GOATHERD
SON OF A BEDOUIN GOATHERD
Moammar Gadafi seized power at 27 & was known for
his giant bedouin tents bevy of female bodyguards
+his ruthlessness Hanna Rosin The End of Men says:
There’s a lot of normalizing pretty bad behavior And
though she is speaking about fratboys Moammar pitched
his tent in some pretty lofty places think United Nations!
So how is it that would-be dentists at Dalhousie are being
tarred+feathered over fratboy trash-talk albeit of a vulgar
+violent vein Shouldn’t they be allowed to graduate late &
give a percentage of their income to charity after scrubbing
floors +toilets in their local women’s shelter Say 1,095 hrs of
community service? Would this suffice or do some of them
need to take their lives?
As reported by the University’s President some of the young
men are in a fragile state induced by shame which in+of itself
can be a corrective natural consequence And is it not also price
enough that their names are now MUD? Perhaps not
Charlie Glickman Sexuality+Masculinity educator argues:
Much locker-room talk is performance bravado men playing
at macho like boys play wrestling It’s the escalation effect
that’s toxic guys competing to show who is the most manly
(a.k.a. whose is bigger) We live in a world where men take
courses in masculinity from Charlie where civility +chivalry
went the way of the nuclear family
The good news: It is empirically true that in most locker-rooms
men do not sit around naked +talk about raping women
Michael Kimmel Guyland The not so good news: Kimmel
heard the same disturbing phrase on every American college campus
he visited: Bros before Hos
Maybe we haven’t come such a long way baby? Even though women
now outnumber men on campus & are entering previously male
dominated fields including Dentistry Or perhaps these are the last
gasps of a dying breed like the last seed crop of dying trees
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Dude Stop The Spread Please
Poster in NYC subways discouraging Manspreading:
Guys taking up too much space so as to give their manly
parts plenty of air a.k.a. micro-aggression
Globe+Mail January 2015
Winter 2015
