Sorry I’ve been mostly absent from the blogohedron these past few days. I’m actually hard at work on a WordPress plugin to allow for ad-free subscriptions, and over the past several days, I’ve been pouring my (sadly, waning) blogosphere time into that plugin instead of blogging. (Why my blogosphere time is waning, however, is a …
Tag Archive: egalitarianism
Mar 28 2012
Underwhelming response to trans rights bill, overwhelming response to trans beauty queen
I don’t know if you realized it when it happened, but last time around here in Canada, when bill C-389 amending the standing 1977 Canadian Human Rights Act to include transsexual and transgender rights was about to pass in the last parliament, it became a victim of the 2011 election when the government was dissolved …
Mar 19 2012
Dads to Huggies: “We’re no dummies”.
Huggies Diapers stepped in it bigtime recently, by pulling the same stereotyped crap about single dads you get from every sitcom and movie involving single parent fathers. Dads protested, and Huggies pulled the odious ads. The “Dad Test” campaign, posted on Facebook and geared towards men, was meant to be funny. The idea behind the …
Jan 08 2012
Are universal statements always a problem?
Or just sometimes? It occurs to me that many (“ALL!” “Shh.”) of our problems around these parts viz every new conflagration, from our recent conversation with Mallorie Nasrallah, to the statement by DJ Grothe that we only blog about controversial topics for hits, to the pushback against a Rebecca Watson blog title as though it …
Jan 05 2012
The More ^Than Men project launches
Watch this space. A truly excellent man, Sasha Pixlee, has thrown down the gauntlet. We as a community need to change, and change is going to take more men. And more than men. I’m a straight, white man and the subcultures I am a part of are dominated by straight, white men. I’m a gaming …
Nov 01 2011
“I’m tired of being a ‘Woman in Games’.”
Oh, look! The skeptic blogosphere ain’t the only place where being a woman is in and of itself a novelty! Leigh Alexander at Kotaku discusses how she’s treated as a gaming journalist, by virtue of her sex: It’s just that I’m shocked that grade-school concepts like “diversity is constructive” and “treat human beings equitably” are …
Oct 28 2011
FBI fixes rape defnition: will include male victims and non-penile violation
Via Our Lady of Perpetual Win, the FBI is about to do something very right.
Oct 08 2011
The Disadvantages of Being a Man
Before I start on this post, nothing I say here is intended to be a slight on people fighting for equality from the perspective of other genders or sexes. I intend this as an acknowledgement of the many ways that men are disadvantaged by the same societal mores that disadvantage women in other, additionally serious …
Jul 25 2011
The Problem with Privilege: some correct assertions, with caveats
I really want to get on with other things. Seriously, I do. Which is why I want to cede a bit of ground — or at least it might seem that way to the casual observer, given all the things I’m about to agree to. It would pay dividends in furthering the conversation if you …
Jan 21 2010
Feminism, skepticism and boobies
I was honestly expecting a big ol’ shitstorm over this post, wherein I defended the Boobie Wednesday Twitter campaign despite, I thought, the obvious feminist objections against showing breasts (whether male or female) to raise awareness about cancer. I believed people would crawl out of the woodwork to shout me down over considering acceptable the …
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