Then there’s this guy.
His name is Roger Sweet and he is 60. He worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit for 30 years, just an everyday guy, probably went out for lunch and beer with coworkers, contributed to United Way, who knows. In all likelihood there was nothing remarkable about him.
There was [...]
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by Rebecca Mott
The answer to the question about whether being white and privileged prevents women from being forced to live with extreme male violence is written on my body.
That question has silenced me. That question has placed me in great danger, many times life threatening.
Being white and privileged did not prevent my stepdad raping [...]
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Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, War on Women, Woman Hating on Oct 21st, 2008
TRIGGERING! Be forewarned!
From “Porn’s Dirty, Dangerous Secret” by Robert Jensen today on Alternet:
…pornography doesn’t draw on the emotions most commonly connected with sex — love and affection — because men typically consume pornography specifically to avoid love and affection. So, the pornographers offer men sexual gymnastics and circus acts that are saturated with cruelty toward [...]
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Posted in Heroes, Pornography, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rights of the Disabled, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, Women and Disability, Women as Writers, Women in Media on Oct 20th, 2008
Following are a few recent examples of the overall brilliance of lesbian/radical feminist Julie Bindel (above). Go, Julie! You do us so proud!
School for deaf children faces further hurdles
Oct 14 2008: Why do parents and teachers of a nearby primary oppose a merger with threatened school? Julie Bindel reports
Cooking Mama’s way
Oct 8 2008: Julie Bindel: [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Oct 13th, 2008
Above is the trailer to a new film, Trade, put out by Lion’s Gate films and starring Kevin Kline. The film is about sex trafficking. I learned about it when I got an e-mail about Gloria Steinem making a November 5 appearance in North Carolina to endorse and support it, and went poking around [...]
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Posted in Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Heroes, Internet Terrorism, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Oct 1st, 2008
by Rebecca Mott
I am sorry to write again, but I wanted to say that the patronizing attitude the pro-prostitution lobby has towards me is meant to undermine my words.
I get comments saying my “story” is sad and that they do not dislike me as an individual - but always with the refrain that I am manipulated [...]
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The fact that under Sarah Palin’s watch as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska in the late 1990s, rape victims were required to pay for their own rape kits is a centrally important issue for us as feminists. I don’t think the change in policy had to do with the fact that Palin is anti-abortion, as some are suggesting, [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Heroes, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Sep 16th, 2008
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by Somaly Mam with Ruth Marshall
Somaly Mam’s haunting story starts in Cambodia’s mountains, before she’s sold into prostitution.
She is a child. No name, no parents, no home. She forages for wild fruits and sleeps in a hammock under the moon, whispering to trees her [...]
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Posted in Andrea Dworkin, Being Poor, Capitalism, Comfort Women, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Homelessness, It's all connected, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, War on Women on Aug 25th, 2008
If you read around the blogosphere — I won’t call it the feminist blogosphere because more and more, the writers I’m thinking of say they are not feminists, though they continue to blog in venues frequented to some degree by feminists — a few vocal, highly motivated people can be found working very hard to [...]
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