The Men’s Health Feminist is a blog on the American Men’s Health website. It was launched at the end of January earlier this year on the .com US version of the website of Men’s Health magazine.
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The Men’s Health Feminist is a blog on the American Men’s Health website. It was launched at the end of January earlier this year on the .com US version of the website of Men’s Health magazine.
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I looked through that website and all I found were a bunch of anti-feminists who joke about degrading and humiliating women. But I guess I’m glad that <1% of the website is dedicated to not portraying women as evil shrews who are only good for penetrating?
And isn’t Men’s Health the one that ran the ad for date rape drugs awhile back? It’s telling how much hostility this blog is getting.
“This blog isn’t about Gloria Steinem, bra-burning, or man hating. But it is about feminism, the kind that makes a modern woman worth listening to, debating, and dating.”
The women who are “MADE WORTHY” to listen to, debate, and date are the ones that follow a certain brand of feminism (specifically, not the interesting, complex, threatening kind of so-called “bra-burners”)?
I can’t believe that was posted here. Disgusting.
Lol, yes, love it! Burn the bras, they cause breast cancer!
I agree. Gloria Steinem is amazing. She’s one of the most amazing women to ever live. And bra burning never really happened, not that it was a bad idea (they couldn’t get permits for a public bonfire).
I totally agree with you, “that brand of feminism” is the threatening kind because it’s the one that stands for real equality. So it’s best to avoid the kind that threatens male privilege and go instead for one that slaps a feminist label on the continuation of patriarchy.
Exactly.
It just goes to show (what I’ve begun to suspect of the past few weeks…) that this blog doesn’t even give a shit about women either. It’s all about men, and the negative affects porn has on men. Let’s just ignore that the REAL damage is to women!
Let’s call this what it is: “sex-positive” cheerleader feminism that makes men feel good about not being rapists, without calling them to action when they see the grave injustices against women in the world.
I’m not really sure what it is you exactly want to say here?!
The Anti Porn Men Project is definitely a ‘sex-positive’ website. It says so on the About page. It doesn’t hide this.
It’s about men, of course, that’s kind of the whole point -for MEN to speak out against porn. And although the site does feature a piece on so-called ‘porn addiction’ from time to time (as this is not an uncommon feature of men’s relationship to porn) it is and has always been about speaking out against porn because of its sexist and misogynistic nature.
As regards to making “men feel good about not being rapists, without calling them to action when they see the grave injustices against women in the world”, I really don’t know what you’re on about?!
Related to the Men’s Health ‘feminist’ blog the criticisms in the comments here are pretty strong. While I think that feminism becoming more mainstream -including engaging men- is a positive thing, I agree that the Anti Porn Men Project should not endorse Men’s Health or their blog.
You obviously missed this piece in the Guardian about the increasing number of women using porn; the concept that porn is simply about men looking at women is an outmoded fallacy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/07/women-addicted-internet-pornography
However for now men are still the prime drivers of porn consumption so if we can get men off porn then that reduces the demand for vulnerable young women to get sucked into the porn industry. The more men are aware of their own damage the more effort they will (hopefully) make towards healing themselves.
BTW, Gloria Steinem was funded by the CIA. Why would the CIA fund a feminist activist?
If you want to destroy society, start with the women – that’s why! Have a look at this:
http://www.rense.com/general21/hw.htm
Look in to 1984 & doublethink. Freedom = Slavery. Women have been conned by feminism, you’ve lost everything and gained nothing.
Really? This is what’s passing for progress these days? Men’s Health IS porn! The publication CONSTANTLY reduces women to mere objects, and listen to what they say:
“But it is about feminism, the kind that makes a modern woman worth listening to, debating, and dating.”
So, women that don’t fit into that magazine’s category of modern AREN’T worth listening to, debating, etc? This is bollocks. I’m really disappointed that this is what’s considered feminism.