MileyCyrus comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HughRistik 17 November 2010 07:12:41AM *  1 point [-]

This post inspired me to write an article on Feminism, criticism of feminism, and contrarianism over at FeministCritics.org.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 17 November 2010 11:18:23AM -1 points [-]

You might be interested in this-- it's by a male feminist who's working on how to have feminism which is genuinely friendly to heterosexual men.

Another young guy, one of my best students, told me that he felt as if he’d been set up for failure, as if Jensen and I were positing abstinence from pornography as the sine qua non of being a decent male. “If I masturbate to porn can I still be a good man” was the question I got from more than one anguished participant in the class. And if several of the students were willing to divulge such private pain to me, I can only assume that still others felt the same way but kept silent.

I suspect the problem goes deeper than the specifics of feminism, though those are worth addressing. A lot of people interpret moral advice in self-damaging ways, and I'm not sure what's going on there. It seems like a taught vulnerability.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 18 November 2011 07:00:18AM *  3 points [-]

You might be interested in [Hugo Schwyzer's blog]-- it's by a male feminist who's working on how to have feminism which is genuinely friendly to heterosexual men.

If by "make feminism genuinely friendly to men" you mean "defend paternity fraud" and compare the "men's right movement to the KKK"...

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 November 2011 12:19:22PM 1 point [-]

For what it's worth, I never got around to reading much of Schwyser's blog. These days, I read No Seriously, What About Teh Menz?, and they're none too fond of Schwyzer either. I hate that there was a felt need to give it a jokey title more than I can say.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 18 November 2011 02:55:42PM 0 points [-]

I like NSWATM too. I'm glad it's becoming more popular.

Comment author: waveman 01 March 2014 12:40:03PM 0 points [-]

Read the update here. Truth is stranger than fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Schwyzer