Category: men

from The End of Men, Hanna Rosin

Recommended! 

A few quotes and notes …

“Women … make up almost 60 percent today [of pharmacists]…” p118

And the average income was $110,000/yr (and that was in 2012!)

“‘Get a college degree!  If you get a degree we will give you a shitload of money … and yet men …

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In every roomful of men …

https://zawn.substack.com/p/5-statistics-about-misogynistic-violence

“Dating men is statistically the most dangerous thing a woman can do—followed closely by living with and having children with men.”

Men, read that sentence again. And again. And again. Until you get it.

“The specific statistics each study uncovered vary a bit, as you might expect. But the findings …

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Excellent piece on calling women crazy

https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with

“We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, …

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Man or Bear … and still clueless

So I recently posted this on a local Facebook page: “I’m looking for a woman with carpentry skills and tools to build a sound-absorbing enclosure for a generator. Please leave a message.”*

Three men and three women replied.

Two of the men made light of my preference for a woman (“I could …

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“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”

“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”)

Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.

from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.

Part I is a must-read.

Excerpts follow.

“Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …

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Fucking bitch.

“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …

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from I Don’t, Clementine Ford

There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading. 

Better yet, just get the book.  And read it.  Every word.

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from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t

“why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?”

“Ford explains …

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Suppose two married women …

Suppose two married women get jobs outside the home at the same time, forcing their husbands to hire someone to do the cooking, cleaning, and childcare.  Ten hours/day, 5 days/week, at $20/hr.  It’s a lot to afford, but the men have so-called ‘breadwinner’ salaries.

Suppose it turns out that Emma is hired by …

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Suppose by some biochemical quirk

Suppose by some biochemical quirk, the hormones we’ve been feeding cows inhibits testosterone in humans, so the more meat men eat, the weaker they become. 

Suppose that within a year, males lost their 30% physical strength advantage over women. 

What would happen?

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