Ending the empathy apartheid: musing on the nature of gender dynamics
A woman writes to Dear Abby: Dear Abby: Recently I took a cue from my sister and her career Navy husband. They always make it a point to thank anyone they see in military uniform for his/her service and sacrifice. I am somewhat shy by nature. But I am so thankful to these men and women who fight for our continued freedom that I stepped out of my comfort zone to verbalize my feelings and encourage...
Here’s a challenge for the Commentariat:
Here is a imgur image of a message string on OK Cupid. I would like to say it is very weird, at least from one side of the exchange, but sadly we can all recognize these behaviors from real life.
So here’s the challenge:
1) Read the message thread.…
Date: Thursday 31st, 2013
Time: 9PM EST/ 7 PM MST/ 6 PM PST
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Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori described a phenomena called “the uncanny valley”. As a robot approaches human in appearance and behaviour, it becomes more relatable and lovable.…
The Women Are wonderful trope is misogynist for a number of reasons, but there are two main ones. For one thing dehumanizing women by putting them on some unnatural moral pedestal is inherently misogynist. More directly and concretely, this trope of inherent womanly wonderfulness erases the violence that women do and erases their victims, most of whom are other women and girls.…
Here’s an article about a Yale MFA student, who decided to “do something” about street harassment. so she took pictures of men and posted them, and then of course, because she’s a Yale art student, someone else – probably someone who knew someone who knew her – thought This Was Important and wrote an article about the the whole thing.…
Date: Thursday October 24th, 2013
Time: 6 PM Pacific, 7 Mountain, 9 Eastern
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Text of the ad after the cut.…
Last year, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Spring “Intelligence Report” exposed hate groups, focusing on “patriot movements.” The same ‘Issue 145’ profiled online spaces for Men’s Rights Activism as “woman hating,” and it’s posted to SPLC’s website.…
Brian Simpson has an excellent post up at Rense.com on the gender situation in the Canadian schools where he has taught. The post is quite complete – he catalogs a whole range of misandry and gender discrimination he has experienced or witnessed in that time.…
For anyone who doesn’t know about this particular situation, 15 year old Christian Adamek streaked a football game. In response he was arrested and the Principal of his school, Michael Campbell said: “There’s the legal complications, public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system as well as school consequences that the school system has set up...
Here’s a story that illustrates how deep male disposability can go.
Last weekend we drove up to IKEA in Renton. The rain was really heavy. One the way home coming south along Hwy 167 the road was still quite wet. We were driving along about 60 mph when a small black car of some kind went whizzing past.…
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