In Defence Of… Masochism

Full disclosure: I am a full-blown, perverse, emotional and sometimes physical masochist. To be honest, I – and  Freud - think masochism is actually an aspect of all of our psyches and sexualities. Maybe to a greater or lesser degree depending on the person, but on some level or another we can all relate to the [...]

Real Men Get Raped

http://www.queerty.com/in-your-face-ad-addresses-issue-of-male-rape-and-sexual-abuse-20120208/ On seeing this promo poster for a rape survivors campaign, my initial reaction was: Fag UP! But that seems to be my reaction to everything to do with masculinity these days. So I thought I’d put this one to you, dear QRG readers, and ask you what you think of the ‘real men get raped’ [...]

OBJECTIFY THIS

I had the beginnings of a twitter argument last night, on a subject that is dear to my heart: Objectification. @BigdaddyKeltik who is a trans man and a feminist said: * ‘Objectifying women = rape culture’. * @MILLIMETREMUSIC not puritans, feminists. Objectifying women = rape culture.— Keltik ಠ_ಠ (@BigDaddyKeltik) February 07, 2012 * I find [...]

SCUM

From previous conversations with Suzanne Moore, I know she is a fan of Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, and attempted assassin of Andy Warhol. However, Ms Moore is less generous in her analysis of Roman Polanski, because the violence he has admitted to was ‘rape’. Last night Suzanne Moore was watching the Late Review [...]

Revenge Of Teh Menz

This week so far has been all about the men. For once. So I thought I’d share some links to recent articles that examine men and masculinity, not only through the judgemental lens of feminism. I was delighted to see my favourite writer on men, Mark Simpson, had an article in this week’s Guardian (UK newspaper). [...]

Ms Whiplash Is Back!

http://www.salon.com/writer/tracy_clark_flory/ This article in Salon, focusing on rape in the ‘BDSM community’ really got on my nerves. I am going to write a proper post on it but first I thought I’d put it here. If any of you have any observations or thoughts then leave a comment and I can incorporate your ideas into [...]

Whose Masculinity Is It Anyway?

This appeared at my Graunwatch blog originally, yesterday. I’m reposting it here as the QRG readers may be interested! http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/25/dangerous-masculinty-everyone-risk?commentpage=4#start-of-comments When I search the Guardian website using the terms ‘men’ and ‘women’ separately, invariably all that comes up for ‘men’ is stories about sport, violence, and crime. The main message of the Guardian about men has [...]

Dead Men Don’t Rape- Arguing With Feminism About ‘Rape Culture’

‘Rape Culture and Other Feminist Myths’ is the title of my latest post arguing with feminist dogma, which you can read here at the  Good Men Project. In the piece I write: ‘Have you ever heard a feminist say that we live in ‘transphobic assault’ culture? Or ‘murder of young black men’ culture? Or ‘homophobia’ [...]

Real Men Wear Stupid T-Shirts

    Over at Graunwatch (my blog where I critique the ‘journalism’ in The Guardian), I have written about a Women’s AID Campaign – focussing on REAL MEN. Real Men Don’t Hit Women, is what it is saying: http://graunwatch.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/real-men-wear-stupid-t-shirts/ I tried to post it in full here, but the formatting went wrong so I hope [...]

‘I Owe Them Nothing’

Camille Paglia tells it how it is. A sister in arms, when there are no sisters left. UPDATE: I am pretty sure this is from an interview on a TV show in the early 1990s. That is the context.