We shouldn’t be surprised when rape culture graduates from boys to men. In 2014, then Florida State Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston, now the starting QB for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, stood on a table in the middle of campus and yelled out: “Fuck her right in the pussy!” It was a popular stunt among men […]
The internet rightfully shamed a pickup artist approach to hitting on women, but the problem runs much deeper. There exists, in the lower echelons of the internet, a sordid collection of poorly written, awe-inspiring manuals, drafted with the express purpose of teaching today’s sex-starved bachelors how to become the ultimate PUA (pickup artist, in lower-echelon […]
It costs you nothing to bare your chest to the sun. Your body does not stand for anything other than itself. I heard four of you in less than a mile radius once on my way to buy milk. The day was sweltering, but I wanted to walk to the corner grocer up the street. […]
By daring to enter traditionally male spaces, like bars, by themselves, women project that it is open season. My friends and I were recently blindsided by the closing of our favorite bar. Over the years, the small Irish pub in our hometown had hosted our birthday celebrations, going away and welcome back parties, nights where […]
We as men have been so inundated with the idea that all space is our space that we, often subconsciously, act as if that’s true—both in our body language and in more overt expressions. A few weeks ago, I was having a meeting with a friend at a coffee shop. It was hot out, I […]
While they claim to speak for men, their rhetoric may be just as bad for men as it is for women. One of the weirder developments of the online publishing era is the way a loose confederation of embittered anti-feminists has formed, across social media and the blogging world, under the banner of “men’s rights […]
Does the media see Mary Spears as “just another black woman”? Why isn’t there more outrage and investigation into her murder? Mary “Unique” Spears wasn’t killed because she ignored the advances of a man she didn’t know. Mary Spears was killed because she lived in a culture that turns dejected and confused men into wanton […]
