Powerful

(via J.M.G.)

Published on Sep 21, 2016

Ever felt pressure to “be a man?” American Male, a short film from MTV’s Look Different Creator Competition, is a gritty look at how gender norms make it hard for us to be who we really are. Head to privilege.lookdifferent.org for more on the issue and how to take action.

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WOW! This short film by Michael Rohrbaugh on gender norms is really powerful and hard hitting. It punches you right in the solar plexus.

The Boys of Summer 2016

From the press-release:

"The Boys of Summer is a Depraved Nation Fair centered around men's appearance, fashion, accessories and this year we will welcome furniture/decor!

This fair will have a very basic summer theme, and of course, be centered around men. Participating brands will be given a shop space to display their store content in, all content must be related to or designed for the Male Avatar. 

Here are the event details:
¤ Event will run from July 16 – 31, 2016
¤ Participation in this event will require one NEW release that will remain EXCLUSIVE to the event until the event ends.
¤ Only men's items will be allowed to be displayed at this event. That may include skins, hair, clothing, accessories, or anything that will alter or enhance the avatar's appearance or furniture / decor."

Take this teleport: to the Boys of Summer event

Pause For Thought

This is Laith Ashley. He is a damn hot man but he is also transgender.

Laith's assigned sex at birth was "female". Today he identifies as "male".

This is the hot and sexy hunk that some people in the U.S. believe should be forced to visit the ladies restroom, i.e. the same restroom as their mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and granddaughters.

Can you imagine the reactions it would cause if Laith used the women's restroom? Among the women inside and their men guarding them from outside?

Photo from Attitude Magazine

Standard of Beauty Around The World

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An international cast of gorgeous male models shows just how drastically the physical attributes of the "ideal man" vary across 12 different countries.

Make sure to read the full article, with more in-depth research and analysis, on BuzzFeed.

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Well, even if I am a happily married man, I think the whole bunch of the them are unnervingly beautiful! So even if there may be slight variations in the ideals, I don't think anyone anywhere would actually kick a single one of them out of their bed, except if they had an exceptionally bad smell...

Scientists Find Female Penis in Nature

In desolate caves throughout Brazil live insects that copulate for days, the female's penetrating erectile organ sticking fast in a reluctant male's genital chamber until he offers a gift of nutritious semen. Neotrogla seems to be unique among species with reversed sex roles — with choosy males and aggressive, promiscuous females — in also having swapped anatomy, researchers report.

The insect Neotrogla was first described in 2010. 

Entomologist Charles Lienhard at the Geneva Museum of Natural History in Switzerland recognized them as a new genus — and also as possessing unusual genitalia. The team's work describing the reproductive practices of four separate species of Neotrogla is published in Current Biology recently. 

Read the whole article here: Nature; Female insect uses spiky penis to take charge.
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So first they took our pants and now they are starting to take our penises too, where will this end? Will the male gender become utterly redundant as time goes by?