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Power, privilege, and missing the point

Posted in Philosophizing, blogs, tagged , , , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just know I’m going to get it for this, but here goes.
The ever-erudite and thought-provoking Orlando has got me thinking again. In an ongoing series of posts, he is examining privilege, entitlement, and the concept of slumming in the context of sexual power dynamics.
I recommend reading the series (though he charmingly [...]

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This is not my fault, I swear…

Posted in Rants, WTF, tagged , , on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Following the hubbub around the misogynist remarks made by Rob at The Oh Team on This Week in Kink, a friend and former co-worker of mine made this for me. I feel loved.

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Clearing up some terminology

Posted in Explainers, tagged , , , on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In reading Orlando’s blog yesterday, I came across not one but two sexual terms that I had to look up. I mean, seriously, I thought I’d heard it all. Now, to be fair, I’d heard of the concepts of these words, but the words themselves were new to me. Here they are, [...]

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Radical feminism: how far have we come?

Posted in Philosophizing, Rants, tagged , , on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I know, I know, I said I wasn’t going to talk about it anymore. If it’s any consolation, I haven’t been over to the radfem blogs lately, though I’m sure I’ll keep on reading Trinity and then it’ll be all over.
But I just finished reading two essays from the old standby that I’m ashamed [...]

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Radfem vs. BDSM: (Hopefully) My Final Word on the Matter

Posted in Philosophizing, blogs, tagged , , , , , , on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Thanks in large part to Trinity, but also to a good friend of mine from grad school, I’ve been spending a lot of time over in some of the radical feminist blogs, particularly in the discussions about BDSM. My friend was hungry to find the intersection of radfem and BDSM online, in intelligent, academic [...]

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Rage against the people who hate us

Posted in Rants, WTF, blogs, tagged , , , on May 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I’ve recently stumbled across Trinity’s blog, in particular this post entitled ‘On Not Asking Why.’ The main gist of it is this: Whenever people go about asking women things like “why do you suppose you enjoy getting tied up and beaten,” what they really mean, generally, is “What’s wrong with you anyway,” and at [...]

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