Ahahahahahahahaha Penis Power!!

This makes me think of a conversation on another blog where a lot of men were making the ridiculous claim that women have "power" because they want to have sex with us (whereas women, being the cold fish we are, just don't care all that much about sex, so we can withhold it and get things like money for giving it up. Which, of course, equals power. Just like being a grocery clerk equals power, because someone's paying you to do it). I think this discussion is a pretty good indicator of just how wrong that thinking is.

Vagina Power! Is that for real? I'm so glad I had time to watch the whole thing...it gets better and better. Amazing what's put out there in the world. Yes, it is laden with heterosexist cliches and assumptions about women and men, but this video is like a car crash - you just can't look away!

The video is gone. Can you summarize?

Never mind - technical glitch

I sent this video to a friend who got really pissed off at me. She felt, "the woman was right on point" and that she knows "many women in exactly the same situations as the woman described." She's black, I'm white; so perhaps she's pissed at me for seemingly laughing at a woman of color (though its not the down-home "presentation" of her views that I find funny necessarily, but the content of her ideas), but still, is this one of those things that because my consciousness hasn't been (or cannot be) raised to the point of fully understanding where this woman is coming from and thus should not offer critique? Or is my friend, who by the way doesn't have any close black female friends, just pissed at me because she's in a bad marriage because of the "good black man" shortage and resents my satisfaction with single-status and pretty much tries to disagree with any idea I have about heterosexual relationships because she's in a bad place emotionally right now? Maybe that's TMI about my best friend right now (and her abusive relationship and marriage has deteriorated our relationship because I'm getting emotionally fatigued with her mode of either crying on the phone or putting me down for being single, so this might not be as much racial as it is our particularly predicament), but I'm wondering, did anyone else have an offended reaction to calling this video "funny"? Is anyone else feeling more of a resonance with what's she's saying? Is laughing at that video inherently racist?

I'm getting "Video is no longer available" / "Video has been removed by the user" as well.

I don't think anyone can discount what this woman was saying. Certainly not if you have never been in a bad relationship that you stayed in because the sex was great. It happens.

I loved that video even though at points it seemed daft. The real point is that just because a guy makes you feel great in bed and flatters you doesn't mean you have to give over to him regardless of what else he does (like abuse you). It's a very valid message and I'm guessing it will give some number of women the strength they need to get out of a fundamentally abusive relationship.

Thank you 21stCenturyMom.

http://www.alexyssktylorvaginapower.com/akt/index.php
the above link is Alexyss Tylor's website - the woman in the video.

I think she's empowering and at least from the video - amazing.

Yesterday I read numerous male bloggers, and 1 female blogger who described the video as "deranged" and "hilarious" and so funny they just had a great laugh about it. What?

I think she has some valid points and instead of laughing maybe we should listen and then people will understand her words.

PS - I love her voice/words/how she speaks. Amazing.

*Sometimes the above link says funny things like "won't be available until *random time*. I have no idea why it does that.

There is a video's tab on the right side, where we can all watch some more great stuff.

I agree -- some of the things she said were funny and weird ("Penis Power," hahahahahahaha, still laughing) -- but what I LOVE about this video is that it makes it clear that, yeah, women are just as susceptible to sexual enjoyment as men, and it can fuck with us JUST AS MUCH.

I want to send this video to a friend of mine -- he's generally pretty good about gender issues and generally considers women's issues akin to other minority issues (he's vocal about minority rights issues). But the other night we somehow got into a conversation about young men's (18ish) hormones and his view that it's practically impossible for guys that age not to be obsessed with sex. My opinion is, yes, obviously hormones can fuck with you, and they fuck with women too. The difference is that for women it's not an automatic excuse to behave poorly. If you're not able to control your own hormones, then you need to be controlled. He seems to think that it's somehow "harder" for guys than for girls, which obviously pissed me off. We're just as able to get fucked up in the head by good sex (granted, good sex is a lot harder for us to find, as this woman also notes) -- but I hate that this is never acknowledged, as though women don't want/like/need sex every bit as much as men (and, therefore, it's okay to have a world that caters to men's sexual needs and not women's).

He seems to think that it's somehow "harder" for guys than for girls, which obviously pissed me off.
*giggle*
No pun intended, yeah?
Hee

What? Like, after that video, nobody else giggled, too? =)

hahahaha, okay roymac, you're right. That was unintentionally funny :)

Check out her website: http://vaginapower.info

Damn it! I missed the vagina power! The video isn't available any longer and the website is down.

I get a lot of guys trying to give me the "it's much harder for guys to turn down sex (no pun intended) etc. etc." and then i'll just tell them that the only reason that is is because society said it was okay for men to be horndogs and they put the emphasis on male sexuality and enjoyment. You should see the shocked faces when I tell them that there was a time in history where men believed WOMEN were the ones who couldn't get enough and that men didn't want sex as much as women and because of that women needed to be controlled. It didn't switch over until sometime after the Victorian era I believe.

Ultra -- but notice. What's interesting about that is that, when it's WOMEN who can't get enough, well then those wimmins need to be CONTROLLED. When it's men -- hey, you gotta let boys be boys, right?

Argh, I'm getting pissed now.

Yes LF, I got that. And it too upsets me. That and a desire for paternity pretty much did us womens in:P

Am I the only one that found her views disturbing?

Found another mirror:

http://www.devilducky.com/media/60668/

Searching YouTube for "Penis Power" will bring up this and several related videos.