminism and stop being a “prick” about the whole thing. Commenter Eagle 35 responded: WowFallicies, I’m going to give you a list of facts about feminism as a movement just so you’ll understand where the hostility comes from and hopefully should clear up your...
Hey there, it’s been a long, looooong time…so let her rip!
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Time for some new words and expressions. Those that promote the discussion get taken up and used, the others just fade into obscurity on some server somewhere.
Tit swinging – This is the direct equivalent of “dick swinging”. Dick swinging refers to competitive, macho boasting.…
In an open thread over at Feminist Critics*, Commenter AndreaK quotes with disapproval a question she saw somewhere
“The #YesAllWomen thread raises an important question: Why do so many men behave so poorly?”
That question is itself a sly inversion.…
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Introduction
When human-caused tragic events occur, we always ask ourselves the question of ‘why?’…
In a very good article* at the New Republic about being an adjunct professor teaching writing, Sarah Marshall says something very honest and insightful:
“Over the course of a ten-week class, I play the role of therapist, priest, mentor, and friend.…
There won’t be many posts on female disposability because after all it’s not really a feature of our gender system, but there is such a thing as female disposability and it is worth looking at. Commenter Rebecca mentioned it in passing in reference to my passing mention of it on the most recent post on male disposability and it occurred to me it was time to put all this disposability...
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