This is What Toxic Masculinity Looks Like Rus Ervin Funk Oct 7, 2020 Over the past few years, most recently as a part of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, there has been increasing attention and use of the term “toxic masculinity.” A term which is poorly defined at best but widely used. The assumption seems…
Black Lives Matter and the Killing of Breonna Taylor Rus Ervin Funk Sept 25, 2020 Gender Matters! In March 2020, three white police officers, with a “no-knock warrant” burst into the apartment of Breonna Taylor after midnight. Ms Taylor, who was with her boyfriend, woke, reportedly, to the sound of police banging on her door.…
Why Gender Matters Rus Ervin Funk Gender matters! The name of this blog series is meant to convey two different but inter-related themes: a) that gender matters and b) that gender matters. What I mean by this is that with regards to just about any issue that we’re facing (and in every issue that I’ll be addressing here), gender matters. We’re not only going to…