Healthy Masculinity
Nick, on The Atlantic’s article on Angelina Jolie’s preventative mastectomy:
The title bothers me because, duh, of course she’s still a woman; that shouldn’t even need to be reiterated, but I digress.
I’m sending this because of this part:
Later in the…
A Different Take - Blackness in the White Imagination
And there’s Beyoncé’s face, mutilated into a ghoulish whiteness by Photoshop,…
“The refusal, especially among liberals, to believe that pornography has any real relationship to sexual violence is astonishing. Liberals have always believed in the value and importance of education. But when it comes to pornography, we are asked to believe that nothing pornographic, whether written or visual, has an educative effect on anyone. A recognition that pornography must teach something does not imply any inevitable conclusion: it does not per se countenance censorship. It does, however, demand that we pay some attention to the quality of life, to the content of pornography. And it especially demands that when sexual violence against women is epidemic, serious questions be asked about the function and value of material that advocates such violence and makes it synonymous with pleasure.”
Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography’s Part in Sexual Violence” in The New Terrorism (via tabularasae)
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i give myself boners. / photo by carrie grey
“Seen in this light, lesbian pornography is “just” dyke entertainment, but I have never understood why anybody would think that entertainment was trivial. If you live in a society that wishes you didn’t exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.”
Introduction to Macho Sluts by Patrick Califia (reviewed at the Lesbrary)
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Federico (by T. Pagano ©)
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"Not just a girl…"
So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Disney Princesses, from their beautiful dresses, perfect hair, gorgeous voices and most with ideal love stories in the mix you can’t help but become entranced with the characters. But it got me thinking, they’re just characters, a writers tale of a princess (most before 1998)…an unrealistic fantasy for most girls (Yay Kate Middleton!).
It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better. My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters. I wanted her to know the value of these amazing women who had gone against everything so she can now have everything. We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world……..so let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.
I’m kinda scared to be on top of a guy. I’m scared I would like muffle his face with my thighs lol.
But he seems to be into it :)
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