Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 6, 2024What I find curious about this thread is that the image he's critiquing is much, much more interesting than any of the images he brings up as examples of good images. The "Lois and Clark" images in particular are blandness personified. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 6, 2024#PoliCartoon [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 6, 2024Israel apologists: "Student protestors should be arrested! Rule of law!" Also Israel apologists: "If rule of law goes against Israel, we'll take revenge on the prosecutors and their families!" https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican
- Untitled May 5, 2024Flash forward to 2094, when people who are ten now will be like "the internet was different back then! We were all friendlier... there were hardly ever trolls... Now it's all gone to shit."
- Untitled May 4, 2024This is either incredible stupidity or incredible dishonesty from the cops, and I honestly can't tell which.
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Category Archives: Men and masculinity
Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well
I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl’s clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern … Continue reading
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Romanticizing the “Ramblin’ Man” in The “Time Traveler’s Wife”
Last night, my wife and I finally watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I remember that she wanted to see it when it was in the theaters, but I don’t remember why we never got around to it. It is not … Continue reading
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A Response to AMM’s Comment on My Publishing a Poem at The Good Men Project (Along with the Full Text of the Poem)
In a comment on my post announcing the publication of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” at The Good Men Project (TGMP), AMM wrote: I visited the place a year or two ago and read a number of the … Continue reading
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Please, Dear Venus, Show Me Now
I feel sorry for Men’s Rights Activists. No, really, I do. Like the people in Plato’s cave, they have a sense of the problems caused by a society that demands a harsh conformity to gender norms; they can see the … Continue reading
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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Notes Towards a Discussion of Male Self-Hatred
In his recently published book, Kayak Morning, Roger Rosenblatt writes: The literature involving fathers and daughters runs to nearly one thousand titles. I Googled. The Tempest. King Lear. Emma. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Washington Square. Daughters have a power over … Continue reading
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Writing about Sex Roles: A Book by Clarisse Thorn and an Essay by Me
For a couple of years now, Clarisse Thorn has been interviewing and hanging out with the community of pick-up artists, a community she finds fascinating and… well, from a feminist perspective, sort of problematic, too. There’s an unbelievably compelling thing … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Mandolin's fiction & poems, Men and masculinity, Sex, Uncategorized
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Randall Munroe Wins the Morning
Really, there’s very little more awesome than xkcd. Read the whole thing.
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity
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