Feb 20, 2015
I’m swift as a coursing river with all the force of a great typhoon! I have the strength of a raging fire and I’m mysterious as the dark side of the moon. Can I be a man now??
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I’m swift as a coursing river with all the force of a great typhoon! I have the strength of a raging fire and I’m mysterious as the dark side of the moon. Can I be a man now??
A Drunk Lady is a Man's Responsibility. .Not a Man's Opportunity.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
On my way home from work, I passed a wall with some posters plastered on it that said things like:
STOP ACTING GAY
GROW SOME BALLS
SAY IT WITH FISTS
PUT HER IN HER PLACE
FEELINGS ARE FOR CHICKS
BULLY OR BE BULLIED
there was also a website with the posters: be-a-man.ca
Of course I went to the website when I got home. It showed a video of the wall, with people walking past it. Then some text appeared on the screen: "Is this what being a man means? We don't think so." Then there was something about a countdown to proposing a new code of manhood, or whatever.
Unfortunately there was no contact information on the website. If there was, I would have written to them, saying, "YOU'RE DOING ANTI-SEXISM WRONG."
You can't just plaster up statements like that with no context. Not everyone - in fact, I'm willing to bet, hardly anyone - will look up the website. There's no way to know for sure if the posters are serious or not.
If, before you do activism, you're asking yourself, "will this get attention for me and my activism," instead of, "will this actually be helpful? Or could it potentially be counter-productive?" Then you're doing it wrong.