Sheila Jeffreys Puns

“The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act had made it possible for men to obtain a divorce more easily, i.e. simply on the grounds of the wife's adultery. The Act was no great help to women, who had to prove bestiality, incest or some other 'unnatural practice as well as adultery to get a divorce. The logic behind this discrepancy was stated to be the fact that adultery in woman was more serious than in a man. An adulterous man, it was argued, would still know he was the father of his wife’s children, but if a wife was adulterous there was no way of knowing. In 1923 divorce was made possible for wives simply on proof of adultery and as a result the number of applications for divorce shot up. “(page 8)

My thoughts: Men are so hung up on the child being THEIR!tm. While I think they only contribute 0.5% of a child. Not 50%. Listen to my calculations. Men contribute only at the point of the conception. Creation of a child goes from 1% conception to 100% after nine months development, labor and delivery. I am actually being beneficiary here giving them 50% ownership over fertilized egg. This tiny involvement makes men feel entitled to proclaim a child to be their property under their ownership and pass unfair laws like the one above.

Here we have Shelia Jeffreys giving us a deep dive into sissy porn discussing (ironically?) the "ones I like best" in the middle of her deep dive into autogynephilla.

https://youtu.be/8FQtyGU766I?t=974

Sheila Jeffreys (13 de mayo de 1948) es una feminista, activista política y académica inglesa expatriada en Australia. Es profesora asociada de Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Melbourne (Australia). Antes de trasladarse a Australia a inicios de los 90, vivió la mayor parte de su vida en el Reino Unido. Jeffreys es famosa por ser una crítica de género y a menudo es atacada por ello.

Jeffreys escribió que la revolución sexual en términos masculinos contribuyó más a la opresión femenina que a la liberación efectiva. También es responsable de los textos que tratan sobre la forma en que los transexuales reproducen roles opresivos de género y mutilan sus cuerpos mediante cirugía; cómo la cultura lésbica se ha visto afectada negativamente al asimilar el comportamiento sexista de la subcultura de los hombres homosexuales y su sexualidad dominante / sumisa.

“La experiencia de la opresión ha afectado nuestra capacidad de amarnos con dignidad y amor propio, no solo una intensa sensación de placer. Sin embargo, esta capacidad sigue existiendo. Podemos enfrentar todas las opresiones que nos hacen amar la bota que nos golpea enviándonos de vuelta a la sumisión. Podemos elegir no tener una relación amorosa con nuestros opresores. Podemos elegir una sexualidad que no participe en nuestra opresión, sino en nuestra política de resistencia. ”- Jeffreys

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by Sheila Jeffreys

My 1990 book Anticlimax, which has been out of print, is being republished by Spinifex Press this month with a new preface. It is a book of which I am particularly fond because I wrote it in the late 1980s, as a way of making sense of my own experience of the ‘sexual revolution’. The sexual history of the 1960s was being written up in the 1980s as a process of women’s sexual liberation. I did not see it that way.

I did remember that the ‘alternative’ magazines of the period, Oz and International Times, were full of women’s naked bodies, albeit painted with flowers often enough, and promoted pornography as liberating. In the book I had the opportunity to look back at what was really going on, through the sex advice literature and the pornography of the time. I wrote Anticlimax, and my first book, The Spinster and Her Enemies (1985/1997), to demonstrate that the ‘sexual revolutions’ of the twentieth century liberated men’s sexual access to women rather than women’s empowerment.

When I wrote the book I was hopeful that sexual practice would change under the influence of second wave feminism and women’s increased opportunities. I argued that sexual pleasure and practice under male domination were constructed around the eroticising of women’s subordination. I expressed my concern that a developing pornography industry, and a backlash within feminism itself which supported the status quo, posed a serious challenge to the possibility of ‘eroticising equality’ but I still hoped that progress would be made. It is now very clear that the opposite took place, not only an absence of positive change, but a further strengthening of the bindings that tied sex to eroticised power difference.

Sex as political

I explain in Anticlimax that sexual pleasure and practice is culturally understood as natural and biological and uninflected by social construction or power relations. This idea, that ‘sexuality comes from the stork’, as Catharine MacKinnon puts it, is still current even in the face of the obvious influence of the pornography industry in the construction of sex today. It is still current despite the perfervid efforts of the sexologists, or scientists of sex, the sex therapists, marriage guidance counsellors, women’s magazine advice columnists, to shape the appropriate sexual behaviour of girls and women. I examine the work of these sexologists and sex advice writers in this book, and analyse their very specific instructions about the way in wh

I thought I'd take a look at how successful each team/franchise has been with their current owner since I thought the owner might be more responsible for a team's success over a long period of time since they are ultimately responsible for the hiring and firing of the staff who run the team. In some cases, these are individuals who have bought the team, but in other cases, the team has been managed by a partnership or trust since the team was founded. If anyone has any ideas on how to improve on these statistics, or how to make them more reflective of who is actually controlling the teams, please let me know. In any case, I've put the data in an alphabetical table and graph that is sorted by most to least winningest teams.