Family values, bitches!
This article is interesting. I think i agree. but i am not sure. Maybe because it is kind of very heteropresumtpive. And because there's a messy class story to consider (there's always a messy class story to consider). And because i have met many little girls who also like to be bad and/or ignite explosives. And finally because i have forgotten who it is I was originally tyrading against. I will mull all of this over some more
Real Men
In popular culture, rare is the man portrayed as wise, strong and noble. In film and music, men are variously portrayed as dolts, bullies, brutes, deadbeats, rapists, sexual predators and wife-beaters. Even otherwise easy-going family men in sitcoms are invariably cast as, at best, bumbling, dim-witted fools. One would assume from most depictions that the smart, decent man who cares about his family and pats the neighbour’s dog is the exception rather than the rule.
From this broad, experiential education in the ways of men and women, I reached a helpful conclusion that seems to have escaped notice by some of my fellow sisters: men are human beings, too.
Our cultural assumption that men only want sex has been as damaging to them as to the women they target. Here is how a recent graduate summed it up to me: “Hooking up is great, but at some point you get tired of everything meaning nothing."
Monday, August 25, 2008
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