links for 2008-9-25
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“Listen: i really do not care much at all if you are a pro-choice fella. Because currently, all that means is that you think I should have a right to choose what happens to my body. To me, that’s a bit of a no-brainer. To act as if it’s really a brave, anti-oppressive opinion though, Pffft. Get over yourself.”
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“I’m just totally exhausted with the construction that if every single woman isn’t a feminist, and if examples of women doing anti-feminist things can be pointed to, then it’s evidence that feminism is failing, pointless, critically flawed, dying, or dead. I’m exhausted with it because the narrative itself is inherently sexist, treating women as a monolith (which, ya know, we’re not), but also because it’s predicated on the premise that every woman has had equal access to feminist ideas—and women who aren’t feminists are simply rejecting those ideas.”
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“Essentially I am putting together a mailing list that would not be sold to or used by anybody else of hundreds of industry professionals. In this mailing list are affiliate managers, bloggers, sex writers, editors, publishers, columnists, graphic designers, photographers, guest speakers, web hosting companies, models, event coordinators, educators, podcasters, and other relevant industry professionals. Basically everybody related to the (sex) Blogosphere.”
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“And make no mistake, this is a problem, and not just for feelthy perverts like me. This is the sort of thing that sets mild-mannered eyeglasses-wearing librarians sputtering with rage, because once you start filtering out words, like ‘nude’, that do double duty as erotic signifiers and, you know, plain old information tags, you begin to muck up basic research of the sort that any high school civics class might legitimately be doing.”
Sep 25 2008 10:26 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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