The military has a problem with sexual assault.
As many men as women have come forward as victims. Likely this means that the problem for men is even more vast then they admit.
Look at this article on the problem.
Notice how the equal number of male victims suddenly disappear when it gets personal.…
EQUALITY – Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington – Nov. 6, 2012
Yippee
Washington State has voted to allow same-sex marriage, marriage equality, whatever you want to call it. Similar referenda passed in Maine and Maryland and in Minnesota an initiative to put in place a constitutional amendment to ban SSM failed.…
Men are disposable? Men are to Blame!
From Tumbler:
went thru the mra tag
How nice of you to drop in! Do stay awhile. Keep your mind open because we–oh.
when did the supposed disposable quality of men (esp in war) become a thing?
I dunno. Since “patriarchy” began? There are no kings without disposable soldiers.…
DEMONIZATION – Blaming men because women won’t approach
I don’t spend a lot of thought on straight dating but it’s a pretty live subject in some parts of the gendersphere, so the issue comes up a lot. Commenter Daisy had this insightful bit to say:
My opinion–lots of women get upset when men approach them for the same reason I do, they would rather do the approaching themselves.…
And Now For Something Completely Different…
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Gender Dynamics In a Nutshell
There are a lot of conflicting things going on in the realm of gender.
We have women with far greater levels of in group bias, yet people don’t see women as capable leaders.
The “in group bias study” is the not the only study that found the “Women are Wonderful” or “Benevolent Sexism*” (as feminists term it) effect.…
MISOGYNY – Afghan woman beheads daughter-in-law for refusing prostitution, police say
Here’s a horrible story. A woman in Afghanistan, Pari Gul, beheaded her daughter-in-law, Mah Gul, for refusing to engage in prostitution. This happened a couple of weeks ago.
There’s a more to the story but this is the core of it and it’s the part that matters.…
GENERAL – Useful new words and acronyms, Part II
More new words and expressions! Catachosis – This is a play on “catachesis” or the more widely used “catechism”. It means religious indoctrination. When you are discussing something with someone and their entire terminology is cant and jargon and fashionable buzzwords, and their conceptual matrix blinds them to the simple facts of the case, when they prefer the comfort of their belief system to...
FEMALE PRIVILEGE: Assholes Come in Two Flavours: Male and Female, Part II
In her post “Assholes Come in Two Flavours: Male and Female” Typhonblue outlined the rim of the issue* by flipping the genders to show how outrageous the young woman’s sexism was.
Let’s look at this now as an example of female privilege in a little more detail and list the ways it is.…
Rape Culture, A Potpourri (And an Open Thread)
From “Assholes Come in Two Flavors”
Gwallan describes how male victims of sexual assault in remote areas of Australia have to drive thousands of kilometers and pay for treatment while paying for women’s treatement:
Australia’s a big place.…
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