Michael Kimmel, who might be my favorite male feminist writer, will be appearing on the men’s rights radio show His Side With Glenn Sacks tomorrow. (Glenn’s getting some good guests this year). From the “His Side” promo:
Author and sociologist Michael Kimmel, National Spokesperson for the pro-feminist men’s group the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), disagrees, to put it mildly. In his book Manhood in America Kimmel, America’s leading male feminist, calls the men’s movement “whiners.” According to Kimmel:
“Fathers’ rights groups use a language of equality to take their revenge against women to court, to demand mandatory joint custody without demonstration of father’s prior involvement. Most advocates of men’s and fathers’ rights are disgruntled and divorced dads who blame their wives and their wives’ lawyers…”
Kimmel says the men’s movement analysis of gender issues is “so misguided, its inversions so transparent, its anger is displaced onto those who have traditionally been excluded, that it can hardly offer any man of reason a convincing picture of men’s situation.” To Kimmel, those who assert that the tables have been turned against men in the gender wars are looking at the world “through a funhouse mirror.”
You can listen to the program live tomorrow, at 5pm PST, 8pm EST, at this website. Considering what Glenn’s listeners are like, it wouldn’t be a bad idea if some pro-feminist listeners called in, too.
I really need to learn to set up my laptop to auto record some of these shows. I’ve got the software to do it, but the instructions are rather complicated.
For anyone who’ll be online with a mac, the software is named Audio Hijack, and it’s at Roge Amoeba.
Josh, why not just go to the His Side website at http://www.hisside.com on Monday morning and download the free mp3 of the show (as well as all other shows in the archive)?
Oh, that’d be all too easy.
If anyone on this thread wants the show, it’s right here:
http://s90841348.onlinehome.us/hs_audio/hs062605.mp3
It’s 7.3 MB, so shouldn’t take too long on broadband connections.
It seems that the very same Michael Kimmel is now in one team with Warren Farrell, Christina Hoff Sommers, and yup, Glenn Sacks, at http://www.boysproject.net/ . Since that website is all about recognizing that the tables have been turned against boys, it seems that Kimmel has changed his mind and decided to buy himself one of those funny funhouse mirrors. Talk about an about-face!