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By bookaholic • 11 years ago

Hey gorgeous, nice tits!

The first time I tried talking about street harassment with a male friend, he told me that he would be flattered by the attention.  This sort of stymied me, because I couldn’t agree with him, but didn’t have the words to describe how being the subject of street harassment feels.  That experience prompted me to consider precisely why street harassment is more than just compliments from strangers.

What is street harassment, I hear you ask? It’s catcalls, and compliments yelled from passing cars, whistles directed at 14 year old girls and 40 year old women alike.  It’s feeling nervous when walking down the hill from my school at night because of the one time there was a group of teen-aged boys leaning nonchalantly on the fence by the tennis courts.

No snow where I live, but too good to pass up.
By bookaholic • 11 years ago

Lesbian feminist or feminist and ?

I’m fond of saying that everyone should be a feminist, because everyone either is a woman, loves a woman, is queer* or all three; which is why lesbians make such good feminists.  When I told my friend B this, she saw right to the heart of the matter, and asked if I had a girlfriend.  Astute friends like that make coming out easy.

I’m not a lesbian because I’m a feminist, and I’d always presumed the contrary was true as well; but B made me think about the link.  Am I a feminist because I am a lesbian?

Six months earlier I’d been expounding on a feminist point with another group of friends, and K asked me, whether, being a feminist, ...

I’m fond of saying that everyone should be a feminist, because everyone either is a woman, loves a woman, is queer* or all three; which is why lesbians make such good feminists.  When I told my friend ...