This is a great cue card, it also raises issue above just porn and patriarchy it’s sex and patriarchy. Porn or not there are serious issues involved during intercourse besides the typical protection bit (which i’m not trying to downplay at all). Consent during sexual intercourse, and the language used during said intercourse is a valid issue to raise with your partner, and I find it so strange and wrong that lines such as “you like that, don’t you” does seem to be a regular phrase. There is this issue of sex in exhibiting  an unequal power dynamic, one constructed under the force of heteronormativity and patriarchy. 

I can’t help but think of Andrea Dowrkin for this one.

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Porn and Patriarchy

Christopher Hume on Memorials and Architecture

I am not the type of person who picks fights, starts fights or intentionally tries to stir up tension for some twisted masochistic need of attention. Mind you, I don’t know many people like this or just try to avoid people that give me that impression. I feel that I could read people relatively well, I have had my short falls of course and have been proven wrong at times. When it comes to social situations I am uncomfortable during confrontations, drunken anger or anything that has a hint of oppression and negativity. I hate feeling attacked in conversations, and hate having this feeling and need to have to defend myself when I am in interaction with and I’m sure other people feel that way sometimes too. Of course not everything is going to go just peachy everyday of my life with people I meet, but it just pisses me off to see this power dynamic-why did this individual have to have this confrontation with me? what was his intentions and why did this person take that tone with me? It could of easily been a civil conversation.

The one day i decide to step out of my comfort zone give the town a chance, i get blarged down with smart-ass comments and ignorance.

I find this appropriate.

We do not have have television in my home in gueplh, since heading back to my home for the holidays i find myself being hypnotized by the television. In the beginning it was entertaining,  you know, cooking shows, the discovery channel and those all day marathons.

One hour turns into three before you know it it’s three in the morning and you’re still up, perhaps watching replays of what you’ve watched earlier that day (a slight exaggeration).  Anyways what I mean is I feel like i’ve been watching tv to the point where my brain feels like mush and i disgust myself.

A hard medium as marshall mcluhan would say.

My time home for the holiday is coming to a close and it hasn’t been till now that I am being more productive tryin to make things, bake things, create things.

Soon I’ll be sucked back into academia and this realm of meeting deadlines, competition, due dates, means to an end kindofthing which is toxic soo toxic! i just want to enjoy the now.

Overall all is well thanks for reading. The canadian dollar is up.