Is There Anything Good About Men?

Posted on September 11, 2007

I Just ran across an intersting article that takes a feminist approach to gender and applies it to our cultures understanding of Men. Very cool, something I’ve been interested in for quite a while. It’s called “Is there anything good about Men?“. I thought it was very interesting not only for what it directly says about gender, but because the section that discusses social grouping trade-offs between genders has a lot of relevance for understandings of hierarchy and access.

I definitely don’t agree with all of his arguments or points, in particular I think he’s much to eager to divide the world into neat and even “spheres” and discounts the system bias and even violence that has historically been levied against individuals who wish to operate outside the “sphere” that their cultures have ordained for their gender – ie men who would prefer to operate in what he terms the intimate 1-to-1 sphere and women who would prefer to specialize in the broader networks of “shallower” relationships. Gender is not absolute, after all. Still, he makes some interesting arguments and the evolutionary perspective on gender differences and the idea of biology making tradeoffs between strengths and weaknesses makes sense to me. Take the good, leave the bad. In any case, I’m curious about other people’s reactions to the article, both positive and negative.

Pat Condell on Christianity and Islam

Posted on September 7, 2007

Five videos from Pat Condell on Christianity, Islam, faith, and religion in general. This guy rocks so hard… Read more

Support Our Troops

Posted on September 5, 2007

[youtube FsTmBVav-r0 20,000 homeless vets in the USA]

 

This post is dedicated all the assholes who think “supporting” the troops means unquestioning obedience to the Government that would throw away their lives in an illegal and immoral war and not, i dunno, doing something that would actually HELP them.

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