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[la_marquise]

I think this lady has said it best of all -- wonderful satire:

http://hahathor.livejournal.com/120502.html?view=446646#t446646

with many thanks to hahathor for allowing me to link to her.

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I have known hahathor since years before LJ existed, and she's sound.

And I've got nothing to add to the echo chamber other than: it's things like this that make me think the construction of male privilege needs to be condemned as unfit for habitation.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

misia did it first, with the Open Source Kick In The Balls Project.

I guess (what was conceived as) a mutual, consensual, fully opt-in exercise in giving and receiving pleasure between rational equals is precisely the same thing as a random act of violence after all, at least in our current social climate. Everyone on their flists seems to agree. Anyway, I've said my piece on it, and now I know how everyone feels I won't be bringing it up again.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

It's a touch on the tl:dr side, but tablesaw's epic "Get the f*ck out of my gender, you're making it look skeevy" in 3 parts here;

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html?thread=54722758

and loligo's "My breasts do not exist to fix you" further down that thread went some way to restoring my faith in humanity.