QotD: “Victim vs Survivor: Naming What Happened”
Rainbow Riot has a very powerful post up on her blog about the difference between ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’ and the importance of correctly labeling male violence against women; please go and read the whole thing. So I say: I am a victim. There should be no shame in that word. Sometimes I feel ashamed, because [...]
“Intelligence Report Article Provokes Fury Among Men’s Rights Activists”
The Southern Poverty Law Center unsurprisingly received a lot of flack from the manosphere over it’s labelling of MRAs as a hate group, and the SPLC has given a thoughtful, measured response, and basically said the idea that there is a ‘war against men’ is “ridiculous” and “willfully obtuse”! Found via the Radfem News Service. [...]
“The harsh realities of ‘being raped for a living’”
From the Irish Examiner here, found via Survivors Connect Network. A former Dublin prostitute speaks about her seven years working in the Irish sex trade and argues against the idea that legalisation can make the work any safer Following the latest revelations about Ireland’s booming prostitution rackets, a former Dublin prostitute has written a stark [...]
“Belle de Jour v Julie Bindel”
More on Magnanti’s poorly written, inaccurate, and frankly dishonest ‘popular science’ book, this time from an interview by Julie Bindel, full article here. Unsurprisingly, I hate The Sex Myth, a book that claims to expose the lies written about sex. As a radical feminist and long-time campaigner against prostitution, I immediately have an issue with [...]
Has Brooke Magnanti actually seen any porn?
TRIGGER WARNING, language used in this post may be triggering Whenever someone tries to defend porn as ‘neutral’ or ‘beneficial’ or even ‘educational’, the first thing I wonder is, have they actually seen any? It seems there are only two types of people trying to defend porn in this way, or as ‘just’ a recording [...]
QotD: Violet Socks on prostitution
From: I think we need to have a talk about patriarchy. We need to talk about patriarchy. Seriously. Beyond the rage, beyond the frustration and the desire to smack some misogynist freaks upside the head, I think we need to have some old school feminist discussion here. What we do not need is to kid [...]
Southern Poverty Law Centre declares MRAs a hate group, and Tom Martin loses his case against the LSE. Or, the bizarre world of MRA ‘thought’
I’ve tackled MRAs a few times on this blog, most comprehensively here after an MRA tried to critique our What’s Wrong with Pornography page. The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), a US non-profit organisation “dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society,” has recently declared [...]
“The Internet Swear Jar”
Sam Berg has a great guest post up at Feminist Law Professors, where she shows up the hypocrisy of liberal/funfems, who call themselves ‘sex positive’, and, while they would never personally ‘choose’ prostitution, feel it is very important other women ‘choose’ prostitution. In the name [...]
It’s The Patriarchy, Stupid
The BBC reported yesterday on a study conducted for the NSPCC by King’s College, London, the Institute of Education, and the London School of Economics. Below are highlights from the article: Teenage girls are coming under increasing pressure to text and email sexually explicit pictures of themselves, a report suggests. The report, commissioned by the [...]