While another has understood the value of friendship, this bond is still related to ways of seeing women as less than. Oh well, the programme is now over. Let's see what nightmares it'll bring.

When the host raised the question of coaching and using this to just make money out of the loneliness of young men, one of them said free friendship is not really an alternative. 😪

The way they don't have a problem to admit the asymmetry in the perception of men and women even when challenged by the host shows the level of normalisation but also of the brainwashing.

Sure, this is it: Men of the Manosphere: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002m7j5 via @bbciplayer

So the idea is that women don't have to work so they don't think and don't stress and they are free.

Men telling what is women's empowerment should be peak crazy but here we are.

I'm also trying to balance the colonial aspect, e.g. I don't want to steal their voice and talk "about them" (even thought it is inevitable in a class). This year I wanted to add a week on Middle Eastern Feminism but I did not have the time to work out a solution on that unfortunately.

For Burrnesha there is a great doc on BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e... - not sure if it is available outside the UK but there is an article too in the link.

I use available literature for Hijras (Hall & colleagues), Two Spirit (J. Davis) & Travesti (Borba and Ostermann), for others I found videos where people talk about the self/their identities (e.g. for Fa’afanine/Fa'afatamas).

We look at Burrnesha, Xanith, Washoga, Takatāpui, Fa’afanine/Fa'afatamas, Fakaleiti, Two spirit, Hijras, Travesti - we travel the world!