Men are the problem

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Men are the problem

1LolaWalser
Abr 14, 2022, 9:13 pm

Idgaf about NotAllMen. For fuck's sake. I'm ready for that all-female planet now. Talk about raping nature. Women, children, babies, pets, zoo animals... all sacrificed for the sake of their bloody dick-pleasure.

Bengal monitor lizard raped in Maharashtra's Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, 4 arrested

2Jesse_wiedinmyer
Editado: Abr 17, 2022, 8:12 pm



I do not consider sexual harassment as a gender-neutral phenomenon which women do to men as often as men to women. I would hardly deny that women can use sex in an harassing way; far from it. Sex is one of the few weapons women may have. But it is absurd on the face of it to suggest that the sexual harassment of men by women or of women by women is a social problem, any more than rape by women. For better or worse, women’s sexuality in our culture, whether heterosexual or lesbian, is not typically aggressive. Furthermore, acts of sex or sexual flirtation cannot be abstracted from the overall context of male supremacy which, with few exceptions, deprives women of coercive powers. These basic facts can be obscured when the struggle against sexual harassment becomes disconnected from a women’s movement, as has now happened to some extent. Thus we see polls which show men to be harassed as often as women! This brings us to the second general topic, the changes created by the victory we have won in making sexual harassment illegal. Perhaps the most important characteristic of this victory is its fragility. In this period of strong anti-feminism it does not take much imagination to figure out how sexual harassment could be licensed again, and the legal and social weapons we now have against it taken from us. Only constant vigilance and militance on this issue can maintain these weapons for us. Furthermore, as feminists we face a particular problem in how to use the weapons we have because of the definitional problems. There is a big area of overlap between sexism and sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is part of sexism; to detach it from that context would be to miss its importance. Yet we have an interest in defining sexual harassment specifically


I've recently stated that I'm largely a lurker in this group. As such, I I thank whoever it was that brought Verso press to my attention.

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From Where Freedom Starts : Sex, Violence Power, #Metoo

3Jesse_wiedinmyer
Abr 17, 2022, 8:17 pm

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Do non-abusive human beings search out opportunities to exert coercive control (assuming that both coercion and control are antithetical to a culture of consent) over other humans?

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