Posts Tagged with ‘Sexism’

Listening to the radio

“However I do think there is another seldom cited, at least from what I’ve heard, aspect to all this. The fact that violence against women rarely has anything to do with sex. Sure sex is involved, obviously, but by no means is it exclusive to the act or acts. I’d be willing to bet displaying power and control over a victim excites certain men — men who could rape a person — more than any sexual impulses ever could. Frankly, sex and how a person chooses to behave or dress is secondary and irrelevant, to violence…”

Activism In Sport

“Speaking as an individual who spent most of his childhood attention following and playing various “organized” — even playing hockey with a bunch of idiots in the street involves a little organization — sport, and being thoroughly uninterested in the whole idea of professional incarnations of sport, for going on 20 years, I found this “talk” quite interesting…”