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"…One cannot know the order of things ‘in their isolated nature,’ but by discovering that which is the simplest, then that which is the next simplest, one can progress inevitably to the most complex things of all."Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (via planeofimmanence)
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A Modern Sexual-Assault Tale
- Man: Hello, I'd like to report a mugging.
- Officer: A mugging, eh? Where did it take place?
- Man: I was walking by 21st and Dundritch Street and a man pulled out a gun and said, "Give me all your money."
- Officer: And did you?
- Man: Yes, I co-operated.
- Officer: So you willingly gave the man your money without fighting back, calling for help or trying to escape?
- Man: Well, yes, but I was terrified. I thought he was going to kill me!
- Officer: Mmm. But you did co-operate with him. And I've been informed that you're quite a philanthropist, too.
- Man: I give to charity, yes.
- Officer: So you like to give money away. You make a habit of giving money away.
- Man: What does that have to do with this situation?
- Officer: You knowingly walked down Dundritch Street in your suit when everyone knows you like to give away money, and then you didn't fight back. It sounds like you gave money to someone, but now you're having after-donation regret. Tell me, do you really want to ruin his life because of your mistake?
- Man: This is ridiculous!
- Officer: This is a rape analogy. This is what women face every single day when they try to bring their rapists to justice.
- Man: Fuck the patriarchy.
- Officer: Word.
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"A sexually submissive woman won’t make a bad CEO (at least, not because she’s sexually submissive). I mean, come on, it’s not like there aren’t sexually submissive men in powerful corporate positions. When I was younger I remember being scared that, in some bizarre way, I was betraying women’s liberation by being sexually submissive; this seems ridiculous to me now. That fear can only survive in a culture where people are looking for excuses — no matter how flimsy — to control and disempower women. Because it doesn’t make any damn sense on its own."Clarisse Thorn (“Inherent Female Submission”: The Wrong Question)
(via sexisnottheenemy)
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"Here is a small fact: You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations."Markus Zusak (via zenlikeme)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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The New Inquiry: The Art of Faking It: Bourgeois Socialism
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848):
Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison…
(Source: thenewinquiry)
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Dutch Lawmakers Adopt Net Neutrality Law
The Netherlands on Wednesday became the first country in Europe, and only the second in the world, to enshrine the concept of network neutrality into national law by banning its mobile operators from blocking or charging consumers extra for using Internet-based communications services like Skype or WhatsApp, a free text service.
The measure, which was adopted with a broad majority by the lower house of the Dutch Parliament, the Tweede Kamer, will prevent KPN, the Dutch market leader, and the Dutch units of Vodafone and T-mobile, from blocking or charging for Internet services. Its sponsors said that the measure would pass a legal review in the Dutch Senate without hitches.
» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)
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"I’m tired of people acting as though politicians are or should be asexual. I’m tired of people proclaiming that anything sexual (outside of their own sex lives) is bad, damaging, or worthy of gossip. I’m tired of people pretending that individuals who lie about sending explicit photos of themselves are more prone to lying with regards to their work. I’m tired of people not acknowledging that any politician who has never sent a picture of their penis and lied about it has lied at some point in time about their work, regardless."
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"For the philosopher, the presence of structure outside of us in natural and social systems and within us as symbolic function points to a way beyond the subject-object correlation which has dominated philosophy from Descartes to Hegel."Merleau-Ponty, Signs (via planeofimmanence)
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Today in Madrid: Young people are camping in main squares across Spain in the largest spontaneous protests since the country plunged into recession after the collapse of a property bubble in 2008. (Pedro Armestre)
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"What is it that makes dominant women uncomfortable with femdom? There are a lot of things. One of the biggest is the sexist attitude that is rampant in the BDSM community. It often seems like women have to remain ice queens, untarnished by actually having penile-vaginal intercourse with their male subs. However, if they want to they can become more male, and thus, more dominant by strapping on and becoming – duh duh duh – The Penetrator. This isn’t to say that there’s anything wrong with strapping on (I’m a fan myself), but a sex act does not a Dominant (or a submissive) make and we can’t just superimpose the male-female dichotomy onto Dominant-submissive and expect that to make anyone happy."
