Joke, scam, embarrassment, travesty. Out of my movement.
Hugo Schwyzer is the Chuck Klosterman of “Male Feminists”
If I go on Sephora trips and spend all the errand money on clinique black honey lipstick you should shrug your shoulders and smile because I’m just a girl and nagging me will make me retreat and shut down. You wouldn’t want that.
If I forget the simple requests you make it means you are a…
Nah, it only counts if you spend all their money on unicorn trapper keepers and butterfly hair clips.
I wonder what the data shows for women whose breasts are anything but pink… Oh well I’m sure the “Save the Boobies” campaign is still going strong.A newly published paper in the Journal of Marketing Research suggests that the current approach to raising awareness of breast cancer hurts more than helps. Stefano Puntoni and his colleagues found that when women were exposed to gender cues, like the color pink, they were less likely than women who had not been primed with a gender cue to think that they might someday get breast cancer and to say that they’d be willing to donate to the cause. Pink, in other words, decreased both their willingness to fund research and the seriousness with which women took the disease.
Puntoni explains this finding with a common psychological tendency. When people are faced with a personal threat, they tend to subconsciously go on the defensive. In this case, when women are exposed to information about breast cancer at the same time that they are reminded that they, specifically, are vulnerable to it, they subconsciously try to push away the idea that they’re vulnerable and that breast cancer is something that they, or anyone, needs to worry about it.
Last night I innocently glanced through this magazine and was confronted with possibly the most disgusting and alarmist, “But what about the men?!” article about rape I’ve ever read. Things like this make me unable to think rationally so here are a few thoughts:
- Few things disgust me like the bizarre fantasy of this world in which false rape allegations are common. How many men do you know who have been falsely accused of rape? Because I know zero, and I know MANY women who have been raped. And by the way, as far as I know, none of those women ever pressed charges.
- To the woman who said: “If I were sending off a son to college right now, I’d be very concerned.” If you think you raised the type of man to have sex in shady as hell circumstances and/or with incapacitated women, you should be concerned. Also, I hope for her hypothetical sake that you do not have a daughter, so that you are not more afraid about a son’s trip to the dean’s office than a daughter’s you know… actual rape.
- “Those Clery Act reports contradict Joe Biden’s claim of an epidemic. Take Temple University. There are 30,000 students at its main campus on North Broad Street. The student body is 55 percent female, so if the one-in-five DOJ figure for sexual assaults is correct, 3,180 of the current female students would have been sexually assaulted while at the school. And yet Temple’s Clery Act report shows five sexual assaults in 2007, two in 2008, and two in 2009.” Wow, I guess I can’t argue with this. No woman in history has ever chosen not to report a rape and subject herself to the character assassination that goes along with it! Wait, what about all the friends I just mentioned?! I guess my experience is an anomaly!
- “Deborah Nolan says that in 25 years at Ursinus, she’s heard a ton of sexual assault stories, and only one didn’t involve alcohol. Drinking lowers inhibitions: “Sometimes we want to be coaxed into things. But it makes people irate when you say that.” I…..
Just read it yourself. Every single bit is horrible. The editor of Philadelphia magazine can be reached here.
What the actual fuck.
I have been falsely accused of rape (a rumor we still can’t find the origin of, as the girl in question didn’t start it and denied it to everyone from the time she heard it). It’s still not an epidemic. MRAs seem to live under the delusion that it is, but it’s definitely not. Far too many of the women I know have been assaulted and none of their assailants have seen justice. That’s a fucking problem. False accusations are clearly a bad thing, but they are beyond rare. They’re not even an issue worth addressing more than a simple blanket condemnation. To pretend like they’re the real issue here is disgusting, and Philadelphia Magazine should be fucking ashamed.
Just look at all the men whose lives and careers have been ruined by accusations of sexual assault… Ben Roethlisberger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Roman Polanski… Oh wait…
