Excluded Survivors’ Thread
(Note that the original text and title (still visible in the URL) of this thread pertained to male survivors only. However, in the discussions both here and at toysoldiers, I have remarked that...
View ArticleThe Women and Children of Haditha
(Originally posted at Creative Destruction. Here slightly edited.) In the headline of his Sunday Herald story, Neil Mackay characterised the atrocity as follows: Haditha: the worst US atrocity since...
View ArticleFeminism and Media Representation of Gender-Selective Atrocities
(Originally posted at Creative Destruction. Here slightly edited.) Look at this headline on Boston.com Men in Iraqi police grab kidnap scores in raid Notice how the perpetrators are gendered, but the...
View ArticleDenying, Dismissing, Minimising, and Ignoring the Harm to Men
(Originally posted at Creative Destruction.) Me (in the context of the war in Iraq): [F]eminists typically do view the harm solely in terms of its impact upon women, while denying, minimising, and...
View ArticleEvidence of Male Dispensability Part 1 – the News Media
(Originally posted at Creative Destruction. I still haven’t got around to writing part 2.) In preparing my response to Jeff’s comment to my recent post on Women and the Draft, I seem to have wondered...
View Article“Privilege” and “Disadvantage” as sexist framing devices.
(Originally posted at Creative Destruction.) Both here, and at Alas, Barry has been responding to criticism of his “Male Privilege Checklist“. Most of these criticisms have been directed at particular...
View ArticleAre Men Oppressed? Part 2 – Systematic Mistreatment
In Part 1 of this series, I observed the tendency of feminists to throw around the term “oppression” without defining it, or explaining why only women are “oppressed,” but never men. Yet I have...
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