Tag: Male

I’m pretty damn fed up with the way our country is being run. The entire world, for that matter. It’s time to think outside the box. We’ve had a good run, as men here on Planet Earth. Wait, have we, though? Actually, it’s been pretty suspect throughout history. Hitler w...

According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, women make up just over half of all visual artists in the country today. Yet about only 30 percent of artists represented at commercial galleries are women. But street art presents an additional barrier of entry to women. As street artis...

What can we learn about the confluence of male and female energy from nature and apply it in our lives? Humans have always been challenging and working against nature. The trends like high heels and make which were started by the kings of France and Egypt respectively, are now widely adopted b...

I won’t reiterate everything that I argued in those pieces, but I do want to hone in on one point: Nobody actually believes in “male socialization.” Or at least, not in the way they are implying when they deploy this phrase against trans female/feminine people. Granted, there wa...

In the heart of a city, there was a silence that I had never noticed before. The pandemic had transformed bustling streets into hushed avenues, where the echoes of my footsteps seemed to carry more weight than they used to. It was during one of these late-night walks, a simple conversation cracke...

If I had a nickel for every second of my life I’ve wasted worrying about the eyes of men, I’d be Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos all rolled into one, and I don’t know a single other woman who couldn’t say the same. From the time the pink confetti blows out at our gender reveal...

Atwood’s feminist prose has garnered attention outside literary circles and universities — it’s mainstream and literally streaming on Hulu. The author of the best selling novel and TV series The Handmaid’s Tale, has captured the attention her provocative style demands. P...

It is not uncommon for people who wish to delegitimize trans women and transfeminine people (either as individuals or en masse) to invoke our supposed “male socialization.” I discuss the many problems inherent in such claims at great length in my 2007 book Whipping Girl an...

Parents gave their daughters more enslaved people than land. So, to a white southern woman, owning slaves became tied to her very identity. This is the true story of how white women treated their black slaves. Slavery in the U.S. lasted for more than 400 years. And in that time, the system shaped...

Kat is saying that when black male actors put on dresses and act like “clowns and buffoons”, they lose their masculinity (and I guess they also lose the “power” that comes with masculinity?). He is saying putting on dresses emasculates black male actors and black men in gener...

I won’t reiterate everything that I argued in those pieces, but I do want to hone in on one point: Nobody actually believes in “male socialization.” Or at least, not in the way they are implying when they deploy this phrase against trans female/feminine people. Granted, there wa...

This experimental piece depicts a graphic instance of domestic abuse through an unfiltered stream of consciousness. I intended to transport the reader into the psychology of a traumatic moment, conveyed through vivid and visceral sensory details. The violence escalates rapidly, which may potentially...

Our body operates in 3D via polarity. This means that movement happens in time and space through the relationship of opposites. Tense, release. Open, close. Up, down. Left, right. Hard, soft. Negative, positive. Male, female. Etc. In traditional Chinese philosophy, these are referred to as &ld...

Nothing pisses me off more than when someone says, “I’m just not attracted to Asian men.” I’ve heard these words come out of seemingly bright and well-intentioned women’s mouths — women of all ethnicities, including Asian — and in the Bay Area, where over on...

Let’s talk about pandering, which is one of the favorite terms of disgruntled white male geeks, (at least the ones who loudly complain that they are being ignored in entertainment media. Note: They’re not entirely wrong.) What is pandering? How is it being done, what does it look li...

Recently, I penned a story titled “If Viagra and Cialis Don’t Work, Here’s Another Option to Solve Erection Problems for Men” that gained viral attention for valid reasons. I received many appreciation messages from elderly readers. The central theme of the narrativ...

Ancient societies are notorious for their questionable practices and societal norms. In many of these societies, it was common for the married people of the elite class to have concubines (mistresses/partners besides their spouses). It was a status symbol and a means for unrestricted sexual grati...

Is there an ideal male body image, or are we all deceiving ourselves and our boys into thinking that there is and that it’s desirable? True, the Greeks depicted incredibly chiseled male bodies in their sculpture, and there is an excessive number of “muscle supplements” and mag...

Flashback to the earlier part of this decade, when my husband went to a party and met my two exes-turned-friends for the first time: Dean* and Adam*. Brig had just broken up with his latest ex, a gorgeous blonde named Sasha*. Adam, at this point, had partied a bit too hard and was already out col...