i'm having a weird feminist week, i think.

[keryx]

There are times when I see gender issues everywhere. And there are times when I see most of those gender issues as incidental to something else.

This week seems to be the latter. I've written a bit on my blog lately about odd gender differences at the Olympics (Women's gymnastics? What's with the sixties leftover dance moves? Why are Frankie and Annette at the Olympics?) and the thing with the woman who got all famous by blogging about having sex with some guys in DC (Who cares? Isn't women seeing sex as just sex kind of a good thing?) and in both cases not been big on the Larger Cultural Context.

I have more questions than answers most of the time, anyhow. That's not a bad thing.

Comments

[firecat]

I know nothing about the specific case, but I think it's everybody's responsibility to avoid contributing to hurting other people. Of course one can't do much to avoid hurt in a lot of cases, but not having sex with people who have monogamy agreements with other people is a gimme.

(That doesn't mean I believe in punishing people who do it, but if they are walking into the situation with their eyes open, I don't have any more respect for them than I have for the person who's breaking their monogamy promise.)

And yes, I've done it, so I'm no better than the rest.

And yes, my view applies to people of all genders.