So! Noah and I have been writing lots of different places, and instead of doing a post every time we have an article somewhere else, we’ve decided to save them up and post them all on Monday. Also because Ozy wants two days off each week instead of one.
Real Men Get Raped
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. Hat tip to Titab and Elizabeth for pointing me to the story. Survivors UK, an organization working with male survivors of rape, has begun an advertising campaign to raise awareness of male survivors of rape and to fight the stigma that male rape survivors face. Apparently it’s been quite…
Someone Is Wrong On The Internet
I’ve had a bad couple days, so I’ve decided that there’s exactly one solution: find an idiot on the Internet and call them stupid until I feel better. Today’s idiot comes to us courtesy of the PJ Lifestyle, offering up 7 Mistakes Women Make With Men. Do you want to know what the mistakes are? A lot…
Open Thread, English Major Armadillo Edition
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Senator Glenn Grothman Is The Biggest Asshole On The Planet
(Hat tip to Monkey.) Rush Limbaugh, it’s time to retire. Rick Santorum, hang up your sweatervest. Thor, return home to Asgard. The come-from-behind dark-horse victor Senator Glenn Grothman has achieved the coveted trophy Biggest Douchebag on the Entire Planet. No, that’s not a parody. He literally does believe that single parents (which, to be fair,…
Harrowing Video About Male Abuse Survivor
(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…
Advertising Sins: Food and Masculinity
(Hat tip to Sociological Images.) I have previously expressed my puzzlement at the bizarre gendering of food. Men like Big Portions, did you know? And meat! Women like teeny portions and gourmet food and vegetables, possibly because they are always dieting because our sizeist culture is under the impression that if you’re not size zero…
Anti-Intellectualism in Boy Scout Badges
Sociological Images has an interesting post on the gender differences between Boy Scout and Girl Scout manuals, one bit of which really sticks out to me. Interestingly, and in contrast, Denny also found that Boy, but not Girl Scout manuals taught “intellectual passivity.” When faced with unanswered questions, girls were often encouraged to do further research,…
Private Practice First Show On Television to Have a Male Military Survivor of Rape
Trigger warning for rape and spoilers for the February 2nd episode of Private Practice. The hospital drama Private Practice has broken new ground for the representation of male survivors on television: they are the very first show on television to depict a male soldier who has survived rape.
Open Thread, Good Advice Edition
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Clarisse Thorn’s New PUA Ebook
Just in time for International Women’s Day, badass feminist and Friend of NSWATM Clarisse Thorn‘s first book, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, is available on Kindle. I was lucky enough to be able to read an early copy. Originally, when I got the email, I intended to read the first chapter and then do a…
Huffington Post on Teen Boys and Masculinity
The Huffington Post has an interesting new article about some research on the changing nature of masculinity for teenage boys in England. My primary reaction to the article? Holy shit, the good guys are winning. One of the biggest changes is that masculinity no longer automatically equals hatred of women and homosexuality. Slut-shaming and use of…
D’awww And Arrrgh News About Fatherhood
First, from The Mary Sue: A single dad learns about comic books for his superhero-fan four-year-old daughter. i stood back, trying to learn all that i could my heart melted when she looked at me with those thankful eyes she has when she’s really, really happy and asked me to read to her. we sat in that store for 35 mins, each page i turned led to more questions, which…
Male Employment Hits Historic Lows
(Via Occupy Wall Street.) According to the Federal Reserve’s economic data, the rate of employment of men has hit historic lows— in fact, it’s at the lowest rate in more than sixty years. And women aren’t doing so well either. Noah, who is awesome, Photoshopped the two charts together so we can see what’s up:
The Sandwich Means I Love You
A while ago, Captain Awkward wrote this following post about sandwiches, and love, and boundaries, and things. You should go read it. It is good post. The way you set boundaries around this is to accept what’s offered with grace and gratitude. You’re loved. Your friends are proving it to you all the time in small, cool…
Open Thread, Stars Edition
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