All posts tagged "Feminist"

[rebelmouse-image 24749425 original_size="338x423" expand=1]Hullabaloo has been all over this excellent post by Dante Atkins, even though I have to disagree that we never see a positive argument for abortion rights. (One of the chapters in my book is titled "Only One Side of the Abortion Debates Wants You to Get Laid".) But I do take Digby's point seriously---the treatment of abortion as a necessary evil doesn't seem to me to do very much in shoring up abortion rights. In my experience, the vast majority of pro-choice people are pro-choice because they buy into a larger cluster of beliefs about women's basic value beyond being incubators, and because they think sexual liberation has been largely beneficial to the public. Which is a belief that tailors nicely to reality, as I note below.

[rebelmouse-image 24749394 alt="Snapshot 2010-04-16 17-41-33" original_size="477x315" expand=1]Oh, butt hurtness. It's a perennial problem on the internets, and there's probably a number of reasons for it. One is that people can't read body language and tone, and so subtle cues that X may not be taken in the same way as Y are lost. A lot of it has to do with the mix of people, and miscommunication due to people not quite understanding each others' frame of reference. A lot of it, especially in the wake of feminist blog posts, has to do with "Not my Nigel" and variations of it. And a lot of it has to do with people insisting that even though the post in question doesn't probably apply to them, they're going to dig around and insist it does, causing readers to wonder if they're just "Not my Nigel"-ing at you. I think a lot of this has to do with the epic levels of butt hurtness that erupted from the coining of the phrase "Dude Rock", though of course, the butt hurtness in this instance has nothing to do with the comically elevated levels of it that erupted with "mansplaining" was invented, or the alarming and sad way butt hurtness erupts in feminist blog posts about rape that attract irate men demanding, demanding, that the feminist tell them how much coercion they get away with before it's officially rape.

[rebelmouse-image 24749367 original_size="374x53" expand=1]Sex Tips for Feminists*

Sorry if my blogging is sparser than usual. I'm still in New York, and will be until Friday. But everything will be back to normal next week!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/v/gZez_k4vAzU&hl=en&fs=1 expand=1]Courtney has posted a "day in the life of a feminist" post to give the world an idea of what being a feminist looks like on the micro level. I thought this was a valuable public service, so I thought I'd do the same thing here. So here's a typical day in the life of this feminist.

[rebelmouse-image 24748182 original_size="400x500" expand=1]And writers who don't know about sports should probably avoid sports metaphors. But like the belligerent bitch feminist of the "you so ugly" variety, I'll push on like I have a right.