Note: This post contains graphic quotes from a newspaper article about things a serial rapist did to some of his victims. If that bothers you you’ll want to skip this post. You know that often-cited statistic that half of all rape charges filed by women are false accusations? After doing a bunch of research I’ve…
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Deeply Sexist-Against-Men Assumptions Drive Draconian Social Welfare Policies
Summary:No matter where you stand on the politics of social welfare policy in America, it’s worth contemplating that it’s been shaped by entirely mainstream and deeply sexist antipathy towards men. Lynn Gassiz-Sax, tackling the persistent notion that race rather than class is the largest determinant of single parenthood says Jonathan Rauch, at Reason magazine (which,…
Manliness vs Mannequin vs Monstrosity
Lynn Gazzis-Sax asks a perfectly reasonable question about the question of masculinity and manliness. Adam Serwer writes It’s 2000 all over again: A Republican governor from Texas is running for president, and the press is swooning over his manly manliness. As I read this, I realized that, if I’d been asked ahead of time to guess…
Pondering Penis Anxieties Past the Decimal Point.
Speaking of penis size, after perusing query strings on her personal blog’s server logs Ozymandias says ATTN: Person who got here with the search term “do women like an eight inch cock better than a seven and a half inch cock?” I cannot even figure out all the things that have gone wrong with our…
(Mostly) Male Researchers: Aah, We Studied Men’s Erogenous Zones 60 Years Ago — Now Let’s Get More Women to Diddle Themselves in the fMRI Machine
Like some of the rest of us I’ve been up to my neck in other stuff. But over at my blog I recently posted about three items that in retrospect are pretty related. Here’s the second. The editors at the political news blog Big Think decided to make their daily centerpiece article about yet another…
Should “Hot Chicks With Douchebags” Really Be Called “Straight Men Shooting Themselves in the Foot?”
Like some of the rest of us I’ve been up to my neck in other stuff. But over at my blog I recently posted about three items that in retrospect are pretty related. Here’s the first. One was about the semi-moronic but quite popular “Hot Chicks With Douchebags” website, which is basically just a compendium…
“She’s Not Out Of Your League”
This post complements some stuff that came up in comments to Ozy’s post about objectification. The theme there was between the reception of catcalls vs. face-to-face conversation initiation. The theme here is about the difference between strong or repeated compliments and conversation initiation. –fl Personal anecdote: When I was in fast-food management training many years…
What About the (New Contraceptives for) Men? How Will They Change Everything?
While talking about of one of the many new forms of non-barrier/non-surgical contraceptives for men that are now, finally, actually looking like they’ll make it to the market, Dr. John K. Amory, a reproductive scientist at the University of Washington, told the New York Times that Of course, women may have to trust that their…
“Maternity Fraud,” Paternity Fraud, and Parenthood
Note: this post is a directly about a recent flap about “paternity fraud.” I’ve deliberately removed links and references to the individual are intentionally missing from this post to drive home exactly what’s missing from the lives of “cuckolding” biological fathers. To help preserve that point I’m asking commenters not to name names either. So…
Cocks Rock But… WTF With Craigslist “Headless Horsemen” Replies to Personals?
Photo “Headless Horseman Monument” by Flickr user Patcard. Used under a Creative Commons license. So over at my blog I just mentioned a brief experiment I tried after hearing a friend lament about a certain… consistency in replies to her personals ads on Craigslist. Note: Guys, when a woman (or in this case someone who’s…
National Household Survey Quote on Gendered Obstacles to Fluid Work/Home Task Sharing
Via comment from Clarence “These effects probably emanate from the greater change in women’s than men’s roles,” the researchers write. “Women’s employment has increased and is accepted, men’s nonemployment is unacceptable to many, and there is a cultural ambivalence and lack of institutional support for men taking on ‘feminized’ roles such as household work and…
Cool Post Over at Overthinking It About Potential “Romantic” Misandry in MTV’s New Teen-Werewolf Series
Trigger warning for discussion of rape. The post by Stokes examines the original kinda-sorta positive werewolf metaphors in the original 80’s version of the movie Teen Werewolf and compares it to the nastier Twilight inspired notion of teenage boys coping with urges to attack women. Not cool. In the original movie, this would have been…
A Reliable Primary or Secondary Contraceptive for Men Can’t Happen Soon Enough
Right now there are exactly three kinds of birth control for men. One, vasectomy, is almost 100% effective when performed correctly, but it’s surgical and irreversible. The other two, condoms and withdrawal, are… less effective for birth control. (Condoms are indisputably great for disease prevention. “Bareback” withdrawal not so much.) The newest method, vasectomies, are…