There’s a video going around the web* of a woman having in orgasm. Specifically, it’s footage of Kayt Sukel‘s brain as she climaxes in the cramped confinces of an fMRI machine. It’s interesting enough, judging by the stills, but it’s hailed as “the female orgasm,” when what we’re really seeing is Kayt Sukel’s orgasm. A [...]
Things That are Not the Same
August 16, 2011 By 94 Comments
Trigger warning for mentions of rape and abuse. Inspired, a month and a half on, by other posts by my co-conspirators on language usage, I’ve been thinking about how we in the movement(s) so often talk past each other, without always immediately realizing it. We use the same words to mean different things. To help [...]
Some of my Best Friends are Ladies
July 27, 2011 By 21 Comments
Like ranchers and farmers, men and women should be friends. More so, in fact, since men and women are not opposites or competitors (nor, indeed, mutually exclusive, or the whole story, but that’s for elsewhere). So I was gratified to see this article on Slate questioning why Hollywood insists that men and women who are [...]
This is What a Masculist Looks Like
June 27, 2011 By 43 Comments
Trigger warning for brief mention of rape. Google Docs, which I’m composing this post in, does not recognize the word “masculist.” Nor does Chrome; nor does OpenOffice. It’s a new word, though not, I think, a new concept, and I think there’s room for it to become as recognized, as accepted, and even as derided [...]
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.