"The women of Bikini Kill let guitarist Billy Karren be in their feminist punk band, but only if he's willing to just "do some shit." Being a feminist dude is like that. We may ask you to "do some shit" for the band, but you don't get to be Kathleen Hannah."--@heatherurehere


Monday, June 06, 2011

The Myth of Male Weakness

UPDATE:  Schwyzer has shown himself to be a complete jerk. Leaving this post here, however, so as not to erase the fact that I was yet one more person he fooled. 

From his speech at Slutwalk LA, Hugo provides a great overview of the myth of male weakness:

2 comments:

Tit for Tat said...

Interesting guy that Hugo is. I just had a chance to read something about him that makes you pause. Well, at least it does for this man.

http://toysoldier.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/blame-men-first/

Jeff Pollet said...

Yeah, I read that. toy soldier used to comment quite a bit here, when we were a groupblog and there were more frequent posts, and I'd have to say: that's not his best piece. :)