This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post. Republished with permission. This is a call to end the SlutWars. On the off-chance the global SlutWalk movement hasn’t hit your radar, here’s a brief primer: SlutWalk is worldwide grassroots movement challenging rape culture, victim-blaming, and working to end sexual violence. It started in January 2011, when a Toronto […]
Yesterday, a blogger known as “Quiet Riot Girl” contributed this piece to the ongoing conversation about rape at The Good Men Project. I read this piece with a lump in my throat. It was not so much a lump of anger, but instead a feeling of sadness for the fundamental misunderstandings of feminism the piece reinforces. As a […]
There was a recent incident where some middle class white guy wrote to me, in two successive emails, the following things: “You are sick, stupid and a plague on the world.” “The only thing you could write that would improve the world, is your suicide note.” Here’s what made it worse: it wasn’t a random […]
A new study by University of Buffalo sociologists suggests the answer is yes, indeed. This may be well-tread territory, but we think we need to go there anyway. One reason is what we call the “tyranny of the shoulds.” The study, entitled “Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of […]
I am many things: a woman, an academic, a feminist, married, raising two girls, and I’m pro-porn. I’m also an expert in queer history, and write about men’s desire and sexual practices. How bizarre? No, actually, how utterly and completely normal. I’ve been following this debate about pornography with relish. It proves a point I […]
In a new post on Tiger Beatdown, Sady Doyle comments on the controversy surrounding the misogynistic and sexually violent lyrics in Tyler, the Creator’s new album. Last week, Tyler, the Creator, of the hip-hop collective Odd Future, released the album “Goblin”, which includes lyrics such as “I just wanna drag your lifeless body to the […]
According to Shira Tarrant, an associate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at California State University, Long Beach, the obsession over college students’ sex lives, or “hooking up,” is alarmist. After all, young adults have long engaged in casual sex and there is no good evidence to suggest that hook ups are much more […]
From SFGate.com: “A teacher at an East Oakland elementary school has been placed on leave as officials investigate accusations that two of his second-grade students engaged in oral sex in the classroom and that some ran around without their clothes on, a district spokesman said Friday.” Salon wonders, is this a sad case of an abused child […]
As someone who was deeply moved by the Beauty Myth when I came out, I have been conflicted, and a bit confused, by Naomi Wolf’s recent, seemingly anti-feminist positions. I think this articulate letter is emblematic of the disappointment many young feminists are feeling. It’s worth a read: http://feministing.com/2011/01/18/dear-naomi-an-open-letter-from-a-heartbroken-young-feminist/#more-29091 -Nicole
