Ending the empathy apartheid: musing on the nature of gender dynamics
Commentariat, here’s a chance to help out. I want to look at football as a cultural phenomenon in American society, all the way from high school to college to professional ball, and I realize that after decades of avoiding the subject, I am never going to know enough to say anything close to accurate.…
This is Jill.
If we see Jill as strong, it’s difficult to see her as a victim.
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The Huffington Post recently published an article titled The Conversation You Must Have With Your Sons. The point of the article is to blame all men and boys for the experiences of women and girls as feminists interpret them. It’s the same anti-male slander with which feminists target men, re-packaged as “parenting advice” handed out in an open “letter” to the...
Typhonblue identified the Feminist Pimp Hand as a tendency of feminists to pimp women and their sufferings and to regulate on them if they step out of line and imperil the victim narrative feminists need to justify all their demands and imprecations. Pimps use the pimp hand to beat their whores back into line but they also use it to intimidate them and get them into line in the first place, to...
This is a school play recounting the Puget Sound story “The Crow and her Seagull Slaves” presented by middle school students studying Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), their ancestral language.* It’s long but worth the time it takes to watch it.…
Transcript after the cut.
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There is a story told in various forms across northern Europe that involves a contrary old woman. The form I am (vaguely) familiar with is the Norwegian version, Kjerringa mot strømmen – The Old Woman (no good English equivalent for the Norwegian term) Against the Stream.…
Tonight–Thursday the 2nd of January–on Honey Badger Radio, we’re doing silent call in lines.
The Silent Call In Line gives you the option to chat with us privately or on air. If you want to broadcast your message, you get to choose the subject; if you just want to chat, you can do that too.…
It’s been awhile since I posted. So I thought I’d offer up two recent exchanges I had on youtube for your edification.
It was on a video out of India that’s apparently trying to convince women that they’re so frail, a man can hurt them with his majik voodoo eyeballs!…
Masturbation hysteria is a bit of history that isn’t really history yet. The moral panic around boys masturbating back in the late 19th, early 20th centuries was profound and it manifested in many ways. One was a market for what can only charitably be called chastity devices, since the sex they were aiming to prevent wasn’t going to result in inflicting someone else’s baby on anyone, and so was...
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