TW for abuse apologism. It is known that Mr. Pat Robertson is a misogynist fuckhead. His latest statements that advised that a man move to Saudi Arabia so he could legally beat his wife have only managed to provide further evidence of this. However, I would like to draw your attention neither to the Islamophobia…
World Suicide Prevention Day
(RIP to the three thousand people who died on 9/11 and to the tens of thousands of Afghanistans, Iraqis, American and allied soldiers, and others who have died in wars as a consequence of it.) Moderation Note: This is a zero-tolerance space for “women attempt suicide more because they don’t really want to kill themselves, therefore…
Men Who Do Chores Are Happier
According to a study across seven countries, men who do more household chores are happier and report more well-being and a better work-life balance. Of course, correlation is not causation. It’s probable that having a better work-life balance leads to doing more chores: after all, if you’re spending sixty hours a week working, you don’t…
US DOJ Releases First Regulations Aimed At Ending Prison Rape
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) mandated that the Department of Justice release regulations aimed at ending sexual abuse in detention. Recently, the regulations have been released. They contain a lot of the things we’ve been looking for! Protection for vulnerable inmates, such as queer people and youths, who are the most likely to be…
Linky post!
IMPORTANT! If you are an American reading this, and you do one thing, sign this petition to rededicate Columbus Day as Exploration Day in honor of, among others, Neil Armstrong. Columbus Day is an incredibly racist holiday, and space exploration is freaking awesome. If this gets 25,000 signatures, it will appear on Obama’s desk for him…
Priest Blames Child Victims of Rape By Priests
TW for victim-blamey rape culture bullshit? I mean, duh. Yes. Really. Father Groeschel, a founder of the Catholic ex-gay group Courage and director of the Office of Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, had the following to say about the subject of child abuse: People have this picture in their minds of…
Black Men Survive Longer In Prison
Or so says a recent study. Black men who are in prison are less likely to die in any given year than black men who are out of prison. In particular, they are less likely to die of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, alcohol- and drug-related causes, airway diseases, accidents, suicide, and murder. On the other…
Happy Labor Day!
Oh hush. It’s still Labor Day somewhere. In honor of Labor Day I’d like to point out that workplace safety issues disproportionately affect men. In America, men are more likely than women to be injured or killed on the job. Here is an excellent roundup of American reporting on neglected workplace safety issues (both those which…
Guys, Was This Homophobia Week And Nobody Told Me?
Because seriously, I’ve read a lot of truly distressing anti-gay stories this week. Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio classifies gay people with murderers and rapists in its curriculum. A sociological course on “deviant behavior” includes, along with criminal behaviors like murder, rape, and robbery, the existence of homosexuals. Err, homosexuality is not deviant behavior, it…
Sexual Selection More Complicated Than Previously Thought
It’s a relatively common idea that sexual selection works in exactly one way: males develop exaggerated traits (peacock feathers and stag’s antlers) to compete for female attention, because males want to spread their sperm everywhere while females want to only mate with the best. Unfortunately, it turns out that the real situation is more complicated.…
Is Male Nudity Inherently Ridiculous?
Some nice man at the Guardian thinks so. He opined about the popularity of Magic Mike, saying: We all know the nude male form is essentially ridiculous, built only for floppy comedy… They all obeyed the first rule of male screen stripping: nobody wants to see the bits… the innate ridiculousness of the male body……
RIP Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone, groundbreaking radical feminist writer, died at 67. The Dialectic of Sex is wonderful, if by “wonderful” you mean “batshit science fiction feminist theory,” and I’m pretty sure you do. She theorized that pregnancy was one of the major forces leading to the perpetuation of patriarchy, and therefore the invention of artificial wombs would free…
Yes, Male Privilege Is Real
I planned to write this post today, because I knew that the comments of the post that says arguing about who’s more oppressed is stupid would be fucking full of people arguing about who’s more oppressed. Man. I must be psychic. For the record, here is my position: I think that, as a whole, cis men…
On The Definition of Oppression
I doubt there is any arguments in the social justice community that get quite as heated as the question of whether Group X is oppressed. Things That Group X Can Be: poly people, kinky people, men, sex workers, people on the asexual or aromantic spectrum, vegans/vegetarians, animals, atheists, otherkin, multiples, et cetera, et cetera, et…
Circumcision News Roundup
The American Academy of Pediatrics says that the health benefits of circumcision outweigh the concerns. Okay, let’s take that as proven: that the slight reduction in the rate of UTIs and HIV manages to outweigh the risk of botched circumcision, but only slightly. There is, in fact, no scientific evidence that circumcision reduces sexual pleasure.…
Who Needs Men?
I can only assume this article is some kind of obscure joke, although for the life of me I cannot imagine what the punchline is. Or maybe it’s one of those “I just thought something provocative would open up the discussion” things? Because I certainly cannot believe that the New York Times is, in all seriousness,…