Game of Flames
SPOILER ALERT. Don’t read this article unless you’ve seen all of Game of Thrones. We mean it! You have been warned!
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Folklore, Feminism, and the Erasure of Male Victimization
Can scholars and writers be wrong about a story they know well? That question might seem odd since academics and authors are generally knowledgeable, but the quality of their analyses depends on a variety of factors – including their ideology. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with philosophical or political interpretations of a text; at best, …
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The tale of Delphine LaLaurie
Western civilisation has regarded women as morally superior to men since at least the Middle Ages. Even a cursory review of history shows that this isn’t so with women throughout the ages demonstrating their willingness and capacity to harm others. We know from recent research that queens regnant were more likely to start wars and …
Women complaining about lack of available slavemasters
Feminist wisdom claims that women are pressured into marriage by the patriarchy against their wills, and marriage is something women really don’t desire. No really. Anja Eriud points out a few ironies embedded in this narrative.
Jake and the Map of Men
Wow, men . . . women? How do we deal with that most complex of beasts and what do they want anyway? Here’s a simple map to help you find out where you are with respect to them and where you might want to go. I repeat might. The flat map you read in your …
What is a Man?
In late June I had published my article Biogynocentric Hypocrisy: TERF Edition (War on the Biological Male) in which I had made the following statement: When I was noticing sponsored posts on Facebook by Matt Walsh’s page abut his new film What Is A Woman?, what grabbed my attention was the text on one of …
The morality of punishing the innocent
Does punishing the innocent become morally acceptable if doing so reduces crimes such as sexual assault? TDOM untangles the twisted morality of injustice by design.
