Category Archives: Sexism hurts men

NYO Fail, Part the First: In Which I Discuss Double Standards

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

This completely awful New York Observer article has been making the rounds on the twittersphere today, with most of my feminist and ally friends observing that the article boils down to, as Spencer Ackerman says, “adult women should not ever … Continue reading →

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Questions I Want to Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 3: Space for Men

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Clarisse Thorn

[This post was originally published on Clarisse Thorne’s blog, and is reprinted here with Clarisse’s kind permission. All three installments may be viewed here.] I’m about to assert something that makes me nervous, because I worry that people are going … Continue reading →

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Two Implications of An "Elusive and Tenuous" Manhood

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Ampersand

From an article entitled “Precarious Manhood,” which was referred to on a guest post yesterday:1 If manhood is viewed as elusive and tenuous, two implications are that (a) challenges to men’s manhood will provoke anxiety and threat-related emotions among men … Continue reading →

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Questions I Want to Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 2: Men’s Rights

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Clarisse Thorn

[Reprinted with the kind permission of Clarisse Thorn. All three installments of this series (once they’ve all been posted) may be read here.] In the 2006 documentary “Boy I Am“, a trans man talks about how one of his mental … Continue reading →

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Questions I Want To Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 1: Who Cares?

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Clarisse Thorn

This is the first of three guest posts, reprinted with the kind permission of Clarisse Thorn. This post originally appeared here on Clarisse’s blog. Once they’ve been posted, all three posts will be accessible at this link. Clarisse Thorn is … Continue reading →

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Because Men are Stupid and Shallow, That's Why

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

Now, I’m a heterosexual man. And as such, I will freely confess that I like breasts. They’re definitely in my top five body parts human beings have, even though only about 50 percent of human beings have them.1 That said, … Continue reading →

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Can there be a "reverse Bechdel test"?

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Ampersand

On the racial Bechdel test thread, we discussed my comic Hereville a little. Hereville, it was agreed, failed the racial Bechdel test (understandably, given the setting, I would say), but passes the “Jewish Bechdel test” and the original Bechdel test. … Continue reading →

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Female supervisors, "feminine" men, & non-hets most likely to be sexually harassed at work

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Ampersand

From Signs of the Times: Women who hold supervisory positions are more likely to be sexually harassed at work, according to the first-ever, large-scale longitudinal study to examine workplace power, gender and sexual harassment. The study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of … Continue reading →

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Can Men (Who Editors Think Are Women) Write Convincing Male Characters?

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ampersand

From Nihlistic Kid, Here’s some editorial comments on a story by author Bev Vincent. The story was written from the point of view of a male protagonist. These comments are all from the same editor: “It’s quite a challenge for … Continue reading →

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The Dos and Donts of Dick Jokes, or What Feminist Critics Got Right

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Mandolin

I wrote this a long time ago, but I never got around to posting it, which is why the articles it refers to are old. I think it’s still more or less relevant though. The fellas and lasses over at … Continue reading →

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