***Trigger Warning*** After reading lfleetwood’s post, I was compelled to further talk about the topic of putting responsibility on women for protecting herself when in actuality there are some things you cannot control. While thinking about this topic I stumbled upon an old episode of Degrassi, back from the early 2000’s to see the similarities […]
Read More Degrassi Keeps it Real!We are all familiar with the scene in Snow White when the Evil Queen asks, “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?” But in the 21st century, that mirror has transformed into videos. Welcome to the world of YouTube- a place where young girls turn to an interactive mirror to […]
Read More Pretty or Ugly? Issue of Teen Girls Self Esteem*TRIGGER WARNING* Imagine a world without the option of rape. Men and women are educated from an early age that forcing someone to have sex without consent is very wrong, and should never happen. Everyone abides by all aspects of this rule, including the least known: intoxicated consent is not consent. I’m also imagining a […]
Read More AR Underwear or Chastity Belt?It’s been a couple of weeks now since I last updated on my living arrangement, so I thought I’d update ShoutOut with what’s going on. If you didn’t catch it before, I live with eight other men in a tiny 100-year-old colonial, and sometimes things can get a little hairy when boy meets world and […]
Read More The Patriarchy is Real Y’allI know what you are thinking; you could not have possibly read that correctly because there is absolutely no way I just stated that feminism is about men. Even as I wrote the statement that tiny little feminist inside me shouted to the heavens asking how I could take this one thing away from women. […]
Read More Feminism Is About MenLast week, I wrote a piece on why unchecked chivalry should be dead. I’ll spare you a re-hash of my points in that post, but essentially, I asserted that an agent of a chivalrous act should consider the agency of the individual receiving that action. While some men assume that chivalry is an archaic, albeit […]
Read More I’m a fighter, not an oppressor.Hey readers! Today I was perusing the Internet when I stumbled upon an article in Jezebel. Immediately the article caught my eye because of its’ relevant subject matter concerning the “innate bitchiness in competition between women”. Oh boy do I love this topic, mainly because I myself have been a victim and perpetrator of indirect […]
Read More Catty BehaviorI was doing my usual Facebook stalk when I stumbled upon this wonderful little gem through Huffington Post…
Read More How Many Times Do We Have To Say This?As I was cruising through the twitter feeds last night, I saw this lovely gem. This short article, written by Rebecca “Burt” Rey of Jezebel, informs us all that Mitt Romney is a “sizeist”. A sizeist is, in very basic terms, someone who looks down on fat people. For Romney, I would assume that by […]
Read More Romney: Your American Role Model! But Not Really.Now that Halloween’s over everyone is geared up for the next two holidays which break our budgets and also break my sanity. Whenever people ask me what is my least favorite holiday, I say Thanksgiving and they are instantly confused. There’s free food and spending time with the family, what’s better than that. My reality […]
Read More Let’s Give Thanks! (To the Reality of My Situation)
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