Many men would rather die than be treated like a “weakling.” This is another form of misogyny, and it’s killing us.
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Marriage Equality Avatar Efficacy
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Mail Bag Wednesday – “Cheerleader”
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What Every Man Should Know
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Mail Bag Sick Day + Bonus Puppy Footage
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The “Gray Area” of Rape Culture
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The R-Word
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Misogyny’s Impact On Health
Posts Tagged “homophobia”
This Mail Bag Wednesday I’m thanking my haters. And fans too, but this one’s mostly for the haters.
Election day is less than 80 days away, and what better way to show your support than with useful/necessary products with the faces/logos of your favorite presidential candidate.
Obama and Romney certainly think so, because they are hitting the ladies hard with their 2012 Campaign Stores. But now that the Comeback Kids are on their way, these new Romney/Ryan gift totes may just tip the scales. Check out the sweet merch they want all American females and their friends to have. (But especially females. &#$@ they need your vote.) Read More »
At one point in your life you may very well find yourself attending a dinner party surrounded by guests with different political affiliations and religious beliefs than you. They’ll be about 20-30 years older than you, and finding common ground for polite conversation can be tricky. But ultimately, this is an okay situation to be in.
At one point, it’s possible, that you may meet a guest who wants to tell you all about how he used to work in commercial arts. If your partner asks what commercial arts is, and you respond with, “it’s like graphic design,” then be prepared to hear a long-winded speech about kids today with their Photoshop and how nobody appreciates T-Squares like they used to.
When he inquires about what you do, if you respond with anything having to do with the internet he will only be capable of hearing “I design websites,” even if that is not at all what you do. You can tell him all about content management, editorial, social media, community management, what have you, and he will inevitably steer the conversation back to telling you why you need to learn how to use Dreamweaver because if you can use Microsoft Publisher than you can design a website using Dreamweaver and you can learn all about how to do HTML on the web.
Do not bother telling him about how you’re more likely to hire a professional developer. In this man’s mind, the entirety of the web is built on the HTML of the 90s and nothing more. At this point you should nod and smile.
This probably sounds so obvious that it should go without saying, but if you’re a straight guy, you probably shouldn’t go see Magic Mike in the theater.
Whitney had been excited to see the movie for weeks, and although I didn’t exactly share her sentiment, I agreed to go with her. I wasn’t quite ready to admit the reasons that I didn’t want to see the movie, and I knew that any other reason would make me seem homophobic.
Sitting through Magic Mike was an extremely uncomfortable experience for me. It wasn’t because of the scene where Matthew McConaughey gyrated behind Alex Pettyfer as he taught him how to dance. It wasn’t because of the scene where Joe Manganiello pumped up his blurry penis before going onstage. It wasn’t because of any of the homoerotic themes of the movie which, in my opinion wasn’t nearly gay enough for something hyped as The Greatest Gay Movie Ever Made – I mean, I don’t recall a single openly gay character in the movie.
No, what made me uncomfortable was the audience of middle-aged women shouting catcalls at the screen the entire time. It felt to me like the subtext was a simple “women get objectified on screen all the time, now it’s our turn, ladies!”
As Melissa from Power Animals put it so gleefully…
I could say that while I feel bad that we are entering a time when young men are having just as many body issues as females because of the increasingly unrealistic body images out there for both genders, I feel it is the only way men can understand the pressure that the male gaze in media puts on women and thus help us all work towards mutual change. I could say a lot of things about the objectification of women and men and what it means for all of us but what I’m going to really go ahead and say is this: ABS! CHESTS! GYRATIONS! DANCING! CHANNING TATUM’S AWFUL ACTING: WHO CARES! ALCIDE!!!!!!!
As the women in the audience hooted and hollered, I felt my sympathy for any woman who ever complained about objectification shrink.
Women take snacking very, very seriously. Before we put anything in our mouths, we always ask, “Does this align with our values? Our family values?” (Reminder: all women are mothers.) Well, that answer was a strong, “NO!” when we came across this little gem from the Nabisco family… pfff family. No family company would ever make something like this:
You guys, it’s a rainbow Oreo cookie! Are you freaked out yet? Why aren’t you freaked out yet?! Don’t you know what this means? Rainbow = Gay. Gay = Rainbow. Rainbow Oreo = Gay Oreo. Gay Oreo = Gay Snacking. You are what you eat. You eat that Oreo and you’re going to become a gay. *slaps cookie out of hand* Don’t eat that! That’s how they get you! Phew. Okay, listen, if you want to keep you, your lady and your children safe: Never taste the rainbow. Luckily, this was just a temporary photoshopped stunt, so Oreos are safe for consumption again… but what about the foods that are always rainbowed?
“Manliness is not all swagger and swearing and mountain climbing. Manliness is also tenderness and gentleness and consideration.”
- Tea and Sympathy (1956)
“Men who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.”
—Clint Eastwood“Guys. Real talk. If you identify as a man, then you’re a man. That’s not something you can accidentally lose by doing the wrong thing. It’s not something someone else can take away. It will not be revoked if you forget to man around like a manly man at all times. Your manhood is safe. Fuckin’ relax.”
A lot has been said about the pussification of today’s generation of men and I think I’ve pin-pointed the beginning of the end. It all started in 1974, with this ad for Roman Brio aftershave.
Notice how the man in the ad admits that he’s willing to try playing backgammon. Granted, he knew well enough to distance himself from the limp-wristed backgammon by assuring the reader that he’s a poker player at heart. With its emphasis on reading body language, emotional cues, and other nonverbal communications, poker is truly an exercise in manliness. But tell your poker buddies you’re playing backgammon and they might think you’ve gone soft.
Last week, PBS Arts’ Off Book presented a cursory look inside the culture of Reddit, showcasing Random Acts of Pizza, Sopa, and ShitReddit Says. While the video began and ended on some of the humanitarian aspects of the site, the middle section reminded the viewer that not all of Reddit is all sunshine and pizza.
In the video, Stephen Bruckert says the following,
“all of this terrible misogynistic shit gets up voted all the way to the top all the time … Certainly the voting system would seem to indicate that women are irrational sex object. If we judge Reddit by the voting system, that’s what Reddit thinks.”
In the comments on the thread, the video received a strong backlash for daring mention that anyone could possibly sexist.
“Wow. That was good except for the extremely hyperbolic out-of-proportion amount of time spent on misogyny. I’ve been on this site for 4 years with two names, and rarely see posts being honestly rude to women that aren’t downvoted heavily. SRS needs to get over themselves.”
So was it really such an embellishment? I took a few screenshots
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this video. It’s basically a rapper/comic trolling another aspiring rapper via a submitted guest verse, which is followed by a Skype back-and-forth. The man in question (L-$ from Rap is a Joke, which has other, more offensive stuff) has a set-up and performance that are perfectly executed to get the best of his uncomfortable target. And it is perhaps arguable that this is calling out the typical anti-gay, tough-guy attitude that plagues rap (that overt homosexuality is the “next level” of rap is something I hope is true), but still it re-inscribes and perpetuates the typical anti-gay message of the genre with overly stereotypical and aggressive homosexual “advances.” Watch in its entirety if you are gonna watch it because the last minutes are important even if the middle lags a bit:
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