Feminism Is Creepy (and full of contradictions)

‘I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.’ What is the worst thing you can call a man? According to feminism, it seems the worst thing you can call a man is a ‘woman’ or a ‘girl’. Most feminist writing on masculinity focuses on ‘misogyny’. If [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Suzanne Moore: Stupid Woman Columnist

http://graunwatch.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/suzanne-moore-stupid-woman-columnist/ Over at my Graunwatch blog I have written another response to these seemingly endless claims by feminists of endemic ‘misogyny’ online and ‘abuse’ by men of ‘female columnists and bloggers’. This has really incensed me, not least because I myself am a ‘female blogger’ and yet I am continually cast as  a ‘traitor’ to [...]

The Other Side Of The Story

This video is really worth watching! In it, Tom Martin goes to talk to LSE students about whether or not gender studies is biased against men, with some interesting results! ‘Tom Martin began studying a Masters degree at the Gender Institute of The London School of Economics (LSE) in the 2009/10 term but withdrew after [...]

The Female of The Species

‘The Female Of The Species is more deadlier than the male’ – Space. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-lewis-hasteley/2011/11/comments-rape-abuse-women According to an article by helen Lewis in New Statesman today, ‘female bloggers’ are the victims of regular abuse from ‘misogynists’. She writes: ‘The sheer volume of sexist abuse thrown at female bloggers is the internet’s festering sore: if you talk [...]

No, Seriously, What About The Men?

http://goodmenproject.com/gender-sexuality/no-seriously-what-about-the-men/comment-page-1/#comment-58222 My latest article at Good Men Project is entitled: No, Seriously, What About The Men? This is how it begins: ‘Tom Martin is becoming quite well known in the feminist and anti-feminist blogosphere. He has taken the unprecedented action of suing a Gender Studies department—the renowned LSE Gender Institute in London, UK—for discrimination against men. [...]

Strictly Misandry

Strictly Come Dancing is not what I would consider a bastion of machismo. Ballroom dancing is flamboyantly camp, and has been a realm dominated by gay men and  very pretty, dainty straight ones. But Judith Woods in the Telegraph is making out the show is a last ditch attempt by men to regain some of [...]

Objectification 1970s Style

I am going to show my age here, but I remember this grafitti. It could be that the photo was in a feminist journal/book, a few years after the actual ad came out so I may not be quite as old as that Fiat Palio. But this is definitely a snapshot of the 1970s feminism [...]

Assange and The ‘Masculinity Test’

I am sure he is a jerk. Possibly worse. He is most certainly a narcissist, an egoist. But I find the way this man is being used by various groups, various interests, to hammer home their version of ‘what makes a man, a man?’, quite disconcerting. According to Liberal Conspiracy, Assange did an interview with [...]