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No blogs come to mind, but I don't really do the blog thing, much. Print material I can provide, at least, I can provide suggestions.
There's Robert Bly's Iron John business. If the thought of Bly and/or his drums don't cause you physical pain as they do me.
Or, John Gordon's 'The Myth of the Monstrous Male' which is surely anthologized somewhere.
McGill University Press put out a book on misandry in the feminist movement, not too long ago. I haven't looked into it myself, but some people I vaguely trust have said it had some good points.
The problem I have is that I'm not going to be a masculinist or a feminist or whatever, because I'm not really convinced at all that those are the qualifiers one should be promoted for (or promoting). I try not to write off either end and lightening the terms or shifting the focus from the emphasis of one over the other, is akin to the difference between someone shouting 'brown power' and someone shouting 'white power'. Regardless of intent or the face put on things, the motivation seems horribly the same, as do many of the end results.
I like people. Couldn't give a damn what color, how many limbs, or what sort of plumbing they have. I struggled with that a bit, as a kid, because I wanted to be bigoted. Loads of other people were, children and adults. But it just annoyed me, and when I caught myself doing it, I annoyed me.
A feminist, to my mind, would have to, at some point be willing to say something like 'You can't do that to her, that's a woman!' or a masculinist 'that's a man!' and all. I don't think there are things one can do in front of X that one can't in front of Y, on anything other than an individual basis. Or to them. Anything broader in scope that a one-by-one consideration is going to present flaws, be exceptionally limiting, and likely to be very rude when trying not to be.
It's like saying you can't tell that joke in front of Person X because they're black or white or Jewish-Albanian via Texas. For reasons of religion, political party, or something chosen, yes, alter your behaviour to be polite, but something that doesn't logistically require them to behave or respond under certain parameters, such as those being a devout Mormon might require, I just don't see the point.
Which puts me and a lot of other people outside proper feminist/masculinist lines and into the extropist category, which isn't very useful as a category. |
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