“As Dale Spender points out in Women of Ideas, women’s theory has been routinely dismissed and written out of history whereas men’s ideas have been called philosophy or politics.1 In no instance is this clearer than in the case of the feminist philosophy of sex that we will be looking at here. The contempt with …
Category: feminism
Sep 02
“Girls shouldn’t read any books written by men” – check it out
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/feminist-author-girls-shouldnt-read-any-books-written-by-men/
May 23
Why Pornography Matters … Andrea Dworkin
My god, there’s something placard-worthy in every paragraph!!
“Why Pornography Matters to Feminists” from Letters from a War Zone, Andrea Dworkin:
Pornography is a n essential issue because pornography says that women want to be hurt, forced, and abused; pornography says women want to be raped, battered, kidnapped, maimed; pornography says women want to be …
May 20
Men are allowed to …
“Men are allowed to set and have boundaries, they are allowed to say no. Women are not: we must be open-minded and inclusive to the point where we must say yes to everything. Yes to porn, yes to abuse, yes to prostitution, yes to lower pay, yes to dating men when we don’t want to.” …
May 20
Andrea Dworkin addressing an audience of about 500 men …
“…why are you so slow? Why are you so slow to understand the simplest things; not the complicated ideological things. You understand those. The simple things. The cliches. Simply that women are human to precisely the degree and quality that you are.
“It is an extraordinary thing to try to understand and confront why it …
May 10
Crying Rape for Regret
Regarding the view that women ‘cry rape’ when they regret having had sex, let’s concede for a moment that that’s true. The concession begs the question: why do so many women regret having sex?
Even if it turned out to be a mediocre experience—if the man wasn’t very good at it, due to lack of …
May 01
excerpt from Pornography and Civil Rights, MacKinnon/Dworkin
Pornography [also] engenders sex discrimination. By making a public spectacle and a public celebration of the worthlessness of women, by valuing women as sluts, by defining women according to our availability for sexual use, pornography makes all women’s social worthlessness into a public standard. Do you think such a being is likely to become Chairman …
Apr 13
Great Post at “Not Sorry Feminism”
Great post at “Not Sorry Feminism” re men cleared of rape because the woman was “too masculine” to be attractive.
Jan 23
And here’s something else that would never happen to a man …
Jass has also set up a tumblr page for additions to Jane Smith’s “And here’s something else that would never happen to a man…”
https://jass-richards.tumblr.com/
Jan 22
Jane Smith’s Translation Dictionary
An interesting thing about the novel (A philosopher, a psychologist, and an extraterrestrial walk into a chocolate bar…) is that one of the characters, Jane Smith, starts a ‘translation dictionary’ and the author, Jass Richards, has set up a tumblr page for people to add entries. Cool.
https://jassrichards.tumblr.com/