December 2011
46 posts
“Because it centers on collaboration, a performance model better fits the...”
– Thomas Macaulay Millar, Toward a Performance Model of Sex in Yes Means Yes! (via lemonpoppyseedladyhusband)
“I was in my first women’s studies course, and just the previous week we’d been...”
– -Hugo Schwyzer from “Accidental rape. I knew I hadn’t committed a crime, but…”
from http://www.mamamia.com.au/relationships/accidental-rape-i-knew-i-hadnt-committed-a-crime-but/
(via fireintheocean)
“Misogyny is a systematic and institutionalized form of bigotry and oppression...”
– My response to a man asking “can’t we all just be friends?” and “isn’t misandry just as bad as misogyny?” (via sixtyforty)
See my last post. THESE THINGS ARE ALL THE SAME.
(via 14kgoldnyc)
fuck yeah sex education: SEX POSITIVE, BODY... →
cuntflavor:
The both are linked.
It’s hard to have amazing sex (from my experience, at least) if you don’t love your body! Various forms of the human body coming together (with one other or multiples, or by yourself!) is a beautiful thing and should be valued at all times. It should also be…
“I believe that sex-positive feminism is about the belief that sex can be...”
– Clarisse Thorn (via msandrogynous)
The "Accidental" Rapist: the importance of... →
Too many play what I call the stoplight game. Traffic signals, of course, have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution, green for go. Good drivers are taught to stop on “red,” which functions as a “no.” But of course, even at the busiest urban intersections, no light stays red indefinitely. If you wait long enough at a stoplight, every red will become green. And when all we do ...
It's My Pleasure...: Just in case. →
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“Attempting to keep our children ignorant will only leave them with...”
– Haydee Morales: Don’t Be Spooked By Sex Education (via standupforwomen)
5 Ridiculous Sex Myths from History (You Probably... →
Resources for Male Survivors
letstalkaboutrape:
I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:
www.malesurvivor.org
www.violenceunsilenced.com
www.rainn.org
www.pandys.org
www.1in6.org
www.soulspeakout.org
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/
Thanks everyone!
“I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own...”
– Jaclyn Friedman (ConsentFest talks about sex, and wants to add more voices | OpenFile)
Men Get Raped Too- A response. (TW) →
stfusexists:
This is an incredible piece of writing on the phenomenon that has become a meme of sorts, “What about teh menz?”. I really enjoyed this, instant follow.
sexistculture:
You know, I just checked back in on this post, and something about this last response rubbed me the wrong way. Not because I disagree with anything it said on its own, just because I think it ignored a very real...
“Female horniness in the popular imagination is rare. Admittedly our idea of male...”
– The Pervocracy: From slutty to horny. (via sexisnottheenemy)
“Queer people do not need to offer excuses or defend their own existence. If one...”
– » Fauxgress Watch: “Born This Way” Social Justice League
(via sexisnottheenemy, newmodelminority)
10 Reasons Not To Vote For Ron Paul →
saucylark:
1. Ron Paul does not value equal rights for minorities. Ron Paul has sponsored legislation that would repeal affirmative action, keep the IRS from investigating private schools who may have used race as a factor in denying entrance, thus losing their tax exempt status, would limit the scope of Brown versus Board of Education, and would deny citizenship for those born in the US if...
Obama’s woman problem →
jessicavalenti:
From the awesome Rebecca Traister.
Psychologists from Middlesex University and the... →
“I don’t care what you’re doing or how old you are or who it’s with, if a girl...”
– My mom, to my younger brother. (via rose-colored-sunglasses)
“People who have misgendered anyone with trans history often take the defensive...”
– Char C - Why Misgendering is Bad (via iragray)
A Terrible Name For The Ban On Sex And Race... →
Last week, a pro-life congressman introduced legislation designed to combat race and sex selective abortions in the US. Two problems: sex and race-selective abortion is a problem rampant only in its rampant nonexistence. Second, the proposed legislation has the most snicker worthy name an anti abortion law could have, short of “Captain Jesus’s Babysaving Homunculus Rights Act.”
The...
Strange Days: girlsimadecrythisweek: “Sex-negative... →
girlsimadecrythisweek:
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from having good sex. They keep people from having pride in their sexuality, from sexual self-awareness. They keep people from asking questions about sex, and communicating with their partners….
Fuck Misogyny: "Consent →
fuckmisogyny:
makes sex better. Consent makes life better. And that’s why there’s hope. Because one of these days (actually, one of those days, because this has already started), people are going to wise up and realize this. The fratboys of the world are going to realize that parties where the chicks want…
“As the violent face of sexism, the threat of rape will continue to exist as long...”
– Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (1982), p. 201. (via feministquotes)
PA Liquor Board Pulls Victim-Blaming Ad
theriotmag:
So, that victim-blaming “girls who get drunk get raped” ad we posted yesterday? According the PA Liquor Control Board, the people behind the campaign, the ad has been pulled.
Thank god.
The Purity Myth movie is here!
jessicavalenti:
Hey y’all - the Media Education Foundation just released the latest trailer for The Purity Myth movie, now available on DVD! Please tell your school or organization to pick up a copy…
The Purity Myth Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo.
PS. Be on the lookout for an announcement from me on upcoming screenings!
“Whether Plan B is available isn’t going to change the facts of the world. It’s...”
– Melissa McEwan, being brilliant and right and painfully so, in regards to President Obama’s comments today on the HHS’ blocking of the FDA ruling that Plan B should be available to any person who needs it, regardless of age. (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
The longer version is also excellent.
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“I hate the idea that people are defined by sex, period. By how they have sex, or...”
– Rookie Mag (via joyousfeminism)
Read the source! This article in its entirety rocks.
“It is December 6th, and I remember.
I was 13 years old when Marc Lépine opened...”
– Anna, Je me souviens on the École Polytechnique massacre. Read the entire entry; I had a really hard time picking one piece to quote here. (via slothbrothel)
There really aren’t words for this piece, it’s incredibly moving.
(via stfusexists)
Colorlines.com Features Stories of Transgender... →
In light of the recent anti-transgender violence in the nation’s capital and data from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality’s landmark national survey “Injustice at Every Turn,” Colorlines.com, a daily news site on racial justice issues, has asked transgender women of color living in D.C. to tell their own stories. Danielle King, a longtime...
STUDY: More than half of Black girls are sexually... →
penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes.: To all... →
stfuhypocrisy:
[TW FOR RAPE, RAPE JOKES, RAPE APOLOGY]
oforganon:
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing…
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
“I am a feminist, and because I’m a feminist I critique every medium of media I...”
– Courtesy of fuckyeahsexeducation I couldn’t reblog this since it was a response to an ask, but really… major love for FYSE. (via kwilder)
MARGINALIZED & ALIENATING: [Trigger warning] On... →
fox-power:
As a sex- and body-positive person, I know that there is nothing wrong with having consensual sex with whoever you want, and that human bodies are beautiful. As a survivor of rape, anything even vaguely connected to sex causes guilt and fear, and that my body is a source of weakness and…
