Category: gender issues

Among the things that don’t count …

[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.]

[T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …

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Great stuff from Stoltenberg

…[T] male-dominated gay liberation movement never really grasped how homophobia is rooted in the woman hating that is a fixture of male supremacy.  Quite simply, the male homosexual is stigmatized because he is perceived to participate in the degraded status of the female …

The system of male supremacy requires gender polarity—with real men …

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How many men are addicted to porn?

How many men are addicted to porn?  We don’t know.  There are no visible symptoms.  No, that’s not true.  The visible symptoms are what we call normal behaviour.

I’m ashamed to be male.

I am ashamed to be male.

We turn everything into a weapon.

We are obsessed with competing, with being better than not our previous selves, but others.

We enjoy hurting.  We tear the legs off flies, we put firecrackers into dogs’ mouths, we attach electrodes to people’s genitalia.

We are unable to experience pleasure without …

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A woman was raped. A man raped a woman.

A woman was raped.  A man raped a woman.

He got her pregnant.  She made him a father.

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She wanted it.

She was dressed like a slut = She wanted it

She was dressed all prim and proper = She wanted it

She was aggressive = She wanted it

She was submissive = She wanted it

She ran = She wanted it

She didn’t run = She wanted it

She was afraid = She wanted it

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The Male Privilege Checklist

Check it out. https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/what-is-the-mens-rights-movement/

Thanks to Francois Tremblay.

“Unbelievable” on Netflix

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

A feminism-informed examination of rape from point of view of police (female) and, to some extent, victims (as interviewed).

Single series drama with eight episodes.

Passes the Bechdel test (and more) with FLYING COLOURS!!!

Yeah. Women are afraid of thunder.

Ho ho ho

Fuck you very much Utne Reader

Fuck you very much Utne Reader

Yeah. What she said.

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