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25 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Naming the problem of male privileging in higher education: Attention has begun to be paid to discrimination against women in higher education but much less attention is being paid to men’s privileging by the structure and culture of those organisations. academia.edu/49987617/Namin…
Male academics / university faculty: Ten Things You Can Do Now to Improve the Climate for Women in Your Department. A useful one-pager. advance.cc.lehigh.edu/sites/advance.…
Gender inequity in academia: Exists across all academic benchmarks, including grants and funding, publishing and citations, service, opportunities to attend professional development and conferences, and leadership opportunities. campusreview.com.au/2021/03/assess…
Don’t be that dude: Handy tips for the male academic. Great tips on addressing #sexism etc. tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/don… @TenureSheWrote #Gender

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13 Jul
What has the #MeToo movement achieved? Professor Paula McDonald (QUT) offers a handy 4-page account. Will #MeToo finally galvanise substantial, authentic, longstanding change? #MeToo’s achievements thus far include... 1/4
#MeToo: 1) Has raised public awareness of the scale of violence & harassment where data and the law could not. 2) Has acknowledged that sexual harassment also affects men. 3) Has exposed some of the conditions that promote gender based violence. 4) Power is paying attention. 2/4
#MeToo’s limitations: 1) Has not yet made a dent in some obvious gender gaps in Australia’s laws. 2) Has provoked backlash. 3) May deliver only trickle down justice. 4) Has prompted (baseless) concerns about witch hunts, ‘trial by Twitter’ and a failure of due process. 3/4
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10 Jul
A feminist intersectional approach to engaging men in violence prevention 1/7: Men in different social locations have differential access to social resources and social status. Are privileged on some axes of inequality (including gender) and disadvantaged on others.
2/7: Ethnicity and other forms of social difference shape both victimisation and perpetration. E.g., how male perpetrators are treated and viewed is shaped by race/ethnicity. Privileged men’s violence is treated and understood differently from disadvantaged men’s violence
3/7: Violence prevention with *any* group should assume that everyone has culture. Everyone is located in hierarchies of privilege and disadvantage. There are specific cultures of gender and sexuality in every group and community.
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8 Jul
Why consent is not enough: In a social context where hurting women is sexy, consent is inadequate for sexual freedom and equality. Our lives are shaped by social-sexual norms that coercing women is sexy, women are commodities to be used by men, hurting women is sexy. 1/5
Some problems: 1) “Consent relies upon the presumption that people will choose in their own self-interest, or at least in ways that does not fundamentally violate their humanity”, and that is not always true. People may consent to things that harm themselves or others. 2/5
2) Consent precludes evaluation of the act ethically or politically, and instead puts the “blame” for the rightness or wrongness of the act on the person suffering it. 3/5
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4 Jul
‘Not my experience’: Liberal MPs say they haven’t witnessed sexism. (BUT see my further comments.) smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Men and sexism: Men are less likely than women to recognise both interpersonal sexism (in derogatory statements about women, sexually harassing behaviours, etc.) and institutional forms of discrimination. Drury, in full text here: xyonline.net/sites/xyonline…
Among men, many simply do not recognise, or indeed defend, existing gender inequalities. Men have been shaped by lifetimes in a gender-unequal world, so that sexism becomes normal, taken-for-granted, and invisible. ‘Men Make a Difference’ report p15, here: xyonline.net/content/men-ma…
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21 Jun
Sexual assault facts: Most victims don’t report. Most delay disclosing or reporting, or never report. 83% of Australian women assaulted didn’t report their most recent incident of SA to police. 4 in 10 didn’t seek advice or help from others. aic.gov.au/publications/t… @AICriminology
Sexual assault facts: Incidents are under-reported, under-prosecuted, and under-convicted. Conviction rates for sexual assault in Australia are extremely low. aic.gov.au/publications/t… @AICriminology
Sexual assault facts: Victims don’t report or delay reporting e.g. because of confusion, guilt, shock; fear of perpetrator and consequences of reporting; fear that won’t be believed; acceptance of rape myths; difficult legal processes; etc. aic.gov.au/publications/t… @AICriminology
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4 Jun
#NotAllMen: Some men respond with “Not all men” when they hear about men’s violence against women. Here are 5 problems with #NotAllMen. 1) Nobody was making any claims about “all men” in the first place. Women *know* it’s not all men. 1/4
2) It’s a defensive reaction, focused on men’s hurt feelings and egos rather than the real, widespread problem of some men’s violence against women
3) It’s selfish. It suggests that how men feel is more important than the fear and concern that many women understandably feel. 2/4
4) It’s a sidetracking of the conversation. The discussion isn’t about the men who *aren’t* a problem.
5) It misses the point: the violence that some men do gives all men a bad name. It makes all men a potential threat. 3/4
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