There's a lot to see here — some of it familiar ("Why Modern, Western Marriage Has Become A Bad Business Decision For Men" is pretty much a retread of what trolls on Broadsheet have been saying for years), and some of it new and exciting! The site's main "demonstrations of misandry" are the views of Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol in 1968 and advocated that women "destroy the male sex." But the actions of a probable schizophrenic who spent years in mental hospitals aren't the only evidence of a worldwide anti-man conspiracy. Take the list of supposedly misandrist feminist quotes. The list employs some interesting terminology — Marilyn French is an "Authoress; (later, advisoress to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.)" — and lists the following among other supposedly misandrist quotations:

"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated." — Catherine MacKinnon

Sure, this is an inclusive definition of rape. But if a woman "feels violated" (not, to be clear, regretful, ashamed, uncertain, etc.) isn't something wrong? What does an anti-misandrist call it when "a woman has sex and feels violated" — awesome?

"In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice." — Andrea Dworkin

Apparently the decision not to have sex constitutes misandry. That's because women owe men "access" to their vaginas. Take a look back at "Why Modern, Western Marriage Has Become A Bad Business Decision For Men" (I swore I wouldn't read it and then I did), originally from the charming blog Don't Marry. According to this brilliant essay, "access to regular sex is the oldest and the most frequently cited reason to marry." Romantic! Unfortunately, a wife "can, if she wishes, deny him sex forever and there is nothing that he can do about it. In fact, if he insists that she honor her end of the marriage contract by being available for sexual relations, he can and will be accused of, charged with, and arrested for Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault or Rape" (bold totally theirs). So, if a man tries to have sex with his wife against her will, he will be charged with rape? Modern marriage really is a bummer.

So what happened to those good old days where nobody gave a shit if a woman felt violated? Actually, TV killed them. Anti-misandry.com's "What Is Misandry?" page reads,

Did you just say misandry is 'taught'?
Yes, that's right! The next time you switch on the television, count how many programmes have the token 'stupid boyfriend' or 'abusive husband' or 'paedophilic father' figure. Switch over to a children's channel / time window and watch how many cartoons or programmes reflect 'silly daddy' characters or 'bullying big brother'. Don't forget, of course, nearly all the women in these same programmes will be smart, sexy, sassy and full of beans, capable of juggling a career lifestyle with children, a husband and a social circle - let's not forget that she's undoubtedly a wonderful cook and always remembers everybody's birthdays. If these images are being constantly spread out over our airwaves, what does that tell our children who are growing up watching & learning daily, hourly, that men are just so stupid, abusive and ... well, useless?

I'm not sure it's such a great deal for a TV woman to be "smart, sexy, sassy and full of beans" when all her mate choices are 'stupid boyfriends,' 'abusive husbands,' or 'paedophilic fathers' — especially when she's forced to live up to ridiculous standards of skinniness and youth while her TV husband gets to be overweight, balding, and bumbling. There is a grain of truth, though, in Anti-misandry.com's admittedly ham-handed cultural analysis. Portrayals of men in TV shows, and especially in commercials, are often misandrist. It does no one any favors to paint guys as beer-guzzling, birthday-forgetting, chores-fucking-up idiots. Then again, it's also unhelpful to portray women as Andy-Warhol-shooting harpies. Misandry is actually a problem in our culture, but it's never going to get better if its only critics are misogynists.

Can't Feminists And Anti-Misandrists Just Get Along? [The Sexist]
Anti Misandry [Official Site]

Moses' PR guru — the Aaron to help him hold alight his staff, perhaps? — Jennifer Olson, e-mailed us today to let us know that their users are clustered (in their mothers' basements) in 10 urban areas: New York; L.A.; Chicago; Houston, Atlanta; Philadelphia; Jacksonville, North Carolina ("home to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River"); San Diego; Columbus; and Dallas. We'd tell our readers to watch out, but since these dudes are using the Internet to arrange booty calls, we're assuming they don't get out that much.

The genius of this service, like AdultFriendFinder and nearly of hundreds of other similar services before it, is that it can help users find a "casual, fun dating experience where they're in control and expectations are set right up front," which is PR guru speak for "we swear, if you pay us, eventually we'll match you with someone equally desperate and you'll both get laid." Quality results are not guaranteed, obviously.

The thing is, booty calls have been around a very long time. I had my first in 1998, when I spontaneously drunk-dialed an ex one night and he drunkenly answered. That is a booty call: a spontaneous, often-intoxicant inspired phone call (it was 1998) or text message for the sole purpose of having sex with someone you've slept with before that was (you vaguely recall) relatively good at it. It is rarely, if ever, successful with someone that you haven't slept with and it is not — I repeat, not — the same thing as setting up a sex-date with someone online. I don't know why Moses and Jennifer are trying to ruin booty calls for those of us with the social skills to keep a little black book for the dry spells, but they clearly need to be stopped.

Readers have emailed us and told us that Jezebel is blocked by the US Army, MBTA, Bonhams Auction House, the Embassy Suites in Bentonville "Home of Wal-Mart" Arkansas, a Chicago Hilton and the Curtis Hotel in Denver — usually by automated web filters that block sites according to meta tags or words that appear on the page (like "sex" or "dick" or "pot").

Sure, we may discuss sex every now and then and we are sometimes known to use potty-mouth language when the mood strikes us, but are we ban-worthy? According to What's My Blog Rated, Jezebel is PG-13 because the word "sex" appears four times on our page and the word "shoot" (?) appears once. Our site probably would not appeal to someone under the age of 13 but that isn't because our content is inappropriate... it just isn't directed towards tweens.

Websites May Be Given X-Rating [Times UK]
Jezebel Blog Rating [What's My Blog Rated?]

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