toxic masculinity
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Protecting Black Women and Girls Is More Important Than Your Break Up With R. Kelly
Jamilah Lemieux has about 3,000 accounts muted and blocked on social media. As a black woman who often uses her platform to call out abusive behavior towards black women and girls, Twitter’s mute feature is a tool she’s become more than familiar with. She’s written countless pieces on men like R. Kelly and Bill Cosby,…
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A Sincere Apology to the Strong Black Men Being Attacked by #TheRootArticles
As someone whose job is writing about race, I often receive a broad spectrum of criticism from people aggrieved by my inherent bigotry. My inbox is constantly wet from the salty white tears of Mayo Americans upset about The Root’s anti-white agenda. Apparently, when I and other writers at The Root point out white supremacy,…
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University of Texas Campaign Around Healthy Masculinity Plunges Conservative Outlets Deep Into Their Feelings
Another day, another reason for Rush Limbaugh to get Limbaugh-size mad about some fairly innocuous shit. This time the radio talk show host is railing against the University of Texas at Austin for a new program that aims to expand the definition of “what it means to be masculine,” claiming that the initiative treats masculinity…
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Real Talk From Terry Crews on Misogyny: ‘There’s a Humanity Issue Here’
Actor and comedian Terry Crews, the most visible male member of the #MeToo movement, shared some very real talk at last week’s Women in the World Summit 2018 in New York City. Speaking on toxic masculinity, Crews declared that “masculinity can be a cult.” He went on to stunningly compare misogyny to chattel slavery, pointing…
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The Voices Missing From #MeToo: Experiencing Sexual Assault as Butch
He was my dude, my nigga, my friend. The details of that night are mine to keep, a privacy I allow myself, even as I often openly share my childhood sexual trauma. This particular violation—rape—came at a crossroads in my life. I was figuring out two things: blackness and butchness, and trying hard to do…
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We Don’t Love Men Like Fabolous. We Just Hate Women
If there’s a takeaway from the revelation of and the reaction to Fabolous’ abuse of Emily Bustamante, his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his two children, it’s that there are no fresh takeaways from it. We should know by now not to allow a man’s laid-back public persona to make us assume he’s not…
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If I Wanted to See 2 70-Year-Old White Men Fight, I’d Go to Cracker Barrel This Weekend
I know, I know, I know, I know. Joe Biden is everyone’s cool and tough septuagenarian home slice. And while I’m not in the business of granting white people invites to the mythical and now waaaaaaay overcrowded cookout, I know “Uncle Joe” is on a lot of people’s invitee lists. (Also, if he is invited…
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The Trouble With Hero Worship: Is #TeamKillmonger Also #TeamToxicMasculinity?
Editor’s note: Multiple spoilers ahead. After this blockbuster weekend, we’re all talking about Marvel’s Black Panther. We’re talking about the powerful women of the Dora Milaje and the scene-stealing M’Baku (Winston Duke), and we even got a new handshake to share with our folk. But as excitement reached its peak after our first look, or…
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Nipsey Hussle, Homophobia and Toxic Black Masculinity
What is the gay “agenda”? Can you point me to the document that explains and outlines it? What is the goal of the gay agenda? How is it that with everything else going on, people want to point to the gay agenda as the thing that is tearing the black community apart? Those questions are…
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Pittsburgh Man Who (Allegedly) Killed 4-Year-Old Girl, Her Mother and 58-Year-Old Woman After Burning Their House Down Has Several Bizarre Facebook Videos Ranting About Black Women
The Pittsburgh area woke up Wednesday morning to the horrible news that a house fire took the lives of 4-year-old Chy’enne Manning; her mother, Shamira Staten, 21; and Sandra Carter Douglas, 58—a blaze that, according to Pittsburgh Fire Chief Darryl Jones, spread so fast that “the people didn’t have time to call 911 themselves.” A…