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I posted a link to http://www.mantowncandles.com/index.html in the “The Masculinization of Femme Stuff” and I thought my long post there was long enough and I felt I was getting off topic but I wanted to add this: I love humor. Comedy is my favorite genre and a neccesary spice to any narrative I’m likely to actually enjoy. That being said, sometimes less is more. I wish (a great number of) men would stop using humor to guard their actual emotions all the time. This is why I get a nice candle like “Fresh Earth” next to freakin’ “Sunday Dump.” How… Read more »
US citizen living in the US*
While we’re vaguely on the topic of China and Mandarin Chinese here: http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/foreigners-chinese-composition-amuses-chinese-netizens.html I thought this was highly entertaining. The pictured handwritten story is about a date between a man named Little Li (“little” is a kinda-sorta title of familiarity for young folk) and a woman named Little Bai. The one commenter saying that the last line makes this story is absolutely right: Original Text of the Final Sentence: 现在小白不爱小力了。 Literal Translation: Now Little Bai doesn’t love Little Li, but she used to. Semantic Translation: Little Bai doesn’t love Little Li anymore. It’s especially funny because (to my knowledge –… Read more »
@Tamen
Thank you for the response. I too learned something new today.
In reply to Paul S question about my nick: https://noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/hard-hitting-piece-on-male-rape-at-feministe/#comment-31136 Replying here to not derail too much off topic on that thread. I was not aware that Tamen also were a Mandarin word. Something learned today, thanks. I even got curious enough to discover that I have “my own” Wikipedia page – there is however nothing about me on that page. I created the nick on the fly when I needed to create a character for a MUD in ’92. It contains a couple of letters from my real name and jumbled some letters together until I got some alternatives… Read more »
HAHAHAHAHA! Some idiot online just called me a “virgin” because I play video games for my enjoyment rather than, as he says, to impress “girls.”
1) No, not a virgin.
2) Sorry bub, not interested in girls. Women and men for me.
I do notice however that it seems to be another variation on the “strong girl succeeds in overcoming gender-based oppression to show how powerful women really are” theme. Well, I do think it’s a theme that needs doing from time to time. Plus, unless I’m forgetting a movie, Pixar was due for something fem-focused. I mostly don’t like the laughable male competition. I’d like for my kids to get their “don’t let other people tell you what it means to be you,” message without it being so specifically “boys are usually useless, there’s nothing special about what they can do,… Read more »
@Jay
Looks like it could be a good movie. I do notice however that it seems to be another variation on the “strong girl succeeds in overcoming gender-based oppression to show how powerful women really are” theme.
Regarding the original video I posted, I see there’s a part 1 to it that focuses on the bar scene and is also quite well done.
http://youtu.be/XzJC9OCT0ss
@ Adam Thanks! I love those. Hey, speaking of linking youtube stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EZULqhP2E It’s thew new Brave preview. The trailer’s good, and I hope the movie is good. Obviously being forced to marry someone who wins an archery contest is the bigger sexism here, and being made to wear a dress so tight you can’t lift your arms isn’t so good either.* But the movie specifically addresses (Ha. ‘A-dresses.’ Sorry!) those forms of sexism and plays into the rather annoying habit of making every guy who opposes an action-girl some kind of outlandish buffoon. I’m sure I’ll see the movie;… Read more »
Daisy:
I think intergenerational respect is difficult (but necessary and important) in both directions. Many older political activists I know think the things that young people are concerned with are stupid, unimportant trifles (compared to all the real issues that people dealt with in ’68). Some time ago, I overheard an old activist grumbling about how young people today are protesting “Internet crap” (like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA), while in his time, they were marching to ban nuclear power.
Daisy: I considered it once, when I was in my early twenties. But it would be very difficult for me to pass. While I am quite short (somewhat below average for men, slightly above average for women), I am also balding (although I suppose that could be covered up using a sufficiently convincing wig), barrel-chested, broad-shouldered and (the main stumbling block) have a very deep bass voice. Speaking of Trotskyism: When I was more politically active than I am now, I found myself in the peculiar situation that the three main local left-wing factions all thought that I was The… Read more »
RF, exactly my point.
