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The flip side of this is "You're a Jew, so I demand that you denounce Israel, because you're a Jew."
"If the answer is because they legitimately don’t want kids: Fine. But I wonder if we’ve devalued motherhood culturally." Is…
If the answer is because they legitimately don’t want kids: Fine. But I wonder if we’ve devalued motherhood culturally. Motherhood…
Yeah, really they are gaming the Electoral System, and the College is just one part of it, albeit a pretty…
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Author Archives: Clarisse Thorn
S&M Aftercare… Or Brainwashing?
[Crossposted from Clarisse Thorn’s blog.] Yes, it’s another article about abuse and S&M, but I’m going to cover a lot more than that. I’ll talk about intimacy and bodily reactions and how these things build a relationship — whether consensual … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
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A Unified Theory of Orgasm
This is a guest post by Clarisse Thorn. It was originally published at the girl-power site Off Our Chests. * * * I CAN’T COME. and it’s poisoned every romance I’ve ever had. masturbating doesn’t work. I don’t know why. … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Sex
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Salvation Army attacks sex-positive activist through its human trafficking email list
Sometimes people try to tell me that no one has a problem with S&M; that all stigma against S&M is in our heads and that if we BDSMers would just get over our victim complex, we’d discover that society has … Continue reading
Defending my irresponsible, abusive, gender-stereotypical coming-out story
Note: this post is a bit feminist-theoretical. I try to think seriously about about all comments on my work, but I usually just brush off the snide ones. Every once in a while, though, one arrows through and hits me … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc
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Manliness and Feminism: the followup
[Note: The comments to this post are “feminist only.” If you do not think this blog’s moderators would consider you a feminist, then don’t post a comment here. However, the comments at the identical post on Clarisse’s blog are open … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc
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Questions I Want to Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 3: Space for Men
[This post was originally published on Clarisse Thorne’s blog, and is reprinted here with Clarisse’s kind permission. All three installments may be viewed here.] I’m about to assert something that makes me nervous, because I worry that people are going … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men
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Questions I Want to Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 2: Men’s Rights
[Reprinted with the kind permission of Clarisse Thorn. All three installments of this series (once they’ve all been posted) may be read here.] In the 2006 documentary “Boy I Am“, a trans man talks about how one of his mental … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men
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Questions I Want To Ask Entitled Cis Het Men, Part 1: Who Cares?
This is the first of three guest posts, reprinted with the kind permission of Clarisse Thorn. This post originally appeared here on Clarisse’s blog. Once they’ve been posted, all three posts will be accessible at this link. Clarisse Thorn is … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men
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Look! Another great game by the serial sexual assaulter whose offenses were deemed much less serious by the NFL than…