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Some folks are so determined to impose social control on young women’s expression of sexuality that they are willing to turn a few girls into convicted sex offenders in order to terrify teenage girls everywhere into toeing their prescribed line.
— It Became Necessary To Destroy The Town To Save It - Feministing (via thestripperhatesyou)
Backed by the ACLU, a group of Pennsylvania parents is suing to block an enthusiastic DA who has threatened to file child porn charges against teen girls who appear semi-undressed in candid cell-phone photos—unless they agree to attend a five-week program on “what it means to be a girl in today’s society.
— Parents fight child porn threats against “sexting” teens - Ars Technica
“christine is coming over later & i’m going to help her set up a blog as a subdomain on one of my sites. do you want one, too? i have lots of space, and i would like to host more sites, like how it was in those halcyon days.” - kore

“christine is coming over later & i’m going
to help her set up a blog as a subdomain on one of
my sites. do you want one, too? i have lots of space, and
i would like to host more sites, like how it was in those halcyon days.” - kore

I see he’s following Gawker’s “penis only” business model.
— thesupergoddess, on Dan Abrams Wants to Buy a Few Good Bloggers
Okay, here is my latest fantasy, very timely. The Mistress has decided that it would please her to use me as her toilet. While doing so she picks up my Blackberry which is still signed in to Twitter. With an evil grin she starts typing (and repeating out loud) “Currently lying helpless while Mistress X prepares to…
— … and I’ll let you find the rest, on this pro-BDSM message board thread, “Twitter Twoilet fantasy”
which is not to say

That wearing pink and lipdubbing like a fool is somehow incompatible with feminism, either. I CHOOSE MY CHOICE!* And my choice is to be really critical of why women get so derailed from making a change in the world by telling other women how they are fucking up feminism. Which is actually what’s fucking up feminism way more than cum on my or anyone else’s face.

* Italics, standing in for irony

Is sexual expression and feminism incompatible?

lenachen:

I’ve had comments up on my blog for less than a month, and for the most part, I haven’t had any encounters with Internet fuckwads… But today, I received this comment:

Why don’t you check out Meghan Asha, Mary Rambin, and Julia Allison’s venture. Those women, without taking off their clothes and posting naked pictures of themselves, are powerful, beautiful, strong women. They are women who do justice to feminism. Not you. Perpetuating the sexual objectification of women isn’t going in the right direction. [link]
This is what happens when you take class out of feminism, kids. Commodity worship = TOTES OK. Nude ladies of their own right = OMG GIRL-TRAITOR! Pass me some Green Juice and a Betsey Johnson tutu, I have to go smash the patriarchy!