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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
3. I laid a lot of it out when I took this gig.
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 11:39 PM
Apr 2013

So if people wonder where I stand on a lot of stuff, rather than me having to repeat myself, they can go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1114866

I've been nothing but consistent on things like consent, adults, etc. In fact, some people apparently think I'm an asshole for being TOO consistent, or being too literal about consent being a bright line; see, I'm not willing to play along nice when someone comes in and floats a bunch of hooey about "extremely nuanced definitions of consent". I don't see what the point is, in muddying the lines around something like that, unless you've got a totally separate agenda that has more to do with making some grand statement about the horrible nature of sex "Under Teh Patriarchy*" than it actually has to do with sending out unambiguous messages like "no means no, yes means yes".

I mean, duh.

I've said I call myself a "Feminist", because to me that word means things like equal rights. Reproductive freedom. CHOICE. Some people here go absolutely bugfuck over my labeling myself that, mostly because I don't agree that any picture of a naked woman's breasts becomes an implement of TEH WORST ACT OF OPPRESSION IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, the minute a man gets aroused by it.

[font size=1]* Translation: On Planet Earth[/font]

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