Category Archives: Sexism hurts men

Gender Attitudes And The Wage Gap

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Ampersand

The results need to be replicated. Still, this is really interesting. Men with egalitarian attitudes about the role of women in society earn significantly less on average than men who hold more traditional views about women’s place in the world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender and the Economy, Sexism hurts men | 25 Comments

The Male Pill

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Jeff Fecke

Jesse Taylor completely destroys the idea that men won’t take a male version of the pill: Dude.  In the past fifteen years, I’m now intimately familiar with marketed treatments and cures for diseases that I’m pretty sure didn’t exist before … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Contraceptives/EC zaniness, Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men | 21 Comments

Anti-Feminist Attacks Man For Crying "Like A Girl"

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Ampersand

Brett Favre, who I infer is a football player of some accomplishment, cried when announcing his retirement. And anti-feminist radio host Laura Ingraham commented: “All these years, and I didn’t know there was a woman quarterback in the NFL,” said … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men | 60 Comments

Fragile Masculinity and Murder

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Ampersand

From a post I wrote several years ago: From early boyhood, men are taught that their masculinity must be protected above all else, or else it will be lost. Men who have lost their masculinity are objects of contempt, derision … Continue reading →

Posted in Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Sexism hurts men, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 9 Comments

Intersectionality In Action: Driving While Black & Trans & Male

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Ampersand

Via Fetch Me My Axe, this interesting article in Colorlines Magazine: Trans people of color are finding that they have an extremely different relationship to gender transition than white people. London Dexter Ward, an LAPD cop who transitioned in 2004, … Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Sexism hurts men, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 25 Comments

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 10

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 Update: I have decided to take the text of this post down until I have a chance to revise and repost it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Sexism hurts men | 28 Comments

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 9

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 It’s funny how memory works. When I wrote before that I could not identify at all with Walter’s fantasy about fucking a woman to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Sexism hurts men | 17 Comments

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 8

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have been home, laid up with a severe case of gout, and so I have had the time to work on this more than in the recent past. I have been gratified, really gratified, by the responses. Thank you. … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Sexism hurts men | 14 Comments

My Daughter's Vagina, Part 7

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 The students in a remedial composition class I’m teaching during my second semester as a college professor are reading aloud and commenting on fables they’ve written over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Sexism hurts men | 25 Comments

In which I approve of a comparison between FGC and Male circumcision

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Mandolin

I said in my last post that I hate simplistic comparisons between female genital cutting and male circumcision. When carefully and well-informedly made, I think that a comparison along some axes can have some use. This is the best comparison … Continue reading →

Posted in Sexism hurts men | 21 Comments