So this is basically just a roundup of common mistakes people make while out Social-Justice-ing, which I am listing out in the hopes that people will avoid doing that shit.
Quote of the Day
Some people protest carrying signs. Some people protest by making activist radical music. Sometimes people try to just make it through a day and not kill themselves, and that’s their activism for right then, because that’s all they have. –Kathleen Hanna
Feministe on the Hotness of Gender-Non-Conforming Men
Rebecca Katherine Hirsch, guest-blogging at Feministe, has a really awesome post on the hotness of gender-non-conformity. Quotes and commentary and stuff below the cut.
Open Thread, Book Lust Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Neil Gaiman’s library.
World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day.* It has been three decades since the first young gay men started getting Kaposi’s sarcoma. Many people, including me, have never lived in a world where sex couldn’t kill you. 33 million people across the globe are currently living with HIV? So, uh, why do we still stigmatize people with…
Social Justice Part Fish: Gender Egalitarianism
Every oppression, like an unhappy family, is oppressive in its own way. Each is a unique snowflake of kyriarchal crap. One of the ways that gender is unique, as an axis of oppression, is that it is one of the few forms that totally sucks for everyone. As a white person, I can inform you…
Dancing, Sexualization and the Myth of Men Not Being Hot
My friend Summer, she who previously proposed the virginity thread, is rapidly becoming NSWATM’s leading provider of interesting post ideas. Lots of videos below the cut; skip if on a slow connection
Football Coach Bullies Own Students
Trigger warning for mentions of suicide and description of bullying. Got any spare faith in humanity lying around? (Warning: Link goes to the Faily Heil, which nevertheless seems to have pretty good coverage.) Pat Lynch, football coach at Buffalo High School, Wyoming, gave his players a “Hurt Feelings Report” to use to report bullying. Sounds…
Microaggressions
Trigger warning for rape and extreme violence. ETA: L reports that the Michigan anti-bullying legislation does NOT include a religious exception anymore. A little bit of hope to brighten your morning. Last week, a guy traveled on a bus to Milwaukee to meet a girl from the Internet. She and her roommate tied him up, slashed…
Open Thread
This week’s Open Thread has been brought to you by Morrissey’s pioneering kitty-related fashion statement.
Herman Cain on What Makes a Man a Man
From a GQ puff piece about GOP frontclown and accused sexual harasser Herman Cain: Chris Heath: What can you tell about a man by the type of pizza that he likes? Herman Cain: [repeats the question aloud, then pauses for a long moment] The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly…
Open Thread: Virginity and Men
A friend of mine and I were talking about men’s views of virginity, and she was like “gosh, well, it’s not like you have a masculism blog where you can discuss this topic and gather a variety of opinions from actual men” and I was like “Oh, right.” My scattered thoughts on male virginity: I think…
Strictly Moderated: #MenCallMeThings
Mod Note: If your comment takes the form “this is the Internet, everyone experiences harassment”, “these women should just suck it up when people send them rape threats”, “everything Sady Doyle has ever done is now invalid because she said some unwise, inflammatory things on NSWATM” or “#mencallmethings is misandric because not all men harass women on the Internet”, don’t leave…
Happy Veteran’s Day!
Happy Veteran’s Day to our readers and my appreciation to those of our readers who are veterans or currently in the military.
Open Thread
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Social Justice Part Whatthefuckever: Seeing the Matrix
Trigger warning for brief mentions of rape. The kyriarchy is like the Matrix. (This was totally my metaphor first, and then Sinfest stole it and made it into a comic, and now hopefully it has been long enough that everyone forgot. Except, uh, I just mentioned Sinfest. Oops.) This is the source of one of…