When Lighting Up is Drinking from the Whites-Only Fountain

Given the reality of disproportionate drug sentencing, I’m prepared to make a bold statement: until the experience of drug use is the same for people of all races, whites engaging in the activity are doing something akin to drinking from a “whites only” water fountain.

Raping Faces for Progress

While calling conservatives teabaggers has little use beyond feel good tribalism, one should remember that libertarians, whether traditional ones or the new breed of “South Park” conservatives, have no compunction about using both old style hate-speech and pornographic musings.

The Pimp and Ho Primary

Early in the primary, certain clever individuals invoked the “bros before hos” mantra. While the slogan was widely denounced as sexist — though not universally, sadly — the racist nature of how whites manufacture black masculinity went unremarked upon. Barack Obama didn’t ask to become a “bro,” nor did he ask to be a pimp, lording over his whore.

Why I’ll Never Be a Bookslut

Bookslut fails to address women’s inequality. It fails to offer a feminist, non-patriarchal vision of sex and women’s passion for reading and creating. Using women as sexualized commodity to sell literary magazines is not a feminist sexual revolution.

Fathering Daughters:
Reflections by Men Pedophiles?

DeWitt Henry and James Alan McPherson joined those same people when they constructed the narrative flow of Fathering Daughters. While many of the contributors are simply guilty by association, of running in social circles that all but guaranteed that they’d be published in the anthology, it was Henry and McPherson who worked to guide the reader down a foxglove path. That path is well-worn by less literate and less privileged antifeminists.

Frank Peretti's Monster

The purpose of Monster is to further the belief that American Protestants — unlike Christians throughout the rest of the world — are required by their faith to denounce evolution. This proof of fealty has little to do with science or religion, but human greed and politics: to denounce evolution is to swear allegiance to a particular way of life and the socio-political actors who make it possible.

She will not be Forgotten

Even people calling themselves feminists, no shortage of men in that number these days, would believe Christenson did what she did out of selfish, personal desperation: an inability to cope with private horrors that have little to do with what the “common woman” experiences. To them, that can be the only reason why she doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire.

Our Bodies, Ourselves funds Abusive, Racist Porn

More important than that difference, however, is how the simple acronym SEO supplied masculine power to those who invoked it in the argument over Amptoons and pornography. Those believing they had insider knowledge of technical jargon had nothing of the sort: instead, the constant refrain of “SEO this” and “SEO that” was used as a phallus to silence the voices of women who objected to the sale.

The Left, HPV, and Cancer

The Left, especially the men of the Left, have had ample time to consider public policy for both HPV and cervical cancer. Ironically, it was not the disease that became the emergency but the “cure.” While liberal pundits were willing to work overtime for Merck and their advertising department, historically, that same interest in women’s health was nowhere to be found.

Sadomasochism and the Political Beauty Pageant

Yet it is apparent that the contest is not between women, but men, and Republicans win the battle of “our women” versus “their women.” In the momentary world of the joke, it is the Democratic men who lose to their male peers. In the real world, however, it is all women who lose.

Misandry: From the Dictionary of Fools

Even as antifeminists complain about the fascism of Political Correctness, in this case, they have been more than willing to facilitate the change in the definition of misanthropy (dropping “mankind” for the more neutral “humanity”) in order to satisfy their goal of establishing misandry as an authentic word.

Beyond Fathers as Gods

While “fatherhood as pro-feminism” has many flaws, all obvious in nature, perhaps one of the most ironic ones is that it makes patriarchs, literally, the best pro-feminists. It is always the men with the largest amounts of male-privilege who are entrusted to tell other men not to be sexist.

Free-Speech Feminism:
The Far Right’s Favorite Sex Toy

Liberal men might sometimes sneer mirthfully about Lynne Cheney and her Independent Women’s Forum, freely using scare quotes around their “feminism,” and yet they never acknowledge the connection of such rightwing women to the feminists that produce—or merely defend—some of the pornography that they consume.

Corpse Fuckers, Inc.
Paul LaRosa and his Lace Curtain

Brame did not live a secret life: his vices were hidden in plain sight, overlooked and excused by those who should have known better, people who would do anything to protect him, no matter what it might have cost Judson in the end. Paul LaRosa wants this protection-racket to continue for David Brame even in the afterlife.

Valentine’s Day: Jesus needs an Orgy

The fairy tale about the sexual lottery and its constant recitation is an invention of necessity: Christianity is sorely lacking in feminist street-cred, to say the least.

Murderball

Behaviors that might seem questionable when acted out by able-bodied men in a nonfiction production are portrayed as healthy in disabled men, their ability to perpetrate sexism serving as decisive proof that they have successfully overcome the hand that life has dealt them. The able-bodied producers of the film are also exploiting the cast in order to writ large their own misogynistic fantasies, audience sympathy for the men’s condition serving as a buffer against complaints.

Hot Cherry Pies:
Pornography and Justice for Women

I am not a closet-conservative, but am strongly pro-choice, pro-environment, and anti-capitalist. Most of the men I speak to about pornography agree with me on these issues. They identify themselves as liberal and feel that the subordination of human beings is wrong. They believe that massive corporations do not have the right to exploit people in the name of global capitalism—unless, of course, those corporations are part of the porn industry.

Not Safe for Work:
The Reasonable Patriarch Standard

The metric employed by NSFW practices could come to have enormous cultural force in the workplace, answering a question that few anticipated needing to be asked. Perhaps in the near future, sexual harassment and hostile workplace arguments will hinge on whether the email, desktop wallpaper, or poster contained “severe insinuation of nipples” or merely “moderate insinuation.”

AP Photos of 2005: A Year in Masculinity

For Posterity

Bush gambled on weapons of mass destruction: it came up “tails” and he lost. The problem is not with him losing but with his right, his entitlement (and that of all Western Society), to be in a position to gamble in the first place. To focus merely on that loss, the nonexistent weapons and not the move towards war that election-minded Democrats rushed to sign on with, is to agree with patriarchal ideals and to suffer a struggle on their paradigm, one designed to serve a status quo of masculine power that requires the subjugation of others.

Where the White Women at?
White Liberal Men and their Race Card

This paradox, that women must abandon feminism to support a goal that is thought achievable only through misogyny (the one authority that can easily unify men as a bloc), is one that can be seen distinctly in an analysis of “Where the White Women at;” NPR might as well have called it their “Where the White Bitches at?” program.

Shortly before the presidential election of 2004 an image was circulated that ostensibly tracked the paths of three hurricanes (Charley, Frances, Ivan; the same three the Columbia Christians for Life cited in their own propaganda) across Florida, the narrow black lines representing the storms flowing from one “red” or Republican county to the next, carefully avoiding the blue demographics on the map.

Yet the MIT Media Survey became a lightning rod for the expression of gender politics, given the background events that were unfolding during this time period. As women were still fighting to win their way into the blogger nomenclature, a feminist rally cry was sounded to participate in the study, as if it were each woman’s duty to stand and be counted in it.