As many of you are no doubt aware, I have been writing the occasional article for Glenn Sacks. For reasons known only to himself, Glenn appears to be at least somewhat pleased by my poor efforts as a visiting “Feminist Dissident” on his site. (Whether or not his men’s rights activist audience is pleased by them, I cannot say. I’m not even going to speculate.)
To date, we haven’t had too much trouble. I have confined myself to a general introduction, lacking specifics that would have overly excited his crowd; two articles on child custody, which as I do not favor preferential treatement of the primary caregiver in custody battles, did not incite the residents to riot; and one article on legal paternity, which since I do favor allowing men legal rights in the case of unwilling biological parenthood protecting them from also being forced to engage in legal parenthood, similarly failed to provide a convenient lightning rod. (Caveat: I was dogpiled by the pro-life contingent.)
However, my days of, er, uneasy truce with Glenn’s readers may be over when Glenn posts my next article (which I am in the process of working on now). I am allowing myself to be drawn in by the possibility that the majority of these folks aren’t flat-out misogynists…well, that’s not entirely accurate–it would be more accurate to state that, while it’s tempting to believe that they are based upon their behavior and comments, I am uncomfortable simply making that assumption outright. To date, we have only focused on things that negatively impact some men at the hands of some women; it wouldn’t be fair to base an assessment on their feelings about women in general on how those discussions panned out. Therefore, I am proposing to write an article for Glenn about women in general and feminism specifically and why, perhaps, feminism is really not that uncommon among women, and see where that takes us.
Now, this will require me to actually write as if my target audience might be brought to care in a positive way about what I’m saying, or it won’t be a good article. This will have the unfortunate side effect of requiring me to open up a trifle, not something I enjoy doing with an audience that is much more likely to be jeering and unpleasant than thoughtful and constructive.
So, to make the whole situation more palatable to my subconscious, I have gotten Glenn to agree to let me cross-post the article in its entirety, not just the usual link to his site, where I know the audience will discuss what I’m going to say, whether or not they agree with it, in a thoughtful and constructive fashion that is relatively unlikely to involve personal attacks of any description.
I’m betting I’m gonna need that. So please, stay tuned! 
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