Category Archives: Caterwauling About The Patriarchy

Why, Thank You Sir, For Not Raping Me!

From a piece on the always wonderful website The Frisky (like Cosmo! But online! Even though there already is a Cosmo online!) entitled 25 Things Women (Maybe) Don’t Know About Men: “It is an instinct for us to look at women.  It is hard to control that, so maybe she needs to be satisfied that [...]
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Pushy

I’ve discussed coercive rape on this blog before, and that I think that men are victims when it comes to how we teach consent just as much as women are. I think that the way we talk about consent makes rapists out of men that would not otherwise be rapists. And I had an experience [...]
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You Say “Dyke” Like It’s A Bad Thing

As you know, I got my hair cut the other day. I really, really fucking love it. My mother saw the pictures and told me that my hair looked “dykey” and “butch.” I cried. When I sat down to think about why I had that reaction, there were so many different levels to this statement [...]
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Why Treat A Sex Worker Like An Actual Human Being When You Can Dehumanize The Shit Out of Them?

I usually really like The Oatmeal. Especially their grammar posters, which I want to own. But they recently published an absolutely appalling cartoon about sex workers. It’s called “5 Super Neat Ways to Use a Hooker.” I should have been called “5 Super Awful Ways to Dehumanize a Sex Worker.” Let’s take a look, shall [...]
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REALLY, Amanda Bynes?!

I’ve spoken before about how Amanda Bynes’ tweets make me kind of sad and they seem to be those of someone that just wants desperately to find The One and won’t be happy until she does. It seems that she’s only happy when she’s in love. This one really stuck out to me: Like, really? [...]
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Stay Classy, NY Post

From a piece entitled, “Vivien ‘Lay,’ scarlet woman:*” Two-time Oscar winner Viven Leigh, the iconic Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With The Wind,” was a hot mess off-screen — a slutty bisexual who battled mental illness for most of her adult life, an explosive new biography claims. So what have we learned today, class? Bisexuality is [...]
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Today in Gender Roles

From the new Diane von Furstenberg campain: Because you’re not a woman if you’re not wearing a dress. We all know that pants and “masculine” clothing squash all feelings of being female that we possess. Because somehow you can’t be powerful? Successful? Admired? Strong? if you don’t have a male body. A feminine body is [...]
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“Women Are Sex Objects.”

“The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren’t sex objects, there wouldn’t be another generation. It’s the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go ’round. That’s why women wear lipstick and short skirts.” STFU, Hugh Hefner. By your logic, wouldn’t men be sex [...]
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Are You Sure?

I had a date with someone the other night that went really well. So well, in fact, that neither of us realized how long we had been in the bar, and I missed the train home. He offered to split my cab fare with me, but it was easily a $40 cab ride and I [...]
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Apparently, This Needs To Be Said Again

JUST BECAUSE I WRITE ABOUT SEX DOES NOT MEAN I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I WANT TO TELL YOU INSANELY PRIVATE DETAILS ABOUT MY SEX LIFE. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CAN SEXUALLY HARASS ME ON THE INTERNET. AND IT DEFINITELY DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CAN [...]
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