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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Links - 24th February 2026 (1 - Feminism: Consent & Desire)

FearBuck on X - "A DoorDash delivery driver is going viral after she was fired from the company after claiming she was s*xually assaulted while delivering food to a customer who was passed out with his pants down and the door wide open"
FearBuck on X - "DoorDash delivery girl has been arrested on 2 felony charges after recording a man passed out with his pants down in his home and posting it on TikTok during a food delivery. She is being charged with unlawful surveillance and dissemination of surveillance images"
STUNNER on X - "Women defending this woman actually shows that they don’t understand what consent, sexual harassment, and sexual assault truly mean. I never knew that a drunk man sleeping naked on his own sofa at home could literally harass or sexually assault a woman. I never knew that was even possible. We learn everyday."

Thread by @KatanaSpeaks on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The DoorDash girl is the victim.  Rape culture is alive and well, dismantling it begins with how we respond to victims when they are brave enough to expose those who have abused and violated them. The DoorDash girl's name is Livie Rose Henderson, what she's going through is horrible. This is a perfect example of DARVO.  Victims of abuse literally have to go through psychological warfare in order to get justice. People call us a liar, they will even go as far to say we are the perpetrators, it's disgusting.  It's rape culture... Also, indecent exposure can be considered sexual assault, not just harassment.
Horrific update:  Livie was charged with 2 felonies and the person who assaulted her hasn't faced any consequences.  WHAT. THE. FUCK!!!!  THEY MADE HER A FELON ALL BECAUSE SHE POSTED PROOF OF HER ASSAULT."
Thread by @KatanaSpeaks on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Livie Henderson, the woman known as the "DoorDash girl" was arrested on November 10th & charged with 2 FELONIES while the man who sexually assaulted her is facing 0 consequences.  SHE WAS CHARGED W/ 2 FELONIES FOR POSTING PROOF OF HER SEXUAL ASSAULT & THE PREDATOR GOT AWAY WITH IT
This happening right after Rho was also charged with a felony for posting about being assaulted & asking for community support...  This is extremely troubling news.  Please believe victims, we don't owe you proof, especially bc posting proof can get us charged with FELONIES.  They are making SA victims felons so it's harder for us to find jobs & housing & so we can't vote.  Y'all this is really really bad. The courts have made it a felony for SA victims to receive financial support from their online community after being assaulted. 2 cases of that happening just this month.  First Rho, now Livie.  If you post about ur assault, do it anonymously & dont post from a monetized account This is so fucked because victims DO need financial support after being assaulted.  We need to get organized and resist. Like oh my god. Remember that victims don't owe you proof & that it's dangerous for them to give you proof  Victims should be encouraged to name abusers anonymously, an abusers name is enough  And once victims give you names, please believe, support & protect them bc they are risking their lives Literally.  This is institutional DARVO."
♡ Honey ♡ on X - "And this is how you know a large chunk of women’s #metoo stories are unserious"
Clearly, we need to Believe All Women

Parents should get babies' consent to change diaper: Experts - " Early childhood researchers in Australia suggest that parents should be asking babies for “consent” before changing their diapers.  “At the start of a nappy change, ensure your child knows what is happening,” study authors Katherine Bussey and Nicole Downes, a research fellow and lecturer, respectively, at Deakin University. “Get down to their level and say, ‘You need a nappy change,’ and then pause so they can take this in,” they wrote in a November 2025 guide, per The Conversation.  According to the experts, it ensures that “consent becomes a normal, everyday part of life.”... They also said that the correct anatomical terms should be used, so rather than refer to parts as a “pee-pee,” “wee-wee,” or “bum-bum,” it is recommended that “vulva,” “penis” and “anus” should be the words of choice... Parents should also look for ways to give kids a choice in everyday situations, from choosing what they want to wear, what fruit they want to eat or whether they want to go to the park or not, as those little decisions “helps nurture their independence and can reduce power struggles” — so a win-win."
This is like how feminists and left wingers claim that asking kids to hug grandma is a terrible violation of their body
If you don't let your kids eat candy all day long, you're an abusive parent and deserve to be put in a nursing home and never have your kids talk to you

why is gen z so sensitive to small age gap relationships? : r/GenZ - "When the issue of consent hit its peak in the news I saw people on here suggesting that every single sexual contact must be prefaced by a verbal confirmation before it was okay. Which is honestly not necessary in many situations. They treat it more like a checklist than what it should be, which is more of a go with the flow type deal."
"I saw a group of Gen Z guys in a bar and started chatting with them. They had their eye on another group of girls at the bar. They were literally on Tinder seeing if the girls were available. They said going up and talking to them, or buying them drinks would have been "creepy"."

