I used to think chaperones were chaperoning young women, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t engage in, gasp, any immoral behavior. Now I think the chaperones were chaperoning the young men, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t rape the young women. And I think maybe we need to bring …
Category: men
Oct 06 2026
The Husbands, Chandler Baker – quotes and comments
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED It took me until p79 to see where this was going—the title should’ve clued me in sooner, but—without spoilers, let me just say that compared to her husband, the husbands’ behavior at the dinner party (p91) is so … stark. And therefore so telling. The boxed online chats are so insightful. Perfectly obvious, …
Sep 23 2026
They Never Learn, Layne Fargo – quotes and comments
Great read! Some quotes and comments … “He tosses the cap onto the floor.” p2 As soon as he takes a bottle from the garage fridge and tosses the cap onto the floor, I hated him. Is he going to pick up the cap later? Clean up after himself? Don’t think so. But he thinks …
Sep 16 2026
Men Need Sex (fiction from Fighting Words)
We got so tired of hearing that. Men need sex. There were so many iterations, so many variations … In 1943, Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, included sex among the physiological needs that must be satisfied before anything else. Unfortunately, his theory, along with an unforgettable pyramid illustration, became accepted as fact, men loving …
Sep 08 2026
In every roomful of men …
https://zawn.substack.com/p/5-statistics-about-misogynistic-violence “Dating men is statistically the most dangerous thing a woman can do—followed closely by living with and having children with men.” Men, read that sentence again. And again. And again. Until you get it. “The specific statistics each study uncovered vary a bit, as you might expect. But the findings remain incredibly consistent. They …
Sep 08 2026
Excellent piece on calling women crazy
https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with “We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, women are …
Aug 29 2026
Man or Bear … and still clueless
So I recently posted this on a local Facebook page: “I’m looking for a woman with carpentry skills and tools to build a sound-absorbing enclosure for a generator. Please leave a message.”* Three men and three women replied. Two of the men made light of my preference for a woman (“I could be a woman …
Aug 26 2026
All the shit in space …
from Take Me To Your Leader, Neil DeGrasse Tyson If Bill Bryson were an astrophysicist, he’d be Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Overall, Take Me To Your Leader might be a bit too basic for a lot of readers, but this particular gem stood out for me: “On October 3, 1957, the number of artificial satellites orbiting …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
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