Anarchocyclist

Just dropping a couple links i’ve been reading over the past few days:

A Speakout on Male Sexual Violence
Women’s Space / The Margins

After my recent posting of some anti-porn articles, people asked me some questions. One, in particular, said something like “if you don’t like porn, then why aren’t you also campaigning against rock music and violent video games”, perhaps to make the analogy to the religious right in their various other silly campaigns. [...]

I thought i’d drop a couple of links here for people to chew on.

The High Cost of Manliness, by Robert Jensen
Pornography as a cause of rape, by Diana E.H. Russell, PhD. (and before you start ranting, you should read her commentary on the meaning of “cause”, and the section on “the role of pornography [...]

I went to see the infamous “Snakes on a Plane” movie last week, to satisfy my curiousity. It turns out that it was, in fact, as bad as i expected it to be. One thing about it was interesting though: its illustration of the popular gender stereotypes. Beyond the typical flight [...]

i went for about a 25km ride on tuesday, and felt ok for most of it….i went for dinner at jack’s coop in new westminster, where i’m applying to move. Quite a nice place…5 days a week they have a communal dinner, and everyone is on a dinner team for one of those nights. [...]

i had some tough conversations lately, specifically on the topic of the influence of male privilege on science. I find that talking about different types of social privilege (ie white, male, and class privilege specifically) is usually rather difficult when talking with those who benefit from such. As someone trying to convince them [...]

Someone just pointed out an article to me…an opinion article in the Globe and Mail, one of the national newspapers here in canada (specifically, March 7th, 2006, “How the feminists betrayed feminism”, by Margaret Wente). The gist of the article goes like this “Those damn feminists keep blaming imperialism for third world problems, but [...]

Yesterday i went to a full day of events at the vancouver public library that were done in memory of the women killed in the montreal massacre. I went to several presentations and round-table discussions and was extremely impressed. I left the library at 10pm with a renewed sense of purpose, convinced that [...]

hey all…just thought i’d drop a note about the films, speakers, and roundtable discussions happening here in vancouver on sunday. It’s all around the anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where a man walked into an engineering class at a university in montreal, asked the men to leave, and then shot all the women [...]

in the past few days i’ve been reading some really interesting stuff, mainly about gender, power, and democracy. One of these is the PhD thesis of Bob Everton, “This is what democracy looks like!”; Democracy in Action: Communicative Action. I’ll probably go into it in more depth later, once i’m finished, but so [...]