content tagged with 52 Men 52 Weeks

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 52 YILDIRIM TÜRKER

Being Captive to Power

As the man is squeezed between the gears of the power machine, he cuts, destroys, crashes, kills. So, where does the emancipation of man begin? By questioning the power of every stripe of course...

2 January 2019 Yıldırım Türker

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 51 EMRE SENAN

A ‘Manly Man’ Gives Up

You can easily guess the generalizations that I have nonchalantly made. With my mind at peace, I have come to the following conclusion: If history had chosen a matriarchal path, we would be living in a completely different world now.

26 December 2018 Emre Senan

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 50 RAMİN MATİN

‘Stability’

These two seemingly unrelated incidents involving people from different social environments and different generations, have stuck in my mind because it was not possible for me to make sense of either one of them.

19 December 2018 Ramin Matin

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 49 DERYA BENGİ

Pata Pata!

If being a “tootsie” is a crude dream and an impossible fantasy... What about the love of Müslüm Gürses - Muhterem Nur still being defined as an exemplary love? And when “Pata Pata” of Miriam Makeba is understood as “pata küte” in Turkish, an onomatopoeia for beating...

12 December 2018 Derya Bengi

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 48 CAN TONBİL

If You Would Excuse Me, I am Mansplaining

I might also be mansplaining by saying these things. But, this time, I am leaning on not the unjustly acquired rights but this sterile space opened by bianet so that men can write about male violence.

5 December 2018 Can Tonbil

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 47 MÜFİT CAN SAÇINTI

Artificial Stupidity

Can we imagine a male employee, who works in the same workplace with [the famous businesswomen] Güler Sabancı or Leyla Alaton, subjecting them to mobbing, harassment or violence? No, we cannot.

28 November 2018 Müfit Can Saçıntı

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 46 ÖMER MADRA

Climate Change - Male Violence - It's Not A Coincidence

Greta – Chomsky – Atwood... Climate Change – Everything Change – Fate Change... Turkey’s Child Brides and Pregnant Child Refugees... Let’s Look At It From The Other Side: We Can Still Change Fate...

22 November 2018 Ömer Madra

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 45 KIVANÇ SEZER

The Lazy State of Manhood

Even though it has been generations since the balances were overturned with the entry of women into the work force, we have tried to maintain the established order since all its habits and advantages are for the benefit of men.

14 November 2018 Kıvanç Sezer

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 44 YENAL BİLGİCİ

Shut Up, Men; Could You?

To this day, in the newspapers, TV channels, universities where we work or anywhere really, we have not voiced, questioned, or worried about the inequality between men and women.

7 November 2018 Yenal Bilgici

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 43 MEHMET BOZOK

Masculinity Studies as a Criticism of Men and Masculinities (?)

For instance, what good is it if a man, who commits violence or despises homosexuals, makes a criticism of masculinity? Or, the big question: “Why would men, who take the biggest share in patriarchy, criticize masculinity?”

31 October 2018 Mehmet Bozok

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 42 BURAK GÖRAL

Saving Children and Women First!

In our eyes, women were valuable creatures who needed to be saved by the good men from the hands of bad men. We used to play the game of “saving the Princess”. Gökçen, the beautiful daughter of my uncle would either be the princess or "the daughter of the Chancellor” kidnapped for a substantial ransom…

24 October 2018 Burak Göral

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 41 BURAK KURU

Choir of Voices from the Homeland: Turkey Loves This Language

Why can’t this horrible environment get its act together? Why can’t the sports press turn into a field where women journalists can have a place? Why is the number of women, who work in the press tribunes or in the sports fields as photojournalists, on the decline?

17 October 2018 Burak Kuru

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 40 MURAT UTKU

The Navy Years, Civilian Life and States of Manhood

As if society, politics and, of course, state mentality do not otherize women enough, a meaningless anger against women is also being injected into men at home, at school, in the military and at every level of society.

10 October 2018 Murat Utku

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 39 VEYSİ ALTAY

Men and Colonialists

It is not easy to be done with coming to terms with manhood. Since the things that we think we have accumulated can disappear very fast, it is impossible to say, “I have overcome it”. It is a reality that needs to be confronted continually, over and over again.

2 October 2018 Veysi Altay

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 38 ULAŞ BAYRAKTAR

‘Woman is Woman, My Wish is Her Non-Masculinization’

On the other hand, male dominance and male violence are not absent; they are even on the rise; yes. Because men are nervous. There are women everywhere, who demand to have a say in decision making, know to say no and do not refrain from saying it.

26 September 2018 Ulaş Bayraktar

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 37 MAHİR ÜNSAL ERİŞ

My Mother, My Dear Mother, My Manly Mother!

In that case, fatherhood means making room for oneself by pushing women to motherhood. And this room, where the notion of power reigns freely, is an unbridled sphere which does not exclude violence.

