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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Steubenville, Consent, and the Great American Wiggins Over Teen Sex 3 months ago · View
Our culture has a rape problem in part because we haven’t taken the time as a society to discuss consent, particularly with impressionable young people. Talking to young people – particularly young men – about not raping includes telling them to seek an enthusiastic and cogent “yes” to sex rather than simply proceed with sex in [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: On Steubenville and teaching young men not to rape 3 months ago · View
With the horrific response to Zerlina Maxwell’s ( who is amazing ) recent appearance on FOX News and CNN’s appalling hand-wringing over the fate of the Steubenville rapists (call on them to apologize here), I’ve had just about my fill of the mainstream take on rape. But rising above the burnout-inducing articles rehashing every aspect of this case and the nastiness that continues [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View
When you set unnatural expectations of what a human body can do, you create unhealthy perfectionism in those watching the performance – be that a malnourished model on a catwalk, a drug-enhanced cyclist at the Tour de France, or Beyoncé Knowles lip syncing at the inauguration. That’s why I love this rendition SO much more [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Kasandra Michelle Perkins, the name we need to be saying, along with the words “domestic violence” 6 months, 2 weeks ago · View
When a Kansas City Chiefs linebacker killed his girlfriend over the weekend, the press was very quick to jump on the story. They talked about his dramatic suicide , about his record, about the Chiefs and their losing season . A Facebook group for Chiefs fans wrote: “While we are mired in a bad season with bad play and bad management, [...] -
Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Trans identity no longer a ‘disorder’ in influential psychiatric diagnosis manual 6 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I don’t think that being trans is a mental illness, and it shouldn’t be classified as such. That said, a lot of conditions in the DSM are perfectly healthy responses to trauma. It’s reasonable to suggest that the stressors and trauma associated with being assigned the wrong gender at birth (let alone being discriminated against [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: In case you need scripture to justify a lifesaving abortion 7 months ago · View
By now, we’ve all heard the horrific story of Savita Halappanavar . She was a thirty-one year old woman from India who was visiting Ireland with her husband when she miscarried her pregnancy. Even though her fetus was not viable, even though abortion is legal in Ireland to save the life of the mother , and even though she [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Breaking: Love believes in Love Today. Washington passes Referendum 74. A sweep for Marriage Equality Amendments 7 months, 2 weeks ago · View
As a Washingtonian and lifelong supporter of rights for sexual minorities, I’m so delighted by the tidal wave of equality and love that is sweeping over my state and the nation.
The best is yet to come, friends!
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Favourite new tumblr: Fuck No Sexist Halloween Costumes 7 months, 4 weeks ago · View
In his most recent Lovecast, Dan Savage raised a really interesting point about this that I hadn’t previously considered. He contends that Halloween has been appropriated as a heterosexual bacchanalia – a way for straight people to shuffle off the constraints around sexual behavior that follow us around the other 364 days of the year. [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post When domestic violence is deadly: Shooter kills three women at a Wisconsin salon 8 months ago · View
It seems like the vast majority of domestic violence committed by women against men is emotional and psychological rather than physical. I’ve heard of women shooting their male partners before, but I’ve never heard a story about a woman “snapping” and murdering a defenseless, innocent guy. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened – but it [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Quote of the Day: Akin said abortions are given “to women who are not actually pregnant” 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Does Todd Akin think that abortions are fun or something? Because that’s the only way that it’s possible for him to think that abortions are provided to women who aren’t pregnant. Either that or maybe he’s making an extremely misguided and poorly articulated claim that abortion providers are fraudulently performing “abortions” on non-pregnant women for [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Domestic Violence Awareness: Emotional Abuse is a Real Thing 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
October is domestic violence awareness month , so I want to talk about a little-recognized form of DV: emotional abuse. I have experience with this, and I’m afraid to talk about it. Emotional abuse is not widely recognized as DV and I fear I’ll be accused of crying wolf because I got my feelings hurt. I’m going [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post The Wednesday Weigh-in: Lady Gaga’s Body Revolution Edition 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
You have a very valid point, which is that we shouldn’t be looking for external validation and should instead be focusing on internal qualities that we like about ourselves. But that’s not where everyone is yet. I have a hard time putting a finger on what exactly I disagree with in your statement, though, so this [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post The Wednesday Weigh-in: Lady Gaga’s Body Revolution Edition 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
I don’t see anything wrong with what Lady Gaga is doing. She’s attempting to draw attention to how the media’s obsession with thinness hurts real people, including her. She’s also encouraging people to look at themselves and their bodies through the lens of their own self love and to recognize that they don’t have to [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Cultural appropriation and Halloween 9 months ago · View
*I accidentally clicked “report comment” link because it’s rightnexto the “reply” link.
* @Sam – I think you hit the nail on the head, I’m not going as an “Indian Woman” but rather as a character whose clothing was inspired by Indian (and Chinese, for that matter) traditional fashion. Thanks for helping me think this through. [...] -
Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Cultural appropriation and Halloween 9 months ago · View
Halloween (my personal favorite holiday because you get to play dress up) is coming and I’m all excited. Of course, Halloween is an opportunity for costume manufacturers to appropriate other people’s cultures and sell them as cheap stereotypes for fun and profit – which I’ve always condemned roundly as being lame. But this Halloween, I’m wondering exactly where that [...] -
Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Secretary Clinton’s Spot-On Remarks About Religious Offense and Violent Response 9 months ago · View
The New York Times had a great article today that contextualized the current wave of anti-US violence in parts of the Middle East:
In a context where insults to religion are crimes and the state has tightly controlled almost all media, many in Egypt, like other Arab countries, sometimes find it hard to understand that the American government feels [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: Personal and political: Breaking the cycle of abuse 9 months ago · View
Breaking all of our cycles of abuse is the very definition of “the personal is political.” Abuse is an unconscious pattern, not an intentionally chosen plan. Obviously, there are exceptions. But from what I’ve seen and read, it seems like most of the people who get involved in abusive dynamics – as perpetrators, victims, or [...]
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Tae Phoenix wrote a new blog post: David Brooks redeems himself 9 months, 1 week ago · View
This summer, I excoriated David Brooks for his column lamenting boys’ underperformance in school relative to their female peers. I was particularly unimpressed by his claim that little boys could reasonably conclude – based on playground safety rules and classroom behavioral requirements – that “the official school culture is for wimps and softies.” But in his most [...]
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist GIF 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Color me confused. Is this in reference to a recent statement? Hillary Clinton said the same thing while she was positioning herself for her 2008 presidential bid, but I haven’t been able to find something said recently.
Love the GIF though.
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Tae Phoenix commented on the blog post 5 reasons why Michelle Obama would make a better president than Mitt Romney 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
*I accidentally clicked “report this comment” instead of “reply.” My apologies.* I think it’s sad that we’re still at a point where one prominent woman speaking about her personal experience as a mother (even if it is part of trying to get her husband re-elected) carries so much weight that it can be a force [...]
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