"Percy's Anvil"

At first, I felt that I was going to be alone in this, but as I began to explore around for some other blogs that shared similar interests in my subject, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how many were out there, most of them focusing on men’s rights as well as exposing the attempts to feminize male society. Of course there were some out there whose goal it seemed to only be about bashing women. Let it be known that my blog is not about that. I am a believer in gender equality, which is why I feel it is important to bring attention to the shift in gender roles and how men are beginning to be viewed by the media and ultimately, by society itself in a negative way. Many will disagree of course and claim that it’s merely society’s way of poking fun at how “all” men tend to act, very similar to how we men tend to be accused of grouping women into one kind of stereotype. It was pretty interesting how many points of views I came across, some were even from women who felt that feminism had come and gone and that there was no need to bring it back. She felt that once it had passed, many women still enjoyed taking care of the household, while only a small group was left feeling like their rights or representation had failed to be met. In the end, I decided to go with another blog that seemed more provocative and one that left me thinking differently about how I viewed feminism in society.

So the blog that I decided upon was titled "What Men Are Saying About Women". Despite the fact that is posts are few and far in between, with only 10 posts in 2008 and only 1 in 2007, the writer “Percy Anvil”, discusses in rich detail many topics about feminism in mainstream society, usually by examining news articles from the U.S and the U.K. as well as various videos dealing with women. His writings seem to be more academically geared rather than professionally, with an audience being catered obviously more to men than women, similar to what I am attempting, except for the fact that I will be posting more frequently. His posts are at times controversial, but I suppose that's what one expects to encounter when one deals with a topic such as feminism. Regardless of what aide one is on, you are bound to disagree with some of his points, which I think makes it such an interesting topic to discuss, but anyway, there doesn’t seem to be as many posts as I thought there might be for one who writes so much. Two of the more interesting posts that I found on his blog involved one that dealt with single mothers’ children being responsible for 70% crime rate and the other on the statistics between male and female valedictorians. Overall, his blog seems as much informative as it is entertaining and I’ll be looking forward to his future posts.