I really really enjoy this. Also, totally distracted by white turtle neck.
It makes most sense to have the introductory text italicized, and then the quoted piece that's the actual body of the post in normal, unitalicized text. Of course, that only applies to pieces like this, where the quoted content isn't an excerpt—it's the meat of the article, and the introductory text is brief. (Source:…
The obsession with the "hidden causes" of things (always conveniently mysterious) is laudable in fucking metaphysics, but it's a real problem in cases like this. He said why he planned the atrocity. Other shooters have also communicated their motives. Terrorists say why they attack. But then you get an army of…
When I heard of the misogynistic rantings of the UCSB shooter, the first thing I was reminded of, was the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Because he was a misogynist psychopath?
Misogyny for 800.
I don't think it's necessarily our job to fix it, but it's certainly our problem. The more that men cling to the idea of traditional masculinity, the less there is room to welcome women in roles that aren't traditionally feminine. That doesn't mean that I'm putting all of my socially active eggs in that basket,…
I know Suz is not a trans woman, but the article deals with the things in her life that resulted from internalizing masculinity, and not every one of those things was necessarily devoid of privilege in its own right. I mean, I'm not a violent person, but I'd much rather be the one beating and controlling than being…
I am so relieved that someone regular here sees this. Not thankful, just relieved, because I was really feeling the urge to bang my head against something hard but well padded.
I guess I struggle to see how the two can be separated in any meaningful way. I'm thinking here primarily about gender construction and transmission, not about socio-political issues that adults face (birth control access, the wage gap, etc.) In terms of gender construction and transmission: If we say that we want…
What I'm getting at is that in feminism, there's a very loose heteronormative framework of "men as abusers, women as victims" (and cissexism that equates assigned male and men, assigned female and women) and although the OP worded their objection awkwardly, the fact that the responses to this article from the…
AGREED.
Unfortunately, there is a gender-flipped version of tomboy: it's "faggot."
TBQH, I was thinking to myself that this article would have probably had a LOT more lines drawn in the sand vis a vis sympathy for abusers had it been written by a cis man.
Great piece. It really helped me identify a major blind spot. I consider myself an ally, and do about as good a job as I can recognizing where my programming and privlege diverge from the ideal and working to mitigate the consequences of that. I could always do more obviously.
And no, there are actually groups of feminist men discussing masculinity.
As a group, MRAs tend not to be that bright. The movement itself is made up of a few ringleaders and then the thousand puppets that don't have brains capable of doing more than parroting back whatever their masters tell them. I've tried to be nice and communicate, but they are on some dumb shit.