“Not to bring up Robert Jensen every three sentences, but he’s made a point that I find extremely salient when it comes to how porn affects women’s lives. If I have to go to court tomorrow, or I have to go discuss my career with my boss, or I have to work on a project …
Category: feminism
May 09
Impact – review copies available!
Impact presents an extended confrontation between a sexual assault victim and her assailants, as part of an imagined slightly revised court process, in order to understand why they did what they did and, on that basis, to make a recommendation to the court regarding sentence. It does not go … as expected.
REVIEW COPIES …
Apr 30
Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus
Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus:
1. Cleanliness is a girl thing. Real men don’t wash their hands. (Certainly not several times a day.)
2. The home is the women’s cave. So unless it comes with an attached garage, real men aren’t going to stay there all day. (Certainly not …
Apr 01
The Frightening Cluelessness of PoliSci Students
“I was studying political science at the time, so I had never thought about social processes like misogyny and sexism.” What? What?
(from https://narratively.com/i-was-an-angry-mens-rights-activist-now-im-a-fierce-feminist/)
Mar 18
It Wasn’t Enough (new feminist novel) – REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE
Review copies of It Wasn’t Enough, a new novel by Peg Tittle, are now available! Please inquire: ptittle7@gmail.com
Here’s the blurb: What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared? Without what it is that women do, what it is that women are — what would happen?
The novel was inspired by a …
Mar 13
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.]
[T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
Mar 13
Great stuff from Stoltenberg
…[T] male-dominated gay liberation movement never really grasped how homophobia is rooted in the woman hating that is a fixture of male supremacy. Quite simply, the male homosexual is stigmatized because he is perceived to participate in the degraded status of the female …
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The system of male supremacy requires gender polarity—with real men …
Mar 10
How many men are addicted to porn?
How many men are addicted to porn? We don’t know. There are no visible symptoms. No, that’s not true. The visible symptoms are what we call normal behaviour.
Mar 10
She wanted it.
She was dressed like a slut = She wanted it
She was dressed all prim and proper = She wanted it
She was aggressive = She wanted it
She was submissive = She wanted it
She ran = She wanted it
She didn’t run = She wanted it
She was afraid = She wanted it
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Mar 01
Great bit from wwomenwwarriors
From
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women…
“It is my judgement in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after …