July 2011
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Problems and Solutions
THE PROBLEM:
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The Role of Women in Egypt’s Revolution
Asma’a Mahfouz, one of the young activists from the April 6 Youth Movement said in her interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper that, shortly after the protests started, “I was printing and distributing leaflets in popular areas, and calling for citizens to participate. In those areas, I also talked to young people about their...
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“If you believe that what people call normal sex is an act of dominance, where a...”
– Andrea Dworkin in an interview in 1997, discussing the accusations directed at her claiming she believed that ”all sex is rape” (this, of course, being completely inaccurate and a complete misrepresentation of Andrea’s work)
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Arbitration - Part 2
Jamie Leigh Jones, 26, is one of several women who worked for KBR and former parent Halliburton Co. who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed while working for the companies in Iraq. Jones says she was raped in 2005 while working for KBR at Camp Hope, Baghdad. …
Juan A. Lozano for Associated Press, Houston Texas, June 20, 2011
When the criminal courts failed to act, her lawyers...
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"The Supreme Court, in essence, said... 'sexually... →
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
“Women in large swaths of the U.S. are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health… In 737 U.S. counties… life expectancies for women declined between 1997 and 2007. For life expectancy to decline in a developed nation is rare. Setbacks on this scale have not been seen in the U.S. since the Spanish influenza epidemic of...
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Modelled
To make sense of the tumult in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Washington establishment has made for the safe harbour of analogies. Obama applauded the transformation in the region in his May 19 speech at the State Department and then announced a $2 billion aid package to revive the region’s stalled economies. The parallel Obama drew was instructive: the new Enterprise Funds...
June 2011
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No need to get shy
“[A]t least 80 Asian women… were subjected to ‘virginity tests’ by [British] immigration staff when they tried to come to Britain in the late 1970s. … ‘he said there was no need to get shy.’”
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Arbitration - Part 1
Helen L. Walters says her boss called her a ‘hooker,’ a ‘bitch’ and a ‘streetwalker.’ Sometimes he brandished a riding crop in front of her and once he left condoms on her desk.
Ms. Walters, then a trading-room secretary at a California brokerage firm, filed a complaint against him alleging sexual harassment. In a formal hearing, he readily admitted to the...
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coeus:
… I would rather be a hooker than a thief. …
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“And yes, of course the famous women who’ve posed have done so willingly. That’s...”
– http://www.reclusiveleftist.com (via thirdw0rld)
“I feel sorry for these girls but this is what I want.”
– One of the 103 men interviewed in Eaves’ Men Who Buy Sex study. (via petitefeministe)
really sums up the whole entitled mentality, doesn’t it. (via octagon-surgeon)
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Marc Stevens: People told me you know Marc you look mad when you’re having sex. I look unhappy. A lot of times I was. Because they sort of insisted that we don’t have a good time. … I didn’t like smacking a girl around. You know it’s funny before I’d start working with her in a heavy scene I would say listen darling I have to smack you around and piss on you and...
There's a hole in the wall where the men can see... →
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“There is also, possibly, sexual intelligence, a human capacity for discerning,...”
– Andrea Dworkin (via cumbersomecummerbund)
ethnography/pornography
“For one thing, they [both] represent impulses born of desire: the desire to know and possess, to ‘know’ by possessing and possess by knowing. Each is structured hierarchically. In pornography, male subjectivity assumes the task of representing female subjectivity; in ethnography, ‘our’ culture assumes the task of representing theirs. The appropriateness of these...
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"Nobody would talk to us, neither the... →
At a meeting of the National Film Board of Canada in 2006, Bonnie Sherr Klein talks about the making of her controversial film, Not a Love Story (1981).
h/t everything sucks
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Bonnie Sherr Klein: But what’s the biggest frustration? I get the feeling you feel put down a lot.
Patrice Lucas [interracial sex show performer]: I mean this is 42nd Street. And even outside if you look at the sign it says: ‘Raunchy Live Sex Shows.’ I’m not raunchy. … I think that being in this environment, on 42nd Street, the average white businessman who comes in...
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"[Nudecency is] for educated audiences who would... →
May 2011
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“They view themselves through an imaginary camera lens, focusing on how they look in one position or another, as if they were porn stars. And their sexual pleasure suffers.” Georgia Platts in Ms. Magazine blog on May 10th, 2011. (h/t octagon-surgeon)
“The PFC [prefrontal cortex] is situated at the front of the brain and is involved in aspects of consciousness, such as...
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"the therapy promised to guide clients to their... →
Baring the soul: Paul Bindrim, Abraham Maslow and ‘nude psychotherapy’.
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“Tell me this: why does it happen that at the very, yes, at the very moments when...”
– Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (via goldenspiral)