Journalist – Historian – Speaker
This is my first attempt to generalize some guidelines for talking about people with less power than yourself, especially when trying to highlight an injustice that you, to some extent, are responsible for perpetuating. Almost a year ago, I wrote a piece on how to talk about feminism if you’re a guy (especially a straight …
Last fall I published a set of rules for male feminist discourse. I stand by them. The big ones are: 1. It’s not about you. 2. Sometimes it is about you. 3. It’s always about them. Rule 1 reads: This is the most important thing to remember. At the core, feminism must begin and end …
Go to http://xkcd.com/896/ for the full comic. It’s good. It’s not exactly news that women have often been denied credit for their contributions to major scientific discoveries or inventions. Rosalind Franklin, one of the discoverers of DNA, is justifiably the most famous, and her case still infuriates. Gender bias in the classroom still raises barriers for women …
My 9yr old complained to @LEGO_Group re mag she was sent,reply was useless. Re-registered as ‘John’.Big difference. pic.twitter.com/Tbdo1X39zc — Jacky Wafflewaitress (@Wafflewaitress) November 22, 2013 I think about toys and gender a lot because of the ways that early experiences shape our brains. My daughter gets invited to a lot of parties – because almost …
TRIGGER WARNING – This piece discusses rape in non-graphic ways. In my piece for The Shriver Report – How To Talk Like a Feminist (If You’re a Guy) – I wrote the following: 2. Sometimes it is about you.There may be many feminist topics on which men in fact have a lot to say, but …
Let’s also talk about how white men get rewarded for presenting a watered-down, uncritical, privileged image of feminism. — Shanley (@shanley) August 26, 2013 Ok, let’s talk about it. I don’t know Shanley, but she does have 6000 more twitter followers than I do, which is a pretty solid following. More importantly, she writes well …
I wrote an essay on being a straight white male feminist for the Good Men Project. If you’re reading this blog, you probably already knew that. I’m proud of this short essay and would like it spread far and wide. If you are willing to share it, please do so. I’m also willing to engage …