NFL WEEK ONE!
HEADING OUT TO SOME PLACES, TO SEE SOME GAMES, CHILL WITH FRIENDS
DRINK SOME BEERS, EXPLICATE SOME PENALTIES, BANDY ABOUT COMMENTARY
EAT SOME HIGH-QUALITY LOW-CLASS HOME-MADE FOODS
HOLLER AT BAD PLAYS AND SHOUT AT GOOD ONES! IN SHORT,
AN EPIC IN MINIATURE OF MODERN MASCULINE MUTUAL AFFIRMATION RITUAL!
I think I'll wear my Ani DiFranco t-shirt!!
HEADING OUT TO SOME PLACES, TO SEE SOME GAMES, CHILL WITH FRIENDS
DRINK SOME BEERS, EXPLICATE SOME PENALTIES, BANDY ABOUT COMMENTARY
EAT SOME HIGH-QUALITY LOW-CLASS HOME-MADE FOODS
HOLLER AT BAD PLAYS AND SHOUT AT GOOD ONES! IN SHORT,
AN EPIC IN MINIATURE OF MODERN MASCULINE MUTUAL AFFIRMATION RITUAL!
I think I'll wear my Ani DiFranco t-shirt!!
Comments
A man who thinks he's intrinsically superior to women is first and foremost not living in reality. This does not benefit him. He is held back by a willful, persistent self-delusion that not only screws up his ability to see another's worth, it steadily undermines his estimation of his own. No man can go through life pretending to believe what is manifestly not true without it taking a toll. Self-crippled, he moves through life in a stunted mental posture that makes him weaker the stronger he holds to it. By choice and not by nature, he lives as an all-around inferior human being. Immature, clinging to a schoolyard your-team-vs.-mine conception of gender. Cowardly, threatened by the true strength he sees, and cannot deny! - threatened even by strength in someone who could be, should be his closest ally.
Could it ever benefit a man to say "The person I fall in love with and partner with for life - that person will be my inferior"? If he forces that prophecy to fulfillment by saddling himself with an inferior partner, will this help him? Perhaps he will find comfort in his inferior partner's willingness to play up to the role.
It benefits no man to subscribe to a belief that leaves him trying to make women be less or seem less than he is. You have to be a weakling to need to live like that.
Feminism benefits men, because it's always better to live in the real world than it is to kid yourself with a false sense of superiority.
That's supposed to be my job.
I went with Bry to the femfest and I’m very glad I did. I knew shit was going to get real as soon as they opened up the floor to questions and the first woman stood up, grabbed the mic and said “As a radical, feminist lesbian since the 1970s…”
It certainly was not an aspect that I had considered, that men can now choose to stay at home and parent, or do other non-traditional activities because of feminism. Pretty cool.