"#Trans #women will never be #free until #people stop having strong emotions about #penises. Like we, as a #society, have got to stop caring about dicks! #Dicks have to stop #symbolizing #maleness, #obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing #power, #dominance, #sexual agency and #aggression, #violence, and even #sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both #male #chauvinists and #radical #feminists, #because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.

Anyway dicks are totally neutral #body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent"

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/715340843899289600?source=share

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Maleness

"Maleness has functioned in our race much like whiteness has in the larger culture: its privileges have been rendered normal, its perspectives natural, its biases neutral, its ideas superior, its anger wholly justifiable, and its way of being the gift of God to the universe."

Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like

»The women allege #EA itself is partly to blame. They say that effective altruism’s overwhelming #maleness, its professional incestuousness, its subculture of polyamory and its overlap with tech-bro dominated “rationalist” groups have combined to create an environment in which #sexual #misconduct can be tolerated, excused, or rationalized away. Several described EA as having a “#cult-like” dynamic.«

#EffectiveAltruism #abuse #TechBro #gaslighting

https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/

The #WhiteBoyAtheism #PublicThinkers that nobody should be listening to, ever, about goddamn near anything because they are such lazy thinkers & cannot Do The Work to save their lives, cannot address anything for the #Whiteness and #Maleness of their own Objectivity:

Sam Harris
Richard Dawkins
Steven Pinker
Lawrence Krauss
Michael Shermer

And the B-listers:
Richard Carrier
David Smalley
David Silverman

Strong Side-eye:
Seth Andrews

& beware of any that smell of Old Boys Network

#Atheism

For anyone looking for a better model of maleness or who wants help with any aspect of being a good or better man, I recommend joining a men's group, a men's shed, or if you're really up for it, doing the #NWTA weekend run by the #MankindProject.

Let's face it, which of us men couldn't do with some help there.
#maleness #masculinity