http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:41:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Masculine, Feminine, or Human? by Robert Jensen In a guest lecture about masculinity to a college class, I ask the students to generate two lists that might help clarify the concept: For the first, I tell them to imagine themselves as parents whose 12-year-old son asks, "What does it mean to be a ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=32 [editors note, another version of this with potentially triggering images is located at http://adonismirror.com/06052008_leader_pimpandho_primary.htm ]   There are people in life each of us just can’t stand. It just so happens that every white liberal I can’t stand picked Barack Obama as their choice in the Democratic primary. Who I do or ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=31 A videogame came with a vibrating attachment of some sort: it didn’t take long before someone went with the obvious, writing in lurid detail about her experiences with the device in a variety of ways not mentioned in the game’s instruction manual. The review put the website Game Girl Advance ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=29 Why I’ll Never Be a Bookslut by Stephanie Cleveland Whenever I hear the word slut, part of me feels like I’m twelve years old, standing in a Winn Dixie parking lot. That’s how old I was and where I was, the first time a man ever called me slut. My mother and ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=28 I would like to thank Amy at Feminist Reprise for conducting me to several sources on the anti-Recovered Memory phenomenon. One source worth reading is Mike Stanton at the Columbia Journalism Review. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199707/ai_n8776102 A pointed excerpt from “U-turn on memory lane”: Among journalists, perhaps the most relentless critic of the [False Memory ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=26 Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men Pedophiles? edited by DeWitt Henry and James Alan McPherson Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (1997) is a significant book. Its date marks a historic moment in the fatherhood movement. It was published the same year that the Promise Keepers would reach their zenith (holding a rally that ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=25 Frank Peretti is often described as “The Christian Stephen King.” In many ways, it’s accurate: he writes apocalyptic fiction that’s a little bit too fantastic to achieve mainstream appeal. Granted, he’s sold a lot of books, but he’ll never be able to reach the same cultural status that the Left ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=24 I watched a bit of cable news yesterday. Honestly, I forget which network it was. It doesn’t matter. For the benefit of their audience they were showing one of those “test groups” of average voters. They were in the process of reacting to a speech by Barack Obama, each with ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=23 I don’t know Ruth Christenson. Until today, I’d never heard her name before. I suspect that you haven’t either. What I do know: In July of 1984, she walked into a Minneapolis bookstore that sold pornography. She carried a backpack filled with literature that condemned sexual exploitation. Earlier that week, Christensen had written letters ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=22 Update on Ruth Christenson I am revising the post on Ruth Christenson and will be posting a new version soon. Thanks to Moonlight and a few other researchers, another article about Ruth Christenson was uncovered at the Star Tribune. It is from December 14, 1990. Christenson died of apparent suicide on December 6, ... http://www.adonismirror.com/wordpress/?p=21