Systemic Chivalry is Benevolent Sexism? ~ ItsComplicated
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Enable Mike Buchanan to attend the XY Crew event in Thailand, 2-12 November, 2025
I’ve just launched a crowdfunder with a target of £3,500, which will end at midnight, Sunday 5 October. The description in the crowdfunder takes up the remainder of this blog piece: Hello. Paul Elam has organised the third XY Crew Jamboree which will take place in Pattaya City, Thailand, over 2-12 November, 2025: XY Crew …
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Shameful anti-male bigotry in the study of honor-based killings
Douglas Galbi takes on feminism’s sexist definition of honor killings.
Feminism and Romance Literature
According to a recent poll only 18% of U.S. people consider themselves feminist.1 On that account we can expect readers of romance novels to comprise not more than 18% feminists, and likely far less due to the fact that feminists disparage traditional approaches to romance…. at least according to their rhetoric. A more generous National Geographic/Ipsos survey2 …
Not paying the cost to be a girlboss
As was the case with his peers, bluesman B.B. King (1925-2015) came from humble beginnings – to put it mildly. Born to sharecroppers on a Mississippi cotton plantation, his mother deserted the family when he was four years old. Thereafter, he was raised by his grandmother. His first job was working in a cotton gin. …
Frame Within Frame: A Gynocentric Misstep
As Max O’Rell noted in the year 1900, men tend to exert intersexual frame within a larger intersexual frame of gynocentrism of which they are unconscious, while deluding themselves that they are guiding the entire interaction. “The best thing that can happen to a man is to be ruled by his wife; but she should rule him …
