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Dr Michael Flood

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1 Nov

Privilege: Can be defined as “systematically conferred advantages individuals enjoy by virtue of their membership in dominant groups with access to resources and institutional power that are beyond the common advantages of marginalised citizens” xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 1/6

Three features of privilege. Privilege typically is a) invisible, b) normalised, and c) based on a sense of entitlement among privileged groups. Journal article by Bob Pease and Michael Flood (2006), in full text at xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 2/6

Privilege: a) Invisible: Members of privileged groups have an ‘unmarked status’. Unlikely to be aware of how others don’t have access to the benefits they receive, and thus unlikely to acknowledge the experiences of those who are marginalised. xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 3/6

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29 Oct

Healthy masculinity? What qualities are part of a positive, healthy, ethical alternative to the forms of patriarchal masculinity that sustain gender inequalities and limit men’s and boys’ own lives? First, some background on masculinity… 1/16

‘Masculinity’ refers to the meanings given to be being male and the social organisation of boys’ and men’s lives and relations. So masculinity is part of identities, behaviours, interaction, peer cultures, media, and the formal and informal workings of institutions. 2/16

This definition of masculinity is open-ended. In any context, some versions of masculinity will be dominant – the most influential, given the most status. And these may be healthy or unhealthy, positive or negative. 3/16

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Dr Michael Flood

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28 Oct

How to Make Your Marriage Gayer: Many heterosexual couples would have happier and more satisfying marriages if they took a few lessons from their same-sex counterparts. nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opi… 1/5

Sharing domestic tasks is "an increasingly important component of marital stability, and lack of sharing an increasingly powerful predictor of conflict. […] the happiest and most sexually satisfied couples are now those who divide housework and child care the most equally.” 2/5

Compared to heterosexual couples, same-sex couples divide tasks less according to gender stereotypes, and are more likely to share the routine tasks. 3/5

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

17 Oct

The Poison of Male Incivility: The degradation and dismissal of women — as disgusting, crazy, infantile, incompetent, irrational, and stupid — has been key to the building and maintenance of disproportionately male power in American political, economic, social, & sexual life 1/4

Powerful men’s “reduction of their would-be female peers — their ideological and electoral adversaries and competitors for power — has helped clear away potential impediment to their own professional trajectories.” 2/4

But this white male opportunism, whether in the form of aggressive insults or simple acceptance of systemic advantages that broad systemic disrespect of others affords them, is rarely examined as the kind of active force that it has always been. 3/4

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Dr Michael Flood

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12 Oct

What Prime Minister Scott Morrison should tell the men of Australia
“I ask you to join me in acknowledging that – for too long – we have turned a blind eye, a deaf ear, and a cold heart to the unacceptable discrimination, harassment, and violence faced by Australian women." 1/5

“The vast majority of reported sexual assault and sexual harassment is perpetrated by men. Men who may be our dads, brothers, sons, mates, colleagues, and yes, even ourselves.
The responsibility lays squarely with men. With ALL of us.” 2/5

Listening and acknowledging "will not be an easy thing to do. It will be confronting, it will make us feel defensive, even angry.
We should not shy away from that discomfort. Weigh it against the very real trauma, exasperation, and justified anger of women in Australia" 3/5

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

9 Oct

Violence against women: 6 problems with a focus on telling women how to maximise their own safety.
1) This fails to hold perpetrators accountable for their behaviour, and locates responsibility with the potential victims.
2) Women *already* use a multitude of such strategies. 1/4

3) It accepts that some men will use violence, rather than focusing on how to prevent and reduce this, and places the burden on women to police and limit their lives.
4) The strategies are false assurances. Women may ‘do everything right’ and still be assaulted.
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5) The strategies typically focus on potential assaults on women by unknown men and in public places, whereas most assaults are by men known to the victim (boyfriends, husbands, male acquaintances, etc.) and in familiar locations. 3/4

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