According to Dr Petra Boynton, academic and ‘sexologist’, a recent study about the elusive g-spot (in women) is rubbish. This rubbish research has been reported in the media as truth. So she has critiqued the media reporting, based on her own knowledge of sex research and how it gets communicated to the public. So far so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Women’
A Spot Of Bother – A Critique of a Sex Research Critique
Posted: April 26, 2012 in Blogging, Feminism, Identity, Mark Simpson, misandry, UncategorizedTags: bisexuality, g-spot, men, Petra Boynton, sex science, Women
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OBJECTIFY THIS
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Fashion, Feminism, gaze theory, Gender Violence, Masculinities, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: david beckham, Gender violence, Mark Simpson, men, metrosexuality, objectification, Rape culture, Women
I had the beginnings of a twitter argument last night, on a subject that is dear to my heart: Objectification. @BigdaddyKeltik who is a trans man and a feminist said: * ‘Objectifying women = rape culture’. * @MILLIMETREMUSIC not puritans, feminists. Objectifying women = rape culture.— Keltik ಠ_ಠ (@BigDaddyKeltik) February 07, 2012 * I find [...]
Ms Whiplash Is Back!
Posted: January 30, 2012 in Blogging, Feminism, Gender Violence, IdentityTags: BDSM, Gender violence, men, ms whiplash, rape, Women
http://www.salon.com/writer/tracy_clark_flory/ This article in Salon, focusing on rape in the ‘BDSM community’ really got on my nerves. I am going to write a proper post on it but first I thought I’d put it here. If any of you have any observations or thoughts then leave a comment and I can incorporate your ideas into [...]
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexually. Sterility itself disposes one toward a certain masculinity of taste; for man is, if I may say so, “the sterile animal.” -Nietzsche (photo via @rachaelewilliams)
‘Suck My Dick, Sigmund…’
Posted: March 26, 2011 in Feminism, Freud, Identity, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: feminism Fuck Theory, Freud, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Women
Mr Fuck Theory doesn’t like Mr Freud very much. And I don’t like Mr Fuck Theory. But I want to put our emotional responses aside to try and explain why I disagree with Fuck Theory’s ‘critique’ of Freud’s ‘conceptual violence’ in relation to femininity and homosexuality. Here is Fuck Theory’s post: http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/4070969035/the-blind-spot-of-an-old-dream-of-symmetry-the ‘The Blind Spot [...]
Dead Men Don’t Answer Back
Posted: February 7, 2011 in Blogging, Fashion, metrosexuality, UncategorizedTags: advertising, men, objectification, Women
http://toomuchtosayformyself.com/2011/01/31/advertising-misogyny/ I have been involved in a discussion about objectification, with feminists at the blog cited above. The feminist blogger has presented the subject as being about objectification of women, particularly in advertising. I have tried to open up the debate to consider the objectification of men in visual culture, as well. Some of the [...]
Samantha Rocks! In defence of SATC
Posted: May 27, 2010 in FeminismTags: Samantha, SATC, Sex work, Sexism, Sexuality, Women
The second Sex In The City Movie has just been released, and judging by my little corner of the interwebz it seems to be causing something of a furore. I keep being sent links to article after article, blog after blog, all wailing about how utterly awful it is. If the majority of the (feminist [...]
