#HeForShe Question About Trans Rights 17 Sep 202017 Sep 2020 The question is simple, but in this charged political environment you should brace for 3,000 words of qualification and background. This sort of thing can be a lightning rod for…
#HeForShe… Why I Stepped Away from Feminist Twitter 27 Jul 2020 In the era of reactionary vitriol, allow me to begin by stating that feminism is important and very much necessary today. I know some readers will interpret a piece like…
#HeForShe… Harry Potter and the Constant Controversy 29 Jun 2020 It happened again. This time Stephen King responded to something of Rowling's not realising people saw a transphobic tone, Rowling responded with high praise, someone else asked King for clarification…
#HeForShe The “Male Gaze” is a Ridiculous Myth 28 Feb 2020 I remember first coming across the concept of the "gaze" in my philosophical studies - the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Thirty years after Sartre introduced the concept, Laura Mulvey applied…
#HeForShe… On Little Women: Jo the Ladybird 13 Jan 2020 This post might have gone any one of several different ways. Originally I felt compelled to write something about "Little Women" in general. After mentioning the story and characters several…
#HeForShe Toxic Femininity Does Not Exist 26 Nov 2019 "Toxic masculinity" is shorthand for "the pressures of social expectations of traditional masculinity resulting in violence". As I talk through the matter with intelligent people who disagree, who claim that…
#HeForShe… I Might Be a Terrible Feminist, and I’m Too Afraid of What I Might Find Out 12 Nov 2019 I have danced around this topic several times before, and perhaps this will be but another in a series of failures to fail. Over the course of the last ten…
#HeForShe Matt Lauer, Consent, and Power Dynamics 11 Oct 201911 Oct 2019 A lot of people have and will write about Matt Lauer's...defence?...after the Ronan Farrow book, all of them more renowned than I. Here's another take anyway, because it still feels…
#HeForShe… The Demisexual Feminist 4 Jun 2019 I learned a new word recently! Hooray! Demisexual. Feel free to Google the term, the top results are safe for work. What one will find is various lists of criteria…
#HeForShe… Aesthetics and Human Attraction – a Personal Account 9 May 2019 I want to discuss what I consider a riskier topic today - attraction. What better way for a socially anxious, aspiring ally to begin than to derail the entire discussion…
