KvP
Recents Comments from KvP
- While I agree with the overall thrust of the post with regard to SG's objectification, I remember sneaking a peek at the website as a teen boy, and to my memory your assertions of enforced body norms were largely untrue.
(posted to False Prophets: The Myth of the Suicide Girls) - And I should note that I'm trying to be respectful and tasteful when speaking of "non-conventional" models' bodies. From the way I worded it, it might sound as though the women were just slightly different from the pornographic norm, but
(posted to False Prophets: The Myth of the Suicide Girls) - I'm concerned about what happens when those two aims conflict. I would assume the parents would relent when the child shows a strong will to step outside the box they've made for ze (a term I will use for the
(posted to Is it possible to raise a child outside the gender binary?) - I'd say that things like this go beyond blaming the victim. There's a real and disturbing dissonance here because officially, there is no victim. If the girl could be charged for a crime how could she be a victim? Who
(posted to Sexting- What do you think about it?) - I think that when it comes to consciousness and life, all living people really believe the old rationalist assertion - "It is greater to exist than not to exist". If we believe the contrary, as you profess to, then it
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Responses to Comments from KvP
- I do think the girl needs to be charged with something in this case, but I have a somewhat unique view on this. I am currently studying to be a high school teacher, so are some of my friends. Now (posted to Sexting- What do you think about it?)
- I can't find anything that says Andera Dworkins died as the result of being raped. Where Did you find that? (posted to Privilege and the Victimized Man)
- Ok, I finally found something about Andera's cause of death. I could find nothing that directly linked her heart condition to her rape in 1999. Though she did personally blaim it on the date rape drug, Myocarditis is caused (posted to Privilege and the Victimized Man)
- Some of Dworkin's last writing referenced the incessant infections and sickness she suffered from after the 1999 attack; her memorial, as well as some of the writing of her spouse John Stoltenberg, also reference this. Myocardia describes infection of the (posted to Privilege and the Victimized Man)
- Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for women's right to bodily integrity (posted to Is There a Difference Between Us and Them? The Interrelationship Between Women and Animals)
