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From Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin: "Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny: it is the political defense of woman hating. This is because feminism is the liberation movement of women. Antifeminism, in any of its political colorations, holds that the social and sexual condition of women essentially (one way or another) embodies the nature of women, that the way women are treated in sex and in society is congruent with what women are, that the fundamental relationship between men ...
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After watching a balls-to-the-wall, action-packed episode of the "Ultimate Fighting Championship," writer/activist Andrea Dworkin once said, "Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on
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Amanda Hess at Washington City Paper's The Sexist blog points us to AntiMisandry.com, a website devoted to exposing "feminist lies" — and the evil TV shows that promulgate them.
There's a lot to see here — some of
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...on the off-chance you bring someone home who can read, it might be an idea temporarilyto lose anything too intimidating by Andrea Dworkin. Unless you're a lesbian, in which case you might like to put it on the coffee table. Easy. You just arrange your books...
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I feel like I can’t call myself a “good” Black feminist if I’m not down with Audre Lorde. I feel fake if I don’t raise my fist or give an “Amen!” when another Black feminist or a feminist of color says/writes/puts on a t-shirt, “The master’s tools will
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Racialicious
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I wonder if business is booming.
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Permission to come aboard, uhm, respectfully declined.
The left (and some on the right, sadly) so fear SP because she resonates with the ‘common folks’ and
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...sexually predatory, and irresponsible” is a statement that could only have been penned by that notorious feminist man-hater, Andrea Dworkin. 2. It was that grumpy feminist kvetch, Betty Friedan, who said that men are “by nature oppressive, possessive, flesh-obsessed...
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OK, class, time for a quiz. True or False?
1. “Men are, by nature, violent, sexually predatory, and irresponsible” is a statement that could only have been penned by that notorious feminist man-hater, Andrea Dworkin.
2. It was that grumpy feminist
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...that equal rights could not be denied on account of gender. She certainly sounds more pleasant to be around than, say, Andrea Dworkin. Still, the cultural changes Brown brought about —"ORGASM LONGER!” screaming from the cover of a women’s magazine in size...
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...institutions. “I was once on a rooftop bar drinking margaritas, and I ended up reading aloud to the man beside me from Andrea Dworkin," said the doe-eyed brunette with a laugh, "so I’m probably not the person to ask.” However, her bosses at The Times claimed...
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...portraits of different feminists. Before this record, we did a split 7-inch about Donna Harroway. There's a song about Andrea Dworkin. For me there's an interest because I feel it intersects with queer politics a lot. We can look at what feminists worked on...
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It can be so satisfying to curl up and read a self-help book that you can’t really use. Too many self-help books that you can use are agonizing, even menacing sometimes, like that “friend” who tells you that you look bad when you do look bad -- or,
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Bookslut
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A week or so ago, I stumbled across Annalee Newitz's essay "Murdering Mothers" on Google Books in (1998), ed. Molly Ladd-Taylor & Lauri Umansky. Just when I had decided that this was a really terrific essay, Google Books refused to give me any more
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...portraits of different feminists. Before this record, we did a split 7-inch about Donna Harroway. There's a song about Andrea Dworkin. For me there's an interest because I feel it intersects with queer politics a lot. We can look at what feminists worked on...
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City Pages
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...sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted...
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...and Larry Maltz assert that it's a significant factor in sexual irresponsibility and divorce. The late feminist activist, Andrea Dworkin, argued that by depicting women as men's willing sexual playthings, porn contributes to rape. Her disciple, Robert Jensen,...
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Many people feel offended by pornography. Those who find it odious have every right to their opinion.
But some porn-haters declare that X-rated material does more than just disgust them. They contend that it contributes to significant social harm. In
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...claim for sexual harassment and created ordinances recognising pornography as a civil rights violation, along with the late Andrea Dworkin, a leading figure in the feminist anti-pornography movement. The Supreme Court of Canada has largely accepted MacKinnon's...
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News Blaze
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Catharine MacKinnon, a well-known American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist, specialises in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and created ordinances
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Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist, rose to fame in the 1980s arguing that
if we did not limit pornography most men would objectify women more
intensively and treat them less as people than as porn stars. The floodgates
would open; rape and other
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...slow reading because it’s packed with three years research: court cases, interviews, and readings from feminists - Friedan, Andrea Dworkin, and Susan Brownmiller. Even if Wolf is wrong about the reasons women care so much about appearance, weight, breast size,...
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[TRIGGER WARNING — graphic violence/rape imagery]
by Shaker Scott Madin
Liss asked me if I'd be interested in writing about this, and I've got a couple shots of rye in me now, so here we go.
So, for starters, here's a little bit of non-Watchmen-related
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Shakesville
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What do you suppose a NAMBLA agent’s badge looks like?
This is a new low, even for the Republicans.
This is going to hurt NAMBLA’s hard-won reputation as lovers not fighters.
Little known fact: Allen Ginsberg is a member of NAMBLA.
