open source boob project part I
Here is the original post, with an added apology. The comments are now closed. If you don't want to read the entire thing there's a break-down at Feministing here. All links are to individual posts, even if they just give the blogger's name.
The Open Source Knuckle Sandwich Project
THE OPEN SOURCE KICK-ME-INNA-CROTCH PROJECT
Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project
And you keep insisting on equating "No, you may not touch me" and "No, you may not act like my body exists for the sole purpose of your enjoyment or edification" with "You are bad and wrong for having sexual desires." You're not bad and wrong for having sexual desires. You're bad and wrong for arguing that your sexual desires are the most important criteria under consideration.
Micole
Because the way to an egalitarian and less body-conscious utopia is for women's bodies to default to public space. We just don't have enough sexualized treatment of women as bodies instead of whole social persons in public spaces!
Micole, dif. post
This the the illusion of endorsing open sexuality by opening up bodies that aren’t your own for touch! This is a way for you to get your rocks off groping womyn in public and pretending to be deep! This is enforcing the belief that womyn are public property!
naamenblog
We ALREADY have a signifying device that says it's okay to harass us: our female gender. On top of that, we can further signify our sexual availability by walking around in public.
badgerbag
What is so valuable about public groping that justifies profoundly offending and frightening people who don't want to be exposed to it?
Rachel M Brown
If your goal is actually to make a better world, I suggest that you use a method that doesn't involve putting women in fear.
Kate
You don't get that it is false to say "we are all individuals," and foolish to wonder why we can't all treat each other this way; you have not had the experience* of others experiencing you not on the basis of your "individuality" but because of a cloying set of stereotypes and attitudes the parameters of which you didn't set and over which you have no control
Springheel_Jack
My breasts are not a shared common resource.
coffeeandink
Touch your own damn self. You'll be glad you did.
ladyjax
Creating copyrightable works is a choice. Having breasts is not. Attempting to equate the two is not reasonable.
Matthew Garrett
I went “GRRRRR” big time and proposed that we ask MEN at cons to wear buttons that proclaim “Groper”, “Sexist”, “Ogler”, “Creep” and “Potential Rapist”. Make them identify, not us.
Liz Henry
I am not an ambulatory therapy object. I am not public property.
saoba
I was unaware of any problem proceeding from my intendedly-childlike grabbing of Connie Willis's left breast, as she was exhorting me to behave.
Harlan Ellison
The Open Source Knuckle Sandwich Project
THE OPEN SOURCE KICK-ME-INNA-CROTCH PROJECT
Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project
And you keep insisting on equating "No, you may not touch me" and "No, you may not act like my body exists for the sole purpose of your enjoyment or edification" with "You are bad and wrong for having sexual desires." You're not bad and wrong for having sexual desires. You're bad and wrong for arguing that your sexual desires are the most important criteria under consideration.
Micole
Because the way to an egalitarian and less body-conscious utopia is for women's bodies to default to public space. We just don't have enough sexualized treatment of women as bodies instead of whole social persons in public spaces!
Micole, dif. post
This the the illusion of endorsing open sexuality by opening up bodies that aren’t your own for touch! This is a way for you to get your rocks off groping womyn in public and pretending to be deep! This is enforcing the belief that womyn are public property!
naamenblog
We ALREADY have a signifying device that says it's okay to harass us: our female gender. On top of that, we can further signify our sexual availability by walking around in public.
badgerbag
What is so valuable about public groping that justifies profoundly offending and frightening people who don't want to be exposed to it?
Rachel M Brown
If your goal is actually to make a better world, I suggest that you use a method that doesn't involve putting women in fear.
Kate
You don't get that it is false to say "we are all individuals," and foolish to wonder why we can't all treat each other this way; you have not had the experience* of others experiencing you not on the basis of your "individuality" but because of a cloying set of stereotypes and attitudes the parameters of which you didn't set and over which you have no control
Springheel_Jack
My breasts are not a shared common resource.
coffeeandink
Touch your own damn self. You'll be glad you did.
ladyjax
Creating copyrightable works is a choice. Having breasts is not. Attempting to equate the two is not reasonable.
Matthew Garrett
I went “GRRRRR” big time and proposed that we ask MEN at cons to wear buttons that proclaim “Groper”, “Sexist”, “Ogler”, “Creep” and “Potential Rapist”. Make them identify, not us.
Liz Henry
I am not an ambulatory therapy object. I am not public property.
saoba
I was unaware of any problem proceeding from my intendedly-childlike grabbing of Connie Willis's left breast, as she was exhorting me to behave.
Harlan Ellison