Men Need Feminism

Recently I posted about a comic strip , and hughristik/palecast made a comment that got me to thinking. Palecast said: I think this strip ...

First we have Susie easily outsmarting Calvin: Next, Calvin doesn't really learn any lessons, i.e.Susie is smarter than he is: And then,...

An excerpt from a conversation between me and my friend's daughter, who is 3 and 1/2 or so. Kid [Looking at my laptop, which had a comic...

As we all know, the play ends with a double suicide. Romeo's motivation is difficult to pin down without resorting to fictional construc...

Saw this one on Feministing . There's an interesting interview in Vibe magazine with a filmaker (Byron Hurt) who has a documentary com...

At the Risk of this turning into the Feminist Groupblog Through Comic Strips Blog, I think it's important to point out that, for all my ...

I'll admit it: A cartoon pig riding a motorized horse in front of a supermarket is funny. There's no way around that, even though th...

The title is slightly tongue in cheek. And yet, what better way to reinforce the patriarchy than to make fun of a boy for listening to ...

Thus far I've been talking about Romeo, but of course the title of the play is Romeo and Juliet, so it's time to introduce the leadi...

I've decided that my feelings about Romeo and Juliet are complex enough to merit a couple of posts worth of exploration. Romeo and Juli...

I am overwhelmed, sometimes, by the amount of misfortune in the world. To be a feminist and follow current events is often acutely painful. ...

In Part One , I outlined some of the general reasons why I think that an exploration of men, masculinity and violence is a good personal and...

Just one more little example of how feminism can help us all. Neil Chethik of AlterNet notes how feminist movement expanded his options: I ...

Blogger has finally let us upgrade to the new version. There may be some layout problems for a few days...

In terms of how long I've been alive, I haven't really identified as a feminist for very long. The first inklings of feminist though...

Feminist Daily News reports that a bipartisan group in the House of Reps is putting forward a bill to challenge Bush Jr.'s invocation o...

The 8th Erase Racism Carnival is up over at Trying to Follow . Because I believe that many of the causes of feminism are the same causes of ...

I didn't end up going to the counter-protest that BACORR had organized Saturday against the anti-choicers (though I did find out that th...

Lauren has a great post up over at Faux Real wherin she discusses Save The Day Guy, a variation of sorts of The Nice Guy. Among her best po...

Think I'm the only one who is obsessed with looking at daily comics through the lens of feminist-ish thinking? One of my favorite blogs ...