Feminist Theory & "Women's Issues" Discussion Thread: All Gender Identities Are Encouraged To Participate

In sum: The yogurt you're eating right now? It is going to make you miserable and kill you and you will die miserable and alone and full of emotionally toxic yogurt.
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the only solution is to IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE
i got mad at myself recently for clicking one of these about "xo"

xp
i don't think primary school classes are very hierarchical between kids, there's not as much opportunity to form groups &c. as there is in the playground.

What do women have to do with the internet? We submit that, at least in the eyes of media executives, women are the internet.

idk

Women are the internet, and the internet is women. How else to explain male writers’ terror about taking it with them to the office? Women writers may admit they have a hard time working while online, but for men this appears to be a much more profound issue, and in some cases a hardware problem. (Zadie Smith thanks the internet-blocking application Freedom on the acknowledgments page of her latest book, but she didn’t name an entire novel after it.) Men tear the ethernet cord out of the socket, they hot-glue the socket, they use computers so old they say they were made without a socket. They claim they must avoid the internet so as not to masturbate all over their computers (see “The Porn Machine,” Issue Five). But their stories of covering up and gluing shut suggest that for men the internet is in fact the site of a perverse fear of penetration.

I find n+1 more unbearable than the atlantic and it's not like they don't go w/ their own version of linkbait

i couldn't tell how ridiculous the penetration line was meant to be but i'm glad someone said some nasty stuff about harper's

it seems like the penetration line is the thesis of the piece

the thesis seemed to be that the old women=frivolous/men=serious dichotomy that used to apply to like novels vs. things that aren't novels was now an internet/print one which i'm open to cuz "gossipy" "blogs" etc (and the quote from the harper's guy about how print allows you to read "something more complex than a blog" as if those 20-page harper's articles on the writer's interpretation of winter or whatever weren't the bloggiest in the whole printosphere) but that whole argument was yeah less developed than the one about how the atlantic sucks cuz SEO

yeah I kind of cut out after the part about the atlantic, think there's some hard thinking about the new yorker in there too? the dangers of crowdsourcing your article

ha it's totally irrelevant but

Did they spend one zillion dollars on a “digital reader” for subscribers that must have looked great at the pitch meeting but shrinks the 10.5 Caslon type just past the point of readability? Yes, they did.

certainly not gonna call the nyer's digital reader the apotheosis of UI design but did u know about zooming

http://www.extensionsjournal.org/the-journal/6/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-rape-kit

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/12/09/the-truth-about-pink-and-blue-brains/

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2012-12-a-letter-to-the-guy-who-harrassed-me-outside-the-bar

http://pantograph-punch.com/eat-it-up-and-lay-wit-it-hip-hop-cunnilingus-and-morality-in-entertainment/

that's pretty great
"Ohmigosh, rap music is just horrendous! Back up the truck, Bön Iver fans: society is horrendous."

longwinded but thorough and otm

cool playlist! http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2aDGjZ24XJy22Q4gIiSd7l

this issue has bothered me increasingly & i've not found much in the way of thoughtful writing that i could get down w/, so i particularly appreciate it.

It's just a hyperbolic microcosm of all the hostile and fucked up ways we talk about women in our culture more generally

i think this is true, but then "oh it's just particularly hyperbolic sexism" doesn't seem like a winning defense. anyway, that article is otm to a rare degree regardless.

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that 404 thing's happening to me with every page on the site, weird.

it's an excellent piece - it's good to see the "we’re allowed to enjoy problematic things but that doesn't mean pretending the problematic shit doesn't exist" t-bomb getting more air (plus, who doesn't want more cunnilingus jamz).

Nothing new here, but it's goof to see it getting talked about http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/women/

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/report-denying-men-sex-is-like-child-neglect.html

good lord

“After reading online that women are turned on by men who do housework, he washed the dishes and vacuumed more often. ‘It didn't change anything,’ says the web designer and food blogger, now 30, who lives in West Jordan, Utah.”

It didn't change anything except your house was cleaner and your wife got an extra hour a week not picking up after your sorry ass.

"For some men, sex may be their primary way of communicating and expressing intimacy," says Justin Lehmiller, a Harvard University social psychologist who studies sexuality. Taking away sex "takes away their primary emotional outlet."

Lehmiller added, "Oh my god, I'm cumming! UNNNNNNNNNNH"

For some men

..with the emotional age of a needy five-year-old

how many five-yea-olds do you know who communicate through sex and why haven't you called the police yet

I doubt the baby has any comprehension of what's going on (do babies even see that far?), so nothing wrong with it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, December 5, 2005 5:58 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark

xxpost djp you're killing it.

oddly enough, these men were still capable of emoting by throwing tantrums

I'm too busy being a man to figure out how to express myself using my words

it must be hard being only able to experience emotion with your dick

that's backwards

(to experience emotion with your dick, it must be hard)

all those years learning how to use morse code with my penis, and now you're telling me I have to converse using speech?

"For some men, sex may be their primary way of communicating and expressing intimacy," says Justin Lehmiller

"Then again," he continues, "it may not. Before we can decide this question, it would be important to locate 'some men'. I don't intend to put myself to that much trouble, but I suggest it as an exercise for the reader."

leading scientists agree: the human male is an emotionally stunted and fragile thing. so much so that he will completely fall apart if denied nookie by the wife-mom assigned to support him. therefore, it is every woman's duty as a vagina holder to provide the sex whenever baby might happen to shake his rattle.

morse code rattle

it is every woman's duty as a vagina holder to provide the sex whenever baby might happen

just wanted to quote this totally out of context

carry on

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x-post

penis sending smoke signals.jpg

when woman denies a man sex can pig feel more?

all I got from that was man sex pig and then I loled

penis sending smoke signals.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDcQJ-U4nRM

leading scientists agree: it is a vagina-holder's duty to provide sex whenever Man desires it, as he has structured his life so as not to receive the usual feel-good neurochemicals from such inconveniences as making pleasant conversation, receiving compliments, or hugging, and can only receive them from vagina access

however, in no event should Man be expected to provide Vagina-Holder with the feel-good neurochemicals she may expect from pleasant conversation, compliments, or hugging - these are all disgusting unmanly concepts and should never be expected in the context of a relationship

on the "what do you call your S.O." thread I was going to make a terrible "penis sheath" joke which I'm now especially glad I didn't do in the face of someone literally treating his wife like a penis sheath

he will completely fall apart if denied nookie by the wife-mom

nookieproofed

[Esther Perel, a marriage therapist and author of Mating in Captivity, says.]