Philip Zimbardo (hat tip to William for linking it), who also did the Stanford Prison Experiment, has a TED talk about the demise of guys: decreases in educational achievement and increases in social awkwardness. He ends up blaming it a lot on porn, the Internet and video games, which I think is a simplistic solution.…
Troy Davis
On Wednesday, Troy Davis, a man who may well have been innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, was executed. Troy Davis was accused of killing Mark MacPhail, a Georgia police officer. Seven of the nine principal prosecution eyewitnesses changed all or part of their testimony, many alleging police coercion in getting their testimony. In addition, three…
Open Thread: Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!
I’m bisexual* and I exist. Bisexual Visibility Day has always felt like a fuck-you to me. The people I am saying fuck-you to this year include include: J. Michael Bailey. Anyone who calls Freddy Mercury or David Bowie gay (bisexual! bisexual!) or Billie Joe Armstrong or Lady Gaga or Kurt Cobain or Jimmy Urine straight (bisexual! bisexual! bisexual!…
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Take My Social Movement– Please!
The gender egalitarian masculist movement is tiny. By “gender egalitarian,” I mean “believes men and women are more similar than they are different and fights against the sexist institutions and cultural narratives that try to make them more different than they are, while avoiding being racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc. and not advocating violence, hate or stereotypes against…
Thinking About "Creep"
Mod Note: The topic of this post is problems with the term “creep,” using “creep” in a non-gendered manner and creating a reasonable person standard for creepiness. The topic of this post is not feminism. Please take anything about feminism to the Open Thread. There has been a lot of thought in the gendersphere about the word “creep.” I…
Scenes from Ozy’s Bookshelf
I have decided to talk about some of my favorite books about men and masculinity, the books that have shaped my viewpoints on what it is to be a masculist.
Pam’s House Blend on Anti-Gay Bullying
TW for suicide. This story from Pam’s House Blend leaves me with a serious case of mood whiplash. 2009: A Massachusetts boy, Carl Walker-Hoover, hung himself earlier this week after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. She said she found her son,…
Getting Off Part Three: Jensen Gets Something Right
[The phrase “be a man”] is usually connected to one man’s demand that another man be “stronger,” which is traditionally understood as the ability to suppress emotional reactions and channel that energy into controlling situations and establishing dominance. Be a man, then, typically translates as: Surrender your humanity. –Robert Jensen, Getting Off Reversed stupidity is…
Open Thread
Welcome to the very first Open Thread! Off-topic discussions on other threads go here, as do links to articles you think the commentariat would be interested in, rants about your day, favorite bands, new movies and cat pictures. This Open Thread has been brought to you by a small adorable bunny.
Getting Off, Part Two: Pornography
This week, on Ozy Is Annoyed At A Radical Feminist… Critique of Porn, ur doin it rong.
Open Thread: The Disposable Male
A couple of people on the Memo to Feminism thread have been calling for an open thread on ideas of male expendability and the disposable male. So here it is! Have at it.
Sissy Boy Experiment
In my adventures around YouTube, I discovered a very interesting, several-month-old series by Anderson Cooper about the “Sissy Boy Experiment.” Back in the seventies, Kirk Murphy was a five-year-old boy who was thought to be too “feminine” and likely to become gay. His parents took him to government-funded experimental therapy featuring George Rekers, who later turned out to…
Memo To The Feminist Movement
Dear Feminist Movement, When you discuss male privilege, stop saying “men are overwhelmingly less likely to be raped,” “men don’t have to deal with disbelief of their rapes” or, God forbid, “men can’t be raped.” The largest study of the number of men who have been raped is the National Violence Against Women Survey, which you may recognize as…
September 11th
Today is the tenth anniversary of September 11th. My thoughts are with the victims of September 11th and the soldiers and civilians who have died on both sides in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. May they all rest in peace, and may their families have strength in their time of grief.
Kilted To Kick Cancer
(Hat tip to Atomic Nerds.) Kilted to Kick Cancer is a very cool fundraiser to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer. Various gun-bloggers are spending a month in a kilt; in exchange, their readers are donating money. The top three fundraisers get an array of exciting gun- and kilt-related prizes. I think this is awesome…