About Me

I'm a white, straight, cisgendered male in my thirties.  I was raised under practical conservative values by two self made ex-hippies.  I live in a town with a thriving feminist/LGBT community - and I often engage in discourse with them, for they are my friends.

I enjoy writing, reading, sipping good whiskey and seeking out people who disagree with me.  I like a good rational argument.  I respect people who can talk about their opinions without resorting to verbal violence. 

I am a man.  I am comfortable with my identity and am baffled by the amount of discomfort I see around me, but I'm sure it must exist for a reason.  I want a fair world and I am disturbed by the amount of inequity I observe. 

I see too much anger in social activism and not enough rational thought. In de-constructing the tropes of manhood I seek to find answers ignored by both feminism and tradition.  I've watched the bickering and have decided to distill my vague sense of the not-quite-right into something that might be useful to those seeking to improve the social order. 

I despise hypocrisy.  I feel it is destructive to any social movement; it dilutes credibility, welcomes arrogance and plays to the ever-present tendency to venture from the righteous into the self-righteous.  I want to engage with social movements whose stated goal is equality among humans; their logic must be challenged  (for it is sometimes flawed) without disputing their goals (which are noble and necessary). 

I endeavor to be the change I want to see.