{"id":17000,"date":"2018-02-20T19:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17000"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:30:11","slug":"russ-on-misandry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/02\/20\/russ-on-misandry\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ on misandry"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Just happened across a Joanna Russ essay from 1972, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2011\/03\/21\/the-new-misandry-man-hating-in-1972\/\">The New Misandry<\/a>,\u201d which focuses on praising misandry but is also about feminism and change and differentials of privilege (though she doesn\u2019t use that word) and incrementalism vs radical change.<\/p>\r\n<p>Content warning (both in the article and in my quotes below) for descriptions of behavior patterns that relate to misogyny, abuse, domestic violence, and gaslighting.<\/p>\r\n<p>A couple of excerpts:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>[\u2026] hurting people makes them angry, anger turns to hate when the anger is chronic and accompanied by helplessness, and although you can bully or shame people into not showing their anger, the only way to stop the anger is to stop the hurt. The cure for hate is power \u2014 not power to hurt the hurter, but <em>power to make the hurter stop<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>And:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>[\u2026] it\u2019s also time to scotch that perennial silliness about avoiding Change because Change will provoke a Backlash. Change always provokes a backlash. If you meet with no resistance, you\u2019re not doing your political job. As Philip Slater says in \u201cThe Pursuit of Loneliness,\u201d \u201cbacklash\u201d is what happens when people find out that change means change.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-improving-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17003,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions\/17003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}