#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…
#HeForShe… To Ms. Watson on Her Birthday 14 Apr 2019 I had not yet read much of the books because I missed the bandwagon when they first appeared. By the time I got around to "The Sorcerer's Stone", the writing…
#HeForShe Sex and Attraction: A Personal Account 6 Mar 201914 Mar 2019 This is purely a biographical piece, not a philosophical one. Feel free to engage as with any other, but bear in mind that I am not advocating an ideology or…
#HeForShe #NotAllMen 18 Feb 201914 Mar 2019 "Men are despicable." And then it comes: "Not all men!" It's more likely to come if the original speaker was a woman. I have often made the same arguments as…
