#ozy frantz

[lotuscorvus]

Alright, this is really weird. One of my normal check-every-day blogs is Ozy Frantz's wordpress. Only last night I noticed when I clicked on the link to it (I check Pervocracy first since that blogroll has most of my other fave blogs on it), it redirected to the GMP... I thought maybe I accidentally clicked on the wrong thing? But no, every time I try to dig up one of the articles from Ozy's wordpress blog it either 404's or I end up on the GMP. Ozy's twitter account hasn't been posted to since Dec, and what appeared to be Ozy's tumblr (how had I not followed Ozy ontumblr yet? idfk) doesn't seem to exist either, but for all I know that could have been inactive for a while.

Is this just me, or is anyone else having this problem?

[mirrorontheworld]

The tools of feminism can also be applied to the damage and deformation that men suffer in our sexist society. We’ve noticed the thousands of ways, big and small, that our current gender system wounds women. Rarely, however, and often only as an afterthought does anyone remark on how the current gender system harms men.

[geekybombshell]

The thing that a lot of people don’t understand is that attraction is not a state of someone’s body, but a state of someone else’s mind. You can see this fallacy in a lot of Fifties B-movies, where the slime monster from outer space will of course choose to kidnap a thin blonde girl in high heels to attempt to mate, because thin blonde girls in high heels are objectively hot. However, if you take two moments to actually think about it instead of just following your biases, you’ll realize that of course thin blonde girls in high heels are not hot to slime monsters from outer space. Slime monsters from outer space like other slime monsters from outer space. Thin blonde girls in high heels are disgustingly dry and have this weird skin the color of maggots. Similarly, you cannot point to a body and be like “that is an attractive body.” Bodies can only be attractive to someone. Attractive to Ozy, perhaps. Attractive to their partner. Attractive to a significant market share of Americans. Whatever. Unfortunately, a lot of time “that is an attractive body” means “that is an attractive body to the editors of Maxim,” which seems to me like a very limiting definition. Only thin white twenty-two-year-old feminine cis women with large breasts get to be attractive, and everyone else gets to be a joke or, at “best,” a fetish object. Fuck that shit.

Ozy Frantz

http://goodmenproject.com/noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz/is-male-nudity-inherently-ridiculous/

[inourwordsblog-blog]

1) Educate yourself.

One summer, in high school, I literally read every book the library had about feminism. You don’t have to go that far, but a familiarity with concepts like male privilege, slut-shaming, and rape culture can give you a lot more understanding of how gender works.

2) Don’t be that asshole.

Don’t assume that the women in the room have no idea what they’re talking about regarding gender. (If they clearly don’t, well, see #4.) Don’t expect to be thrown a parade because you’ve decided to vote pro-choice. Don’t forget that most men are not feminists and that many feminists are survivors of rape or abuse, and that you’re not sending out Beacons of Awesomeness that show that everyone has to trust you. Check your privilege. (cont.)

[aboutwaifuz-blog]

A single line at the top directs here, and then Ozy blows apart Lori Gottleib. But still. This is pretty awesome.