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Article: Subject for Debate: Are Women People?

 A friend of mine sent me this article, and like usual i get to sit here and get pissed off about it. At least the media is catching on. Really. I'm female, not inferior. More updates on this later, i've got to get to work. Subject for Debate: Are Women People? I’ve always assumed that women are fully autonomous human citizens—who vote, even!—but now I’m not so certain By Jessica Winter | @winterjessica | March 7, 2012 | Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/07/subject-for-debate-are-women-people/#ixzz1qKadUKgz All my adult life, I’ve been pretty sure I’m a sentient, even semi-competent human being. I have a job and an apartment; I know how to read and vote; I make regular, mostly autonomous decisions about what to eat for lunch and which cat videos I will watch whilst eating my lunch. But in the past couple of months, certain powerful figures in media and politics have cracked open that certitude. You see, like most women, I was born with the chromosome abnorma...

Oklahoma is.. Well, read this:

Click on the picture for the associated article.  I feel exactly the same way GOP. Stay out of my vagina.

God Damnit Conservatives

Another article detailing the reasons we can't have nice things . This article was originally posted by the Daily Kos. The link above will link you to the full article. You really can't even make this shit up. Seriously. Conservatives suggest defeating birth control by calling it 'abortion.' No, really. At CPAC, some top conservative minds (stay with me here) got together to try to decide how to defeat the previously not terribly controversial law mandating insurance cover contraception. Their conclusion? Conservatives should just lie about it : Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the most prominent leaders of America’s anti-abortion movement, speaking Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. During a talk on how to advance the movement through messaging, an all-female panel discussed the Obama administration’s birth-control-coverage mandate and suggested that the best way to defeat it is by calling it an “a...

Article: When Safewords are Ignored

This article from Salon.com covers some controversial topics in the BDSM community.  We make it a point to dictate the difference between abuse and BDSM is consent. But what happens when that consent is taken away? View the entire article including links by clicking below. When safe words are ignored Women in the bondage and kink scene are speaking out about sexual assaults in the community, and calling for change. Maggie Mayhem is dressed like a kinky dictator. Standing onstage at San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture, her olive-green military cap and knee-high-heeled boots belie the vulnerable subject at hand. “The first time I was ever raped,” she starts, her throat tightening around her words, “it was actually on a date with somebody from my local S/M community.” The 27-year-old sex educator and fetish model has never before publicly shared the story of her sexual assault, but the purpose of this evening’s event, a “consent culture” fundraiser, is so that sh...

Not to get all Political, Except for all the Politicals.

I can not stand Rick Santorum.  The reasons for this are many (like, unending) and considering the fact that i'm from Pennsylvania, i've never voted for him.  I'm glad Pennsylvanians declined to re-elect him. Except for the fact that he's now started hovering over the political pundancy like an eleven year old hovers over a table and grossly masturbates to the first found issue of  National Geographic. I'm a new voter.  I'm also a single issue voter.  One of my debit cards gives pennies to Susan G. Koman for the Cure, the other gives pennies for every transaction to Human Rights Campaign .  What do these two organizations have in common? They help people.  I'm into helping people. Maybe not by raising thousands of dollars (although i've managed to do a bit of fundraising in my day) and not by calling senators or sending them angry emails (done that as well, i'll never get those hours back spent on the phone or the money in postage but i have to a...

And the New Definition of Rape is...

For the first time since the 1920's the definition of what rape actually is has been updated! This is fantastic news. The definition of rape now applies to people of any gender! Not just those female bodied!  See the full article at the New York Times here . U.S. to Expand Its Definition of Rape in Statistics By CHARLIE SAVAGE   Published: January 6, 2012 WASHINGTON — The federal government is changing its longstanding definition of “forcible rape” in compiling national crime statistics — expanding both the definition of victims, to include males, and the types of sexual assault that will be counted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report . The new definition, which has been in the works for several months and was formally announced by the Obama administration on Friday, will replace a narrower definition of “forcible rape” with one that includes, among other things, forcible oral or anal penetration. The narrower definition, which is lim...

Dear Virginia, Fuck You.

The state of Virginia is now aloud to discriminate against gays and other potential adopters as well as six other characteristics. Read the full article from the washington blade here . The Virginia State Board of Social Services voted 5 to 1 on Wednesday to allow licensed adoption agencies to refuse to approve adoptions or foster parents based solely on a would-be parent’s sexual orientation as well as six other characteristics.   The board took that action by rejecting for the second time this year an adoption related rule change first drafted in 2009 by state social services officials under former Governor Tim Kaine.   The proposed change called for banning discrimination in the state’s adoption and foster care system solely because of someone’s sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, disability, political beliefs, or family status.   Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and the state’s controversial attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, who took office...

