MRAs Aren’t Just Terrorizing Women — They’re Hurting Men, Too, Tom Hawking, Flavorwire, July 1, 2014
It’s easy to write off MRAs as lunatics — any group who can call feminism “a multibillion-dollar hate industry” isn’t exactly asking to be taken seriously, especially since I’m writing this on a day when the Supreme Court just decided that a corporation’s right to believe in whatever bullshit it likes is more important than a woman’s right to insurance-subsidized birth control.
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There are many things to dislike about r/RedPill types. Many, many things. But here’s the issue: quite apart from their hatefulness, they do their “cause” — such as it is — absolutely no good at all. As with extremists in many other areas, they hijack and polarize a discussion that is worth having.
The one where I need help understanding why MRAs don’t become feminists, Mychal Denzel Smith, Feministing, July 3, 2014
So… some of those aren’t completely unreasonable grievances. In fact, some of them are really serious issues that need to be addressed (I do wonder which men they’re talking about with regards to high unemployment, because something tells me it isn’t about black men). There also isn’t an issue among this bunch that wouldn’t be solved by undoing patriarchy/misogyny/sexism and redefining masculinity/manhood.
“Internet Famous”: Visibility As Violence On Social Media, Shanley Kane, Model View Culture, June 30, 2014
We consider visibility to be desirable.
It is highly lucrative, much sought after. And yes, it is a huge asset in the careers and companies of many cishet white men. Visibility gets them jobs, raises, venture capital, customers, community support… chances at more visibility in a bountiful cycle of pageviews and cash, money and power. With visibility is supposed to come admiration, respect, access, affluence – and for most of such men, it delivers.
Yet for the rest of us, with visibility comes harassment, stalking, threats, loss of career opportunity and mobility, constant public humiliation, emotional and sometimes physical violence.
An urgent dispatch from the seat of white privilege, Eric Garland, Eric Garland Blog, June 9, 2014
In early 2012, I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about why I was completely disillusioned with the world of strategic intelligence. I stated that in a world of concentrated industries, there were way more organizations bragging about bringing sophisticated decision making to leaders than there were leaders using their advice. I named individual companies. I didn’t sugar coat it. It got quite a reaction, most of it positive. There were some people, mostly strategy consultants, who called my conclusions “wrong,” or characterized the piece as a “disgusting rant.” But that was about it. “Whining consultant” was another. Looking back, nobody did what I see done to my female colleagues on a regular basis: insinuate that they were too incompetent to succeed in the first place.
