And this anger — this toxic male entitlement — isn’t contained to random comment boards or the YouTube videos of disturbed young men. It’s on full view elsewhere in our culture. Earlier this week, a writer for the New York Post quoted a member of a men’s rights group as the sole source in a …
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. A great quote by Maya Angelou, that in face of the discussion around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article, the misogynist shooting in Isla Vista, and the electoral success of several rightwing-extremist patries in Europe is a relevant as ever. Sadly, …
Elliot Rodger displayed a colossal sense of entitlement in his unsettling manifesto. He describes his inability to attract women as something he needed to “punish” them for. He describes the fact that women are not interested in him as an “injustice” and a “crime” because he is the “perfect guy.” In an attempt to prove …
Must Reads After Isla Vista
This little compilation of links to Monday morning must reads after the terrible Isla Vista shooting Saturday goes out to all my readers, but especially to my fellow cismen. Laurie Penny in New Statesman makes a lot of great points in an essay titled “Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism.” Here’s an …
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. Margaret Atwood (via izzyinvisible) Think I’ve had this on the blog before. So relevant.
Isla Vista and Gentlemen Supremacy
The shooting in Isla Vista is horrifying on its own, my heart goes out to all affected. The “reasoning” the shooter apparently gave is terrifying in how banal and common it is. His litany is a rant that can be heard in many corners of our online and offline worlds. In certain “men’s rights” message boards …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 