I’m confused: am I supposed to want to land in Fiji or Alaska? Because Alaska is gorgeous and I hate hot weather. Also, I think the whole idea of 30 is the new 20 is only supposed to apply to men. Theoretically, men who have jobs and are successful are supposed to have 10 years [...]

I wrote a little bit about this this morning on my blog.

http://contrabassic.tumblr.com/post/42289300329/ive-been-thinking-a-lot-about-governor-pat

Read him books with girls as the main character. Make sure he knows why girls are like him, and how they are different. Make sure he knows that girls are strong, beautiful, smart human beings, and that he should treat them how he treats all his friends. I don’t know if I would push pretend-play [...]

I read David Foster Wallace’s “Interviews with Hideous Men,” this year, which I am going to pass on to my brother when I go home. It’s a series of short stories, mostly about the interactions of men and women. A lot of them resonated with my experiences with abusive/manipulative men and relationships. I’m currently reading [...]

Encouraging these men to tell their stories is not as educational as we would like to think. Perhaps it drives the point home that these men are people we know, and not the creeper in the bushes, but I think glorifying their side of the story as this thread makes its way around the internet [...]

A very powerful piece on street harassment that has been making its way around the internet:

http://w3djyt.tumblr.com/post/19895477099/for-those-who-think-i-rant-about-the-patriarchy-and