Tag Archives: gender roles

Gender Enforcement In The Wild

Posted on September 8, 2011 by noahbrand

We’re all pretty hip around here, pretty into questioning gender programming and taking our own path, and I think we can forget that outside the Social Justice League, things are a lot uglier. Masculinity is conflated entirely with maleness for … Continue reading →

Posted in femmephobia, gender identity, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz | Tagged gender enforcement, gender roles, masculinity | 79 Comments

Sexism Against Men: A Pictoral Tour

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ozymandias

(Hat tip to This Is Hysteria and Sociological Images.) Warning, lotsa pictures after the cut, people with crappy computers beware.

Posted in advertising sins, fatherhood, femmephobia, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, sexism | Tagged advertising, fatherhood, gender expectations, gender roles, sexism | 50 Comments

Why We Fight

Posted on August 26, 2011 by noahbrand

Figleaf’s thought-provoking post on perceived masculinity got linked to by none other than Ann Althouse yesterday, in case any of our regular readers were wondering why the comments to that post contained much more troglodytic bullshit than usual. Thing is, … Continue reading →

Posted in femmephobia, lighthearted, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, quotes, sexism, Uncategorized | Tagged gender roles, masculinity, open mockery, penis, sexism | 37 Comments

Miscellaneous Cool Links

Posted on August 25, 2011 by ozymandias

1) Dar Williams’s When I Was A Boy is one of the most powerful anti-gender-roles songs I’ve ever heard– and it includes a bonus criticism of femmephobia: And so I tell the man I’m with about the other life I … Continue reading →

Posted in femmephobia, libido, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz | Tagged dar williams, femmephobia, gender essentialism, gender roles, sexual fantasy | 9 Comments

The Slob Thing

Posted on August 24, 2011 by noahbrand

Q: What happens when a man puts a fresh roll of toilet paper onto the holder? A: Nobody knows; it’s never happened. Or, if you don’t like that joke, there are about a fucking billion exactly like it. Turn on … Continue reading →

Posted in health, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, the media | Tagged gender roles, masculinity, misandry in media | 88 Comments

Holding on to the good: in praise of masculinity, femininity, and everything “normal”

Posted on August 15, 2011 by aliarasthedaydreamer

As people interested in gender equality, we (justifiably!) spend a lot of time criticizing The Way Things Are. Which is great! Part of the way things are undeniably sucks, and could be better. However, in doing all this, we can … Continue reading →

Posted in gender movements, manifestos, meta, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz | Tagged femininity, gender egalitarianism, gender roles, masculinity, sexism | 8 Comments

Jonathan Kay and The Exciting Adventure Into The Land of Confounding Variables

Posted on August 13, 2011 by ozymandias

Admittedly I have only read one article by Jonathan Kay. For all I know, he’s won Nobel Prizes in multiple disciplines in his spare time from writing Pulitzer-Prize-winning articles about the national debt, programming open-source software, working as a UN translator and directing … Continue reading →

Posted in femmephobia, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, the media | Tagged baby storm, boys, education, gender conformity, gender roles, girls, jonathan kay, my chemical romance, queer, social construction of gender | 47 Comments

Rejection, part two

Posted on August 10, 2011 by noahbrand

As pointed out in the comments to part one, my first post about the rejections inherent in the men-approach-women-wait model was focused entirely on how bad it hurts for men to suffer the inevitable multiple rejections inherent in that model. … Continue reading →

Posted in emotion, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, relationships, sexism | Tagged gender roles, myth of men not being hot, sex, sexuality | 73 Comments

Emotions: Threat or Menace?

Posted on July 28, 2011 by noahbrand

Dozens of posts on this blog so far, and we haven’t talked directly about what I see as the most pervasively damaging issue affecting men in our culture. It’s the one at the root of many of the other problems … Continue reading →

Posted in emotion, issues, noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz, relationships, violence | Tagged family, gender roles, masculinity, misandry, misandry in media, personal experience | 177 Comments

How Revenge Of The Nerds Ruined My Life

Posted on July 22, 2011 by noahbrand

[Trigger warning: Rape as comedy, rape culture. Also, this gets a bit personal and ranty. You might want to get comfortable.] I first saw Revenge Of The Nerds on home video, back when you could rent a VHS player in … Continue reading →