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Coming Out

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Heteronormativity, Lesbian, Lesbianism, lesbophobia, Patriarchy, Pornography, Radical Feminism, Resource, Separatism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality on April 20, 2009 | 34 Comments »

When I first became interested in feminism, I was still living as a heterosexual, in a heteronormative relationship. I was even engaged at one point. That relationship has been over since last year and I ended up keeping both engagement rings afterwards (which I’m planning to re-sell to make me a bit of money). I am so glad I [...]

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Breaking the Chains of Patriarchy: A Short Story on Resistance to Masochism

Posted in Effects of porn, Feminism, Gender, Harms, Heteronormativity, Masochism, Patriarchy, Pornified culture, Pornography, Radical Feminism, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, Sexuality on April 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »

This was written as a short story (hence the use of the past tense), based on real life events. -M.H.   Among my brethren are many who dream with wet pleasure of the eight hundred pains and humiliations, but I am the other kind: I am a slave who dreams of escape after escape, I [...]

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Seduction: connecting the dots?

Posted in Heteronormativity, Life hurts, Patriarchy, Pornified culture, Radical Feminism, Rape, Responding to detractors, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality on January 5, 2009 | 11 Comments »

Seduction is the rapist’s sleazy sales pitch. If I don’t want you without tapping the vast reservoir of conditioned responses to dominance-submission-paradigm eye dances/gender performances/body festishes then our physical transaction amounts to nothing more than a hazy reification of woman-hating. And no person, except a raging sexist and rapist, believes women knowingly consent to these [...]

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