Last week the internet brought us the following sexually suggestive IDGAF pic of Kim Kardashian and Emily Ratajkowski.
Are critics of rape porn guilty of kinkshaming?
With his all-American good looks and clean-cut image, Adult film star James Deen has been hailed as the “boy next door” of porn, but in the in the wake of rape allegations, people are now questioning the rape fantasy content in his films. In an article for The Daily Beast, former adult film star Aurora Snow, talks about how the definition of rape can become “muddled” in an industry where violent sex is the norm. “When your job regularly consists of roughing a woman up, ignoring her pleas, and choking her out, do you start to bring some of that behavior home with you?” she asks.
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Transmisogyny In The Name Of Feminism
There are several reasons why someone might side-eye Caitlyn Jenner. For one thing, she and the whole Kardashian /Jenner clan are overexposed. She also has a shaky history when it comes to supporting gay marriage. Then there’s the matter of her being celebrated and often called “courageous” for her decision to live as a transgender woman, despite the fact that her fame, wealth and race make her experience far from typical than the experience of most transgender people.
But it seems that even for Jenner, privilege has limits and like so many other transgender women, she too has to deal with people claiming she isn’t a real woman.
Headlines
Topless Femen activists disrupt Muslim conference on women. (Source: The Telegraph)
Queen bees be holding women back in the workplace.
(Source: Forbes)
Matt Damon whitemansplains diversity to “Dear White People” producer Effie Brown and now #Damonsplaining is a thing.
(Source: Hollywood Life)
Girl drama and the VMAs
My old ass hasn’t watched MTV in close to a decade but this Sunday I might just have to put down the knitting needles so I can get jiggity with the kiddies. This year’s VMAs should have plenty of shade-throwing, side-eyin and ohnotheydidnt moments.
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