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Rapist Bags! Hilarious!

  As Shakesville puts it, “Note to Timbuk2: If a man “steals” a woman’s virginity, it’s called rape. Even if it is “prom night” or whatevthefuck an underage-looking girl in a tacky party dress is meant to represent.” Ok, so I am thoroughly disappointed in Timbuk2. I really thought they were about something beyond the [...]

Reactions to Objectification in Japan

Rape culture in Japan is much more extreme than  it is here in the States. There is a weaker taboo against ephebophilia, the “sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to pubescent adolescents,” which has resulted in a culture of so called “lollipop” or “Lolita” pornography of prepubescent girls, of [...]

This Is Not Sex: this is just a pose.

  Check out this video essay, “A Web Essay on The Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and The Pose” by Thomas Streeter, Nicole Hintlian, Samantha Chipetz, and Susanna Callender. It makes a lot of the points about the representation of women in the contemporary media as differing from representations of men.