Occasionally Rick Santorum says things. Whenever he says things, I choose to believe that he is a troll candidate put forward by Anonymous, because it is basically impossible to believe that such a sex-negative, homophobic, racist, sexist, science-hating asshole is running for president in the twenty-first century. Asimov would cry. Recently, on his quest to…
Monday Roundup
Noah Brand At the Good Men Project: why men play female characters in video games. Ozy Frantz At the Good Men Project: rerun of The Knight/Beast Dichotomy. At AlterNet: The Absurd Myths Porn Teaches Us About Sex. Technically cowritten, but it goes under my section Because I Said So.
The Knight/Beast Dichotomy
Just as women are trapped by the stereotypes of the virgin/whore dichotomy, so do good guy/bad guy stereotypes trap men. Ozy Frantz breaks down how these cultural images work.
Happy April First
Forget male rape survivors! Ignore the bullying of teen boys! Pay no attention to the marginalization of fathers! Today, NSWATM will discuss the single most important issue facing men of all classes, colors, and creeds: the inability of straight white middle-class men to get laid. Too long have the slut-feminists and their mangina lapdogs hidden…
Open Thread, Adrienne Rich Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Adrienne Rich, the groundbreaking feminist poet and thinker, who died this week. A lot of people are going to be mourning the feminist theorist, author of Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (which, don’t get me wrong, has that classic second-wave combination of “what the fuck?” and “holy…
Racialicious on Black Men and Sports
Racialicious hits it out of the park again with an article on black men and sports as a way of coping with their pain: Why is it that so many young black men still search for safety, solace, and a sense of control in the sporting realm, whether in the ring, on the court, or on…
Intersectionality and Men of Color
Quote from a very interesting article linked in an Open Thread (hat tip to Matthew Swank): I also said that [the documentary] marginalizes MOC because for example, the women make 70-something cents per dollar thing (that white feminists *always* use) is white women to white men. Black men, for example, make less than white women. And…
Imprisonment and Men of Color
According to an article on AlterNet, the American criminal justice system is disturbingly raced and gendered to the detriment of men of color. 1 in every 15 black and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men in America are currently incarcerated. One in three black American men will be imprisoned at some point in their lives. Seriously. One…
Monday Roundup
Noah Brand A whole bunch of new shit! Noah admits that he’s a racist. South Dakota has man camps full of breadwinning men. Legend of Korra episode is leaked. A task force is convened in Massachusetts on shared parenting. Ozy Frantz The Good Men Project reprinted my Good Consent piece, all about how not to rape people.
Good Consent
Is there an all-encompassing ethic of sexual consent? Ozy Frantz lays down some ground rules.
The Knight/Beast Dichotomy
Trigger warning for rape. A fascinating article at Sociology in Focus describes the male equivalent of the virgin/whore dichotomy: the protector/rapist dichotomy. Women in our society get classified as either virgins or whores– that is, as pure and perfect wife-and-mother-material Good Girls in sweaters, or slutty and “crazy” drinking-and-screwing-and-breaking-hearts Bad Girls in microminis. Similarly, men…
Link Roundup
I am currently in a motel room next to a very pissed-off hamster and an eBay-shopping girlfriend, so instead of giving you content I’m just going to point you to a lot of other people’s cool content.
Open Thread, Insecurity Edition
This Open Thread is brought to you by every Cosmo ever.
On Trayvon Martin
The Million Hoodie March in protest of the death of Trayvon Martin was today, so it’s a good opportunity to reflect on the injustice of his death. The details of Trayvon’s death are simple: Trayvon Martin, carrying Skittles and an ice tea for his little brother, walked to his father’s house in a suburban Florida…
Slate on False Accusations of Rape
Trigger warning for rape. Note: rape apologist bullshit in the comments is NOT ALLOWED. Slate has a fascinating article about how Virginia has DNA evidence that may prove that dozens of men were convicted of crimes that they did not commit. In September 2004, the governor of Virginia ordered a random audit of 31 criminal cases…
Manly Cheerleading
One for the Masculinity Is An Immutable Thing Placed In Us By The Almighty God And/Or Evolution And Definitely Has Nothing To Do With Social Construction or Anything people: Cheerleading was originally considered a manly sport.