Decent article by Rachel Kramer Bussel last week in the Village Voice:
Sexual freedom is not the only, or the most pressing, issue facing American women today, but it’s vital to any true feminist movement. Excoriating other women and berating them for a host of erotic sins creates unnecessary divisions and puts people on the defensive. No one has the right to tell you how to fuck.
Good question.. perhaps the author buys into the myth of the cold, man-hating feminist as much as anyone else and wrote this as a needless response?
Oh, for crying out loud, she gave references and hotlinked to a particularly notorious site. How much documentation do you want?
I didn’t look. I blame Aunt B..
So help me, if either one of you jokers besmirches Aunt B, I will not be held responsible for the consequences.
Thank you, Amanda. I see now it is my job to school the unread on how things work in the land of radical feminism.
First, her “scolds” are not feminist spokespeople, especially rabbi Shmuley Boteach. So, for Bussel to cite them and then claim some kind of rift in feminism is slightly dishonest. It’d be like me quoting Clinton to prove a “rift” in the Republican party.
Point two, you would dare call Twisty “a particularly notorious site”? Twisty is hilarious. And, when she started her little “blow jobs are inherently oppresive” rant, she even blatently said that she was trolling her own site.
If a ridiculously funny person says “I’m going to say something so obnoxious y’all will not be able to believe it just to see how the fight goes,” how can she be to blame when idiots take her seriously?
Nice dodge about feminist “spokespeople”. You guys have elections, or is that an appointed position? All I know is what I read on teh intarwebnets:
“Ariel Levy has given us an important, lively, shocking investigative report about how and why - in an age of HIV/AIDS and religious fundamentalism - US commercialism has mainstreamed pornography, popularized raunch images (and practices), and revived female “bimbo” roles. This is a call to arms for women and girls who are being sold pseudo empowerment, phony liberation, and fake rebellion - instead of the real thing: freedom. A must-read for young women - and everyone else.” -Robin Morgan, author and activist
Then again, if you find Twisty “ridiculously funny” there isn’t much point in talking to you. Good day.
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Yes, but doesn’t that kind of seem like a solution in search of a problem? Where’s this great army of anti-sex feminists?