I have needed birth control. My current method of not getting pregnant is abstinence. This is highly convenient. Though it’s always listed as a method along with the cervical cap, vaginal ring, IUD and other preventative measures with an emphasis on efficiency (100%!), as someone who hasn’t much time (and does not enjoy errands) it’s …
Category: rape culture
Protecting our RELIGIOUS RIGHT to an Abortion
...from the "religious" Right. As you all must have heard by now, Michigan state representative Lisa Brown was censored and barred from speaking during a debate on an abortion bill because she had the audacity to utter the word “vagina”—at which point all the Republican men in the room gasped and clutched their pearls in …
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On sexual aggressiveness
Male sexuality has been socially conditioned to comprise of the same components as sports: it is aggressive and domineering, and it views women as “opponents” to defeat in order achieve high status within a male social order. Boys are taught to drive forward to see how far their partners will allow them to reach sexually, …
Concern with false rape allegations is bullshit.
A couple of years ago: police believe this man raped as many as 50 women, but each jury believed the sex was consensual and so he was never convicted: As Leigh drove home that morning, she had no idea what lay in her future: that she would join 9 of those 21 accusers to face …
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Perpetuating Rape Culture in Men’s Magazines
If rape jokes substantiating the mentality of rapists that all men think like them weren’t bad enough, men's magazines sound like rapists. A group of people given quotes from British lad mags and excerpts from interviews with rapists failed to distinguish between them. From Jezebel: The participants couldn’t reliably identify which statements came from magazines …
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the fatal feminist 