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title: On the Recent Spate of Breathless End-of-Men Articles
date: 2012-11-27
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<p>I&rsquo;ve seen a whole slew of &lsquo;end of men&rsquo; articles come around recently, from various sources (<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/">The Atlantic</a>. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/24/war-on-men/">Fox</a>, and <a href="http://scenariosusa.tumblr.com/post/36541292226/the-war-on-men">some others</a>), and I&rsquo;m a little confused. This all sort of goes back to that zero-sum quote from the Suffrage Postcards article I <a href="http://androgynousfox.tumblr.com/post/36365965458/memes-from-the-suffragist-era">mentioned</a> a while back, where the reaction to a lot of advances by one group, particularly in a binary, fearing that their rights will be lessened by the act. It&rsquo;s also come up twice in personal accounts in various levels of pertinence, and I&rsquo;m still just confused by the whole thing. </p>
<p>The articles have the flavor of things-aren&rsquo;t-the-same-anymore, post-second-wave, MRA-Lite (despite the all-women authors) fear that comes with a sort of logical attempt at a rebuttal on such an emotional topic for so many. The personal accounts are much more subtle, and certainly honest, but I&rsquo;m just confused. I feel so sheltered, hearing about all of this, given the industry I work in and the company I work for. Those are, in turn, the software industry and a company where everyone works from home and meets remotely on G+ Hangouts if they need to, and IRC otherwise. I live in, lets face it, a same sex household (well, except the kitty, but not the dog), in a relatively liberal college town. </p>
<p>I feel like I&rsquo;m not seeing either side of this whole thing clearly - not the misogyny, nor the wage gap or (new to me) leisure gap, but the&hellip;I suppose mix of superiority from women and fear of litigation or subsumption* or whatever in men or employers that a lot of these articles seem to suggest. I can&rsquo;t, as the Fox article states, think of anyone who has ever thought or said that &ldquo;Women aren&rsquo;t women anymore.&rdquo; Is this a thing people say and think? Am I too sheltered for this?</p>
<p>* I swear I looked this up - the act of being subsumed.</p>
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