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Tweak says, "Gibberish!"

lissiel (lissiel) wrote,
@ 2009-04-05 17:53:00

Tweak says, "I'm the man."
Can we, collectively, drop the trope that penetrative sex is equivalent to stabbing and/or inherently violent in nature now please? As a society?

Also? THIS. SO MUCH THIS.

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	(Anonymous) 2009-04-05 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	Trope as in concept? Its only violent when its rape, but other then that I don't see any violence. I'm not so sure that we can get rid of the phallic thoughts about swords/knives. I guess violents acts are messy (body fluid wise.). Not exactly sure what else to say. How was your weekend? --Greta (Reply to this) (Thread)

lissiel
2009-04-05 08:40 pm UTC (link)

It comes up a lot in feminist and military sexual rhetoric (if there were ever stranger groups to use similar ways of talking about things), but other groups use the idea a lot too. I hesitate to even say metaphor, because it seems like a lot of people really honestly thing there's something literally, inherently an attack about penetrative sex. And I just. Am really, really sick of it.

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(Anonymous)
2009-04-05 11:40 pm UTC (link)

I am a little confused about what the second to last sentence means: "I hesitate to even say metaphor, because it seems like a lot of people really honestly thing there's something literally, inherently an attack about penetrative sex." Military vocab has always leaned toward using euphemisms ( i think, just guessing). I don't know about feminists. What did you read or talk about with someone that upset you? I'm not that great at feminist debate so I hope you don't mind if I am not too clear.
--Greta

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	(Anonymous) 2009-04-06 02:33 am UTC (link)
	I didn't see the pics of the sinks and such. Gross. This looks like its from mexico or something. Very sexist down there still. --Greta (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lissiel 2009-04-08 02:12 am UTC (link)
	It's my understanding that these are from the US. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

(Anonymous)
2009-04-10 10:00 pm UTC (link)

Where in the U.S. are these ugly things from?
--Greta

I am a little confused about what the second to last sentence means: "I hesitate to even say metaphor, because it seems like a lot of people really honestly thing there's something literally, inherently an attack about penetrative sex." Military vocab has always leaned toward using euphemisms ( i think, just guessing). I don't know about feminists. What did you read or talk about with someone that upset you? I'm not that great at feminist debate so I hope you don't mind if I am not too clear.
--Greta

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