We live in an age where copyright laws are in flux due to the explosion of social networking and file sharing. First Amendment limitations such as “defamation” and “hate speech” have also become somewhat fuzzy. As a result what we see on the Internet is an unfiltered reflection of ourselves as a society warts and …
I discovered FEMEN a couple of years ago while watching feminism-related YouTube videos. This was before the “topless Jihad” anti-Islamist explosion. At the time they were just a local Ukrainian group fighting local issues. They were topless early on and “sextremism” has been with FEMEN since conception. But they weren’t battling sexually restrictive morality. Quite …
I had really hoped to close this issue the last time I discussed the male gaze and how it relates to feminism, but that post was too brief and simplistic to really close the case. This discussion came up once again, not surprisingly, on the pseudo-feminist Women’s Rights News page on Facebook, in the form …
Met this dude online – Talking shit, like he’s got us fooled. Says, “Can you rhyme, FeminaziSlut?” Now watch him get schooled! Bill Banner, an anti-feminist, claims to be the moderator of the widely popular if somewhat mindless “feminist” Facebook page Women’s Rights News (which pretty much everyone and their grandmother likes,) having created this …
The Ethical Slut, in a section discussing sex-negative language, spends some well-deserved time on the implications of “slut” vs. “stud.” It then mentions Don Juan, alongside Casanova and Jezebel as examples of legendary figures used as derogatory terms to express a negative attitude toward promiscuity. Something strikes me as odd here. I’m thinking: really? Don …
I’ve been having a lot of discussions on this ever-floating theme of what it means to be a feminist in light of the “male gaze.” In fact, is there such a thing as the official prescribed “feminist” response to the male gaze? And if so, who is the arbiter of feminism? (I suppose my phrasing …
So with all my slut-positive research, I have become aware that the painful rift in feminism between the sex-positive and the anti-porn camps is still quite alive and well. In fact, it makes me wonder if there is any point to using the term “feminist” to describe oneself when it can mean so many different …