I am tired of people judging the past by the standards of the present, judging older people by the standards of the young. It prevents people from properly processing the lessons of history.
As I usually say, in discussions like this: “Can you believe all those sweaty people in the 1800s? Why didn’t they just turn on the AC? Whatta bunch dumb fucks they were!”
That’s how it sounds.
Personally I was completely free of homophobia in 1969, on account of spending that entire year as a number of unconnected organic molecules distributed around the world. These would later be ingested by my parents and used to construct cells that would eventually become me.
🙂
here is a 1976 quote by Carol Hanisch At the risk of sounding like a Trotskyist (screams), I do not consider the Redstockings after 1973 to be the Redstockings, the way The Who was not The Who after the death of Keith Moon. “Reconstituted” groups are do not have a lot of validity with me. 1976? I don’t consider that the same group at all, and that incarnation of the Redstockings (excuse me for being harsh) was of no real consequence and nobody paid any attention to them, although I remember being mailed one of their newsletters. (And by the… Read more »
What’s more dangerous for gay men : the homophobia of Rebublicans or the homophobia of Redstockings ? From what I read the Redstockings were a marginal feminist group, so I doubt their influence was so big.
NMMNG:
I do not know the stats for other places, but in my home country of Denmark, more men than women have sold sexual services for money. However, more women than men make their living as prostitutes.
@Gaius – Unfortunately, both the Girl Scouts (US) and Girl Guides (Canada) are members of the umbrella organization WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) which oversees all groups worldwide. While doing research I found that the Guides are changing policy regarding trans women/girls, fathers and men in general are still relegated to the sidelines.
Um, I meant, rather than regurgitating Alice Echols’ gossip from Wikipedia (rolls eyes)–do you have a quote from an actual Redstocking? A position paper? As far as I know, this was never an official position, although individual Redstockings were always homophobic, as nearly everyone was at the time. (Were you free of homophobia in 1969? If so, congratulations!) Please remember the splits between New York Radical Women and the Redstockings, and the way this bias has been played out in the media. Do not believe everything you read; the professors have written history so that the group THEY belonged to,… Read more »
To Schala:
Going by what news outlets and governments say, you’d think juvenile prostitution and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual slavery only happens to girls and women. I mean ONLY. They never even CONSIDER boys and men. Yet there they are, but they fly under the radar, because of what “everyone knows”, that men can’t be abused sexually.
Prostitution among men is far less widespread than among women. And medias talk about it : remember the Mark Foley scandal ?
Daisy: While I was not intending to turn this into a thread about homophobia in the Redstockings, here is a 1976 quote by Carol Hanisch with a very clear anti-gay sentiment: “Men’s liberationists always bring up ‘confronting their own feelings about men’ by which they mean homosexuality. Male homosexuality is an extension of the reactionary club (meaning both group and weapon). The growth of gay liberation carries contempt for women to the ultimate: total segregation. The desire of men to ‘explore their homosexuality’ really means encouraging the possibility of homosexuality as a reaction against feminist demands.” I do not know… Read more »
“Redstockings were also opposed to male homosexuality, which they saw as a deeply misogynist rejection of women. Redstockings’ line on gay men and lesbians is often criticized as homophobic.[7]”
Schala: The Redstockings also call gay men hateful
Quote please? This is certainly news to me.
Going by what news outlets and governments say, you’d think juvenile prostitution and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual slavery only happens to girls and women. I mean ONLY. They never even CONSIDER boys and men. Yet there they are, but they fly under the radar, because of what “everyone knows”, that men can’t be abused sexually.
“Schala: I was using their formulation as a concrete example. They did not invent the concept of male privilege and they are not the only who encourage men to renounce it; I just found their formulation particularly succinct.” If you go on most feminist blogs and even mention female privilege, you’ll be laughed out of the place. Something about privilege being invisible to those who have it doesn’t apply to people born with vaginas apparently. But, you can’t really renounce privilege. You can choose to minimize the impact it has on your life by being gender nonconforming in looks, attitudes… Read more »
Schala:
I was using their formulation as a concrete example. They did not invent the concept of male privilege and they are not the only who encourage men to renounce it; I just found their formulation particularly succinct.