The now iconic picture of Jessica Valenti on a beach in her “Male Tears” sweatshirt sparks rage not only in the hearts of men’s rights activists but also in the hearts of feminists themselves. Valenti has long been on my radar, but it is only now that I feel I could really write about her.…
Everyone knows that girl from high school. She’s angry, bitter, and emotionally manipulative. She is a bully who lives to tear people down to build herself up. She’s the girl you expect to leave behind at graduation.
But what happens when these women go to college and enter the workforce?…
Everyone knows that girl from highschool. She’s angry, bitter, and emotionally manipulative. She is a bully that lives to tear people down to build herself up. She’s the girl you expect to leave behind at graduation.
But what happens when these women go to college and enter the workforce?…
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.…
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