QotD: “There is no greater issue at stake than the liberation of women from patriarchal oppression”
From this I Blame the Patriarchy post Spinster aunt can’t shut the fuck up all of a sudden The liberation of women from patriarchal oppression is more important than a man’s right to 24-hour access to poontang. It’s more important than a woman’s right to the performance of sexy empowering femininity. It’s more important than [...]
“Keeping our sisters safe: Political recommendations”
From EVE (formerly Exploited Voices now Educating), “a non-governmental, non-profit organization composed of former sex-industry women dedicated to naming prostitution violence against women and seeing its abolition through political action, advocacy, and awareness raising that focuses on ending the demand for paid sexual access to women and children’s bodies.” EVE believes in order to keep [...]
QotD: MRA Marmoset
I have just discovered the tumblr MRA Marmoset! Hey, everybody. Allow me to introduce you to this happy little fella, the Men’s Rights Activist Marmoset. His hobbies include trolling on feminist blogs, spouting logical fallacies and doing nothing that even remotely resembles activism. Choosing just one is impossible, so here are some of my favorites: [...]
“What do lads’ mags and rapists have in common?”
“Go and smash her on a park bench.” Are these the words of a sex offender or those printed in one of the UK’s leading lads’ mags? Given the phrasing chosen by former Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys earlier this year, you might not find it hard to believe that this is in fact a [...]
Muff March against ‘designer vaginas’!
“Keep your mitts off our muffs!” “I love my vagina!” “You’ve put my chuff in a huff!” These are some of the slogans of the Muff March taking place along London’s Harley Street Saturday morning. Its aim? To raise awareness of the increase in gynaecological cosmetic surgery – both on the NHS and in private [...]
QotD: .xxx
From: How will .xxx affect online porn? So .xxx isn’t going to get all the pornographers presently filling every nook and cranny of .com, .org, .net and so on to up sticks and head to .xxx. It almost certainly won’t make the web a cleaner place. But it should make a tidy sum for ICM [...]
Pornograhy is what the end of the world looks like
*****SPOILER ALLERT***** This blog post contains plot spoilers for the Black Mirror episode 15 Million Merits. Pornography is what the end of the world looks like This is what Robert Jensen wrote in a Ms. article linked to for a quote of the day a little while back. He elaborated on that with the following: [...]