However, my birthday is tomorrow and I do not feel like dealing with the faux-feminist bullshit tonight so I will leave you all with a recent post written by a feminist-identified woman asking her readers should dudes have a right to porn in prison?
Before I lunge headfirst into birthday weekend mode, I have to ask: When did men's access to pornography in prison become a feminist issue? When did this involve women's liberation?
Feministing has proven again to be blatantly anti-woman and clearly counter to feminism and feminist objectives. The blog is more concerned with post-modern queer theory, male-identified groups and middle class white issues. Feministing focuses on personal, individual opinions and experiences without providing critical analyses on how those experiences affect women as a class. The website is strongly heterosexual, white male-identified and fails to recognize women's struggles on a global and societal level.
Have a happy, patriarchy-smashing weekend, friends!
Oh God, I'm not even the least bit surprised that Feministing.com would spew out shit like this. Heck, I've stopped reading Feministing, and I don't exactly regret not reading it for a long time. It's just way too mainstream and way too concerned with pleasing male audiences.
ReplyDeleteI must say though, the article on that male prisoner was really pointless. And for goodness sakes, there's nothing sex positive about porn at all and there should be no reason to feel sorry for the poor, "depraved", butthurt, male prisoner.
Feministing makes an epic fail once again!
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Oh, and by the way, Happy Early Birthday! :)
Happy birthday! And thank you for being you. Been reading for a while, finally saying hello.
ReplyDeleteI see it's still dude city over at Feministing! It seems to have hit new lows since I stopped reading there regularly. How nauseating. What an effing joke that place is.
Does this right extend to all men or just the men "privileged" enough to be in prison? If porn is a right, should we start building free porn distribution centers next to, say, soup kitchens? I, mean, if porn is supposed to keep men from being violent then why not?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, if porn really did keep men from being violent then why haven't violent crimes gone down over the past decade as porn as become easier and easier to get for free?
Oh, wait, that's right. Porn only makes men more violent against WOMEN. And why the hell should we care about that when men have boners they need to take care of? -_-
And happy birthday! I hope it's an awesome weekend! :)
I'm done with Feministing now. Thanks for articulating exactly why.
ReplyDelete*sigh* I wrote about this when I heard about it from the CBC. I'm not surprised it made it to Feministing, I'm not surprised they took the pro-porn route. After all, Feministing is just one giant patriarchy-cookie-collection service for fun-fems.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday. Many happy returns.
So, "feminism" has now come to defending men's right to access porn in prison?! Then again, today's feminism can be anything a woman does, as long as it's "sex positive.
ReplyDeleteI left the following comment on their site. Keeping my fingers crossed it will go through, because there's nothing critical so far:
I am a bit confused as to how the rights of male prisoners to have porn became a feminist issue. Are we just fighting any and all "anti-porn" policies, because we want to be "pro-sex" and not "moral crusaders"?
I know there are women reading this (and here I thought feminism was supposed to be about *women*) who have been seriously hurt by pornography. Many women who have exited the porn industry want nothing more than to remove the photographs taken of themselves as they never know who will have seen them (Psychologists call this "realistic paranoia). If not feminists, who is going to defend their right to safety?
It blows my mind how no critical commentary was left there, considering the post was completely ridiculous and anti-feminist. When will this fun-feminist bullshit end?
ReplyDeleteThat is one of the most disgusting pieces of garbage I've ever heard in my life. Feministing is worse to me than Cosmopolitan magazine because at least Cosmo doen't pretend to me feminist (not as much anyways). This comment HORRIFIED me:
ReplyDelete"Being in an all male environment, when a straight male, etc. it seems entirely reasonable to me to say that for some porn could be considered a basic human right."
Porn is a human right? I was under the impression that to not be abused is more of a human right than men's ability to watch abuse.
Also my blood is boiling reading the comments that we could lower prison rape if inmates had access to violent pornography.