Feministing (@feministing) tweeted:
Hey @kickstarter, “Above the Game” promotes sexual assault. Take down the page NOW and refuse to fund the book http://t.co/DWRVd3melw (https://twitter.com/feministing/status/347374639594471424)
Sex to me isn’t something bad, it’s just something rather strange and irrelevant. Imagine something bizarre but totally harmless, like being dipped into a giant vat of warm garlic flavored mashed potatoes. Messy? Oh yeah. Yummy? Sure. Nutritious? Hells yeah (potatoes are pretty…
The phrasing “I just have better things to do” sounds kind of like a negative slut-shame-y judgment.
Also, sexual people don’t “pattern their lives around” sex - that’s kind of an assumption about what being sexual means. I like sex, I like having sex, that doesn’t mean that I base my life decisions on whether or not I’ll get laid, or whether or not it’ll interfere with me getting laid. I could be having sex right now, but I choose to be on the internet. Sex is just another activity I enjoy doing that some other people don’t - but to characterize it as something I “pattern my life around” misconstrues sexuality as some kind of on-off switch. It is not something I would consider a static trait, but a range of intensity to which an individual experiences.
Sexual people don’t ALWAYS want to have sex. We (at least most of us) aren’t like people in porn, we have real lives and other interests that actually take priority over our desire for sex.
*sigh*
This one also just fits anyone who is a perfectionist (like me).
OMG THIS ONE RIGHT NOW.
Yep.
While I have reservations about foreign engagements in Afghanistan and the military culture in general, I must say that this is the ONLY appropriate response to allegations of sexual assault and misconduct in the military.
This is the correct response. This should not be some amazing act of integrity and honour, this should be the way everyone responds to a handful of misogynistic asswipes. I am glad that Lt. General Morrison took this stand, I just wish it wasn’t such an incredible gesture that it warranted so much praise.
This should be the baseline.
The biggest sexists on the fucking site are in the “feminism” blogs. If I go to a party, drink and have sex, it’s not rape, it’s a bad decision. All of you “feminists” just are horny fuckers who can’t get laid and have a victim complex.
this troll makes no sense. how is it that feminists can’t get laid, yet they’re making “bad decisions” by drinking and having sex?
And they’re right. It’s soooo sexist to talk about rape. How oppressive!
If I go to a party, drink and end up sleeping with someone is not the same as I go to a party, drink and someone deliberately uses my vulnerable state to coerce me into an unwanted sexual encounter.
If your potential partner is so drunk that they’re falling down and passing out, don’t try to have sex with them. If you aren’t sure how drunk they are, sex can wait until you’re both sober. It’s not rocket science, people.
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