InsaneJournal

Current mood:	pissed off
Entry tags:	feminism

Okay, really now?
Open Source Boob Project.

Talk to me about positive sexuality when women don't have to carry their keys between their fingers when they walk through parking lots at night. Ain't it funny how getting over sexual hang-ups mostly means that the woman needs to get over her hang-ups.

Also, tell me how many times you have actually walked up to a complete stranger and asked for a sip of their soda, you fucking douchebag.

I really do not feel like doing lengthy meta on this. It's one of those things where, if you can't just see what is wrong, I really cannot help you. Notice how there is notably not a sister project where women are wandering up to men and casually asking if they can grab their junk (and men asking why their junk is not good enough to be grabbed)? Yeah.

EDIT:I love people.



My friends and I have been chased out of a dance club, into our car, and three blocks by drunks before.

I have been followed from my place of work to within five miles of my home by a man who tailgated me relentlessly and took every stoplight as an opportunity to glare at me through my back window.

I have been stalked, to the point where the man in question was told that he was no longer welcome in the department during my office hours because he took "no means no" as an opportunity to sit at the other end of the table and glare at me for two hours straight. This same man then told me that I was a tease for flirting with my ex-boyfriend while he happened to be in the same room. Not only does saying yes to one thing apparently mean yes to everything, saying yes to one man means that I have automatically said yes to every man. I had to think very hard when I saw that he had developed social skills to the point that a girl was with him on campus, because on the one hand I wanted to warn her, but on the other I had a different car and I didn't want him to know what it looked like.

This is all in addition to the constant "pretty girls like you should smile more"/"you only want me for my money" cracks that I get at work every goddamned day.

So no, Mr. Asshole, saying that the women can refuse does not make it okay, because even the asking is an implicit threat. Because we live in a patriarchal society where it is always, always in the back of a woman's mind when faced with that question that "no means no" will be answered with "I don't care". That is what being female means. Why is my body the only place where trespass is considered acceptable until I loudly, aggressively, and continually refuse entry?