Is this really for real?

It's like the worst horrid caricature of the Second Wave came pulsing to unholy life.

Has anyone heard of this person? Is this Wikipedia entry accurate?

In Going Out of Our Minds Johnson details the personal and political experiences that turned her against the state. In the book she rejects the Equal Rights Amendment, the ( Read more... )

ginmar saying something totally righteous and supermazing:

We need degrees and shades of love to be defined so we can tell the difference between stalkers, abusers, obsessives, fakers, liars, and control freaks, all of whom have been immortalized in fiction by both male and female writers as romantic heroes. We need a way to define love that's weird, ( Read more... )

This right here is exactly why I've never done punishment in D/s. (As in not the "Oh Sir, I didn't finish the impossible task, please don't cane me! Anything but that! *wiggle*" kind, but rather the "The submissive person has rules and is punished if he does not obey them" kind.)

No, I don't have kids of my own, so no, I don't know whether they ( Read more... )

There's a discussion (inspired by Star Trek) going on right now in living_d_s about what makes a leader. Basically, the person was saying "Kirk has bravado and a certain kind of courage, but he'd make a terribly bad dominant partner in D/s!"

Which got us all thinking about what exactly dominance is, what leadership is, what "an alpha" is, etc. This was my ( Read more... )

On overt and covert power, from a submissive woman whose blog I just discovered today:

"It’s ironic that the most perverse manipulations of power in my life occurred in a past vanilla relationship, where I tolerated tyranny because the normative structure of our relationship obscured the fact that that is what it was."

When hierarchies are overt, it' ( Read more... )

Stuff like this here is why I can't take "anti-hierarchy" people seriously:
Apparently meat-eaters sense of taste is related to their desire to dominate or to support unequal power structures. They like the taste of power.

Meat-eaters prefer the taste of things they are told are meat, even when they aren't actually meat."[A] large group of people ( Read more... )

This is a comment from three years ago that I was just re-reading, and I thought I'd re-post it just because it really captures my feelings on a vexed term quite well.

(I'd like to request that folks not comment to the original entry, or say too much about the responses from skipper_dee; I've heard that people find that old entry now and again and ( Read more... )

Nezua, being brilliant as usual:
When I was 23, I wrote a song called Inside This Little Room. And in that song there is a line “I’m looking for someone who deserves to be the boss.” It’s hard to get a feel for the song from that…it was a collection of lines that might not have seemed related, and that was by no means the theme. It just rhymed, and ( Read more... )

Quote of the day, because it is SO on.
Sexual desire isn’t the only thing that women have been limited on. We’re expected to be restrained about food, about power, about love, about friendships, about everything. Even I worry constantly that I’ve crossed a line, that I’m bothering someone if I call too much or email too much, and I think that stems ( Read more... )

Hillary Sexism Watch

I don't want to cast any negative light on Obama, who I am steadily more and more impressed with lately. (And who I'm sure is also disgusted with this sort of thing.) But I actually do think that stuff like this matters, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that his blowout victories are not due entirely to his charisma.

To be ( Read more... )