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By steven • 15 years ago

Porn?

I have not really seen a post on Feministing that discusses pornography straight on, porn is usually  mentioned tangentially or comes up in the comments.

So I am wondering what the view of porn are here.  How it affects men, women, society.  Good affects, bad affects, all that stuff.

For dudes, I think porn creates skewed and unrealistic desires.  Not really expectations, but desires, if that makes sense.  I think most guys know that porn is unrealistic, so I think some of the affects are mitigated if men where more gullible.  I think many Feministing readers would disagree, and I am curious to see the response.

In regards to women, if I knew I would not be asking Feministing .  I suspect that ...

I have not really seen a post on Feministing that discusses pornography straight on, porn is usually  mentioned tangentially or comes up in the comments.

So I am wondering what the view of porn are here.  How it ...
By steven • 15 years ago

The Economist and Gender Bending

The Economist has an article regarding the evolution of homosexuality , stating that the "genes that make some people gay could also make their brothers and sisters fecund" (was that really the best word they could have used?  Anyway…)

I was curious what the readers hear on Feministing thought , especially because I detect an absolute hatred of theory suggesting biological determinism (either hard/strict or soft versions) on this site.

Last paragraph for those of you who don’t want to check the link:

According to the final crunching of the numbers, genes explain 27% of an individual’s gender identity and 59% of the variation in the number of sexual partners that people have. The team also measured the genetic component of sexual ...

The Economist has an article regarding the evolution of homosexuality , stating that the "genes that make some people gay could also make their brothers and sisters fecund" (was that really the best word they could ...
By steven • 15 years ago

New Glass Ceiling by DailyKos

This just hit my Google Reader DailyKos stream and I was wondering what the Feministing Community thinks:

Racist Geraldine Ferraro is happily constructing new glass ceilings for women politicians . In short, if they’re not named "Hillary Clinton", they don’t deserve VP consideration.

She’s apparently still bitter that Obama had such an advantage being black with a middle name "Hussein". Who could ever overcome an opponent named Hussein in modern day America?

What’s amazing is how other prominent women are piling on.

Marcia Pappas, who heads the New York state chapter of the National Organization for Women, believes that Clinton supporters “would be outraged to know she was not given that right of first refusal.”

“She is the only woman in history who has ...

This just hit my Google Reader DailyKos stream and I was wondering what the Feministing Community thinks:

Racist Geraldine Ferraro is happily constructing new glass ceilings for women politicians . In short, if they’re not named "Hillary ...

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