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Feminist Author Says Piercings and Tattoos Are Mutilation, Blames Gay Self-Hatred

MONDAY APRIL 10 2006 4:37 AM

Submitted by NoThanks. Edited By NoThanks.

Think your tattoos or piercings are harmless fun, simply cool or pretty? Nuh uh, says Sheila Jeffreys. The British feminist and author who teaches at the University of Melbourne in Australia is claiming nipple piercing, tattoos, breast implants, cutting and amputee fetishes are all expressions of the same pathological impulse, one triggered by an abusive, male-dominated society. It’s self-mutilation, whether you do it yourself or pay someone else to perform the act for you.

The cutting up that girls do secretly in their bedrooms, the nipple piercing that is performed in high street studios, breast implant surgery, sex reassignment surgery, are connected. They are all forms of self-mutilation, and increasingly the cutting is carried out by proxies for a profit. They are responses to low social status, sexual and physical abuse or severe emotional distress created by a male dominant society which does not accept women’s varied body shapes or condemns homosexuality.

Apparently this trend entered the mainstream due to the influence of self-hating homosexual men.

The forms of injury provided by these studios and independent operators ranged from bellybutton piercings to the extremes of spearing straight through the torso as carried out by the Californian ex-advertising executive Fakir Musafar. The practices stemmed from two main sources, punk fashion and gay male sadomasochism.
Gay male fashion designers placed pierced models on their catwalks, and helped to inscribe a practice that had symbolised gayness, onto the bodies of conventional young women and some young men.

The practices of mutilation that are being carried out on the bodies of women, girls and vulnerable categories of men in the early 21st Century are savage and increasing in their brutality. Underlying the demand for these practices is the despair of those with low social status, particularly women and gay men. The harms of misogyny, sexual and physical abuse and gay-hating, create the ability of those who self-mutilate to disassociate emotionally from their bodies, and to blame their bodies for their distress.

Jeffreys, who became a lesbian in 1973 not because she wanted to fuck women but instead to show her commitment to feminist revolution, also claims 10 to 15 percent of piercings become infected, breast implants were invented to make Asian women sexually attractive to westerners during the post-WW2 occupation of Japan and that heterosexuality is more oppressive than apartheid. At least one of her critics seems to think she blames lesbians who enjoy make-up and pornography for derailing feminist revolution.

Someone should hook her up with a complementary SuicideGirls membership. It'd give her enough source material to generate books and papers and proclamations for the next hundred years, if her brain didn't explode on first contact.

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ForDeathorGlory

United Kingdom

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:06 AM

Dont get Me wrong Feminist are ok in my book (Because everyone is allowed an Opinion)

But someone wants to shut her up because she just seem a Prude

ForDeathorGlory

United Kingdom

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:07 AM

Dont get Me wrong Feminist are ok in my book (Because everyone is allowed an Opinion)

But someone wants to shut her up because she just seem a Prude

mmm

I'm lost

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:08 AM

She needs to unclench. Nothing irritates me more than a neurotic Professor of Fuss-potting masking inner conflicts with acrid erudite babbling, which I think this is.

Anyone who chooses their sexuality out of political principle and not because they're horny needs their head examined.

Kore

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

APR 10, 2006 05:10 AM

whatever, she should realize that she can't define people's actions so broadly, especially without actually hearing from said people. it's ridiculous.

TheRedBaron

Cambridge, MA

November 2003

APR 10, 2006 05:12 AM

Gives the movement a bad name.

Also, GETTHEFUCKOFFMYPORN.

ninjatoes

Newport, KY

August 2005

APR 10, 2006 05:18 AM

What a crock of steamy poop.

zoton

Kuwait

November 2005

APR 10, 2006 05:20 AM

TheRedBaron said:
Gives the movement a bad name.

Also, GETTHEFUCKOFFMYPORN.

beat me to it !!!!

mmm

I'm lost

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:27 AM

"She became a lesbian in 1973 because she felt it contradictory to give "her most precious energies to a man"

Precious energies, or lurrrve juice?

"Six years later, she went further and wrote, with others, a pamphlet entitled Love Your Enemy? The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism And Political Lesbianism. In it, feminists who sleep with men are described as collaborating with the enemy."

I give up. You win. Now let's fuck.

ForDeathorGlory

United Kingdom

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:27 AM

Its a case of she was this girl in school who wasnt cool or wasnt popular so this is her way of hitting out

Oren

United Kingdom

January 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:28 AM

Jeffreys, who became a lesbian in 1973 not because she wanted to fuck women but instead to show her commitment to feminist revolution

HAHAHAHA!

heterosexuality is more oppressive than apartheid.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Someone give this woman an enema!

DeathByOpus

Saint Louis, MO

March 2006

APR 10, 2006 05:34 AM

in other news, Sheila Jeffreys is a wanker!

Phantasy

Australia

October 2005

APR 10, 2006 05:36 AM

Well thank goodness she doesn't speak for all feminists. Unfortunately the more radical they are the more they are heard and then people get silly ideas like ^^^ represents all feminists.

On another note, I always thought my tattoos were beautiful...like an enhancement, I don't see how they are mutilation at all.