LJ_Reloaded
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"Getting my courage up to ask a woman for sex only to be rejected disempowered me."
Imagine if a man had ever said this.
You'd be screaming BZZT BZZT RAEP CULTURE ALERT AWOOOGAH 9,000 KILORODGERS OF PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION
http://crunkfeministcollective.word...-for-sex-what-do-you-do-when-the-guy-says-no/
Fucking hypocrites.
Imagine if a man had ever said this.
You'd be screaming BZZT BZZT RAEP CULTURE ALERT AWOOOGAH 9,000 KILORODGERS OF PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION
http://crunkfeministcollective.word...-for-sex-what-do-you-do-when-the-guy-says-no/
But when a woman says this shit it's DAMN YOU LT FOR POSTING THIS SHIT YOU MISOGYNIST PIG.Frequently, I tell my friends that my life is a bad romantic comedy. There’s plenty of comedy, little romance, and never a happy ending.
This has become all the more apparent as I have attempted to make sex a regular rather than sporadic occurrence in my post-30 life.
I swear that I have managed to meet the only 200 men on the planet who actually say “No” when you ask for sex. (Of course I’m exaggerating. I don’t think I personally know 200 men that I find sexually attractive.)
Feminism and becoming a grown-ass woman with a strong-ass 30+ year old monster libido has made me decidedly less embarrassed about asking for what I want, particularly as it relates to my intimate life.
In fact, asking for what I want and need has become my mantra for 2012. One of my good friends gave me exactly this advice on January 1st of this year. And recently, I heard Joan Morgan, my feminist big sister shero say exactly this same thing at a series of wonderful discussions on Emotional Justice that I’ve been attending. “Ask for what you need,” she implored the audience, because to paraphrase the ending, “you just might get it.”
And getting it—good and on the regular—is what I’m interested in.
But my asking hasn’t helped.
#TrueStory: chalk it up to #VenusRetrograde but last month saw exes coming out the woodworks. I had a chance to have dinner and clear the air with one that I really liked. After a lovely dinner and good conversation (not to mention an extended drought), I asked if he’d like to accompany me back to my room.
Surprise of surprises: he declined. Exasperated (and horny) I asked “Why?” Lo and behold, he flipped the gender script and told me some version of: “I’m happy to have you back in my life. I don’t want to move too prematurely because we are rebuilding our relationship.” Riiiiight. What I wanted to know is what our “relationship” had to do with the sex that I needed to have right then and there.
For that there were no answers.
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But what I can tell you is this: Getting my courage up to ask a partner that I trust for the sex that I wanted only to be turned down left me feeling hella disempowered.
Fucking hypocrites.