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Re: What Can Men Do? TL;DR: Ignore Jeff; read Shanley.

Re: What Can Men Do?

Jeff Atwood: If you see any behavior that gives you pause, behavior that makes you wonder “is that OK?” […] speak up. Honestly, as one man to another. OK, you got it. Nej, min røv er ikke til fri afbenyttelse. Photo of the Day: #normalizebreastfeeding. #SurvivorPrivilege shows George Will just how fun it is to be a rape survivor. Girls Are Messy, Naked Farters, Too  I see it all the time: lists, articles and blog posts explaining how to be a mom to a boy.

Girls Are Messy, Naked Farters, Too 

As though boys are a different species sharing nothing in common with dainty, proper, sweet little girls. Mansplaining, explained: 'Just ask an expert. Who is not a lady' Rebecca Solnit is a prolific author (she's working now on her sixteenth and seventeenth books), historian, activist and a contributing editor to Harper's.

Mansplaining, explained: 'Just ask an expert. Who is not a lady'

Her most recent book, Men Explain Things to Me, is a collection of Solnit's essays, including the title piece that launched a million memes. Solnit, on the road in Seattle, took some time to explain "mansplaining", writing and how the post-Isla Vista misogyny conversation is a little like climate denialism. JESSICA VALENTI: How do you feel about being considered the creator of the concept of "mansplaining"? Your now-famous essay – which really gave women language to talk about the condescending interactions they've had with men – certainly gave birth to the term, but you write in the book that you didn't actually make up the word. REBECCA SOLNIT: A really smart young woman changed my mind about it. Pigen som råbte ligestilling.

That bad. My straight male friends are terrified of the morning-after lady brunch when women, they are sure, swap stories of their dexterity and stamina over mimosas. Ha ha! Say the women they’ve slept with to all the women they would one day like to sleep with. (“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them.”) Why Bruce Willis & Demi Moore’s daughter wants us to see her nipples. When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men. March 19, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston.

Cultural Studies & Feminist Film Theory. Adventures in privilege. The other day, as I was contributing a few choice witticisms to the hashtag #whitefeministsbelike, I heard the dreaded wailing in the background.

adventures in privilege

When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men. In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston.

When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men

His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years. Though Mattock’s community clearly saw his self-deprivation as improper, it is quite possible that they had his wife’s suffering in mind when they decided to shun him. An open letter to privileged people who play devil’s advocate. You know who you are.

An open letter to privileged people who play devil’s advocate

You are that white guy in an Ethnic Studies class who’s exploring the idea that poor people might have babies to stay on welfare. Or some person arguing over drinks that maybe a lot of women do fake rape for attention. Pay Gap Is Because of Gender, Not Jobs. Are women paid less than men because they choose to be, by gravitating to lower-paying jobs like teaching and social work?

Pay Gap Is Because of Gender, Not Jobs

That is what some Republicans who voted down the equal pay bill this month would have you believe. “There’s a disparity not because female engineers are making less than male engineers at the same company with comparable experience,” the Republican National Committee said this month. “The disparity exists because a female social worker makes less than a male engineer.” But a majority of the pay gap between men and women actually comes from differences within occupations, not between them — and widens in the highest-paying ones like business, law and medicine, according to data from Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University labor economist and a leading scholar on women and the economy.

“There is a belief, which is just not true, that women are just in bad occupations and if we just put them in better occupations, we would solve the gender gap problem,” Dr. Dr. 37 Men Show Us What Real Men's Activists Look Like. The shootings in Isla Vista, Calif., sent chills down the backs of countless Americans over Memorial Day weekend.

37 Men Show Us What Real Men's Activists Look Like

Although this isn't the first mass shooting that has semblances of misogyny (in fact, a great many do), the 140-page manifesto of pure hatred against women and the YouTube video detailing Elliot Rodger's plans to slaughter "blond sluts" was a gruesome wake-up call for all of us. How could an educated and privileged 22-year-old still believe that women should be in "concentration camps," stop having control over procreation and deserve to be killed because they have sexual agency?

But while Rodger's ideology may have been extreme, it was also frighteningly familiar. The way that we talk about women and the entitlement others have over their bodies is nothing new. Indeed, the shooting is not an isolated act of violence. Ultimately, the #YesAllWomen rallying cry reached more than 1 million tweets in the days since the tragedy, outlasting even Kim Kardashian's wedding on Sunday.