Maybe the agent is
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I'm still holding out on switching to the full advertising mode for this blog (although PrivatePigg certainly warmed me up to it a bit), but if folks have contemplated making a living as a blogger, look no further than Robert Stacy McCain for
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...bands. During the liberal Clinton years, they were the most proudly un-p.c. act of their ilk, goofing on feminists like Andrea Dworkin and thumbing their noses at all the major labels who came calling once bands such as the Offspring and Rancid started...
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“This is the first night of the tour. You know what that means?” NOFX frontman Fat Mike asked from the stage at The Joint on Friday, setting up his punch line with clear and obvious relish, like Grandpa asking you to pull his finger. “This is
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It is vitally important, if you are a woman writing bodice-ripping,
moist-patched, ultra-explicit porno erotica, to give it a bit of a feminist
slant if you wish to be taken seriously. If you do that, you can write
pretty much any old rubbish and the
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Times Online
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...reflects a larger paradigm shift in feminism and pornography. Once the domain of prudish, anti-smut crusaders like Andrea Dworkin, the feminist movement has given way to a generation raised with Good Vibrations and Internet porn. Yesterday's forms of exploitation...
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I was thrown off my horse by strep throat, but I am planning to continue my series responding to Christina Hoff Sommers.
Cathy begins, I think, by misunderstanding what I meant when I said “If man-hating is so pervasive in contemporary feminism, why
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...sex scenes, and the tradition of feminists writing erotically goes back to Erica Jong and Anaïs Nin. It's true that Andrea Dworkin argued passionately against pornography, but it's not as if there has ever been a united voice on the subject in the women's...
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...any male-hating attitudes from feminists except for a few people on the Ms. boards way, way back. I'm guessing the late Andrea Dworkin, famous for such aperçus as, "Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist...
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Over on Alas, a Blog, in a thread where the comments are limited to "feminists and feminist allies," Barry Deutsch (Ampersand) deconstructs a speech by my friend Christina Sommers. In particular, he takes her to task for saying that many feminists are
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I don't like the phrase "slight increase of rape." Sounds like the shittiest weather forecast ever.
The repressed tend to lash out. Is it really that hard to understand?
Religion is the real danger.
Oh, yeah... I remember reading that a couple of years
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The Stranger
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Pensions. Equity. Compound interest. Yawn. Yes, financial stuff is all a bit
tedious but since there will be no escaping it this year we may as well
start getting our heads around it. Ah, but that's just the problem, see. One
half of the population
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I do not share Andrea Dworkin's belief that women lose their integrity when they lose their virginity, I am neither a lesbian nor a “man-hater,” and I do not practice or even advocate abstinence. But I must take violent exception to the outrageous
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What is it with Bette Midler appearing in hoary remakes of proto-feminist
films? First, she shamed herself in the intolerable 2004 version of The
Stepford Wives, which made the '70's satire/social comment/sci-fi film seem
like it was penned by Simone
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Could Rose McGowan wind up getting deep?
The talented, beautiful star of "Planet Terror" from the Robert Rodriguez part of "Grindhouse" and TV’s "Charmed" is considering joining the cast of "Inferno," producer Brian Grazer’s film about legendary "Deep
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Could Rose McGowan wind up getting deep?
The talented, beautiful star of "Planet Terror" from the Robert Rodriguez part of "Grindhouse" and TV’s "Charmed" is considering joining the cast of Inferno, producer Brian Grazer’s film about legendary "Deep
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It was like watching a sleek Afghan hound compete for best-in-show with a shamelessly winsome mongrel. From the moment Sarah Palin surged on to the stage and grasped his hand, asking if she could call him by his first name, Joe Biden seemed mesmerised
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The Independent
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A cross the entire range of the media orchestra, is there any more mellifluous a sound than the string-em-up section squealing about the vindictive brutality of the liberal left? I don't believe there is, judging by the symphony of synthetic outrage
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THE women are harridans; the men are horrible; the concept is shatteringly sordid. I kept hoping that When Women Rule The World was going to turn out to have some kind of ironic twist for much longer than it possibly could have done, simply because i
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result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." -- Mary Daly, former Professor at Boston College, 2001 "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." -- Andrea Dworkin, Ice and Fire, (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987) LINK: no-maam.blogspot.com :::::::::::::::::::: The New World Order is a Jewish Peoples movement. In their own words: "Since the Jews are the highest and most cultured people on earth, the Jews have ...
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The seven secret levels of meaning behind recent events such as: the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, John Belushi, and John Wayne;
the deification of Andy Warhol, Jerry Falwell, and Andrea Dworkin;
the advent and
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It is one thing to say that pornography should not be banned, that the state cannot intervene in such matters, not least because it would involve them in a necessarily authoritarian logic (in which they get to determine what might be a good, healthy
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Warning: May not be safe for work…unless you are like me and work at Planned Parenthood. :) The links are definitely not work-safe and may contain adult content to be viewed only by people over the age of 18.
Feminism has a love/hate relationship with
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Feministe
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"There are two strong currents that move through boundary pushing and edge play," says Load of Fun's coordinator/curator Suzannah Gerber. "One is make it softer; one is make it harder."
Gerber is the curator of Baltimore's first Erotic Arts Festival,
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