Why gay men don’t need feminism – Part 2: The takeover
Andy Bob strikes again with Part II in his series on why gay men don’t need feminism, which is to say gay men don’t need movements that hate and exploit them.
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A reformed feminism still sees men as accessories to women
Mary Harrington, author of the just-published Feminism Against Progress, is one of a number of women (Louise Perry is another) criticizing feminism from the inside. In particular, Harrington has taken aim at birth control technology—the pill—as an aspect of what she dubs cyborg feminism, the bio-medical upgrading of the body in the service of a …
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Telesphorus tortured & killed for witty criticism of Arsinoe
Just as it is today, men criticizing women in the ancient world was dangerous. Whether it was the foolish lad Ascalabus criticizing the goddess Demeter for boozing, or the high official Telesphorus criticizing King Lysimachus’s wife Arsinoe for vomiting, the results were the same: disaster for the man. The goddess Demeter threw her drink onto …
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Patriarchy and Toxic Relationships
“Something has clearly played havoc with the relationship between the sexes.” But men have options
Boys Alone
Fewer men are teaching boys how to be boys, and it seems that even fewer men are interested in teaching young men how to enter in.
Mass Hysteria, Madness and Feminism
History of Mass Hysteria An early occurrence of a new form of irrationality was surfacing in the age of ‚enlightenment’, when a mob was yelling (rather unenlightened) “Hang to the lanterns, who has a handkerchief!”, and “Hang to the lanterns, who hasn’t got horny skin!”.[i] The people who had soft skin, faced the danger to …
Big Red – 10 years on
Today marks 10 years since the Canadian Association for Equality held an event at the University of Toronto at which Big Red made a spectacle of herself and provided us with memes that will last a lifetime. The featured image of Big Red is taken from Wikimannia Commons.
Putting Faces on Victims – Stories of child abuse and domestic violence: When the political becomes personal
For 13 years I worked as a case manager and investigator handling child abuse cases for one of the largest child welfare agencies in the U.S.. During that time I saw the results of some of the most horrific violence and abuse imaginable. I saw the striped scars from shoulder to heal on the back and legs of a …
