The first chapter of Noah Brand and Ozy Frantz’s provocative book What About The Men? explores feminism, gender performance, and why the “man box” is a bad fit.
Unconscious Bias Against Short Men?
June 7, 2012 By 27 Comments
Sociological Images brings us a video talking about implicit bias against short men. The scientifically valid tool discussed in the video, the Implicit Association Test, measures how biased someone is against a group, even in ways they may not know about: if the test-taker is faster and more accurate at sorting tall men and good [...]
Harrowing Video About Male Abuse Survivor
March 14, 2012 By 13 Comments
(Hat tip to n1l0c2501.) Trigger warning for explicit depictions of abuse. Minor spoilers for the short film Life’s Poison. I was recently pointed to Life’s Poison, a powerful short film made for the PBS Online Film Festival about a teenage male who was abused by his father and the struggles he goes through in recovering [...]
Social Justice Part Whatthefuckever: Seeing the Matrix
November 9, 2011 By 100 Comments
Trigger warning for brief mentions of rape. The kyriarchy is like the Matrix. (This was totally my metaphor first, and then Sinfest stole it and made it into a comic, and now hopefully it has been long enough that everyone forgot. Except, uh, I just mentioned Sinfest. Oops.) This is the source of one of [...]
Social Justice 101 Part One: I Blame the Kyriarchy
October 9, 2011 By 93 Comments
“There is a push for women to be their most genuine selves, and yet now there is makeup for men!?”
This is a comment by Cameron Brown on the post “Makeup for Men? Why?”