This week on Feministe’s reading list: No Cookies for Me, a blog by former Feministe guest-blogger and all-around awesome feminist dude Roy. Roy writes about feminism, gaming, race, and a whole slew of other progressive (and fun) stuff. I met him for the first time at WAM, and our own Holly was his WAM co-speaker in a panel on gaming. Recently he’s covered castration as punishment, the Seal Press debacle, some of the better WAM sessions, and the video game Dead Rising.
Head over there, check him out, and add him to your RSS reader.
awesome!
i have been reading Roy’s site for about a year now. i have always enjoyed it, plus it is cool to see other Michigan peeps doing kick ass stuff!
rock on, Roy!
I’ve always looked up to Roy.
Hey, thanks!
I got to work and glanced at my sitestats and actually did a double-take. I thought “What the hell? it’s not even 9:30 yet, and I’ve got more hits than I usually get in an entire day? Where did all this traffic come from?”
Now I know!
=D
Roy does great stuff, and damn if it’s not the perfect title for a pro-feminist blog.
yay! It’s nice to see Roy appreciated here, on my fave feminist groupblog.
Okay, I’m gonna rain on the party here, but that’s what I do. Here’s my problem with men that write “feminist” blogs: they don’t write about men from a feminist perspective. They write about women.
I searched Roy’s place for about an hour, and found exactly one post that talked about the portrayal of men in the media (no, not the one under “men’s issues”), and it was about a book I’d never heard of. Beer commercials, sporting events, magazines, television shows, etc. all fall over themselves to reduce men to the worst of stereotypes, which in turn reinforce cultural ideas about women, the relations between the sexes, and what it means to be a feminist. Who better than a feminist man to write about this stuff? But when I read feminist blogs by men, I just see the same stuff I see on the blogs written by women.
(Lemme say at the outset I went to Roy’s place and surfed for about an hour. My observations come from that experience alone, and I’d be happy to be proven wrong. But I don’t think I am.)
I don’t wanna denigrate what Roy’s doing because it is important, his blog is well done, and I’ve seen and enjoyed his work here. However (especially in the wake of last week), I was really hoping to find something new, not the same old stuff that’s important to the feministe and feministing set. I don’t need to see that regurgitated in another place and called novel simply because a male happens to be behind the keyboard.
Thanks for the criticism, Sickle, although I really hope that I’m doing more than just regurgitating the “same old stuff”.
I have a couple of posts that I can think of offhand that discuss representations of men in the media: “Oh, yes… *this* is a healthy model of manhood” and “The New Fall Season: Whiney Men and (Em)Powerful Women?”, and I’d have guessed that most of my posts on video games are at least in part about the attitudes of men- particularly male gamers, but I’m willing to take it under consideration that I could address issues of representations of men more.
Regarding: Who better than a feminist man to write about this stuff?
My response to that would be “anyone who is so interested”. I don’t think that my being a guy gives me some special insight into the sexism of your average beer commercial. I’ve certainly seen plenty of women in the feminist blogosphere talk about what low opinions of men the creators of shows like “Everybody Loves Raymond” must have. I’m never going to be writing a lot about sports or television depictions of men for the same reason that I don’t write about women with regards to sports of television very often: I hate sports and I don’t watch much television.
At any rate, I really appreciate the comment.
what would be done with female sex offenders? nothing you can really cut off, some type of chemical therapy as well? interesting stuff.
I was going to say the same thing that Roy said about video games — a lot of Roy’s posts and opinions on games, which I’ve been privileged to discuss quite a bit with him as a co-panelists, are about a predominantly (85%?) male industry’s treatment of women, for what’s perceived (incorrectly) as a mostly male audience. I think that does make a lot of sense for men to talk about–certainly if we’re going to hope for any change to happen in gaming culture.