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Julian RealA Pop Quiz on Dishonesty, Deception, and Trickery Among Heterosexually Active MenWARNING: WHAT FOLLOWS IS SEXUALLY AND SEXISTLY GRAPHIC: What do you call twenty men and boys gathered around a young woman being raped?In a recent post, Jennifer Drew added her analysis of the atrocity of gang rape. I welcome everyone to read that by clicking here and scrolling down to her comments. One point I'd like to clarify, as a white U.S.er, is that racism and homophobia are not considered hate crimes in the U.S. Not even close. Nor are any institutionalised abuses against oppressed people understood, legally, as "crimes"--hateful or otherwise. So a U.S. Buddhist Jew and a U.S. Palestinian Christian sit down to talk......and some stories are shared between the two. What can a woman say to a man when she notices him visually violating her??Holla Back NYC empowers New Yorkers to Holla Back at street harassers. Whether you're commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some turd's fantasy. So stop walkin' on and Holla Back: Send us pics of street harassers! * * * I got the following question posted as a comment to another thread which can be found here. This is the question: Black and White Television Set-Ups, and the Horrible Truth about Wealthier White PeopleMy thanks to Anxious Black Woman for reminding readers about two of many intersections of Black history, Nazi atrocity, and the matter of not forgetting genocide is not only in the past. Her post made me think about the on-going ways in which genocide (which always includes gynocide) is invisibilised cross-culturally, across eras, and by global media. What Men "Using Porn" Actually Is and DoesThis post is a partial response to finishing the book, Love and Pornography, by Victoria and Garry Prater. Pornography Use and Other Violations: A Conversation Between Two White Men, in nine partsWhat does Consent Mean in a Society that Manufactures Contempt for Women?Let's begin with one basic observations about how things work in dominant Western societies: Misogyny is not only corporately manufactured, but is also promulgated, promoted, heralded, and honored as "sacred" in a society that continually finds new ways to violate and degrade women as a gendered class. What is "A White Man" anyway?A relatively young white man who appreciates many of the postings on this blog asked me to define what I mean by "a white man". I'll attempt to do so here. |