30 Days of Kink

The 30 Days of Kink meme is something I stumbled across (thanks @ ShortBassist ).  I'm going to partake and have begun setting up the entries.  I'll be posting all 30 days eventually.  It's 30 questions about kink and how you identify with it.  Prompted questions, which I love. Also, apparently the IRS is allowing transgender tax payers who have had sex reassignment surgery to deduct it from their taxes. Click here for full article .  Short, sweet, simple. Gotta love it.

KateHarding.net's "Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced"

I found this article some months ago and was recently reintroduced to it. My last entry had to do with women related things, let's focus on what goes on inside the brains of us very lovey ladies and woman-identified peoples.  The full original article can be found here on KateHarding.net and I recommend every single person that comes to my blog go over there and read it (or read excerpts here). Gentlemen. Thank you for reading. Let me start out by assuring you that I understand you are a good sort of person. You are kind to children and animals. You respect the elderly. You donate to charity. You tell jokes without laughing at your own punchlines. You respect women. You like women. In fact, you would really like to have a mutually respectful and loving sexual relationship with a woman. Unfortunately, you don’t yet know that woman—she isn’t working with you, nor have you been introduced through mutual friends or drawn to the same activities. So you must look fur...

Hey, Bisexual guys, here's some validation.

From the New York Times; article here In an unusual scientific about-face, researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence that at least some men who identify themselves as bisexual are, in fact, sexually aroused by both women and men . The finding is not likely to surprise bisexuals, who have long asserted that attraction often is not limited to one sex. But for many years the question of bisexuality has bedeviled scientists. A widely publicized study published in 2005 , also by researchers at Northwestern, reported that “with respect to sexual arousal and attraction, it remains to be shown that male bisexuality exists.”  That conclusion outraged bisexual men and women, who said it appeared to support a stereotype of bisexual men as closeted homosexuals.  In the new study, published online in the journal Biological Psychology, the researchers relied on more stringent criteria for selecting participants. To improve their chances ...

Congratulations NY!

Congratulations to all the same-sex couples enjoying their first day of legal marriage in New York! The picture to the right is Niagara Falls all rainbowed up for the celebration. I believe the original picture is actually from Lance Bass's twitter account. Neat :) I'm getting some updates together for next month, I've got quite a few stories from events we've gone to this month.  Things include service submission (for D, not me) knife play and ropes (for me, not D) and exploring sexuality, etc etc etc. I'll get it together and make it happen.  I'd love some input for the next kiriban number and prize!  Also, readers, question me! I love talking about my own experiences but doesn't that get boring for y'all to read? Or no..? Anonymous questions can be sent to my email; eroticwetatomic@gmail.com

Ask Amy: Shocker: My Friends are 'swingers'

 I came across this Ask Amy article and it made me chuckle a bit, because this really does happen.  I'm sure that D and I have lost friends because of our relationship type.  That's why I blog about it, to put a few more drops of information into the sea of knowledge that is the internets. Dear Amy: My husband and I became friends with a couple a little over a year ago. We had some nice times together, including dinners, movies, etc. They are very nice, own a lovely home and have two beautiful children who seem well cared for. Well, recently this very nice couple informed us that they are "swingers"! To say that my husband and I were shocked is an understatement. My husband and I have decided that we will no longer socialize with them, because we feel so strongly about their lifestyle. My question is why? Why would a married couple who claim they love each other have sex with other people? Amy says: I shared your letter with Peter Sagal, author of ...

New York and Gay Marriage

Friday June 24th New York voted to allow same-sex marriages.  NY is now the largest state in the US to legally recognize same sex unions. Congratulations! Here is an article in it's full form from the New York Times.  Click here for the full article. Bolded sections below are my own adding.  This proves that politicians can have their personal beliefs but also do the right thing when it comes to their constituents and what the people want.         ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage , making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.        The marriage bill, whose fate was uncertain until moments before the vote, was approved 33 to 29 in a packed but hushed Senate chamber. Four members of the Republican majority joined all but one Democrat...

Here, have another June update post. I mean, news article.

Additional relevant entries will be landing shortly. I'm updaing everyone to remind them of the 1003 pageview kiriban -- see the entry and rules here . I read a fantastic article in the Washington Post today about the phenomenon known as "Slut Walks." They are a new type of grass roots feminist movement (and I do love me some nice, rational feminists). I'll post the entire article down below because I hate when I find things 4 years later and none of the links work anymore.  All the links located in the original article are here as well.  Please disregard the formatting what-the-fuckery, blogger is not enjoying quoting walls of text that will crit you for over 9000. The full original Washington Post article can be found here . SlutWalks and the future of feminism   By Jessica Valenti, Published: June 3       More than 40 years after feminists tossed their bras and high heels into a trash can at the 1968 Miss America pag...