masculine – Gus diZerega

The Pathology of NeoConservative ‘Manliness’

Posted on June 1, 2020December 19, 2020 by Gus

Harvey Mansfield is a leading Neoconservative scholar, as well as having been Bill Kristol’s mentor at Harvard. In 2006 Mansfield published Manliness to facilitate supposedly emasculated American males in regaining pride in their inner selves, while persuading emasculating American women … Read more

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Masculine Boundaries: a bar fight

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

The masculine emphasis on boundaries helps clarify classically male behavior many women say they find inexplicable and many men have difficulty explaining. To take an example from my own life, during the 60s I was active in organizing protests against … Read more

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Looking Deeply: NeoPagans, Domination, and the ‘Woke’

Posted on February 24, 2020November 15, 2022 by Gus

Our community is divided over issues of sex and gender, often to the point of truly poisonous communications directed towards those with other points of view. In a way this division seems strange. Sex is a biological category. Gender is … Read more

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Deep Ecology and Eco-Feminism

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2020 by Gus

Deep ecologists and ecofeminists share far more in common than where they differ. However, scholars within both perspectives have tended to exaggerate inevitable differences in terminology and traditions of analysis into supposedly significant differences in kind. Some ecofeminists criticize deep … Read more

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Imposing Masculine Monotheism

Posted on May 8, 2013May 8, 2020 by Gus

Transcendental masculine monotheism did not come easily to the people whose descendents now practice exclusively monotheistic faiths. Describing the Divine in feminine terms has occurred in virtually every culture on every continent and in every civilization. Everywhere in the world … Read more

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