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Category: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
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A fundamental negativity—Puritanical guilt and anger—underlies what is most objectionable in porn: humiliation and torture. In a lot of porn, both Internet and DVD, we see a male need to dominate and manipulate, often with an element—a tinge, at least—of humiliation. But on some websites, the humiliation and physical abuse are extreme and real—that is,…
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“To understand military sexual assault, let alone know how to stop it, we must focus on the perpetrators.” Helen Benedict on why soldiers rape. “To us sofa slouchers, these teen Olympians are heroes. But they have the nation’s pediatricians on edge.” A Baltimore Sun op-ed by Mark Hyman about young athletes. Also check out Hyman…
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East German shot putter Heidi Krieger thought she was taking vitamins, but later discovered, as her body began to masculinize, that she was being given the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol, a drug that, according to the article, “changed a woman into a man.” As Krieger continued on the steroids, she noted changes not only in her…
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Beacon Broadside will be on vacation next week, which is to say that the editor of Beacon Broadside will be on vacation. While I will miss you all, I’ll leave you with some reading to keep you busy. This Week’s Beacon Broadside posts: The Summer Games: Raising an Olympian Mark Hyman on why Debbie Phelps,…
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Fans of Jewish folklore are familiar with tales from the town of Chelm, the legendary center of foolishness. Chelm’s citizens unfailingly choose actions guaranteed to achieve the opposite of what was desired. The children need more milk? Buy a billy goat! The synagogue needs a new roof? Build a new floor! There has been much…
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At the Root, Kai Wright discusses the hit black homeowners are taking in the mortgage foreclosure crisis, a topic he addressed earlier in this excellent article at The Nation. Kai has previously contributed to Beacon Broadside on gay teens and James Baldwin. David Moore deconstructs some sloppy NYTimes poll analysis on Obama and the racial…
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Should we think that our current problems as a nation—the falling value of the dollar, a perilous dependence upon overseas products, an administration that favors the wealthy over the ordinary man, and an edgy attitude towards women in politics—are unique to 2008, they also worried a nearly forgotten Founding Mother over two hundred and twenty…
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Trans people aren’t broken. We aren’t looking to be “fixed,” and we have no need of a repairman. We have spent decades trying to convince the Western world of this, and forgive us if some in our ranks were starting to feel a little optimistic about our progress – until, maybe, now.
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Talk about teachable moments. Two days before the “topless Miley” stories broke all over television and online, my class and I were discussing the young star of the Disney show, Hannah Montana. My endlessly digressing American Studies class, fifteen young women and one lonely fellow, saw a connection between the subject and period we were…
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Matt Kailey is the author of Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide the Transsexual Experience (Beacon Press, 2005), the editor of Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices (Johnson Books, 2007), and the managing editor of Out Front Colorado, Colorado’s oldest and largest GLBT publication. And now for the latest transsexual travesty (there’s at least…
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