Comments on: The Hard Sell

By: melissa

melissa — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:36:53 +0000

and that’s exactly the problem, in my eyes. the way in which gender was handled in the sociology courses i took was very black and white. they only discussed gender through the eyes of a “feminist” female, and took very little to know time to view it through a variety of societal perspectives (which is the whole point of sociology…but that’s a different topic). the application of feminism has become so rigid and routine that any woman who deviates from the norm developed within the system must be unaware of the control and pressure that masculine society has over her. your web site would be interpreted as a tool for the continuance of male domination over female sexuality. i found my academic experience with gender issues to be very one sided and frankly offensive at times. i’m not sure how your university/professors may teach the subject…but if yours ends up anything like mine expect to feel stifled and and outraged. feminist academics say an awful lot of blatantly wrong and overreaching things in the name of “women everywhere.”

By: Misty

Misty — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:31:37 +0000

Sometime in the next few quarters at school I expect to take some of the sociology/gender roles classes offered at my school. I’m interested in the material, however I’m dreading the possibility that I’ll be taking it with a class full of modern angry feminists. I’m sure they would view my lifestyle and my web site (not that I’d share it with them) as a “part of the problem,” regardless of the fact that I find it very empowering.

By: melissa

melissa — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:31:44 +0000

i find the “women’s movement” so frustrating, because as a woman, the principles fought for “in my name” are exactly averse to everything i believe. in the modern feminist movement straight sex is most often seen as an act of subjugation, and any woman who enjoys it is only doing so to please her male counterpart. during my college education i took many sociology courses surrounding gender, and the modern theme throughout them is that women are oppressed by sexuality, and any woman who embraces it is “bad for the movement.” rather than seeing it for what it is, another expression of female empowerment. it truly saddens me to see such a widespread movement of forward thinkers be so narrow minded. there was one piece of literature that actually referred to porn as “technological slavery” of women. with such pointed, pejorative language and biased opinions, one could easily come to the conclusion that the women’s movement was part of the conservative right.