I wish I could say I'm surprised this exists, but I'm not.

It's a site on which people can pledge not to use pornography, and not only that, to refuse to have an intimate relationship with anyone who does.

Which, yeah, hardly news, some conservatives do that sort of thing all the time, right? Except that this appears to be linked to anti-porn ( Read more... )

(politicky post)

I've said this before, and will probably say it again: I have great respect for someone who can say things like this:

In the past I said, unwisely, foolishly and in a fit of rage, that "sex-positive" or "pro-porn" feminists are not feminists, as if I were some Great Feminist on High who could dispense judgement on other women. I am ( Read more... )

Because I asked how this news might break in certain corners of the blogosphere, I feel it's the right thing to do to be fair, and show people how it has so far. Here's Pisaquarise, on the news that Kyle Payne, anti-pornography radical feminist, nonconsensually took pictures of a co-ed's breasts (and, according to the general scuttlebutt, did worse ( Read more... )

Okay, so Ren fisked this bizarre rant better than I could anyway, and I really have no time to bother with it anyway. But I feel the need to snark one little snark. :)

Source post:
I’m not a “sex-positive” feminist, inasmuch as that term is used to refer to the kinds of people who believe that women, by adopting the piggish sexual attitudes of men ( Read more... )

People criticize women who want to be "Bad Girls," suggesting that that's some kind of Status Quo Chic.

Maybe so, but consider what the alternative is: a Good Girl (or Boy, or...)

A Good Girl is someone made to order.

A Good Girl is someone who can't/doesn't say no.

A Good Girl is someone so well trained she'd never think of it.

I'm a survivor. The ( Read more... )

I'll get on to blogging about fun things in a moment, but I just wanted to comment on this blowup here. I'm linking the last comment because you really don't need to see the previous. Basically:

1. Radical feminist discusses some revelations she's had about the trans issue, and questions some of the transphobia in the rad fem community
2. Various ( Read more... )

Okay, so this here isn't any kind of usual or representative definition of feminism. Only a small subset of self-styled radical feminists talk this way, and this one's worse than the usual suspects. I did, though, want to pick at one small part of her "definition" because I think it's a real problem.

In her description of "feminist behaviors," she ( Read more... )

One of them actually said it:This was rape because it was not sex. Sex is beautiful, messy, lusty, loud, funny, mutual, consensual, interactive, intimate, unselfish, caring and conscientious. Sex is not some guy acting his sexual fantasy upon a prone, female body.

I was uncomfortable with this paragraph even as I wrote it. Simply because it isn’t ( Read more... )

I'd always heard that radical feminists believe all oppressions to be ultimately rooted in sexism, but I'd never met anyone who holds to that. Well, I've found a citation for it on a website with online versions of old feminist documents from the 70's. One section header asserts it, plain as day:

Sexism is the root of all oppression
The first ( Read more... )