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…ts young. That's one reason I never identified with it. I think there are a lot of people my age who started out living feminist lives, who now wouldn't be caught dead calling themselves feminist. Women who had careers, who raised sensitive, loving sons and strong daughters... wh...

10. Feminist asks Clarisse why she's being generous to Strauss, on a feminist thread deconstructing PUAs: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/03/25/1-totally- interviewed-the-worlds-most-famous-pickup-artist/ - comment-357169 -- [back] 11. Anti- feminist doesn't like Str...

…lso told me that he agreed with feminism in many ways, and said things like: "We still are a patriarchal society." Many feminists felt that my interview with him was full of problematic statements, and his words were picked apart by feminist readers. I do not disagree with many f...

As a result, notwithstanding my considerable feminist writing and activism, I live in fear of my "feminist card" being revoked because of my BDSM identity. Yet, simultaneously, my practice of BDSM has greatly informed my feminist understanding. Rape and consent are both very imp...

…ounterculture Hall of Fame — “my ambition,” he claims, “since I was three years old.” He’s won awards from Playboy, the Feminist Party Media Workshop, and in 2010 the Oakland branch of the writers organization PEN honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. “I’m very happy...

…other area of human endeavor. PUAs have spent years gathering information on tacit sexual communication, so perhaps one feminist goal should be to try and understand what they've learned, such as the characteristics of excellent social "calibration." Some feminists and BDSMers e...

…eptible to being used badly... the same way a sword is more obviously susceptible to evil usage than a table. Previous feminist writers have usually preferred to complain about the seduction community's misogyny rather than examining the community deeply. I have been more intere...

…lass" consent communication. This was the context whence I emerged when I started investigating pickup artistry. Iam a feminist, but I'm a flavor of feminist with a troubled history within the movement. I am an advocate for explicit communication, but I believe that no aspect of...

What Others Are Saying About The S&M Feminist te Kk ok "I wish we could make it so everyone buying a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey would also buy Clarisse Thorn's The S&M Feminist.” ~ A.V. Flox, editor of BlogHer's Love & Sex section "Clarisse isn't afraid to talk about her ow...

…ll reveal insights about the prospects for redressing underenforcement through redundancy in this context. Intersecting feminist, victim rights, and rape-law-reform movements have achieved some remarkable reforms through the political process over the last four decades. U.S. crim...

… might go for added support (he also makes mince meat of her budget). MORE…TK Perhaps it’s just the ultimate feminist nightmare: Men (and a few opportunistic women) continue to come to Epstein’s because, no matter their public bows to modern manners, they simply don’t...

… would disclaim a strong connection with feminism. And yet she does. KOK ok This year I had my first Full-On Internet Feminist Scandal, during which I received hate mail and hate comments from other feminists. (I name the event in capital letters because email from other femini...

…n that feminism has become so tied up in identity? What does it mean when a rape survivor who had a career and raised a feminist daughter won't call herself a feminist? What does it mean that taking on the "feminist" label means taking on a host of other associations -- associati...

in the PUA community to avoid associating themselves with anything resembling feminist thought or woman-friendly perspectives. Clearly, many men view pickup artistry as a kind of therapy. The community can be a support group for self-confidence and self-improvement. Unfortunatel...

…post-S&M processing we call aftercare. As another gent who goes by Noir said: "It really helped me to have a few great, feminist S&M partners. Having that echo of ‘it's OK, I want this,' as well as the honest feedback when I do wrong really helped shape how I experience S&M, and...