Note: Fixed broken links. Sorry, everyone.
An article asks if we need real men– or real people.
Frank Deford dislikes the Olympics because it’s all obscure sports. By a complete coincidence, all the obscure sports are sports that are gendered feminine, like gymnastics. Funny how that sort of thing works out.
I’m wrong about a thing! It happens. Sometimes. But just because I haven’t invented my Omniscience Ray yet.
An AlterNet article about how layoffs are fucking up people’s love lives, especially those of men, since men are more likely to become stressed and depressed about layoffs.
Trigger warning for descriptions of rape. A soldier describes his experience of female-on-male rape.
Many already sentenced minors may stay in prison for life— even though the Supreme Court severely limited the number of circumstances in which minors may be sentenced to life without parole.
Trigger warning for descriptions of violence and severe mental illness. The military’s mental health crisis.
Time for some gay boy scouts.
The New York Times asks what’s bad about boys who want to wear dresses. A decent article, despite some cringeworthy cissexism (no, trans people do not necessarily fall between genders, and no, trans people do not reinforce the gender binary). All hail the pink boys!
Honestly: there’s no such thing as a real man.
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What’s (gendered) feminine about “Swimming, gymnastics and track and field”?
OK, I might buy the gymnastics, since the female athletes seem to get loads more of attention there, although I bet there’s almost as many male as female competitions throughout.
But swimming, and track and field??
I was going to say the same thing. In fact, it should be put in the context that Deford has been most vocal about his dislike of soccer, which is arguably one of the more gender neutral team sports.
I’m not sure on what basis anyone could argue that track is gendered feminine. Running faster, jumping higher, throwing stuff farther? Which of those (and related) isn’t [traditionally] masculine?
Just wanted to point out that the links for the “female-on-male rape” article and the “stay in prison for life” article are borked.
Yeah, it looks like the AlterNet article on layoffs is broken as well. Also, the life in prison one is pointing to the same broken link as the female-on-male rape one.
Until Ozy can fix the post, here they are:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/love-time-layoffs-can-we-get-together-without-falling-apart?page=0%2C4&akid=9155.249641.G1Al6k&rd=1&src=newsletter685406&t=1&paging=off – AlterNet layoffs article
http://mydutytospeak.com/2012/08/03/men-are-survivors-too-male-soldier-writes-about-surviving-female-on-male-rape/ – Female-on-male rape