Like that when to have sex, and how to have sex, and with whom to have sex (among consenting adults!) are personal choices.
Like that the government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all, but since it's too late to change that system, same-sex couples should be granted the same rights as male-female couples.
Like that Christianity and feminism are not mutually exclusive.
Like that my boobs don't define me as a person, and you literally know nothing about me based on my body or my clothes, except the general shape of my body and the colors I like.
So when I saw that one of the prompts this month involved "getting on my soapbox," I figured I would write something in regards to feminism.
Then, of course, my brilliant twitter friend @j_aallan linked me an article titled "Sexism. The New Prudery?" published in New Male Studies, an academic journal that apparently doesn't have very high standards for submissions. Seriously, I was reading it, and I kept tweeting at @j_aallan to complain about the academic level of this paper. I almost feel guilty for critiquing it. Almost.
The article's premise is that the fight against sexism is actually a fight against eroticism. Before we look at the specific arguments, I want to define sexism and eroticism.
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex, via wikipedia.
Eroticism is generally understood to refer to a state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such, via wikipedia.
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