Noah Brand
At the Good Men Project: Barney Frank leaves Congress.
Ozy Frantz
At the Good Men Project: my recent post about the prison-industrial complex is rerun. Not much point in reading it unless you are very, very interested in finding how awful and racist people can get in the comments section. (Pretty damn racist.)
Other
The fabulous Clarisse Thorn’s book Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser is available in paperback. Buy one for yourself! For your partners! For your dog! For your mom! (Probably not for your mom, unless your mom’s super-cool.)
Here are a couple Cracked links about gender roles:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19780_5-gender-stereotypes-that-used-to-be-exact-opposite.html – BTW, I think this one really shows the dangers of replacing one set of gender roles with another set.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18529_6-absurd-gender-stereotypes-that-science-says-are-true.html – About to read this one, now. The other article led me to this one.
Re. the review of Confession I think the review has some merits, if you ignore the unreflected anti Nice-Guy tirade in the beginning. Clarisse updated her book today and added a part about the PUA coach Adam Lyons she interviewed at a conference. The conversation they had includes a sob story – probably mostly made up – about an ex-boxer who attends one of Adam’s courses to get his wife back. A mountain of a man begs in tears for advice from the madly skilled PUA coach. Maybe I’m just a cynical asshole, but Clarisse’s bullshit detector seems to be… Read more »
Voomers, Replicants, and Androids Oh My!
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2012/04/six-billion-dollar-sex-worker-and.html
I have actually read “The Game”, I read it more as an insane adventure story. Kind of like Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
I’m kinda with Dr. Anonymous on that one. I didn’t fully read it but from what I read it pretty much sounds like what the Dr. said. Some feminists simply don’t like the idea of someone: 1. Not instantly declaring the entire PUA community a bunch of embitter men. 2. Finding some legitimate concerns, ideas, and values in the PUA community. From near the end: The Game is a problematic text and there’s no denying it’s a problematic text but one can choose to find value in problematic texts, as entertainment or for historical interest or for personal reasons or… Read more »
@Skull Bearer
What is so great about that critique? I can just tune in to pandagon or shakesville and read the very same rehash of Nice Guy(tm), social pressure (on females) and you get the sexual attention that you deserve. What differentiates this article from that?
My thoughts on possible roadblocks that make the advice from Jeffery Platts’ post on a Good Men Project post from a few weeks ago. With myself as an example.
(http://dannyscorneroftheuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/04/roadblocks.html).
Things get pretty gloomy though.
Tamen: Preemptive.
Was that an preemptive statement about the commentariat at GMP? Or have they flushed the thread since that article only had two comments when I just now checked?
I found this excellent critique of Clarisse Thorn’s books here: http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-854
And excellent deconstruction and comparison of the book and why it maybe doesn’t quite hold up.
I just wrote about Mitt Romney speaking at Liberty University, which has the true believers all riled up, even if the opportunists who run the place sold out THEIR beliefs a long time ago:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/04/liberty-university-hypocrisy-under.html