Man, don’t feel like a womyn

[Butterfly]

Man, don't feel like a womyn
The Globe and Mail
By Leah McLaren
10 September, 2010


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/man-dont-feel-like-a-womyn/article1703122/


Given what a product it was of its time, one might assume that, more than a decade later, women's studies (plus all the literature, criticism and ideas that have sprung from it, some of which is very good) would have gone the way of the dental dam. But the discipline is alive and well – in fact, it has expanded and morphed. In the morally relativistic world of cultural theory, in which there is no such thing as "feminism" but "feminism(s)," every gender identity and sexual preference deserves a department or course named after it. First, there was women's studies, then there was queer and transgender studies and now we are seeing the rise of men's studies, a discipline that focuses on the study of masculinity and male identity. Yes, the group that precipitated minority studies in the first place, the controllers of the world, are the latest special-interest group to receive the doting intellectual attention of critical thinkers everywhere.