Ending the empathy apartheid: musing on the nature of gender dynamics
Like the word “stallion” the word “man” is a compliment.
Like the word “stallion” the word “man” refers to a prison.
Stallion literally means a horse in a box. And man means a person in a box.…
A thought has been knocking around in my head for awhile now.
Why do we assume that men consent to rape?
Let me illustrate this with a more palatable scenario.
Let’s imagine we have a man and a woman who are engaged in a mutually agreed upon sexual act.…
Femalefedupwithfeminism is quite new, with only a few posts, but all of them plain old common sense. Thanks, Quiet Riot Girl, for the tip.
If I haven”t mentioned The Rawness before, my bad. This guy is a resource. He specializes in looking at how dusfunctional our acpeted gender norms are and has a series going on how immature what we consider normal femlae behavior actually is.…
Last Sunday we had our Pride Parade in Seattle. The parade starts on Second Avenue heading north, loops over to Fourth Avenue and continues north, finally ending at the Seattle Center where the Space Needle is.
I’m noticing that the parade seems to be themed from year to year.…
Media spotlight has turned to Men’s Rights Edmonton for their poster campaign “Don’t be that girl.”
For anyone who doesn’t know “don’t be that girl” is a parody of “don’t be that guy.”
In one of the “don’t be that guy” posters, a man is seen escorting a drunk woman into a taxi.…
Untouchability is a feature of several unrelated societies in which certain groups are singled out for exclusion in very concrete ways. Thwe wiki on untouchability lists these features of the status: Prohibition from eating with other caste member Provision of separate glasses for Dalits in village tea stalls Discriminatory seating arrangements and separate utensils in restaurants Segregation...
Happy Fourth of July to all and everyone! Whether it is a day off to celebrate for you or not, have a happy day.
I won’t be posting anything tomorrow but the open thread below is humming, so that should keep you till I get back Friday.
Enjoy!
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Have at it. We’ve had some good sites nominated for your edification and enjoyment in the las few threads. Here’s a chance to share the wealth.
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It is a truism vehemently denied that women run the church, whatever flavor or denomination that church may be, and always from the shadows. You can call it the Amen Corner or just refer to who it is that drags the kids to Mass, who shows up for Novenas, fawns on the priest in a bevy of cooing mothers competing to see who can feed him the yummiest goodies, and who mutters disapprovingly until the...
Female hypoagency, the notion that women have no agency and that their actions are somehow ineffectual compared to men’. Victimhood is the ultimate expression of hypoagency. As Typhonblue has pointed out repeatedly, victim cred is a strategic resource and it must be guarded.…
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