Commenter Eagle 35 posted the text of a Reddit exchange he had with a feminist as a comment. (He prefers not to link to the actual exchange.)
The feminist in the exchange exhibits a behavior that is a recurring problem in the discussion of gender, the assumption that women fully understand men and our lives and can make meaningful comparisons.…
Five Guys Burgers and Fries Indie game developer Zoe Quinn was revealed to have been sleeping with five guys at the same time, none of whom were her boyfriend. Infidelity aside, it’s who those five men are that is the cause for controversy. The men in question are Nathan Grayson: a gaming journalist for Kotaku and rock paper shotgun; Brandon McCartin: the creator of Fez; Kyle Pulver: indie...
This post is from the blog of Wendy McElroy; a Canadian Individualist Anarchist-Feminist. It was posted by her husband, Brad.
I have written a lot about the plight of nerdy/geeky men under traditional gender roles.…
Love, the admiration of others. The human expression of affection. The warm fuzzies you get when looking into the eyes of someone you care for.
These concepts are present in every part of the world. But the way we handle them changes along with the social and political landscape.…
It’s been a while since we have look at the gendering of class. Something that occurred to me recently was how in many stories women had of being gender-policed as girls that policing was framed in terms of “ladylike” behavior. Were you prevented form climbing trees or wearing certain types clothing of clothing because they weren’t ladylike, or did you hear girls who did...
Female Ghostbusters by DoctorRandomerCam In the summer of 1984—the dawn of the equinox of the eighties—Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Bill Murray made a movie that no one has ever disliked. Eight-year-olds love it for exactly the same reason 50-year-olds love it: it’s fun, it’s simple, it’s compelling, it’s inventive, and it has that holiest of holy grails—it does not take...
I’m a proud member of the Brigade, and I’ve always wanted to see it succeed. It is for that reason I built this website as a portal to the creative side of the men’s human rights movement and as an outlet for the women who blaze a trail through the political wilderness.…
Geek culture: for generations, it’s been a refuge for social outcasts. People of all backgrounds were welcomed in with open arms to share in their love of geeky fandoms.
But in recent years social justice groups have invaded this culture, painting geeks as violent sexual predators and ticking timebombs waiting to explode.…
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I picked up a copy of bell hooks’ Feminist Theory since I’ve seen her name come up repeatedly. I’m only about halfway through, but I feel like I’ve seen what I needed to see.…
We’re no strangers to the ravings of feminists. In fact, there’s very little that we haven’t seen or heard. With the popularity of the Women Against Feminism hashtag, the web is filled to the brim with feminist bullshit.
But sometimes there are things said that are exceptionally bad.…
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