"the conventional wisdom on oral-sex power dynamics has never made sense to me. When a man puts the most delicate part of his body (penis) between the sharpest parts of mine (teeth), he maintains the belief that he is dominant—even though I’m the one who could, with a few purposeful chomps, remove him from the gene pool. The heterosexual-male psyche is so self-entitling, I realized, that men can convince themselves they are in charge during absolutely any interaction with a woman. “Ha-ha, wow,” Greg said when I pointed this out. “I can’t decide if this makes ‘patriarchy’ seem pathetic or impressive. It’s like being so cool that you can do uncool things: ‘I’m so patriarchal, women can shit in my mouth.’ True masculinity is being a power bottom?”" NY Magazine (mostly about anal play)
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"Right to Buy thus created an astonishing leak of state money – taxpayers’ money, if you like to think of it that way – into the hands of a rentier class. First, the government sold people homes it owned at a huge discount. Then it allowed the original buyers to keep the profit when they sold those homes to a private landlord at market price. Then the government artificially raised market rents by choking off supply – by making it impossible for councils to replace the sold-off houses. Then it paid those artificially high rents to the same private landlords in the form of housing benefit – many times higher than the housing benefit it would have paid had the houses remained in council hands." London Review of Books
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A response to the Michael Lewis book about high frequency trading.
"If any high-frequency traders get prosecuted for insider trading, the message will be clear: The stock market is supposed to be fair, and if anybody is found to be taking advantage of information unavailable to the rest of us, even if it’s only for a millisecond, they’re going to risk a serious fine, or jail, or both. That’s not a good message to send, because the stock market is not fair, it never has been, and it never will be. And you’re doing nobody any favors by encouraging them to believe otherwise." Slate
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"Prof Cameron explained why those hired to kill will do so for what seems like little recompense. ‘They will do it for less money because of their attachment to the person,’ he told Metro. There is, of course, another factor at play to explain why the sums are lower than expected. ‘The obvious reason the sum would be in low in some cases is that the people don’t have very much money to pay the person,’ said Prof Cameron. ‘The money’s a token. It’s like somebody saying they’ll come round and help you plaster your house or renovate your basement. And you say, “Take something”, and they go, “Oh no, I can’t” and you say, “Here’s £500” – it’s that." Metro
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"Even in the US, the line between sex and garment work has always been thin, with census takers using "seamstress" as a euphemism for "prostitute" and listing, for example, 2500 seamstresses in Seattle in the 1890s. Writing about a slightly earlier time, Beth Harris writes that in the 1840s, "sewing was, in many ways, the ultimate sigh of femininity. It was sedentary and passive and it was traditionally done by women only for the care and maintenance of the family and home. Needlework performed by women for the marketplace, for strangers, she adds, was "not unlike prostitution". truthout
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"Right to Buy thus created an astonishing leak of state money – taxpayers’ money, if you like to think of it that way – into the hands of a rentier class. First, the government sold people homes it owned at a huge discount. Then it allowed the original buyers to keep the profit when they sold those homes to a private landlord at market price. Then the government artificially raised market rents by choking off supply – by making it impossible for councils to replace the sold-off houses. Then it paid those artificially high rents to the same private landlords in the form of housing benefit – many times higher than the housing benefit it would have paid had the houses remained in council hands." London Review of Books
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A response to the Michael Lewis book about high frequency trading.
"If any high-frequency traders get prosecuted for insider trading, the message will be clear: The stock market is supposed to be fair, and if anybody is found to be taking advantage of information unavailable to the rest of us, even if it’s only for a millisecond, they’re going to risk a serious fine, or jail, or both. That’s not a good message to send, because the stock market is not fair, it never has been, and it never will be. And you’re doing nobody any favors by encouraging them to believe otherwise." Slate
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"Prof Cameron explained why those hired to kill will do so for what seems like little recompense. ‘They will do it for less money because of their attachment to the person,’ he told Metro. There is, of course, another factor at play to explain why the sums are lower than expected. ‘The obvious reason the sum would be in low in some cases is that the people don’t have very much money to pay the person,’ said Prof Cameron. ‘The money’s a token. It’s like somebody saying they’ll come round and help you plaster your house or renovate your basement. And you say, “Take something”, and they go, “Oh no, I can’t” and you say, “Here’s £500” – it’s that." Metro
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"Even in the US, the line between sex and garment work has always been thin, with census takers using "seamstress" as a euphemism for "prostitute" and listing, for example, 2500 seamstresses in Seattle in the 1890s. Writing about a slightly earlier time, Beth Harris writes that in the 1840s, "sewing was, in many ways, the ultimate sigh of femininity. It was sedentary and passive and it was traditionally done by women only for the care and maintenance of the family and home. Needlework performed by women for the marketplace, for strangers, she adds, was "not unlike prostitution". truthout
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"While her universally (and rightly) adored tomboy little sister Arya rolls her eyes at anything ladylike and takes up a sword — a masculine signifier of strength — Sansa conforms to the role of the obedient noblewoman she has been groomed for since birth. Despite the fact that her grace, manners and innate ability to play the part of a lady are what keep her alive at court, it is for this transgression that she is deemed "incredibly annoying," her mistakes not readily forgiven and her bravery overlooked." PolicyMic
This is related:
"Sociologists use the term “androcentrism” to refer to a new kind of sexism, one that replaces the favoring of men over women with the favoring of masculinity over femininity. According to the rules of androcentrism, men and women alike are rewarded, but only insofar as they are masculine (e.g., they play sports, drink whiskey, and are lawyers or surgeons w00t!). Meanwhile, men are punished for doing femininity and women… well, women are required to do femininity and simultaneously punished for it." Sociological Images
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"Ignore the people saying Londoners should talk to each other more to 'build a friendlier city'. Most of us moved here precisely to avoid having to chat to strangers" Guardian
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Brooke Magnanti (aka Belle du Jour) on sex work decriminalisation at the Oxford Union. Sexonomics
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"Nobody would ever say to you, ‘How could you ever take care of your own child-to-be because you used to sell your nannying.”I don’t know if you’re a fit mother because you used to charge for that. Clearly you must be broken!’
I’m ruined!
Your nanny hands have been soiled with money!" The Billfold
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"Basically ‘Jemble’ began when a guy who called himself Jemble messaged my friend on OkCupid, with a message full of jemble-level language such as signing off with ‘courtly bows’." us vs th3m
This is related:
"Sociologists use the term “androcentrism” to refer to a new kind of sexism, one that replaces the favoring of men over women with the favoring of masculinity over femininity. According to the rules of androcentrism, men and women alike are rewarded, but only insofar as they are masculine (e.g., they play sports, drink whiskey, and are lawyers or surgeons w00t!). Meanwhile, men are punished for doing femininity and women… well, women are required to do femininity and simultaneously punished for it." Sociological Images
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"Ignore the people saying Londoners should talk to each other more to 'build a friendlier city'. Most of us moved here precisely to avoid having to chat to strangers" Guardian
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Brooke Magnanti (aka Belle du Jour) on sex work decriminalisation at the Oxford Union. Sexonomics
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"Nobody would ever say to you, ‘How could you ever take care of your own child-to-be because you used to sell your nannying.”I don’t know if you’re a fit mother because you used to charge for that. Clearly you must be broken!’
I’m ruined!
Your nanny hands have been soiled with money!" The Billfold
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"Basically ‘Jemble’ began when a guy who called himself Jemble messaged my friend on OkCupid, with a message full of jemble-level language such as signing off with ‘courtly bows’." us vs th3m
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