Category Archives: Rape Culture

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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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 [...]
Also posted in Caterwauling About The Patriarchy, Griping and Kvetching and Bitching, Sex Miscellany | 7 Comments

“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 [...]
Also posted in Caterwauling About The Patriarchy | 21 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in Sex Miscellany, Sexcapades | Tagged | 7 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in Griping and Kvetching and Bitching | 4 Comments

Anti-Rape Campaigns Done Right

Men Can Stop Rape has released a new anti-rape campaign, and it’s awesome. Not only does it feature both a gay couple and a minority couple among the posters, but instead of telling women not to drink so much/stay out late/wear something slutty, it simply focuses on stopping rape. It’s the sentiment of “the only [...]
Also posted in Awesomeness | 8 Comments

(Not) Taking A Hint

Holly over at The Pervocracy has developed a game of sorts to play on OkCupid that demonstrates the subtlety of rape culture. The game goes like this: Get A Guy To Stop Talking To You Game! Here’s how you play: -Have an OkCupid account with a reasonably appealing picture and profile, identifying yourself as a [...]
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Super Powers

I didn’t publish this comment, because it would have continued a discussion that had long ended and the guy that wrote it had already spewed victim-blaming rhetoric all over the comments of another post, but I wanted to post it here because it might just be The Best Comment Ever regarding how to avoid being [...]
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Drunk Girl

I stopped regularly watching The Real World a few seasons ago. I always give the new season a chance, but a couple years ago, I stopped feeling like I was watching my peers, and started feeling like I was watching people I used to know in college. In short, I felt older than the people [...]
Also posted in Culture Goes Pop, Self Medication | 4 Comments