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Post-feminist society? I think not. On LoveRance and “Up!”

This song called “Up!” by LoveRance feat. 50 cent regularly on the radio.

Chorus repeats:

I beat the p*ssy up up up up up up up

Lyrics include these lines:

d*ck your girl down cuz i know she really need it
put it in your gut, tear that p*ssy up
tell me where it hurts spread them legs
And you know i ate the p*ssy cuz she light skin

It is jaw droppingly offensive.

Are we in a post feminist society? I think not, particularly with audio pornography like this on the radio. I’m not going to bother analyzing what is wrong with these amazingly misogynistic lyrics- you all know.

These are not just lyrics on a random rap album- this song is #9 on the Billboard Top 10. This propaganda receives a lot of attention- and not, from what I’ve seen, from a feminist perspective.

Sometimes I think ignoring this type of hateful anti-woman propaganda is best. It can be overwhelming to see how much women are hated and viewed as mere objects to be f’kd.

But then I hear folks claiming that women and men are equal, and that we don’t need feminism (folks in my real life, and of course MRAs).

Of course, we all know that’s BS. But perhaps it’s a good idea to keep track of virulent misogyny (and also, colorism in this example) to whip out when arguing against anti-feminists.

We’ve got work to do.

Help flag Odd Future’s new video to have it taken down

Hi Fellow Feministas,

Odd Future, a popular rap group that often uses misogynistic and hateful lyrics in their songs, has a new video call “Bitch Suck Dick.” The title alone gives you enough information about how offensive this song is. The video already has over 200,000 hits on youtube. You can go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-NcRXK-s4 and flag the video as hateful towards women to have it taken down. This makes me so sad and angry. MTV would have never allowed this to air.

Hi Fellow Feministas,

Odd Future, a popular rap group that often uses misogynistic and hateful lyrics in their songs, has a new video call “Bitch Suck Dick.” The title alone gives you enough information about how offensive this ...

MacKinnon’s “Sexuality”

Something rings of a tautology or, at the very least, a contradiction in the piece Sexuality by Catherine MacKinnon. In the piece, she argues that sexuality is the primary source of women’s oppression globally. As radical feminists are known to do, she takes an extremely macro approach to the study of gender inequity as it relates to sexual oppression and concludes, rather prematurely, that the sexual objectification of women occurs “…first in the world, then in the head, first in visual appropriation, then in forced sex, finally in sexual murder…” Women are universally oppressed because men make sexual slaves of them. End of story.

MacKinnon also critiques neo-liberal individualism. This is a respectable radical feminist critique. Any thoughtful person will surely ...

Something rings of a tautology or, at the very least, a contradiction in the piece Sexuality by Catherine MacKinnon. In the piece, she argues that sexuality is the primary source of women’s oppression globally. As radical feminists ...

John Yoo is coming to my campus, and I need your input!

Hi everyone,

This is my first post on Feministing (yay)! But you all are fellow feminists, activists, and thinkers so, who better to turn to?

John Yoo (you know, of torture memo fame, those “enhanced interrogation techniques”) is coming to my campus later in October. It is not a lecture but a “discussion,” meaning a poli sci professor will question him for a certain time and then it’s a free-for-all in terms of questioning Yoo.

We are a small, Catholic college in New England so, I think it’s probable that MANY people will have tough questions for him. But I am asking you all: if you had John Yoo at your disposal, what would you ask!? I have some thoughts in my own ...

Hi everyone,

This is my first post on Feministing (yay)! But you all are fellow feminists, activists, and thinkers so, who better to turn to?

John Yoo (you know, of torture memo fame, those “enhanced interrogation techniques”) is coming ...

We’ve Had Enough

At four in the morning on Tuesday September 27th, a woman yawns her way out of bed. She’s going to attend a rally in a far-off city she hardly ever goes to. The commuting time is around three hours and it all starts early in the morning. She spoke that day and though I don’t remember her name, I remember the personal sacrifice she made and why she made it.

She knows about Pennsylvania Senate Bill 732 and the recent Republican campaign to prevent women from having access to abortion care, which already requires a long trip to one of Pennsylvania’s bigger cities.

She knows about how Republicans are trying to enact a law that would that would regulate the abortion clinics ...

At four in the morning on Tuesday September 27th, a woman yawns her way out of bed. She’s going to attend a rally in a far-off city she hardly ever goes to. The commuting time is around ...

My Contribution to “It Gets Better”

There have been very legitimate criticisms leveled at Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” video campaign: that it has excluded LGBTQ people of color, that it assumes or encourages passivity in the face of a hostile environment, et cetera. But it has been a source of community-building, solidarity, and support, and I have offered my own contribution to the campaign. (Unfortunately, the settings on Community blog posts don’t seem to allow for video embedding.) The video can also be viewed on my vlog.

I created the video in part as a response to the coverage of the death of Jamey Rodemeyer and of his struggle with homophobia and bullying. Though I did not know Jamey, I did also attend Williamsville ...

There have been very legitimate criticisms leveled at Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” video campaign: that it has excluded LGBTQ people of color, that it assumes or encourages passivity in the face of a hostile environment, et ...

Enough with the fashionable gender stereotypes

“Who has time to do homework when there is a new Justin Bieber album out?” That was JCPenney’s product description of a shirt for girls aged 7-16. The shirt read: “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.”

Then Forever 21 created a shirt for young girls that read “Allergic to Algebra.”

Both shirts triggered such a storm in traditional media and the blogosphere that JCPenney and Forever21 have pulled them from the market. In a statement, JCPenney claimed that the company “agrees that the Too-Pretty T-shirt does not deliver an appropriate message.” Forever 21 apologizes to customers “as the intent was not to discredit education.”

While it is heartening that the ...

“Who has time to do homework when there is a new Justin Bieber album out?” That was JCPenney’s product description of a shirt for girls aged 7-16. The shirt read: “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my ...