No, but that is where it starts. Many girls are initially not comfortable sending a naked picture so they send one where they are scantility clad and even that can come back to bite them in the ass if the guy they send it to decided to put it online.

It exists because feminism has been co-opted by the marketing campaigns of large corporations and mainstream media. They have discovered how you can hijack the message and use it to sell it back to young women who consider themselves empowered and modern.

Susan Faludi did a brilliant take-down of this phenomenon in…

This. I really feel you hit the nail on the head with Statement B. It puts pressure on other women (particularly less well known women who are trying to achieve something) to do the same.

I still don’t blame her for posing that way, but I blame her for pretending it’s empowering and still calling herself a feminist.…

Is revenge porn not a thing in the UK? Because if it isn’t I can believe that UK men truly don’t care about breasts. Otherwise I call BS.

I don’t want to think of anyone as a (sexual) object. I think it really does a disservice to us all to deny the humanity of individuals. 

I fully agree. Pretending that every choice you make is “feminist” because you are a woman and call yourself a “feminist” really waters down the women’s movement and removes choices for less privileged women who are under a lot more pressure to put themselves on display or get punished for it, even to the point of…

If that were the case revenge porn wouldn’t be a thing. It definitely raises eyebrows and women (regurlar women just trying to live and date in this society) do get punished for “seeming like a slut,” but they also get punished for “seeming like a prude” and Emma Watson has really not helped this matter by posing nude…

No, it’s not showing your breasts that’s necessarily anti-feminist, but pretending it’s empowering and that it advances the status of women in society that hurts the cause. Emma Watson caved to the pressure that she, as a pretty (white) female celebrity, pose nude. I don’t blame her for that. But I blame her for…

I couldn’t agree more. I came to the comment section to find a comment like yours. This choosy choice feminism of “I am woman therefore it’s feminist” even if you end up perpetuating sexist notions of what a woman is expected to be in western society really is getting on my nerves.

If she wanted to pose nude, fine,…

Has anyone ever seen the movie The Magdalene Sisters? It’s quite chilling and very relevant to this post:

Or you could just be an adult and end the conversation.

She stands on a Glass Cliff. If she succeeds and saves the company she’ll be quietly replaced by someone else and if she fails people can point and say “see what happens when you put a woman in charge.”

I think that many female CEOs know this, but are so hungry to move up in the world that take such a no-win position…

The Nazis in Germany did the same. The first thing they did was close all abortion clinics while force Jewish women and women with a mental disorder to have abortions.

It’s always about controlling women and never about whether or not abortions should be legal. It’s about having power themselves and denying others…

According to the reddit George also used the duct tape to seal the garbage bags of the pets he burried there. There is a chance that Caylee’s body was originally also in a garbage bag closed with duct tape. The pice of tape was found apparently not on the remains but found next to them. 

I agree that it’s based on how members of each sex are required to act by the culture they live in. But I don’t, for one second, believe that the behavior is natural, especially considering that it varies so widely from culture to culture.

I agree with you on marriage. It’s an archaic institution that has it’s roots in slavery. It’s deeply disturbing to me that people think it’s romantic for the father to “give the bride away.” Why pretend that people are possesions? I don’t get it.

I must confess that I haven’t seen any studies on mental health changes…

Why do we have to identify as a gender at all?

But humans also have neuroplasticity. Our thought patterns determine brain chemistry as well.

Let’s get one thing straight. I also do not believe that transpeople should be disrespected, discriminated against or be faced with violence.

What I am uncomfortable with is this whole “female/male brains” thing. I have never seen a creditable study that supports it. Cordelia Fine wrote a whole book about how these…

I don’t know.