Men Need Feminism

Sara Robinson has sparked quite a lot of good conversation with her piece on what she sees as a developing and prevalent problem: Something ...

The 25th Carnival of Feminists is up at Philobiblon.

As often happens in the ol' world of blogs, response to a comment or to comments often turns into a bit of a lengthy comment itself, whi...

... with college applications. Thus, the lack of blogging, Sincerest apologies.

Cross-posted to my blog There is a discussion in the comment thread on a recent Feminist Allies post about discussion of men as victimizers...

In some recent comments, PaleCast once again does us all a favor by giving us some stuff to chew on -- I find the amount of stuff that PaleC...

I find the entire Foley "Scandal" bizarre and a good example of how crazy sexual/gender politics are. While the "Scandal...

I'm 55 years old. I'm White, Jewish, from an upper-middle class background. My partner is 43, Black, having grown up Christian an...

What is feminist fiction? Before I even begin, I recognize that this could mean two things: in essence, overt and covert feminist fiction. ...

Malachi asked a simple question that has led to some not-so-simple discussions: "[W]hat else can a man do, either with strangers or fr...

The discussion of LotR has reminded me of the reason I began reading blogs-- indeed, the reason I came to identify as a feminist--fiction. S...

I am just consistently amazed at news reports about how people who want to do things like educate girls are not only disparaged, but out-an...

And, of course, go check out the 23rd Carnival of Feminists up at Lingual Tremors . There's even a post of mine up there (thanks to wh...

The 5th Erase Racism Carnival is up over at one of my favorite blogs, Black Looks. I think the ideas put fort in this carnival are importa...

This is actually one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comics...funny, I didn't remember the first two panels (click to enlarge): C&H...

This is the beginning of what will probably become a series of posts exploring the relationship of feminism to fiction. This is something I...

I was reminded today of a conversation my father recounted, as we were walking home late at night. He mentioned to me that a friend of his, ...

Men's Resources International (a quite informative pro-feminist website) has a link to a report showing a direct link between violence ...

Surprisingly enough, abandoning traditional values is harder than it looks. The problem, in short, is that in a partiarchal society, confor...

Has anybody else run into the amazingly ignorant rationalizations around the proposal to possibly ban women from Mecca ? Among the rationali...