Comments on: Can we stop misrepresenting our own movement?

By: Narcissist Feminism | Feminism @ the Hathor Legacy

Narcissist Feminism | Feminism @ the Hathor Legacy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:13:31 +0000

[...] You just can’t figure it out what the problem is when people point out that the stuff you’re proposing only benefits white heterosexual girls of means. [...]

By: Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » The problem with feminism lite

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:10:09 +0000

[...] time this feminism lite gets marketed as the feminism (not always intentionally, but often through poor wording choices or just because the book becomes [...]

By: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » You can only say ‘Yes’ if you can say ‘No’

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:18:50 +0000

[...] Valenti’s Call for Submissions for ‘Yes means Yes’.Firefly, BlackAmazon, Sylvia, Tekanji, Chris Clarke, Sudy, Magniloquence, and Theriomorph are just some of the people who have written [...]

By: This is such bullshit. « Problem Chylde: Learning in Transition

This is such bullshit. « Problem Chylde: Learning in Transition — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:04:45 +0000

[...] I’m enjoying the disappearing act on so many people who have written so many thought-out and remarkable things on the subject of rape culture, feminism, women of color [...]

By: Feministing, Men, Feminism, and Consent Controversy « Editorializing the Editors

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:07:22 +0000

[...] of no?“; Roy’s response to imfallingup on No Cookies for Me; tekanji’s “Can we stop misrepresenting our own movement?“; and plenty of conversations on a radfem forum about the call. After the forums, I read The [...]

By: Omitofo « tomemos

Omitofo « tomemos — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:22:22 +0000

[...] and intelligent. Nevertheless, the same kind of duping is often present: at the Shrub Blog, I observed that some criticism of Yes Means Yes, in dismissing the link between women’s sexuality and [...]

By: Don’t you know that other kids are starving in Japan « tomemos

Don’t you know that other kids are starving in Japan « tomemos — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:29:44 +0000

[...] where it spills over into unfounded incriminations of progressives generally. At an excellent post by tekanji at Shrub Blog—a post that correctly critiques aspects of book’s promotional [...]

By: donna darko

donna darko — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:00:21 +0000

The terminology of the proposal is very middle-class, white and trivializing but I agree with Riane Eisler's dominator to partnership, pain to pleasure paradigm shifts. Amanda Marcotte wrote a post about this. Basically, the conservative framing of sex is about conquest and liberal sex is like playing a duet.

By: Spice Girls Feminism: why the third wave needs more than a band-aid

Spice Girls Feminism: why the third wave needs more than a band-aid — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:01:42 +0000

[...] BetaCandy First I read Purtek and followed her links. I pored over the article and comments on Tekanji’s blog. Then Purtek posted again, and led me to this glorious critique. I can’t add much to the criticisms [...]

By: BetaCandy

BetaCandy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:25:53 +0000

since my father taught me how to distinguish a man who thinks even slight coercion is okay from one who doesn’t,

I realized too late the irony might be lost here: I meant that he taught me that distinction by being a man who thought coercion of the female was a natural and acceptable part of sex.