Noah Brand At the Good Men Project: look at the hilariously racist comments! Call for submissions for a week about nostalgia and how being a man has changed over the decades. Ozy Frantz At the Good Men Project: On Femmephobia rerun with new title and awesome picture of dude in a ballerina outfit.
Femmephobia: “Girls Are Gross” Writ Large
Ozy Frantz explains the difference between fear and hatred of women, and the more common fear and hatred of anything feminine.
Cracked on Misogyny
Hat tip to Psychonomics. TW for brief mentions of rape. Cracked has recently presented an article about the five ways modern men are trained to hate women, as part of its latest bid to be Feministe’s more ableist, more prone to dick jokes little brother. Seriously, what is it with Cracked and social justice these…
Book Review: Ecce Homo
The last of the book reviews! Actual content shall commence forthwith! Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain As Redemptive Figure is Gender Theory. It has that trait Gender Theory generally has, where about half the time you’re glaring at it going “okay, what the fuck are you even talking about, that makes no sense whatsoever” and half the time…
Open Thread, Can’t Sleep Liberals Will Eat Me Edition
Apparently this is a real book. I don’t… I can’t even…
Book Review: The Libertine’s Friend
Trigger warning for discussions of sex with underage men and references to rape. Further book reviews happen! This one is about The Libertine’s Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China. Basically, the author analyzes late Ming to late Qing erotic, romantic, and other fiction to come to conclusions about how homoeroticism and visions of…
Monday Roundup
Noah Brand At the Good Men Project: On the making of a good steak; a feminist fashion blog on male body issues; the US should get out of Afghanistan; New Hampshire ends court-appointed lawyers for people abused of child abuse or neglect. All of these are basically just “a link and a paragraph of thoughts”…
This Just In: Attraction Is Complicated
Ozy Frantz lays out why “men are attracted to X” or “women are attracted to Y” formulations are doomed to failure.
Book Review: Seeking the Straight and Narrow
Recently, thanks to the fabulous Clarisse Thorn, the University of Chicago Press has sent me a whole bunch of books, which I shall now proceed to review! (I assume that all this is the University of Chicago’s attempt to apologize for rejecting both me and my sister. Bastards.) So if you do not want to…
Question Bridge
I’d like to alert people to a very cool artistic project, Question Bridge: Black Men. Its purpose is to allow black men of all classes, abilities, sexualities, ages, locations, etc. to talk to each other about issues facing black men: issues of racism, choices, identity, beliefs, values, etc. To quote from the Artist’s Statement: Empirical…
I Thought I’d Try The Swim Part: The Man Camps of North Dakota
Noah wrote about the “man camps” of North Dakota for the Good Men Project, but I decided I would talk about it as well, because it’s interesting. The quote that struck me the most within the NYT article was the following, from an oil fields worker: Even after the recruiter told him the job was…
Open Thread, Cake Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Super-Baking!
Reddit Loves the Body Hate
TW for body policing and hat tip to Kate. Brought to us courtesy of the Funny reddit, we have an alleged “joke” that has many unique traits, such as not being remotely funny, unless you happen to be amused by people who fail at humor.
UW-Madison Athletic Official Investigated for Sexual Assault
Hat tip to Geo, and trigger warning for explicit description of sexual assault. John Chadima, former senior associate athletic director at UW-Madison, is being investigated for the sexual assault of a male student.
Attraction Is Complicated, News at 11
Evolutionary psychologists, everyone’s favorite peddlers of pseudoscience to justify all manner of -isms, have long theorized that people tend to find traits more attractive when they signal fertility. Therefore, men are attracted to young, thin, large-breasted women, and women are attracted to tall, deep-voiced men. Science! Turns out… it’s just not so. In fact, men…
Melissa Harris-Perry on Dress Codes for Black Safety
About a week ago on MSNBC (look, I am totally awesome at Breaking News), the fabulous Melissa Harris-Perry presented a list of guidelines for clothing for black male safety. Finally, black men everywhere will know exactly how to dress to avoid white people arresting and/or shooting them! Specifically: No blue or red, because the Crips…