XX Discontents

That moment when I become consciously aware of the way I walk as a group of men follows me on the street, and decide whether to make it a little quicker, a little more confident, a little more purposeful… that moment isn’t important. It doesn’t make me feel unfairly treated. It doesn’t ruin my evening. [...]

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Denigration and Deification: Two Forms of Dehumanization

Women’s beauty and behavior is always monitored, appraised and upheld as Ideal or disparaged as dirty. How easy (I indulgently tell myself, not ever having experienced it) to be the anonymous, observant Everyman! I think the hideous treatment of black women by our culture and its beauty standards is more of a “guilty secret” that [...]

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Not inferior, superior, sick or the same!

Women! Men are often charmed and amused by what they regard as the mysterious behavior of women, but they typically feel no need to decipher it. “That’s women for you,” they say with a shrug or a smile. “Who knows what they want?” Songs, plays, novels and cartoons have long relied on this joke, although [...]

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The Best Sign Titles at Philadelphia’s SlutWalk

The only violence I like has a safe word Leaving my house ≠ asking for your opinion about my body I wasn’t assaulted as I child because I was SEXY I wasn’t wearing THIS when I was RAPED and this one… and this one from Toronto… this one was good too! I joke. And it [...]

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