Fuck yeah Sweden! The Swedish toy company Leklust (note: site is in Swedish) has in its new catalog reversed the traditional gender roles in its pictures, including showing the world’s most adorable Spider-Man pushing a pram:
Queer Men and Eating Disorders
I recently came across an interesting study about the risk of eating disorders among queer men. Queer men are much more likely than straight men to acquire eating disorders: the authors theorize that this is because queer men tend to prize thinness in their sexual partners more than straight women do. For instance, queer men are…
Naomi Wolf: The State Can Strip You
Naomi Wolf has, lately, been rather facepalmy regarding the whole porn/sex/sex work issue, so it’s nice to see her actually talking about something that doesn’t make me want to look at my copy of The Beauty Myth and cry. Although it kind of makes me want to cry for my country. Our surveillance state shown considerable determination…
Open Thread, Party Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Friday nights spent doing homework.
Racialicious on Walking While Black
Racialicious has an excellent post on walking while black. I have felt like Trayvon Martin. Many many times while walking at night, being pulled over by police, being told that I’m not supposed to ‘be.’ My ‘being’ in a space has caused questions, concerns, suspicions. In the back of my mind I always wondered if there…
Ten Responses to Man Up
I recently found this brilliant piece by Guante, a hip-hop artist and two-time National Poetry Slam champion, and felt like sharing it with everyone. Transcript from his website below the cut.
Advertising Sins: From Cracked!
Via Cracked, we have the five most insulting ways products are advertised to men. I’m going to assume you’ve gone over there and read the article, on account of my article will be far more boring and lacking in dick jokes. (Also, less ableist, so go me.)
Monday Roundup
Noah Brand At the Good Men Project: Barney Frank leaves Congress. Ozy Frantz At the Good Men Project: my recent post about the prison-industrial complex is rerun. Not much point in reading it unless you are very, very interested in finding how awful and racist people can get in the comments section. (Pretty damn racist.) Other…
The Prison-Industrial Complex is Anti-Man
Ozy Frantz takes on the prison-industrial complex and how it affects the lives of American men.
Fifties Purity Advice
For a class, I had to scan several pages of a 1957 sexuality advice guide for Protestant engaged and married couples. I figured that while I had them scanned I might as well share them with the general public. Unfortunately, since I do not have to scan them for the class, you all are missing…
Sexual Abuse in US Immigration Prisons
The USian Immigrations and Customs Enforcement service has recently revised the rules applying to immigrants detained and awaiting their deportation hearings. Most notably for me, they’ve strengthened the absolutely shit regulations regarding sexual abuse in detention. The Prison Rape Elimination Act (which is already inadequate, but at least it’s a step) does not apply to…
The Prison-Industrial Complex Is Anti-Man
This article in AlterNet makes a compelling case for a new American racial caste system built on the back of the drug war. Where Americans comfort ourselves that we are a post-racial society due to affirmative action, black CEOs, and Obama, in reality the average black person is at a far higher risk of being imprisoned…
Open Thread. Avatar Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by the universe’s most adorable cosplayers.
Daily Mail on Househusbands
Hat tip to Hadley. The Faily Heil, a newspaper best known for its 1930s support of British fascist Oswald Mosley and its unceasing efforts to classify everything as either a cause of or cure of cancer, has offered us all an article about househusbands. Is there lulz? Of COURSE there is lulz. First of all, the…
Purity Balls
Hat tip to Christa. So, purity balls! Purity balls are gross. I don’t think I know a single feminist who doesn’t think that purity balls are gross. It takes what is actually a kind of lovely idea (a dad and his daughter spend some time together at a ceremony that honors their relationship) and turns…
Fuck Gawker Media
Trigger warning for rape apologism. From Gawker and Jezebel we have a horrific story of a woman who, after a consensual hookup, held a man prisoner in her apartment and forced him to have sex with her multiple times. Thankfully, the man was able to call the cops and the woman was prosecuted for sexual assault. The…