Just...wow, aren't you an immigrant and an ESOL yourself? What's up with the hatred and ridicule of Germans? And please don't reply with the typical stupid "Germans aren't an oppressed minority."

What's interesting about it?

Also because it isn't funny. Don't apologize, there's no humor to miss.

Yeah, and being the stereotypical overweening, overly emotional, hand-waving Mutti facistically shutting down people you don't agree with is really advancing and open and concerned discussion about this subject. Cry me a river. No, wait...hang me from a lamp post!

No, it is only hopeless with American third-wavers, and even then it's hardly at Sodom and Gomorrah DefCon5. Italy and France have recently recriminalized prostitution with Germany soon to follow. Abuse porn is now illegal in the U.K. There are severe public penalties that identify now the client in sex work…

Don't do it. Just don't do it. Another academic adding her voice to the pile of "no ways" you're going to get.

Congratulations and best wishes as you begin your PhD studies! Between Tahoe and SF isn't a bad place to be, either. Very good work!

You realize that it is women who are ultimately hamstrung when news is reported and cited incorrectly? You remember the Rolling Stone story, right?

The headlines on the FGM and upskirt photo story are also wrong/incredibly misleading. Even worse than when Aran was the weekend crew, and it was bad then.

Yeah I always try to glean credible facts from the online equivalent of weekly shopper magazines...

Yes, I should have added a /s after those second two sentences. Clearly, porn is very very damaging to women and as you point out there are many many reputable peer reviewed studies supporting this very fact. If the manifestation of the effects of porn were something other than violence against women, the "cause"…

Some foundational writings are those by Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. You will not find a discussion about the rift between second- and third-wave feminism on Jezebel because this is an entirely third-wave platform. Here all sex work, all BDSM, all porn, all Belle Knox all the time, is regarded as…

The person is talking about Rashida Jones, who dared to produce a documentary that just barely suggests that sex work is less than empowering to women.

It would actually be greatly beneficial to Gawker media in general and Tolentino's high-handed and glib "don't you KNOW I was in a sorority?" tone to generate some action from UK-style libel law action.

It's the same group of people who were making the "you go girl!" posts the other day about the teenager who threw battery acid on the guy. The tolerance and encouragement of sexual violence in these and those comments is sickening.

All BDSM is sociopathic. The women who keep believing that this practice "empowers" them need to really think about who exactly is being empowered.