Recently, I was involved in an effort to revise my college’s sexual harassment, rape, and abuse policies, which means that I spent like eighty hours sitting in various rooms having meetings with people. (And also the policy is 100% gender-neutral and includes envelopment as rape. Say thank you.) In the process of doing this, I…
Post Up At Role/Reboot
Ozy has a post up at Role/Reboot about emotional abuse and also zir dating life! It has been entirely too long since zie got to post about dating people in public. (Twitter doesn’t count.)
The Masculinization of Femme Stuff
(Hat tip to dreamwaffles.) Autostraddle and Ms. Blog have the news about an interesting new advertising sins and the latest mutation of femmephobia. I mean, kind of news. It’s from, erm, two months ago. Ozy is known for many things, but zir punctuality is evidently not one of them. If you click the friendly Ms. Blog…
The Before Body
(Hat tip to Sociological Images.) Below the cut, we have a fascinating video in which a man becomes both the “before” and the “after” body for a weight-loss, muscle-gain ad– within only a few hours. To get the after body, he lifts weights (to make his muscles more prominent), tans, sprays his body with PAM, takes the picture…
Open Thread, Ozy Is Alive and Stuff Edition
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Virginia School District Full of Shit
(Hat tip to Kink on Tap) So! There is this school district in Virginia with an innovative plan to prevent gender- and sexuality-based bullying! Are they going to encourage acceptance of all genders and sexual orientations? Provide counselling and other support for bullied kids? Provide diversity and sensitivity training for people accused of bullying? No,…
Human Rights Abuses and Rape of Men
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. I linked this in one of my roundups of information about rape a few days ago, but I think it’s interesting enough that I want to delve into it a little deeper. The article addresses the rape of men (unfortunately, it seems to be only rape by penetration, not rape by…
Open Thread, Aliens Edition
Hey, everyone! My friend Philip Rice has a website full of his art! Like this! You should check it out. There are Victorian vampires.
Why Are Vegetables Unmanly Again?
LabRat at Atomic Nerds, in a side point in a post about Michelle Obama’s new vegetables-in-the-military policy, says: As a side comment from the “vegetable guy yet” remark, there is also a very weird sort of gender war going on in a lot of the comments I’ve read on other articles/posts talking about this story. Apparently…
Valentine’s Day Non-Creepy Love Song Mix
As I’m sure you’re all aware, for every sweet, genuinely romantic love song out there in the world, there’s twelve Baby It’s Cold Outsides and Every Breath You Takes. Therefore, for this Valentine’s Day, Noah and I have decided to round up our favorite non-creepy love songs. Warning: below the cut is not safe for…
The Stigma of Male Sexual Assault
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. There’s been a lot of information about the rape of men crossing my desktop lately, so I felt I’d just post them all.
Super Bowl Commercials, To Everyone’s Surprise, Sexist
In a shocking turn of events no one could have possibly predicted, the Superbowl ads this year were somewhat sexist. (Much thanks to Feministe, who watched the ads so I didn’t have to.)
Open Thread, Batman Edition
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Census Bureau: Fathers Pretty Much Just Babysitters
Did you know that according to the Census Bureau fathers are just “child care”? It’s not baby-sitting when Daddy does it. Who wouldn’t agree with that? The U.S. Census Bureau, apparently. When both parents are present in the household, the Census Bureau assumes for the purposes of its “Who’s Minding the Kids?” report, that the mother is…
Mansplaining and MS Paint
Today, with the help of a bunch of stick figures, I am going to talk about mansplaining! I have no doubt that, no matter how carefully I phrase the stuff in here, the comments are going to be a shithole. Be warned.
Open Thread: The Super Bowl
I would have totally attempted to write a post about football and sports culture today, in honor of the Super Bowl, and then I realized that I know approximately nothing about football. Apparently there’s tackling involved and something called a “down”? I dunno, it just seems way less interesting than The Lies of Locke Lamora.…