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Some thoughts on 'sex by surprise'

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iceweasel12/09/2010 5:15:04 am PST

re: #207 sizzleRI

Thanks, you have been doing a great job here.

You mentioned Amanda Marcotte before? Have you ever commented at Pandagon? I ask because I found LGF through a commentator there. Anyway, I love it here so I want to thank whoever led me over! (it was over a year ago).

It might have been me, which would be cool! Do you remember what it was about? (There’s an ‘iceweasel’ at pandagon years ago but that isn’t me.)

Since becoming a regular here I’ve posted various places in the leftysphere to urge people to come here and to counteract the old narrative that “LGF is a hate site” blah blah. I remember doing that at pandagon a while ago and a few other feminist sites in particular, and that’s one reason why I responded so angrily: I’ve gone out of my way to tell people that LGF is a political blog with high female participation because it doesn’t tolerate misogynistic speech.

Because this specific issue— reserving the right to call Fox News women and Sarah Palin gutter sluts and whores— has come up here before, I pretty much went full on rage when it came up yet again —on a thread about consent. It’s the starting premise to even have these sorts of discussions about gender and yet we can’t get an agreement on that.