Posts Tagged with ‘consent’
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Socialist Unity: Cesspit of the Left
07 Sep 2012
Those familiar with the state of the UK left will be familiar with the Socialist Unity blog, the cesspit which has taken over from the UKLN email list as the place for old white men to put the world to rights. It must be the most misnamed blog in the …
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Consent doesn’t have to be enthusiastic
06 Sep 2012
The concept of consent has been in the news recently with the Assange case, Galloway and Akin comments. In the West, most rape is perpetrated under conditions of pre-existing relationships, and most issues over the justification for a rape being perpetrated tend to come from the conditions under which a …
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Towards a sex-neutral feminism
23 Mar 2012
Over at the (very excellent) Radical Transfeminist blog, Lisa Millbank has been thinking through some of the theory behind "sex-negative feminism". This current has been out of fashion in contemporary feminist thinking since its heyday in the 70s and 80s with the rise of political lesbianism and the use of …
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Porn, Rape and Consent
14 Jan 2012
A really interesting twitterspat broke out yesterday over this article on the anti-porn men blog, with several feminists becoming rather enraged at the perceived denial of agency and objectification of women in the sex industry as base materials for the extraction of a commodity as well as the concept of "implicit rape". Sophie …
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The Honeytrap of the Worker Bees
22 Dec 2011
This week, the Guardian broke the news that eight women are planning to sue the Met over relationships that they had with undercover police officers. Over a course of 23 years from 1987 to 2010, men sent by the police to infiltrate protest groups have initiated sexual relationships with female …
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Teaching girls to say “yes”
17 Oct 2011
In May this year a bill proposed by Nadine Dorries was narrowly passed which required that schools provided girls (only girls mind) with sex education which extorted the benefits of abstinence. Quoted in the Guardian, she states that she had spoken to many teenage girls "do not even think they …
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Sexual Violence and the Justice System
04 Aug 2011
In May 2011, Ken Clarke caused outrage by remarks made in a media interview. When questioned about the tariffs received for rape convictions, he asserted “A serious rape, with violence and an unwilling woman, the tariff is much longer … Date rape can be as serious as the worst rapes, …
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On Victims and Sluts
29 May 2011
Reclaim the Night started in the UK as a response to the “Yorkshire Ripper” murders, but took off later particularly in the US in response to exposure of the high incidences of rapes on US campuses. Linked with campaigns for “blue light” emergency phones in dark areas of campus and …