- Why Did Hatshepsut Become King?
- In about 1473 BCE, a woman, Hatshepsut, took the unprecedented step of becoming king of Egypt with full kingship powers and a male identity. She thus displaced, for about two decades, her stepson and nephew, assumed heir of her husband. And she did this in a time of relative peace and considerable economic prosperity and stability in Egypt
- Atheist Elevator Redux, Part Deux: The Return of the Nice Guy « man boobz
- I’m a shy guy, and I’m pretty sure most of us shy guys already know that propositioning a woman when the two of you are alone in an confined space is a bad idea. Many of us who sometimes feel awkward in social settings have what is known as “empathy” towards other people and thus are aware when something we do might just make someone else feel awkward.
- pandagon.net – it’s the eye of the panda, it’s the thrill of the bite
- …the fantasy that there are scores of genuinely nice guys whose decency can be measured in how often they strike out with the ladies persists.
…There are shy assholes, and shy saints. If a man starts with the assumption that sex is a zero-sum game and getting laid is about getting one over on a woman, he’s an asshole, no matter how hard it is for him to work up the courage to do this.
…Not all men who isolate women and start testing their boundaries are rapists [but] they are still sexual predators who use the implication of violence to raise the stakes for saying no. If you’ve been cornered by a man, you don’t know if he takes no for an answer or not. You just know that he’s the kind of guy who…would do something like corner you…
… I personally cannot think of another situation where people claim behavior that is usually associated with pushy assholes is indistinguishable from behavior of shy people.
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