I personally can feel it is tricky to sometimes feel the joy and the calm of Xmas-time. This is because of many reasons. For some people, the Xmas has nothing to do with joy and togetherness. It can be a rather lonely affair, when the one who is lonely get even more lonely because of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘feminism’
December 5, 2009
Stuck in the essay-monster
While writing the last essay before X-mas, there is not very much time to post something proper, but instead, read this, a post about the problematic relationship between kink and gender. Or maybe even what problems with the structural relationship between gender looks like.
Both sides of the gender superiority thing construct a very narrow definition [...]
November 11, 2009
The Lies about the Ten Lies-part 3
We have Zxenu Cronstrom Beskow onboard as our guestblogger. He examines the radical feminist claims abut ‘lies’ told by BDSMers.
The first part
Second part
Part 3: “Sadomasochism versus Radical Feminist dogma”
If Farley had openly accused sadomasochists of not conforming to the dogmas of her particular brand of radical feminism, then she had been correct. But this is [...]
November 7, 2009
The Lies about the Lies, part 2
First part by Xzenu Cronström Beskow can be found here.
To recap, the ten lies that Melissa Farley claims to uncover, are:
1. Pain is pleasure; humiliation is enjoyable; bondage is liberation.
2. Sadomasochism is love and trust, not domination and annihilation.
3. Sadomasochism is not racist and anti Semitic even though we “act” like slave owners and enslaved [...]
November 3, 2009
The Lies about the Ten Lies, by Guestblogger
Ve: When I first read Melissa Farleys piece ‘Ten Lies about Sadomasochism’ I wanted to respond. I did not know how, but kept the text in the back of my head.
Then, time went by, and I did not give a proper response. Instead, a couple of weeks ago I saw the text was mentioned [...]
October 30, 2009
I’ve been bad
Daddy, I’ve been so bad. Not updating the blog…
No, not really. I’m just saying that all those updates I’m planning takes a bit more time than I thought. It’s worth waiting for, because we are going to be speaking about needles. We are going to look at a radical feminists argument against BDSM and pick [...]