Some men explained why men explaining things to women wasn’t really a gendered phenomenon. Usually, women then pointed out that, in insisting on their right to dismiss the experiences women say they have, men succeeded in explaining in just the way I said they sometimes do. (For the ...
her encounter is just another day-to-day cross we have to bear). It then frames the act of explaining as a power play, with the "shut-up and listen" party as its subjects. Believe it or not, this is how the whole world often operates. Can women have an issue with it?
The neologism "mansplaining" refers to a specific type of social behaviour in which "men [are] unnecessarily explaining things to women" (Bridges, 2021, p. 3). With the focus on "unnecessarily," the verb "to mansplain" calls attention to cases of socio-pragmatic inappropr...
For example, one interviewee declared that the ideal policy would pay more attention to “risk behaviour as opposed to sexuality” (age 34, HIV-negative, Toronto). Echoing this theme, another stated that “we can rely on a valid assessment of the person’s risk level and the fact that the...
I thought you had already been introduced to the way things work here,” comments Ravi, nodding to the new guy who gasps as he stares at the towering figure ahead of him. He stays still in shock as his body is wrapped by Centissete’s hands, and he is then moved up, and up, ...
I have am not sorry or embarrassed to say that I have dated several types of Asian men. I am admitting that in my past I have been on a quest to find my Asian prince charming and kissed .. and um .. other things .. a lot of frogs along the way. I have experienced some of th...
practice, literally any sexual encounter can be classed as rape after a messy breakup – the courts literally just take her word for it. This has lead to some women threatening to accuse a man of doing this to her in order to force him into marriage.BBC Article explaining the crime. (...
Four years after I moved into that desk, I was sitting on Jeff’s patio drinking a vodka cranberry, explaining to him that I had decided to leave San Diego and move back east. He was the first one I told and I remember leaving his house that night saying “I want to stay in touch...
I like it, and I’m the manliest goddamn man there is. I open jars that my wife can’t. I lift up heavy things, like shopping bags filled with jars. I have a beard. I stub my toe and call my coffee table a dickhead. I eat steak and drink beer. I know how to do a roundho...
This makes you an extremely attractive lover. It also might transform you into the spawn of Satan, but remember,girls like bad boys. (Un)Fortunately, this means actually doing some bad things.Bad boys do bad things. (Read: I shouldn’t have to explain, butdon’t hurt peoplephysically or...