Tag: misogyny
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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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Luna Luna: Why We Need #yesallpeople
So I wrote an article over at Luna Luna about why I think that we should try, where possible, to shift from the #yesallwomen/#notallmen hashtag flame war into a more inclusive conversation. I think we should use #yesallpeople to talk about the universally destructive effects of misogyny on our culture. I’ve been getting some blowback…
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Letting Others Speak about Elliot Rodger, #notallmen, and #yesallwomen
I’ve been reading everything I can find that’s been written in the wake of the Elliot Rodger murders at UCSB because I just haven’t been able to get my head around the events that went down last Friday. At the intersection of privilege, hate, mental illness, and access to weapons
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Using My Brain While Menstruating
I am sitting here in front of my computer and my brain is telling me I should be blogging. I have been staring at the screen for a while, telling myself I’m certain I have something–SOMETHING–to type about. And I do have somethings. They’re in there. They flit across my consciousness, one after the other,…
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The Plaid Pencil Skirt
This morning, on my way to work, I noted near the end of my subway ride that some days one can leave the house, freshly showered and coffeed, feeling pretty damn good about the day ahead, but by the time one is midway through the commute, find that all that optimism, energy, and compassion toward…
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Critics Make Me Meditate on BJs
This morning I got up, turned on my computer, and saw a tweet referring to this article on PopPorn by Bobbi Starr, referencing my blog entries on blowjobs in queer porn a while back (Part I and Part II) and referencing me as an ivory-tower gazing academic who thinks all blowjobs are rooted in misogyny.…