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I found Ms. Hancock’s offhand equation of ball gags with rape inexcusable, and I expect more of a woman in her position than mindless regurgitation of incorrect stereotypes about an already-marginalized population. <snip>“Yes, it's true: sometimes violent criminals use bondage to hurt people. Just like sometimes they use intercourse to hurt people. But if [these women] think that sexy, loving, consensual bondage is a bad thing because criminals engage in dehumanizing, cruel, nonconsensual bondage then, logically, they should consider all intercourse bad too… <snip> Even more troubling than Hancock’s seeming ignorance of the character of consensual sadomasochistic play is the potential that her comments have to discredit the feminist community itself. <snip> By stirring unnecessary controversy, she’s perpetuating not only ridiculous stereotypes about kinky people but also the unfortunate stereotype that the women’s movement is a sensationalistic crusade against anything that could ever be potentially offensive to women.

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that the women’s movement is a sensationalistic crusade against anything that could ever be potentially offensive to women.

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there are still groups <snip> who can't grasp the fact that bondage play doesn't have to be degrading <snip>

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TheHungryTiger: feminist? Ok, then nevermind. We all know that its only the folks on the right who are the enemy and the ones on the left our are friends.

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ORIGINAL: MstrssPassion

One comment made is symbolic to our own way of life...

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there are still groups <snip> who can't grasp the fact that bondage play doesn't have to be degrading <snip>

The depictions of BDSM acts are becoming more mainstream yet they often portray us in a less than flattering manner. Many sub-groups are able to voice their grievances about being portrayed in ways that they feel infringe upon their civil rights, but the world is no where near ready to extend the BDSM crowd with any civil rights in regards to our way of life.

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TheHungryTiger: feminist? Ok, then nevermind. We all know that its only the folks on the right who are the enemy and the ones on the left our are friends.

Ummmmm... nope, I wouldn't say the feminist are our friends either. They often insist that the male dom/fem sub roles are degrading to females & pigeonhole them into archaic ways of thinking of men rule the world.

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This woman that the story interviewed sounds like Dworkin (cultural) feminist. They tend to be very anti-sex and anti-erotica; anti-anything heterosexual too. They also tend to seem women anywhere there is "negatives" or "weakness" shown which to me shows their own sexism.