Patriarchy Hurts Men Too

http://othermag.org/blog/?p=357

A month or two I decided to start my own blog at Blogspot, to focus more specifically on feminism and how it relates to men.   I read a few other male-feminist blogs (namely Hugo Schwyzer and Feminist Allies), but I have had trouble finding more of them. 

I was wondering, what male feminist blogs do you all read?

X-posted to malefeminists

One of my interests is in the artistic representation of socio-political ideas, especially feminism and gender roles. 

Today I was reading Adrienne Rich's latest book the school among the ruins, and came across a passage I thought I would share.

It is part of a series, but can stand alone as well.


V.

This will not be a love scene
but an act between two humans
Now please let us see you
tenderly scoop his balls
into your hand
You will hold them
under your face
There will be tears on your face
That will be all
the director said
We will not see his face
He wants to do the scene
but not to show
his face




Your thoughts?

Sorry if you're getting this more than once.

I am working on a paper and I need some help.

My paper is dealing with the issues of privilege within a student/tutor setting.  I am focusing on male and white privilege.  so far, I have plenty of research material on white privilege, but am able to find next to nothing on male privilege.

What I usually get are simpyl references to it, or mentions that it exists, but no research, no good examples, or anything much I can use.

Does anyone know of anywhere(books, articles, academic journals, etc) I could find some solid writing on make privilege?

x-posted to malefeminists and feminist_101

I hope this is an appropriate place to post this; I thought I would get a different response here than a more traditional feminist community.

I'd like to get some perspective on something that happened at my workplace. ( Story follows... )

Saw this article, thought I'd pass it along.

Trapped In A Vengeful Machismo
by James Ron

At one level, the fight between Hezbollah and Israel is guided by rational considerations of tactics, strategy, and politics. Israel hopes to restructure the Lebanese balance of power, while Hezbollah seeks to preserve influence and military prowess.

At a deeper level, however, the struggle is about wounded national and masculine pride. As the casualties mount, vengeful publics on both sides support redoubled efforts to physically pummel the other.

Fear of humiliation drives the conflict in multiple ways. Many Israelis feared the Hezbollah attacks, along with earlier attacks by Hamas, challenged their identity as proud, capable Jewish fighters, exposing them as wimps incapable of defending their borders.

Any thoughts?

It seems that a favourite accusation in Feminist forums is to declare the use of a Straw Man fallacy, usually as justification to discontinue a line of argument. Now, I've studied my share of Philosophy and have always enjoyed learning techniques of critical thought and formal logic. This means that many basic logical fallacies scream out at me when reading some of the more passionate rants. Most of the time, one way or the other, people tend to work out the kinks in their logic, but it seems that many have heard this term "Straw Man" and taken it to mean that any disliked rephrasing of an argument can be declared fallacious.


For the benefit of my sanity then, below is an excerpt from the SkepticWiki definition of "Strawman" on the misuse of the term:

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Appologies if you get this crossposted.

[Reposted from Official Shrub.com Blog.]

There have been quite a few discussions lately (On Hugo Schwyzer's blog, at Punk Ass Blog, and at Pandagon (also this post), and Neurath's Boat, about young men who think that feminism and heterosexual male sexuality are incompatible. (Which is even more interesting given the discussions here and Putting the "Fist" in "Pacifist" about how most men aren't feminist *enough* to be worth getting involved with.)

I originally started this post as a "how-to guide" for these (presumably) sincere but frustrated nice guy types (I'm probably giving their professed sincerity more credence than it deserves, but the ones who are just the larval form of MRAs don't really deserve much mention - I'm talking more about the ones Protagoras calls "Shy Feminist Men"), but was quickly overwhelmed by how much "how to" would be needed, and it was increasingly obvious what was fueling these misconceptions.( Read more... )

sabonasi has an interesting post in feminist about A Feminist Man's Guide To Interacting With Women in Public. [Reposted with permission.]

It's a good list, but it's another "what not to do" list. In the wake of the latest glut of complaints by "nice guys" that there aren't enough (a bit more about this later), is there more "positive" advice out there? The best I've been able to come up with is to recognize that is keeping these guys from the meaningful interactions they presumably want isn't the feminist message of "don't be a harasser" so much as it is patriarchical assumptions about sexuality and agency.

Cut for harrasment and hurting people who deserve it triggers.
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