Toxic Masculinity (Part One)
This was supposed to be a single post, but then that sex conversation broke out on Pharyngula’s Endless Thread, and issues from that kept invading this as I was writing it. Since it was all rather...
View ArticleToxic femininity
So, I’ve noticed that I wrote a lot about Teh Menz in my feminism category. And while I think that talking about changing male culture and creating healthy ways for men to relate to themselves and to...
View ArticleAll Peggy’s Men
Pandagon has been doing Mad Men Mondays, which is how I got into watching that show. And OMFG, is it ever an awesome show. But lately it feels like the Mad Men Monday threads don’t address the stuff...
View ArticleMasculinity links and thoughts
Fighting is so manly– this reminds me if some of the cultural narratives that lead to WWI. It was a war that was caused by a flimsy excuse, because the men in power at the time (most notably Willie II)...
View ArticleNon-custodial parents, the numbers
In arguments about the fairness of family law, most of the time the argument centers on anecdotes, or, at best, around partial, cherry-picked statistics, so I decided to look into what the numbers say...
View Articleassorted short thoughts
1)this being the last few weeks of school, I’m swamped with work and taking a blogging-break until mid-May 2)I was linked by a real-life journalist! yay! plus, the blogpost she wrote was very...
View ArticleAn interesting MRA argument
…and by “interesting” I mean that I’ve personally not run into it before, and that it’s actually one that deserves dissection rather than merely being laughed out of the room for sheer dumbosity....
View ArticleNecromancy, kittehs, and a link dump
Necromancy: I’m reviving my blog. The ultimate goal will be 2-3 posts a week, of which one will be a regular post, one will be a link-dump, and the optional third will be either another regular post or...
View ArticleToxic Masculinity (part two)
Ok, so this is gonna be finally that essay on Toxic Masculinity and sex that I said I was gonna write. Sex and Toxic Masculinity are an idiotically complex, convoluted and messy topic. This is because...
View Articlelink dump
just some links to stuff that’s relevant to what I’ve been writing about: Example of non-voting democratic action, including the “the strident [insert minority here] are ruining it for everybody else!”...
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