Category: Rants
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GOP Platform Names Porn a “Public Health Crisis”
So, the Republican Party’s platform for this election cycle has been hashed out this week, and it turns out that, as Esquire succinctly put it: Porn is a problem. Guns are not. To whit, the new platform has named porn a “public health crisis.” A crisis, my friends.
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A Day Without Porn: or, a very long article by Lynsey G.
That’s why I wrote this ridiculously long article. I want people to know what’s at stake here. It’s not just a laugh-inducing headline about goggle fetishes. It’s about safety, autonomy, and government overreach. It’s important.
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Let’s All Freak Out About Arousal Studies
So much speculation goes into how the “two” kinds of brains work, and all the nature-versus-nurture, evolution-versus-society talk gets impossibly old… all while people with different gender identities than just “male” and “female” are out there living their lives, exemplifying the fact that “male” and “female” are not the only two categories that humans fall…
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A Links-y Thursday Afternoon
I have been remiss in my duties as a blogger, and I hope you haven’t been left wandering the lonely alleyways of the interwebz, scared and cold, without me.
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Donald Trump = Nobody Cares
I realized, it’s not that people don’t see Donald Trump for what he is. It’s that nobody cares that a hateful troll of a man is in a better position right now than almost anyone else to become the leader of the industrialized world.
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The Autoblow Vaginal Beauty Contest… is… a thing.
Lunch meat–much like sexism–is a tradition that is bad for everyone, but which is considered totally acceptable because it’s so normal.
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But Seriously, Why IS Nobody Talking About Cytherea?
Cytherea, I am a feminist…I am so deeply, deeply sorry about what happened to you, and I am even more sorry that the way I learned about it was by way of hateful groups of people who seek to leverage your experience to support their personal politics.
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Things I Shouldn’t Say About (Contemporary) Romance Novels
Why is having sex without a condom portrayed as, like, the Be-All-End-All of committed love?
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Luna Luna: Dear Shia LaBeouf, #IAMSORRY you were raped
I wrote an article about Shia LaBeouf’s horrible experience of being raped during his art show for Luna Luna, and I would really, really appreciate it if you would take some time to read it and offer some thoughts. It’s super, super important that we show respect and empathy to anyone and everyone who has…
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New York Comic Con: Post 2 — Boobs are OK, but not BOOBS
What is it that makes the display of the female body for consumption permissible, so long as nipples and pubic hair are not specifically shown? Why is it that women’s bodies can be sexual, so long as they’re never shown actually having sex? Why can’t we own our bodies and do what we want to…