19 September 2018 Mahir Ünsal Eriş

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 36 ÖZCAN SAPAN

Look in the Mirror!

… and so on and so forth… Some may know, that’s how things were back then. When the girl insisted, I pushed her, the friends accompanying me took them away. And that love had ended then and there.

12 September 2018 Özcan Sapan

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 35 CEM ERCİYES

Might Makes Right!

Because we know that in the spiral of violence “might makes right”. In those male herds, the weak one turns into a “painted bird”. Maybe one of them remembers that it can’t go on like that.

5 September 2018 Cem Erciyes

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 34 ZAFER YILMAZ

I Have an Objection!

Our objection, if we have any, remains muted. There is no doubt that the weakness of our objections provides the necessary conditions for this hegemonic form of masculinity to reproduce itself.

29 August 2018 Zafer Yılmaz

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 33 TUNCA ÖĞRETEN

Confrontation / Insolence!

Did I make you uncomfortable? As I have said, we have to confront not only the things that we have done, but also the sins that have filled our imagination. I have to confront the acts of every creature who destroyed women and children with his manhood.

22 August 2018 Tunca Öğreten

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 32 OLKAN ÖZYURT

Fatherhood: Sharp as A Needle in Theory, Lacking in Practice

His diaper needed to be changed so we headed to the baby changing room. But what do you know, fathers are not allowed inside because it is also used as the lactation room. There you have the reflections of the role cut out for ordinary fatherhood.

15 August 2018 Olkan Özyurt

52 Men 52 Weeks/ 31 Süreyyya Evren

7/52 for Later

Neither confessions or narratives of heroism, nor big demonstrations of conscience or admitted disgraces are opening a way. There is a need to know that there are genuine truths, free of clamor and declarations.

8 August 2018 Süreyyya Evren

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 30 RAUF KÖSEMEN

Male Memory Is Crippled with Denial!

But the truth of the matter is this: I have a sort of amnesia which is common among people who have come into the world as men and believe that they have completely come to terms with it over time.

1 August 2018 Rauf Kösemen

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 29 HAŞMET TOPALOĞLU

It Hangs in the Air

Or can we be stronger and free from violence now that we have expressed them? We are slowly raising our heads and looking at the sky. With the footnote that they have been lived, heard, seen and imagined...

25 July 2018 Haşmet Topaloğlu

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 28 TAN MORGÜL

What the Hell Are You Looking At!

It is like a formula that a species has developed to rehabilitate and destroy itself, a sort of food poisoning: Manhood and violence as its “truest” son. Everything will start anew by learning how to vomit!

18 July 2018 Tan Morgül

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 27 TANIL BORA

Man-to-Man

The impoliteness savored in a state of relief when hanging out man-to-man multiplies the artificiality of the politeness shown to women - it becomes the fuel of the violence and roughness that will explode when the necessity of politeness disappears.

11 July 2018 Tanıl Bora

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 26 FATİH POLAT

State of Manhood: A Comfort that Will Void Confrontation When You Let Yourself Go

The things that you think you have accumulated thus far can also become void very quickly. In other words, there is no such thing as “I have overcome it”. It is a reality that needs to be confronted everyday over and over again.

4 July 2018 Fatih Polat

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 25 FIRAT YÜCEL

Confession and Confrontation May Also Be A Masculine Show of Force

For instance, if you talk about the meaninglessness of statements such as “He is not that kind of man”, the first thing you see will be an extremely puzzled expression on their faces…

27 June 2018 Fırat Yücel

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 24 TURGUT YÜKSEL

Tram of Lust

That blank look in his eyes gave way to the look that I had seen two years ago; in his eyes, there was no shame or any feeling resembling an acceptance of having been caught red handed.

20 June 2018 Turgut Yüksel

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 23 BAĞIŞ ERTEN

Growing Up As A Boarder, Bleacher Boy from Çukurova

Just think about that “mob” that fills the bleachers today, always tending towards violence, in a mood to lynch someone when they come together, and unable to speak without using foul language. They are the very part of this culture of becoming man.

13 June 2018 Bağış Erten

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 22 BARIŞ ÜNLÜ

The World of Thought and Masculinity

As women become stronger, freer, more autonomous and self-confident, as they enter the labor market more, and compete with men more, and as they change a vast number of men and make “new men” out of them…

6 June 2018 Barış Ünlü

52 MEN 52 WEEKS/ 21 MENDERES SAMANCILAR

False Paradise

Every month, either a woman working at a honkytonk was killed or some woman jumped off the iron bridge. The small talk that the men made among themselves was always the same: “They threw the woman off the iron bridge, but my dear brother, she did wrong by those fellows at the next table.”

30 May 2018 Menderes Samancılar