Women are only worthy of basic respect in relation to men. If a man is killed or murdered, it’s much harder to find similar quotes from politicians talking about their sons and fathers and grandsons. That’s because men see each other as humans. And a lot of men still don’t view girls or women that w…
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Want to know if a suitor respects women? Don't ask about yourself. Ask how they feel about sex workers, dancers, exes they've slept with.
Listen to me, he said, do you really think women are the flower of life? You know, you can get fed up with them after a while … All they do is stop you achieving anything serious.
A ‘good girl’ as I have seen it defined: goes to church, marries ‘right,’ dresses modestly, never raises her voice, always smiles, is always friendly and approachable, never curses, doesn’t drink or only drinks the appropriate amount of alcohol, does not gossip, does not stir the pot, and is emotion…
Don't use women as a writing technique if you're not trying to actually understand or value them.
The manosphere is ironically full of men who are essentially the male equivalent of bitter feminists. They’re angry, feel unfairly treated, and place the blame for their problems on the opposite sex.
I think my biggest ‘huh’ moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical ‘geek’ is just as hypermasculine as your typical ‘jock’ when you look at it from the right angle. As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in…
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and d…
A few months ago I heard Kathleen Cleaver, a former Black Panther, speak at a local museum and as she spewed her feelings about ‘Formation’, calling it pornography, I recall feeling a disappointment so strong it nearly felt like grief. I felt similarly reading bell hooks’ criticisms of Beyoncé. I fe…
The whole "good girl vs. hoes" mentality is nothing but misogynistic. It's denying a woman simple respect just (because) she's not "modest." If you only respect a woman when she's "modest", you don't actually respect women. That's not how this works. You respect a woman regardless of how she present…
Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners, perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves. Even today, many men find themselves newly appalled at sexism after having a girl, a reaction apparently not stoked by being born of a woman, married…
But we can also drag Swift for being a respectable white woman that often performs purity (more whiteness) and constantly plays the victim card, using her white femme womanhood to navigate conflict in ways that avoid accountability or culpability. Especially when this conflict is her pinning the bla…
You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.
What I do not accept, however, is that it is all right for people to make comments ranging from "a bit sexist but generally harmless" to openly sexually aggressive. That it is something that "just happens". Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, rol…
Why can’t I sit with my legs spread? What’s so shameful about what I keep between them?
My female identity has been shaped by a biased, hypocritical excuse based on ridiculous gender roles: ‘It’s just how it is.’ All my life, I have asked them why, and all they said was ‘It’s just how it is.’ And it didn’t matter whether I’ve asked men or women.
If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the U…
— Amanda Marcotte transcribed by James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
This is where the argument risks losing traction, in that it has made men across the Internet defensive. ‘Not all men’ has been a boorish rejoinder to critiques of masculinity, but an informative one. No one wants to be implicated in this violence— not all gun owners, not all bipolar patients, not a…
When men seek that control — when we feel it’s our due — and don’t achieve it, we can resent and hate. Toxic masculinity sets expectations that prime us for disappointment. We turn that disappointment on ourselves and others as anger and hatred.
Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn…