http://www.feministfred.com Radical feminism for humans with male parts. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks for reading. In a few short days I'll be shutting down my site, which is mostly a locus for the worst kinds of spam imaginable. If there were only some way to turn off the tide of filth that floods my inbox as a result of this blog, I ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/163 Tammy Wynette is one of the best country singers ever. Something about her voice, which she typically starts out real low and subtle and which eventually climbs to a power and glory that make my heart almost pop from the beauty. Country music is as full of sexism as Rock, ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/160 I was about 12 years old when this song was a hit, and it made me feel very nervous about what it meant to be a man. The air of menace is pretty extreme in this song, from the obvious resemblance of the title to the word "rapist", to the ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/152 I got a rare comment from a man who is confused about why I say that men "hate" women: He notes that men are often kind to women, "...it’s not self-evident – to me at least - such everyday observations of apparent kindness can be reconciled with the view of men ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/143 Here's a uniquely evil song that charted in the sixties. It turns out there's a whole genre of songs about being forced into prostitution by your own mother. This fits into my theory about the 1960s in America being the most misogynist culture ever. I was lucky enough to get ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/135 I know that of all the feminist blogs on the internet, mine is probably the least fun to read. I'm not a gifted humorist at the best of times, being more inclined to meaningless absurdity or hurtful sarcasm than wit or whimsy. When I'm talking about oppression, I get even ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/130 Nowhere is it so obvious as children's clothing that the dominant culture has a fear of the gay that overrules most of the our most innocent and gender-free fantasies about childhood.  Have you looked at clothing for little boys lately? The ultra-masculine clothing lines for even really young boys is almost ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/125 Go get 'em! Men who are raped are a strange lot. In the larger view of the constant daily rape of women, it's not much of an issue at all. Most feminists (I use "feminists" to identify humans with uteruses, versus Feminist Freds, who are simply friendly to the idea of ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/118 [caption id="attachment_115" align="alignnone" width="252" caption="Alice Marian Mills (née Harbord-Hamond), Lady Hillingdon"][/caption] Vibrating Liz, a commentator on the blog I Blame the Patriarchy, educated Twisty's commentators on the origin of the oft-quoted catch phrase of every decent patriarchal marriage: "Just lie back and think of England!" Men find this idea unsurprising and quite ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/113 My friend Twisty had a very intelligent commentator on this post say: Women need to know men hate them... [their] refusal to accept men’s hatred [is] why patriarchy is so fearsome. The essential confusion that analyzing gender creates doesn't come from nature, from the physical body that can be typed as female ... http://www.feministfred.com/archives/107