What's Current: Men may not be from Mars after all

Desexualizing dolls to protect minors. (It’s so sweet how this woman saves second-hand Bratz dolls and paints lovely new faces on them.)

Men and women do not have different brains, claims neuroscientist.

Twenty-one year old survives attack by crazed ex, faces decades in prison for refusing to die quietly. (While the U.S. legal system recognizes the right of men to stand their ground, it offers no such protection to women fighting for their lives against domestic abusers.)

Liberals are beginning to feel the tension of this brave new world in which debate is considered hate-speech.

“Men in feminism fill the space. They infiltrate, dominate, captivate and warp feminism into a movement that is no longer about the liberation of women, but what men want.”

Ashton Kutcher is given a giant cookie for his “crusade” for more baby-changing tables in men’s rooms.

 

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Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.