Two minor updates were rolled out today, so we figured we’d let you know.
First, we’ve made some updates and changes to our ad placement, which is obviously an ongoing project. We’d love to get some feedback from our readers on the changes and the ads in general. More annoying? Less annoying? About the same? Don’t even see them because you use AdBlock? (No, we don’t blame you, though we’re just doing it to pay for the cost of domain registration and hosting, which if we’re lucky might break even.) Yes, we know ads suck, and we know that these ads suck in particular (we’re working to find a better provider, but we simply don’t generate that much traffic which means pretty limited options), but our objective is to make them as unobtrusive and un-annoying as possible. This is why, for example, we’ve ditched three ad providers so far because they insisted on popups, popunders, sliders, ads which play sound without asking you and other generally similar crap that we know everyone hates, even though they would probably make our lives a lot easier. (At least for now, we’re also not using top-mounted banner ads.)
Thus, we welcome feedback and suggestions. If you find something particularly annoying, we’ll see what we can do. If you can think of something that might work better, let us know. Most importantly, if you know of a decent ad provider for relatively low-traffic sites that’s not AdSense (they don’t like us because discussions of triggery things are generally not “family-friendly”, and their system is awful anyways) we’d love to hear about it.
Second, if you’ve copypasta’d text from PoN recently you may have noticed that it came with a rather annoying “read more at *URL*” attached. Because we often copy text from drafts into Skype when proofing, we weren’t too pleased with it either. One of our admins finally had some spare time and tracked the problem down to a ShareThis analytics plugin in our theme. Needless to say, we’re no longer using ShareThis. While we use various analytics in general to get an idea of what’s going on on PoN (how many people are visiting, what posts get the most hits, where visitors are coming from, etc.) messing around with your clipboard is just a dick move.
We’re always looking to improve the look and feel of our blog for our followers. If you have any further suggestions, please contact us.
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Can we talk about this post?
Yes. This is problematic.
Indeed it is. We’re talking about yours, though, not the picture.[[MORE]]
But this is also sexism. Not “sexism against males,” but sexism. against females. backfiring.
Reframing the issue, and, in many cases, untrue.
Emotions are seen as a “weakness” in males because females are associated with being (over)emotional
Care to substantiate this claim? A more reasonable suggestion would be that emotion is associated with weakness, but that weakness is more tolerated in women than men. Additionally, what does this have to do with the fact that this is discrimination against men?
Admitting weakness is “bad” because females are associated with being weak (in more than one way, too)
Care to substantiate this claim? For the most part, weakness is tolerated (and even venerated, see “delicate” and its connotations) in women despite being despised in men. Additionally, what does this have to do with the fact that this is discrimination against men?
Sexually harassing a woman isn’t “expressing your sexuality,” it’s harrassment
But not every instance of expressing one’s sexuality is sexual harassment, and that’s what this point was about. You’re strawmanning.
Losing to a woman in physical competition makes men seem “inferior” because women are incorrectly seen as physically weaker by default
This may be true, but how does this in any way mean that it’s just sexism “backfiring”? Who’s actually getting hurt here? Additionally, women are physically weaker on average, if Olympic records have anything to say about it.
People having low expectations of you is bad, but people having overly high expectations is bad as well. Not everything is about women.
Women being more superficial is more socially “acceptable” because women are harmfully stereotyped to be simple, superficial creatures. Society usually views males being superficial as acceptable; feminists just call that out. Neither sex benefits from any of this.
This is one of the weaker points of the original list because it’s by nature subjective; neither it nor your response are particularly defensible. Mind explaining how exactly women being stereotyped to be a certain way inherently conveys acceptance on them behaving in such a fashion? Remember, plenty of feminists stereotype men as sexist rapist child-murderers, but nobody would suggest that means they consider such behavior “acceptable” from men.
It must be noted, however, that neither sex benefiting from something doesn’t mean that neither sex is hurt. Sexism is not a zero-sum game.
Makeup is “bad” because it’s feminine and being feminine (aka being like women) is seen as a bad thing because women are seen as a bad thing
In other words, society loves incredibly butch, bearded women, right? Oh, wait, society doesn’t like that at all.
It’s not femininity that’s hated, it’s subversion of gender roles. Say it with us, “masculine men are loved by society, feminine women are loved by society, everyone else is told to go fuck themselves.” This is a problem, and we need to solve it, but your trite and inaccurate generalizations are only compounding the problem.
There’s an insanely unrealistic ideal of manhood because the idea is so heavily focused on not being a woman, therefore avoiding traits stereotypically attributed to women
How could you ever defend this statement? We don’t even have to say anything, just kind of stand here and watch it implode under its own inaccuracy.
Being gay is seen as weak because gay men are stereotyped as being feminine, which is incorrectly equated to being “weak”
This one isn’t much better than the one before. Also, it’s pretty homophobic. Here’s your “failing miserably at intersectionality” medal. Incidentally, the resident bisexual male here at PoN can’t help but point out that you’re full of shit.
Penis length is made such a big deal of because women are stereotyped as being superficial and caring about that and nothing else
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support this? Seriously, we don’t even know where you go that from.
Males have a harder time reporting sexual assaults because women are seen as too weak to have done any “real” damage and “manhood” is obsessed with not being feminine and femininity is falsely equated to weakness
Reframing the issue. Badly.
There are no male-specific support movements because men are not oppressed and society is biased towards men and against women by default
You’re currently reading a list of institutional discrimination against men. We have another. How can you believe that men are not oppressed and society is biased against women by default when basically every bit of relevant statistical evidence says that the opposite is true?
There are unequal parent rights because women are seen as “natural caretakers” and a man seeming like a woman is seen as a bad thing
Or it could be that men are simply seen as bad caretakers. Not everything is about women and femininity.
Women are seen as less than human by our society. Treating you like you’re not infallible is not treating you as less than human.
This has nothing to do with the point listed. Extreme feminists (and even many supposed “moderates”) treat men as less than human. Have you really never heard of Dworkin or Solanas. Accept that they’re flawed, and stop erasing victims.
Many sexist acts are blamed on women by our society (aka, rape culture.) Many of the things men blame women for are, like, this post, a result of the oppression of women.
This really doesn’t have anything to do with the original point.
Furthermore, do you really think rape culture is a women’s issue rather than a human one? Congratulations on erasing all male victims and being a part of rape culture. Congratulations on dismissing the problems of men and being a perfect example of the next point on the list.
Nobody has a perfect life. Ever. But problems like the ones listed here are, ironically, caused by society being biased towards you.
Still want to say I didn’t read it past the title?
We’re impressed that you managed to read past the title, but we’re less than impressed with the veracity of your claims. Try to empathize a bit more with others and think about what you’re saying before you spew it all over the internet.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4d5045f3cce9afd4c68efe22db9e29bf/tumblr_mnh3tuMG3H1r406olo1_500.png)
