Category — Feminism

Shakesville: Get your Bingo cards ready!

I thought that Wil’s original post was funny. Am I bad feminist for thinking that honestly, there should be somebody telling Sen. Clinton about the law of diminishing returns? I would love to have a woman President in the Oval Office, just not Sen. Clinton.

I want new ideas, not genitalia to determine who I’m voting for.

Pandagon :: Can we keep the sunroof on the glass ceiling open? :: January :: 2008

[via ginmar]

So Hillary Clinton is being called a cunt by some in the Republican party.  How charming.  Because she has no problem with speaking her mind or *gasp* actually TRYING to do something good for the country, she is called a nasty word?

Perhaps in their world, a woman is only good for babies and being pretty.  What a shocker that a smart woman is actually ambitious and speaks her mind, not whatever a man told her to say.

I would say grow up and quit being scared, but that won’t happen.

I’ve been thinking really hard on pornography and feminism and how it interacts with my fandom life.

It’s fairly common in the various fandoms I pop in and out of to say porn for the smut fics (mostly slash but with a surprising amount of het and femmeslash, but that may be because of what I fixate on in fandom) to be called porn, but I think the definition is different, since a lot of the fics are really positive about sex and the fun of getting naked with the person you care about, while porn as it is understood in the real world is more about using women to fulfill some man’s fantasy.  Of course I won’t touch the rampant girl hate in some of the fandoms (female characters are reviled since they ’supposedly’ get in the way of the hawt boy on boy sexings, which is stupid.  Or else they are all bitches and sluts and nobody likes them, which could say some things about the environments some of the girl writers are growing up in.)

Of course I could turn it around and say that women, which make up a majority of the fanfic writers are just turning that little paradigm on its ear and using men to fulfill their fantasies.

I’ve recently had the idea that porn equals legalized prostitution since they are being paid to have sex, regardless of  the fact that they are being videotaped.  And frankly that squicks me the fuck out.

Link to Whedonesque : Comments on 13271 : Let’s Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death.

Also: Equality Now.

Read and think.