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Now here is a dude.
Ronald Reagan appointee Alex Kozinski,  Chief Justice of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been presiding over the criminal obscenity trial of Ira Isaacs, who insists with a straight face that his hardcore bestiality and defecation porn,  in which he sometimes “stars”, is “art.”   Kozinski is a conservative Republican but [...]

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“These women were shunned by two eras,” Yang says. “When they were young, footbinding was already forbidden, so they bound their feet in secret. When the Communist era came, production methods changed. They had to do farming work, and again they were shunned.”
Wang Lifen, above, now 79, was just seven years old when her mother started [...]

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Tracy Barker, former Halliburton/KBR Employee
by Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, Women’s Space, May 4, 2008
Introduction
Last January I blogged about Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq who was brutally gang-raped by co-workers after having had her drink surreptitiously drugged.   She was so badly injured in the attack, she required surgery.  She was seen by a doctor [...]

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One in 3 women and girls may be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Shocking, isn’t it?
But what’s equally upsetting is that most women don’t denounce their abusers because they are afraid of further violence and of being stigmatized. Help us speak out for these women.  Add your name to this [...]

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In the past, I have sometimes taken issue with things Amanda Marcotte has written or done.  If you do a search on this blog, you will come up with some things.  I took issue with the proposed cover of her book, the one everyone is up in arms about, months ago, in this comments thread on Pandagon.    [...]

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On March 17, I (Heart) got an e-mail from Constance of William and Mary College which read in pertinent part:
My name is Constance.  I’m a student at the College of William & Mary.  I’m currently working with three other women to put together a panel on feminist perspectives on pornography at our school. 
This project is a direct response [...]

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The Third Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution is UP over at Debs’ place!  There is some very fine reading there, check it out!
Heart

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Dear Stop Porn Culture Supporters,

Last month, SPC was contacted by Groupe d’Action pour le Droit (GAD), a non-profit NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo that advocates for the human rights of children, youth and women affected by sexual violence. They do counseling for survivors of sexual trauma and community education about the issue. The [...]

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Stop Porn Culture will be offering our third training for our slideshow this July. The training will be twice as long, more in-depth, and can also be taken for college credit.Please post this information anywhere you can!Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on Adults, Children and Society A summer Institute for [...]

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Mexico City’s woman-only buses were rolled out January 24.
Mexico City has become the newest city to debut woman-only buses.  While the city has long operated woman-only subway cars during rush hour, complete with police overseeing the segregating of the sexes on subway platforms, the woman-only buses are new, a response to women’s ongoing complaints of being harassed, [...]

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Read Rebecca at Spinning Spinsters.

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China has banned  movie depictions of hardcore sexual activity and rape.  Film studios producing hardcore sex movies risk losing permission to shoot films at all.   In addition, erotic movie producers, directors and actors will be ineligible to compete for film awards or for taking part in any film awards.  Also restricted are vulgar language and [...]

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UPDATE (Jan. 1, 2008):  My interview on the F-Files is available to listen to here.  Thanks to Aletha for alerting me that the interview had been posted, and thanks to Jackie for posting it.  — Heart
Update:  Dates for the airing of my interview are October 31 and November 7.  I’ll post precise times as I’m aware of [...]

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I sometimes have read whinings that I do not allow dissenting points of view here.  This is very true.  There are certain “dissenting points of view” which will not find their expression on my blog.  They are as follows:

Defenses of pornography.  Defend pornography on your own blog or in any one of the multiplicity of [...]

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Blonde whore forced to suck c*** then f***ed!!
View Movie!!
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This is the first of a series of posts I plan to do illustrating the intentions of, and reasons for, pornography.  I get thousands and thousands of spam comments day in, day out, almost all of them advertisements for porn.  Right now there are something like 4,000-plus  ”comments” — [...]

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The Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists is Up!

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Misogyny bares its teeth on internet

Anna Greer
August 21, 2007

A woman’s place isn’t in the kitchen these days but some malcontents are trying to make sure that it’s not on the web either. The internet is proving to be a hostile place for women.
Death threats, rape threats, verbal abuse, condescending and unwelcome comments about looks and [...]

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I followed an incoming link to a new anti-pornography activist blog that looks great! Included on the side bar are links to anti-pornography conference videos, breaking anti-pornography news stories, links to anti-pornography books, articles, blogs and boards and upcoming anti-pornography events.
Welcome to the radfem neighborhood, Anti-Pornography Activist Blog! I will add [...]

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Why Do Girls Face Discrimination?
Girls face the double challenge of being female and being young, which can result in them having little opportunity to make decisions about their lives. Discrimination against girls is grounded in a series of traditions and norms, based on the assumption that biological differences between females and males justify that girls [...]

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Thanks to “Duke University, the New York Times, HBO, and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival,” evidently, the world is blessed with a new “documentary” created by Larry Flynt, the man who has amassed a fortune selling hatred of women, racism and mistreatment of animals and by exploiting and cashing in on the most destructive and violent of human impulses and [...]

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