Are you a man or a woman? Don’t worry if there’s no straightforward answer to that question, or if the straightforward answer is “no” or “yes.” Whatever your answer is, how do you know? Now one group of researchers says your Twitter posts are a clear giveaway. In a study by Mitre of a group…
About Hershele Ostropoler
Things That are Not the Same
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
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
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…