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Quote: A very long, sharp wedding ring
Jess Zimmerman: There have probably been more real-life woman warriors than we know. Until recently, archaeologists would determine the gender of a grave’s occupant based on the artifacts buried...
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Now This Is a Hotel Manager Who Should Definitely Be Fired
911 Audio: Hotel Manager Reports Guest For Being Transgender – BuzzFeed News Meagan Taylor and her best friend, who are both transgender women, were traveling through Iowa on July 13 to a funeral for...
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Hotel Fires Employee For Calling Someone A “Slut” Online. Is This A Free...
Content warning: Misogynistic online harassment, including rape threats. I want to respond to a comment left by Desipis, but to do that, I’ll need to bring in some context. Clementine Ford is a...
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A Dialog Between A Bernie Sanders Supporter And A Hillary Clinton Supporter
A Bernie Sanders supporter on Tumblr wrote: People who endorse Hillary Clinton: we need a women president! #WhiteFeminism People who endorse Bernie Sanders: we need this man to win to take money out...
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On The Definition of Misogyny, And The Related And Uninteresting Question, Is...
A Man Wearing A Grey Shirt So Sandeep Atwal and I have been disagreeing on the definition of misogyny. Sandeep says that misogyny means “hatred of women,” full stop. I agree misogyny means “hatred of...
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Deb Chachra on “The Gray Man” and Gender-Marked Fashion
Source. In this fantastic interview for Rawr Denim, William Gibson talks about clothing and fashion: “There’s an idea called “gray man”, in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach...
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Sarkeesian’s “You Suck” Statement At The UN Was Not What Anti-SJWs Claim
So Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, among others, were witnesses at the launch of the UN’s “Working Group on Broadband and Gender.”1 Ever since, right-wingers on social media have been claiming that...
View ArticleTowards a Feminist Politics of “Male Survivorship”
I have spent the last month or so writing a proposal for a fellowship that, if I get it, will buy me some serious time to write. The project I am proposing will allow me to go back into the prose I’ve...
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“Minions” may beat “Lava” for most sexist kid’s movie of the year
“Lava,” as I hope you don’t recall, is the animated short that accompanies “Inside Out,” the otherwise wonderful new Pixar movie. As I’ve said before, some cartoonists draw women as “visual aliens”;...
View ArticleI Stand By Irene Gallo
“Nielsen-Haydens, your fellow travelers, and media goombahs . . . I MOCK YOU! I MOCK YOUR ASININE INCESTUOUS CLUSTERFUCKED LITTLE CULTURE OF DOCTRINAIRE PROGRESSOSEXUAL MEDIOCRITY MASKED AS...
View ArticleI Disagree With People On Tumblr About Dr. Horrible And About The Minimum Wage
I disagree with people on Tumblr: Is Dr. Horrible A Sexist “Nice Guy” Narrative? I disagree with people on Tumblr part 2: Why We Should NOT Abolish The Minimum Wage
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Cartoon: Maternity Leave vs Profit
This seems like a good time to announce that I’m starting a Patreon to support my political cartoons. Please check it out (and tell me if you spot any typos!). This cartoon was a collaboration with my...
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Sandra Bem, 1944-2014
Although Sandra Bem died a year ago, I didn’t hear about her death until this week, when I read The Last Day of Her Life, an interesting account of Bem’s death; Bem committed suicide in order to avoid...
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I’m Performing in the 2015 New Masculinities Festival in New York City
On Saturday, May 2nd, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, I will be performing as part of ManQuestion.org’s 2015 New Masculinities Festival. Tickets are $10 per performance slot, each of which...
View Article“American Reflexxx,” a short film showing mob hatred of gender ambiguity
Content warning: This short film contains extreme transmisogyny, a hostile mob, violence, and is disturbing. The film has a style of editing that makes it difficult to watch, even apart from the...
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Men Should Call Themselves Feminists, But They Shouldn’t Start Fights About...
In my opinion it’s okay for men to call themselves feminists. More than okay, I think it’s beneficial. And I call myself a feminist. Feminist men on “Alas” are welcome to call themselves feminists. In...
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Thinking about Barbara Walters’ Interview with Vili and Mary Kay Letourneau...
Heidi Gutman—ABC/Getty Images I’m giving two readings over the next few weeks, one on April 21st at the Risk of Discovery Reading Series, and the other on May 2nd as part of the New Masculinities...
View ArticleMy Reading at the 2015 International Conference on Masculinities
ETA: There were some problems with the original version of the video. This one should be better. As well, the text of the poems, which contain explicit descriptions of sex and sexual violence, appear...
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As an Alternative to Sea Lions …
I would like to humbly propose ‘ant swarms.’ Comic courtesy Robot Hugs, whose other comics are similarly fantastic.
View ArticleThe International Conference on Masculinities, March 5-8
If you care about men’s issue and gender equality, and you’re the conference-going type, this is one you should check out. A collaborative effort between the Center for the Study of Men and...
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