See, I generally like Dan Savage and his advice but, like you, this particular column did give me pause on first reading. But I don't think I disagree with his thoughts. In this case, Savage addresses a woman who has (posted to Columnist pressures women into having sex when they don't feel like it)
I agree about the two sides to the veiling debate -- protecting women versus making men responsible for their own actions and reactions. While I would not fault an individual woman for choosing to wear any of the multiple forms (posted to Two eyes are too seductive, so how about one?)
Gopher: Absolutely, yes. Dan Savage has recommended in the past, and continutes to recommend, that both men and women try to accommodate their partners' varying libidos. Aghast: The only problem I see with Savage's advice is that he assumes that (posted to Columnist pressures women into having sex when they don't feel like it)
Sorry for the choppy writing and abrupt ending... I hit "submit" by accident. Wasn't quite finished... (posted to (Social) Darwinism and the Recession)
Why is it that the feminist perspective assumes that I, a young white male, have privelege. If this privelege exists I want in on it. I have never expierienced this privelege in my entire life. All men of my age (posted to How men can be better feminists/allies/partners)
I'm not going to jump in and paranoidly yell 'It happens to women too!' because I don't take those statistics as an attack on my gender or an attempt to wield patriarchy. Unfortunately, many men seem to interpret conversations about (posted to How men can be better feminists/allies/partners)
There is a problem where privilege is talked about in binary terms (something you have, or don't), when it's really more like a model that's more or less appropriate to a situation (or if you prefer, exists on a continuum, (posted to How men can be better feminists/allies/partners)
As a woman I absolutely love the author of this post! I wish all men were like you - then the world will be happier and women wouldn't have all those negative traits that men usually accuse them of. I (posted to How men can be better feminists/allies/partners)
