Tag Archives: Masculinity
Healthy Masculinity(ies)
TweetRecently, I volunteered at Men Can Stop Rape’s Healthy Masculinity Summit through my internship at an organization that focuses on dating violence. It was awesome. There were roughly 200 people there and it was easily the most truly diverse group of people I have ever been in. In keeping with the conference theme, there were [...]
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Pretending to be gay?
TweetEd. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest member [...]
Also tagged Analysis, gay, Media, News, Queer Issues, Random, Religion, Timothy Kurek 1 Comment
Where is Feminism in the Democratic Family?
TweetJudging by Michelle Obama’s speech, feminism is dead to the Democratic party. A few nods to feminism, with catch-phrase references to glass ceilings and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act cannot atone for valorizing mid-twentieth-century gender roles. A riveting speaker, Mrs. Obama (she apparently prefers the retrograde ‘Mrs.’) surely captured the audience’s hearts with her [...]
Also tagged DNC, femininity, Feminism, FLOTUS, gender, gender roles, Michelle Obama, nuclear family 1 Comment
If it’s pretty, it’s not a sport
TweetA SYTYCB entry The Olympics are a time of unity and excitement: we acknowledge diversity and achieve international cooperation; we celebrate feats of the human body that take our collective breath away. And somehow, during all of this, yelling “but is it a sport!?” becomes another Olympic event. According to people who whined their way through [...]
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Time for a masculinist movement (an exercise in satire)