Get it up? Bring home the bacon? These are some rigid and narrow definitions of maleness that men feel pressured to contort themselves into. A while back, I wrote a piece called 5 Stupid, Unfair, and Sexist Things Expected of Men, about how sexism damages men as well as women, and how men and women get […]
We know the many ways sexism hurts women. But we don’t talk as much about how sexism hurts men. If you have a scrap of progressive politics in your bones, it’s no surprise to you that sexism hurts women. Like, duh. That’s kind of the definition of the word. But we don’t talk as much […]
American ideas about “real men” are contradictory and impossible to live up to. So stop trying! You’ve almost certainly heard feminist rants about impossible cultural ideals of femininity: how standards of femininity are so narrow and rigid they’re literally unattainable; how, to avoid being seen as unfeminine, women are expected to navigate an increasingly narrow […]
