Janice Fiamengo

3 weeks ago | fiamengofile.substack.com | Janice Fiamengo

Many men are lonely. Many don’t like the work they do. Many are unhappily married. They struggle with an at-times overwhelming sex drive. Their encounters with women, romantic or otherwise, often involve rejection and contradictory tests of their masculinity. They are the objects of blame and bigotry in their societies, yet are expected to remain stoic and put women’s needs first.

1 month ago | fiamengofile.substack.com | Janice Fiamengo

Radical feminist Susan Brownmiller died last weekend at age 90. As The Washington Post noted in its obituary, Brownmiller’s book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, published in 1975, “transformed the social and legal understanding of rape as a tool of violence and power.” It is remarkable that a book so sloppily written, thinly substantiated, and motivated by such obvious derangement could have had such a far-reaching impact, but it did.

1 month ago | fiamengofile.substack.com | Janice Fiamengo

About four years ago, a friend alerted me to a popular YouTube channel by two moms called Cat and Nat Unfiltered. Cat and Nat gave impromptu “mom advice,” sharing “all of the dirty details of being mothers and wives.” Many of the videos were recorded in a car [see below], with the two friends gesticulating dramatically and cracking up at their own vulgarities and revelations.

2 months ago | fiamengofile.substack.com | Janice Fiamengo

In her 2017 op/ed “Let’s rethink sex,” The Washington Post’s Christine Emba warned men that in the MeToo era, they should stop thinking they had any right to pursue sex (not to have it, mind you, but even to pursue it). Some men, she acknowledged, would have to get used to “less sex.” She went out of her way to say that nobody, including men, would die without it.

2 months ago | fiamengofile.substack.com | Janice Fiamengo

oops! Male rage again! MALE RAGE -- the words ring out --worse than RING AROUND THE COLLAR, worse than KISSEDTHE GIRLS AND MADE THEM CRY, jeezus, male ragein kindergarten. MALE RAGE. You've gotmale rage; I look inside myself and scroungefor all this male rage. Must be theresomewhere. Must be repressing it. I write poemsfaster and faster, therapeutically, to make sureI get all the rage out. But someone'salways there to say, Male Rage -- more Male Rage. I don't leave the house, workin' on my male rage.