Letters to the Editor
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Wrong person doing the name-calling
Brightstar, in my experience it's very seldom women calling men "sissies", "fags", "pussies", etc. It's other men. It's not (generally) your friend's mom saying "You throw like a girl." It's (usually) your male Little League coach. It's not your mom berating you as a sissy when you don't like sports; it's your dad.
Also, to Lefty, who suggested that we just shut up and fix the wiki entry for "men", and Sam LG, who puts it all down to the wiki writers being geeks with Asperger's. Why should women have to go around cleaning up after these geeky Asperger's men with no socialization, instead of trying to instruct them to treat men and women equally in the first place? Teach a person to fish, etc. By the same stereotype, I doubt that geeky Asperger's sufferers are likely to be running around complaining about bitches and ho's, not knowing any themselves, correct? In fact, I'd say that geeks are more likely to NOT use those terms; any girls these guys do know are likely to be into computers, right, and would likely deck anyone that called them a ho. I know I would.
I'm not trying to be shrill. I'm just pointing out that this particular blog has, as its mission, to shine the light on the feminist perspective that maybe non-feminists wouldn't notice.