Top stories published by Genders, and other gendered things in November of 2016

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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 4, 2016

“MEN EXPLAIN LOLITA TO ME”

“the main point is that I’ve been performing interesting experiments in proffering my opinions and finding that some of the men out there respond on the grounds that my opinion is wrong, while theirs is right because they are convinced that their opinion is a fact, while mine is a…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 10, 2016

“The Fake Male Feminist Chicanery by Minh Nguyen”

“During my last year of undergrad, as I upheld Smooth and Diaz as acmes of good men, I would meet a man who led a feminism reading group and become involved with the women, pissing them off to vision-blurring rage. I would meet a man who writes…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 17, 2016

“Why women’s pockets are useless: A history”

“The great gendered pocket divide is real, and it did not happen by accident. As Christian Dior is reported to have said in 1954: “Men have pockets to keep things in, women for decoration.”

This is how it happened:…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 20, 2016

“The pill is linked to depression — and doctors can no longer ignore it”

“Having spent the past eight years researching and writing on the emotional and psychological side-effects of hormonal birth control, I initially felt elated to read this study. Not just for myself, but…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 1, 2016

“The Glorified Self-Sacrificing Martyr Woman”

“The lauding of women tends to end with the phrase “I (a man) would never be able to do this!” The question is… why not? Pregnancy and breastfeeding aside, almost every other aspect of child-rearing could be undertaken by a man, from changing diapers…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 5, 2016

“Thanks for Listening”

“I’m not a therapist, a counselor, a social worker, a minister, or a psychologist. I’m not even a department chair. I’m a female professor at a research university, where faculty members and students — especially graduate students — regularly show up at my office, often after sending me a…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Nov 6, 2016

“(Not) All Men”

“And yet one of the major obstacles in the Fight Against Patriarchy is that a sexist guy will always seem like an outsider — a bad-news ex-boyfriend, perhaps, but not your male feminist friend, your super chill brother, your gentle dad. Never the bros you know and love, never the “fair-minded guys…

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