So begins the lead of this New York Times piece, about the gender discrimination lawsuit shaking Silicon Valley. Kind of an odd way to start a piece about sexism, no?
(Source: jessbennett)
"At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily satisfied JoePa supporters—who’d become used to this kind of banter. But in the wake of 40 counts of sexual assault against Paterno’s longtime defensive mastermind, Jerry Sandusky, the toxicity of that testosterone-steeped sports culture, and the role it might have played in this scandal, isn’t very funny. The comparisons between Penn State and the Catholic Church may have become too many to count, but perhaps the biggest one is so obvious we don’t see it: Football, like the priesthood, is one of the few places in our culture where being a woman is actually more sacrilegious than saying you’re going to go home and beat one."
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Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast
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This is amazing. Click for more images.
(via thefrisky; fuckyeahgenderstudies; lostgrrrls)
(Source: lostgrrrls)
"In a post-modern world lacking clear-cut borders and distinctions, it has been difficult to know what it means to be a man and even harder to feel good about being one. The many boundaries of a gendered world built around the opposition of work and family—production versus reproduction, competition versus cooperation, hard vs. soft—have been blurred, and men are groping in the dark for their identity."
— Ray Williams, writing for Psychology Today.
Breaking! (Er, Not): Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Wants to Be… a Boy!
In case you haven’t seen this headline on every blog imaginable since Angie’s Vanity Fair piece hit the web, Salon has a nice little item about why we care. Yeah, we’re all obsessed with Angelina (and that kid does have some amazingly pouty lips). But why, of all the stupid celebrity crap we have to obsess about—and, in Angie’s case, the quite varied commentary we have to choose from, from marriage to (gasp!) Brad’s beard—do we choose to focus on this particular item of information? Here’s how Broadsheet explains it:
Could it be that the notion of a child so steadfast in her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles, so very young, is such a goddamn novelty? And that a parent so comfortable and casual with it is even rarer? Because whoever the grown-up Shiloh Jolie-Pitt may turn out to be, the idea that we can’t all just put on a pretty dress and be as natively feminine as our culture would like us to be is still challenging to a lot of people.
-jessica
Sorry, Y’all! We’ve Been a Little Busy….
working on this:
We know this is going to strike a chord with people—marriage is an intensely personal choice—and we’ve already gotten some pretty impassioned responses from friends, family, and colleagues. Now we want to know what you think. Don’t hold back!
Oh—and check out our friend/colleague Andrew Romano’s rebuttal: A modern man’s perspective on why marriage isn’t dead.
