(Source: tumblinfeminist, via theybuildbuildings)
How to say penis without saying penis
Classics: Penie, Peen, Pee Pee, Wee Wee, Winky, Peter, Bone, Boner, Schlong, Stiffy, Mr. Happy, Hard On, Member, Junk, Johnson, Pecker, Unit, Shaft, Pud, Chub, Prick, Putz, Willie, Knob, Dong, Wang, Wanker, and Jimmy.
Dude Food: Sausage, Salami, Noodle, Banana, Bologna Pony, Meat Popsicle, Meat Thermometer, Man Meat, Tube Steak, Pickle, Weenie, Weiner, Beef Bayonet, and Pork Sword.
How Romantic: Love Muscle, Love Missile, Love Stick, Disco Stick, Magic Stick, Magic Wand, Joystick, Giggle Stick, Pocket Rocket, and Baby Maker.
You Animal: Trouser Snake, Cobra, Cock, One-eyed Monster, Hog, and Worm.
No, Thanks: Power Drill, Jack Hammer, Bat, Club, Rod, Tool, and Pole.
Honorable Mention: Purple-Headed Yogurt Slinger, Master of Ceremonies, and Skin Flute.
(Source: bedsider.org)
Dean Spade on body modification and resistance
“Countless people who purportedly share my feminist values have argued to me that rather than having my body modified, the proper course of action would be to come to view it differently, such that it was not in contravention to my internal gender picture. Sometimes folded into this argument is a notion that trans surgery is a part of the capitalist construction of dichotomous gender. Rigid binary gender serves capitalism by setting a norm of extreme masculinity and femininity that none of us can achieve, so that we must constantly try to buy our way out of the gender dysphoria we all feel, In extreme cases, the argument goes, trans people buy gender transition procedures in order to cure ourselves of the fundamentally political condition of gender dysphoria, and we therefore sell out our own resistance to the binary gender system. I wholeheartedly agree with most of this analysis, except for the part where trans people are selling out everyone’s chances at gender resistance when we alter our bodies.
What this argument misses is twofold. First, there is no naturalized gendered body. All of our bodies are modified with regard to gender, whether we seek out surgery or take hormones or not. All of us engage in or have engaged in processes of gender body modification (diets, shaving, exercise regimes, clothing choices, vitamins, birth control. etc) that alter our bodies, just as we’ve all been subjected to gender related processes that altered our bodies (being fed differently because of our gender, being given or denied proper medical care because of our gender, using dangerous products that are on the market only because of their relationship to gender norms, etc). The isolating of only some of these processes for critique, while ignoring others, is a classic exercise in domination. To see trans body alteration as participating and furthering binary gender, to put trans people’s gender practices under a microscope while maintaining blindness to more familiar and traditional, but no less active and important gender practices of non-trans people, is exactly what the transphobic medical establishment has always done. This is why trans people are required to go through years of bullshit proving and documenting ourselves in order to get gender-related procedures, while non-trans people can alter their gender presentation through normabiding chest or genital surgeries and hormones as quickly as they can hand over a credit card.
The second blindspot here is in the assumption that trans surgery has a single meaning.” (read on…)
Dean Spade is a trans activist, lawyer and scholar.
The Love Competition
From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
The Stanford MRI Lab hosts the world’s first ever love competition, in which seven contestants have five minutes to neurochemically love someone as hard as they can.
“Maybe you’ve seen a billboard sign that says, “VIRGIN: Teach Your Kid It’s Not a Dirty Word!” Or maybe you’re familiar with the slogan, “Quit your urgin’, be a virgin!” One of the abstinence slogans that always gets a chuckle is “Good cowgirls keep their calves together.” The list goes on and on, and many of them are cute, catchy, and memorable. But none of them speaks to the complex decision-making skills that really need to be developed in young people to help them make decisions that are meaningful and responsible in their lives.”
— Bill Taverner, in “Reclaiming ‘Abstinence’ in Comprehensive Sex Education,” originally published in Contemporary Sexuality, 41(4), April 2007 & Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality, 10th Ed. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Meet Richard Pessall, a 20-year-old British entrepreneur who wants to take the condom where no man has gone before (no, not space.)
“Would you like a condom with that drink?” Why yes, yes we would.
Awesome Fast Company article about a bartender who’s thinking outside the box (pun intended) when it comes to condoms.
(via oberlinsic)
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from having good sex. They keep people from having pride in their sexuality, from sexual self-awareness. They keep people from asking questions about sex, and communicating with their partners. They discourage experimentation. They blur the lines between consensual sex and rape by framing all sex as an undifferentiated mass of “bad.”
— Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
(via stfuconservatives)
“Pornography is a fact of life, and parental controls and moralizing spoilsports won’t make a dent in its exponential growth. But the bar needs to be raised. The sustainable food movement hasn’t eliminated factory farms or our inexhaustible craving for junk food. But it provides an alternative model of consumption that we can aspire to. Organic and fair-trade practices are leading us, gradually but inevitably, to a better relationship with food. Maybe fair-trade porn could reconnect us to a better relationship with the human body.”
— Erika Christakis, Pforzheimer House Master, in an op ed for The Boston Globe
(Source: Boston.com)
