Massive trigger warning for description of rape.
Open Thread, Geek Edition
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The New York Times Is Made Of Fail
I have been sitting on this for a couple days and attempting to find some way to relate it to The Dudez, but I simply can’t. Nevertheless, it is so idiotic I feel the need to share it with everyone, so you guys will just have to suck it up and hear about how sexism hurts…
Tim Gunn Hasn’t Had Sex In 29 Years, And It’s None Of Our Fucking Business
Celebrities give up some of their privacy as part of the “being a famous person” thing. Non-famous people tend to have a certain amount of prurient interest in the lives, romantic and otherwise, of famous people. But there is a line, sapients and gentlebeings. I may coo over the TARDIS Neil and Amanda put on…
What We Can Do To Prevent Rape and Abuse
Trigger warning for rape. I spend a lot of time talking about rape. Seriously, my parents have started picking up on how much I talk about rape and sending me articles about rape in the judicial system and the FBI’s new definition. But one of the big problems with talking about rape is that a lot…
Hoisting Petards and the Patriarchy
Have you ever heard the phrase “hoist by his own petard”? As in the sentence “Newt Gingrich was hoist by his own petard: his general douchebaggery has probably cost him the presidency”? Do you have any idea what a petard is? Seriously. I have talked to dozens of people who have used the phrase, and…
Open Thread, Rules Edition
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Kay Hymowitz: Terrible Person or Worst Person?
Explaining what’s wrong with articles by Kay “guys should man up” Hymowitz is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel entirely full of salted herring. Nevertheless, I am in a ranty mood, so.
Assorted Links!
Today I am outsourcing this “blogging” thing to other people who have more interesting things to say than I do. Scientific American would like to inform you that men and women are both, in fact, from Earth: Finally, when talking about evolved differences in behavior between males and females one cannot make statements like “when…
Are Men More Likely To Be Homeless?
It’s a common claim among masculist and men’s rights circles that men are more likely to be homeless than women are; it’s a common counter-claim that most of the studies are done on single homeless people, and homeless women are more likely to have children and therefore not fall into this group. So I decided…
Bromanteaus
Today, I discovered the existence of something called “brotox,” the apparent new trend of men getting Botox and other cosmetic surgeries. I say “apparent,” because if you actually dig for the sources of the information, you’ll discover that, while the number of men getting Botox has increased by 10% in the previous year, they still…
Open Thread Not About The Hotness Of People
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Myth of Men Not Being Hot/Beauty Myth Open Thread
I’m kinda lazy today, so I’ve decided to throw up an Open Thread and make you all do all the work. One of the ideas we talk about here at NSWATM a lot is the Myth of Men Not Being Hot: that is, the cultural notion that women are interested in men’s wallets or their…
Male Friendship
(hat tip to StartledOctopus) This is an interesting video from Sociological Images (no transcript available and I don’t want to write an transcript of an hour-and-a-half video, sorry) about how gender affects friendship, although the audience appeared more interested in the fuzzy animal pictures. Also, just like the video, this article will come from a…
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring one of the leaders in the American civil rights movement. It is important to recall today that, despite the victories of the civil rights movement, racism against black people (along with racism against other people of color) is not over in the United States. More than a…
Memo to the Men’s Rights Movement
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. Dear the Men’s Rights Movement, I think there’s one issue you and I need to sort out before I go back to my general policy of pretending you don’t exist and/or sporfling when you call me a female supremacist.