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Why is it ok to assume consent during fantasies? I can no longer enjoy erotic fantasy unless consent is very clearly dealt with, but I worry that others' imaginations are not as ethical.
I admit that it sometimes affects my enjoyment of light-hearted pleasurable things and can cause people to use their *confused face* on me when I tell them. It started a few years ago, but now I can’t switch it off. My thing is… I just can’t enjoy fantasies unless consent is very clearly dealt with. Does that seem odd? I’m not entirely sure how it happened either, as I wasn’t always like this. It started a while ago with my own fantasies. I’d be imagining something hot happening with my latest crush, and then the logical side of my brain would step in and say, “but that would never happen.”…
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11 groundbreaking women comic book artists that prove male artists are mediocre The female names that any serious comics geek should know and celebrate.
While the comic book industry has been viewed as a boy’s club for decades, behind the scenes some of the most innovative and creative artists have been women. Here are 11 names any serious comics geek should know and celebrate. Tarpé Mills The early days of comics were very male-dominated, but for June Tarpé Mills, that was just more motivation. The Brooklyn-born artist went by her middle name so that editors and readers wouldn’t know she was a girl. After modeling to pay her way through New York’s Pratt Institute, she worked as a fashion illustrator before working on a number of adventure comics in the early 1940s. Her most…
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10 tricks to making it as a female entrepreneur Here are the top ten skills, traits, and ways of looking at things that are found in every successful female entrepreneur.
Starting one’s own business is not for everyone. Some might think that all you need is money to launch a successful entity. But it requires a lot of hard work and dedication as well. 9 out of 10 startups will fail, and it is not because they lack money. Not everything is about cash, mindset, willingness to risk, and sacrifice also count. Here are the top ten skills, traits, and ways of looking at things that are found in every successful female entrepreneur. Taking risks The statistics of successful risk-taking is far from being on the entrepreneurs’ side, but it should not be discouraging. Consider each of the small failures…
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Girls want (and need) more female superheroes Girls are just as strong as boys.
Who would you rather have save your life? A 15-year-old boy in skin-tight Lycra, who can shoot sticky webs out of his wrists? Or a tall, strong, billowing-haired Amazon woman with bullet-deflecting jewelry and a magic lasso? (If you said Spider-Man, stop reading this and just go away.) While Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Jessica Jones, and Supergirl are paving the way for better hero diversity, girls still lack on-screen female role models, according to research. A new study by BBC America and the Women’s Media Center confirms that representation can positively affect a child’s confidence, career trajectory, and overall self-image. In on an online survey administered over the summer, more…
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Top 5 allegations in the ‘Shitty Media Men’ list A deep dive into the anonymous Google Docs spreadsheet accusing 77 'media men' of anything from awkward DMs to rape—and some legit funny stuff.
A few weeks ago, after the Harvey Weinstein allegations hit, some girls in the media industry put together a Google Doc with names of guys who have been accused of sexual harassment and what have you. It was distributed to other girls in the media industry, who could anonymously edit the document. They were instructed to not send the list to any men and to not flip out if any of their friends were on it. The list was an incredibly dumb idea (2018 update: man named by ‘Shitty Media Men’ list sues its creator, Moira Donegan, for $1.5 million), and it was only a matter of time before someone…
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The pineapple 🍍 is the feminist fruit we’ve been waiting for The banana is phallic. The peach is pink. The pineapple is just perfect.
Based on emoji use alone, the dainty peach was, heretofore, the fruit most closely aligned with the female anatomy. But a writer for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter contends that it’s actually the pineapple that is the world’s most female fruit. Indeed, the pineapple is having a fashion moment. It’s appearing on everything from formal gowns to the sale rack at Forever 21. It’s being re-appropriated as a design element under powerful female designer Stella McCartiney. Yves Saint Laurent has also embraced the pineapple. It’s easy to see the appeal. But it’s more than that. When you examine the intersection of pineapple and culture, you come to realize the pineapple has…
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Could it be time to deny white men the franchise? This redistribution of the world’s wealth is long overdue, and it is not just South Africa where white males own a disproportionate amount of wealth.
[The following piece first appeared on Huffington Post, but was removed after causing controversy. We can’t let cowards and bullies win. We see it as our duty to republish Shelley’s potent writing. Update: We were on the right side of history. The Nation has since come around to the issue and is now posting excellent pieces like The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice.] Some of the biggest blows to the progressive cause in the past year have often been due to the votes of white men. If white men were not allowed to vote, it is unlikely that the United Kingdom would be leaving the European Union, it…
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Bring on the sexbots Sexbots will increase the market value of good women. Here's how.
Economics is often called ‘the dismal science’, and having sat through graduate level courses in Economics as part of my MBA, I can verify that claim. I found economics to be incredibly frustrating because it can articulate grand concepts like supply, demand, consumption, distribution and production, but higher order analysis is founded on two completely wrong assumptions. First, economic analysis assumes that people act in their own self-interest always, and it assumes people have all the relevant information they need to make a decision. Clearly, these two assumptions are wildly, grossly incorrect: people do not always act in their own self-interest (which is why Donald Trump will be the next…
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Feminists don’t challenge radical Islam because real misogynists are terrifying Hypocrites.
Phyllis Chesler has a piece up at the New York Post demanding to know why feminists refuse to challenge radical Islam in any of its manifestations. The Middle East and Western Africa are burning; Iran is raping female civilians and torturing political prisoners; the Pakistani Taliban are shooting young girls in the head for trying to get an education and disfiguring them with acid if their veils are askew — and yet, NOW passed no resolution opposing this. What is going on? Chesler diagnoses rampant feminist cowardice, and she is quite correct. Feminists are largely spoiled, middle-class white girls unaccustomed to concepts like accountability or responsibility, and courage is a…
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The “wage gap” explained in simple terms We even have pictures.
Women do earn less than men on average, but that is because women make different choices. There is no wage gap measured in terms of hours worked. Let’s try with pictures first. Women in the West, for the most part, can safely assume that men will provide for them, either through private arrangements like marriage, or through progressive taxation. Since men work more hours and earn more money than women, they also contribute more to the taxbase, which liberal governments increasingly hand out to women. Men are forced to pay for women, whether they agree to do so or not. Men who vote for socially progressive governments are essentially agreeing to…