This is another debate I have not yet commented on but a conversation today on twitter made me want to clarify my thoughts publicly. I do not believe anyone has the right to sex. I believe that full disclosure is necessary even for casual or one-night relationships. I believe anything less invalidates consent. Lying about your marital status should invalidate consent. Lying about your health in a manner which could compromise the health of your partner invalidates consent. The police officers who had sexual relationships with women in order...
Sunday, 30 June 2013
I don't normally write about Trans* issues on my blog because I find it difficult to express my political beliefs on gender theory whilst not causing unnecessary hurt to people. This weekend I came across two stories concerning Trans which trouble me greatly. The first, and I will not link to the source of this story for their own protection, was a Lesbian woman watching a Dyke march who came across a Transwoman, on the march, with their penis on display. It was a public march and a Transwoman felt it was acceptable to display their penis without...
The aftermath of miscarriage at Put Up With Rain Where your gag comes from at GynocraticGrrl When I grow up, I want to be a lesbian at You are a Splendid Butterfly There is no opt in, you cannot opt out at You are a Splendid Butterfly On being Believed at GoddessDeeva Surviving the Agent at She Has the Power Domestication: Husbandry at The Arctic Fox If Men Want to Help at Witchwind Clare's Law: Will it Really Help Women Fleeing Violence? at EverydayVictimBlaming...
Friday, 28 June 2013
The Daily Express ran a truly spectacular piece of victim-blaming yesterday. Virginia Blackburn called women who don’t like being sexually harassed by men “wusses”.Apparently, we should consider it a compliment if men repeatedly harass us into having a drink with them. Women’s boundaries are completely irrelevant when men’s feelings might get hurt. We have to acquiesce because NOTHING is more important than the menz' feelings: not our needs or our...
On Thursday June 29, the Independent published an article on a murder-suicide involving a British family living in Costa Del Sol. Apparently, the man murdered his wife and child because he lost his job and they were ill. Because, it is completely reasonable to murder your wife who is ill and your daughter who is disabled when you find yourself unemployed and in debt. A woman and her adult daughter were murdered by a man who was supposed to love them but who believed he owned them. Family annihilators are almost always male and financially...
This is reblogged from Radical Wind: blowing through female outerspaceIf Men Want to Help:There’s been a bit of discussion lately about how men who posture as pro-feminists are worse than useless, such as John Stoltenberg or this Dude.I could write an entire essay about each “pro-feminist”, why and how what they write and do is wrong, but it’s a complete waste of energy and time because all we need to know is that men cannot be feminist...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
This following message is from SCASE:Proposed Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex (Scotland) Bill: ACTION REQUIRED - WRITING TO MSPSRhoda Grant MSP has lodged her proposed Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament, which would make the purchase of sex an offence. Many feminist and women’s organisations were heavily engaged in the consultation process leading up to the publication of this Bill and responded in a supportive way to the consultation. The responses to that consultation are now available...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
The Daily Mail is back with yet another piece of vile victim blaming. This time they are outright saying that Nigella Lawson was not a victim of intimate partner violence at the hand of her husband Charles Saatchi. According to the DM, Saatchi is not an abuser. Just a bore. Because strangling your partner is completely normal behaviour during an argument. The entire article is a pile of misogynistic victim-blaming. Every line minimises Saatchi's...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Normal 0 0 1 455 2595 University of Edinburgh 21 5 3186 10.2006 0 0 0 This week has seen the convictions of both Stuart Hall and Jeremy Forrest for sexual crimes against minors. Hall received a 15 month sentence after admitting to 14 charges of indecent assault. Forrest was convicted of abducting his teenage student and subsequently admitted to offences involving sexual activity with a child. Like John Peel, Roman Polanski and countless “celebrities” before them, both men are sexual predators. Forrest may only have...
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