The first chapter of What About The Men? appeared on AlterNet and has been the most popular for days! Apparently there are more people than one would suppose who are interested in reading nine pages of Ozy and Noah Define Assorted Gender Terms. Ozy Frantz I wrote a thing about men and therapy for Role/Reboot…
On Attachment Parenting
Katha Pollitt says some cool shit on attachment parenting: And only tangentially are child-raising fads about fathers; men are more “involved” now than 50 years ago, but you won’t catch them beating themselves or one another up over not making organic baby food from scratch. Indeed, Time’s attachment-parenting package includes a humorous “Detached Dad’s Manifesto,”…
On Knights and Beasts
This is going to be one of those theory-heavy posts where I talk about patriarchy a lot, and also LOTS AND LOTS OF DISCUSSION OF RAPE AND ABUSE AND SUCHLIKE THINGS. Skip if you don’t want to read it. Okay! I came up with a totally clever concept I’m super-proud of a while back, called…
Black Boys Don’t See Representations Of Themselves On TV
Or, Study Confirms What Feminists Were Saying The Whole Time, News At Eleven. White men tend to feel better about themselves once they watch media; however, black men and women of all races tend to feel worse about themselves. And the gender aspect is interesting. Both black girls and white girls tended to see the same roles,…
On Chastity Movements and Men
Christian abstinence movements are really fucking weird about masculinity. (My qualifications for writing this post, as an atheist skeptic who has had quite a lot of sex: I went to Catholic abstinence-only education in high school, I took a class on the abstinence-only movement, and I’ve read a fuckload about it in my free time…
Yes, Men Are Manly Enough
The New York Times wishes to ask us all whether men are manly enough. It’s too bad that the NYT didn’t bother to ask me, because if they did I could have solved their problem really really quickly. 1) Do they identify as men? 2) If YES, then they are manly enough. 3 If NO,…
Open Thread, Puppy Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by puppies.
On Personality Disorders, An Observation
I have been doing a lot of research on borderline personality disorder lately, because I got diagnosed with it. It led to me noticing a fairly interesting dichotomy. Most personality disorders are diagnosed at a fairly similar rate in men and in women. The exceptions are Antisocial Personality Disorder, mostly diagnosed in men, and Borderline…
Australia First Country in World to Give Free HPV Vaccine to Boys
Go Australia! High-five! HPV is often considered a “(cis) woman’s disease” because it causes cervical cancer. However, HPV infection is also linked to penile cancer and anal cancer, both of which men are more prone to. Not only that, but most women who get HPV get it from their male partners– it’s silly to try…
Dating Tips for Short Dudes
A few days ago, I was reading a terrible article (the link to which I have subsequently and unfortunately lost) about Dating Tips for Short Men. It was, predictably, kind of awful, full of ideas about the right kind of shoe to wear to give yourself that crucial two extra inches. I decided that I…
On Workplace Deaths
Nick Revetta was killed in an explosion after a gas leak. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated, but issued no citation and paid no fine. Communication tower climbing, which only employs ten thousand people at any time, has resulted in 100 deaths over the last nine years, a death rate ten times higher than…
The (Only) Five Black Men That Hollywood Thinks Exist
Your handy field guide to the almost half-dozen different black male characters in mainstream movies.
The Evolution of Rape?
Trigger warning for rape. Feminists for Choice has an interesting series of articles talking about evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology explanations of rape, which I’ve decided to elaborate on. I’ll admit my bias up front: I think that sexual attraction and behavior are almost entirely not genetic. Even homosexuality is only explained 18-39% by genes…
Esquire’s Fiction for Men
Esquire has apparently decided to publish fiction for men. I do think it’s a good idea to attempt to target men with fiction. Look at the depressing stats. The typical female avid reader reads nine books in a year, while the typical male avid reader reads only five, only half as much. (What the FUCK…
Points for Male Nurses?
I found this article about affirmative action for male nurses in Norway very interesting. (Full disclaimer: everything I know about Norway was out of date a thousand years ago. Norwegians or people who know things about Norway, feel free to correct my analysis in the comments and I’ll update the post.) In Norway, a couple…
Thoughts On Trigger Warnings
TW for brief mentions of… basically everything that I trigger-warn for, actually. I have anxiety triggers that are almost never warned for. This is because my triggers are either very uncommon (people are drinking aaaaaaaaaaah) or impossible to implement warnings for (unfortunately, I cannot get the people who hate me to say “TW for pressing…