Why we're horrified by Bonnie Blue and Andrew Tate | The Spectator - "To someone of my generation, reared in the late twentieth century with its liberating principles, the passing of judgment on the legal sexual activities of others feels very uncomfortable – and I’m not heterosexual, so that adds another distancing factor. When you’ve been judged for your sexuality and its expression, you really don’t want to cast the first stone or any of the subsequent boulders. But, as they say, an onlooker sees most of the game. Gays like me can spot the stark differences between male and female sexuality by looking at what happens when you remove the opposite sex from the sex equation. Let me assure you, there are a lot of gay men enjoying chemsex parties and Bonnie Blue-style gang bangs. There are no lesbian chemsex parties or gang bangs.  Men and women are, after all, agreeing to very different things when they consent to sex. This is one of the few situations where our friends on the woke left, with their talk of differential power relations, are absolutely right, though their consistency of thought and methods of addressing those disparities are cuckoo. A quick flick through the most basic anthropological text will tell you all about the many and varied human cultural customs and rules that try to regulate for this difference, from the Taliban at one end, to the mild social shaming at the other end which is, or was, ours. Our end is very much predicated on legality and consent. This overlooks the fact that people often consent to all manner of legal but unpleasant or unwise things. Jo Bartosch says that ‘behind consent there is always a story, and always a power imbalance with the weaker party acquiescing to the stronger’. She’s right.  That is why shame and stigma are such important balances. But now we have done away with those too. We’ve replaced them with grotesque evasions such as ‘sex positivity’ and ‘sex work’. Feminist writer Kat Rosenfeld describes this situation as ‘the unfortunate side effect of all our traditional sexual mores having been discarded in favour of vapid, anything-goes sex positivity with a monomaniacal focus on consent. We barely even have the vocabulary anymore to describe bad or cruel or execrable behaviour that is wrong without being rape. Instead, we’re left with two categories of sex, consensual and criminal, the unspoken understanding being that you’re only allowed to complain about the latter’...   We have been liberated from shame, yes. But like many of the freedoms achieved half a century ago, we are left asking ourselves a question; liberation from what, and to do what?"
This has interesting implications for Neil Gaiman

Gia Macool on X - "Me: “Have sex with your husband.”
Women in my comments: “I don’t feel like it.”
Me: “He probably doesn’t feel like making money for you either.”
Women in my comments: “That’s not the same!!!”
A tale as old as time."
Why would a woman primote rape?!

Meme - Alexander @datepsych: "Token resistance:   Percentages of men and women who reported that they said “no” to sex, but who “had every intention to and were willing to engage in sexual intercourse.”"
"Table 2. Percentage Reporting Token Resistance to Sex Among All Unmarried Subjects and Nonvirgin Subjects in the U.S., Russian, and Japanese Samples Subsample
Note: These are the percentages who said that they had at least once said no to sex although they "had every intention to and were willing to engage in sexual intercourse.""

Meme - "Example of Refusal Skills for Sexual Activity:
Eric: "That movie was really good Samantha but I think we should do something else now."
Samantha: "What do you want to do, then?"
Eric: "I was hoping we could engage in sexual activity."
Samantha: "I'm sorry Eric but I don't think I want to do that."
Eric: "Please Samantha I would really like to perform sexual activity with you."
Samantha: "I'm truly apologetic but I would like you to know that I am currently practicing Abstinence because it is the only truly safe form of sex and STD prevention, with a 100% success rate and a cost of $0 USD."
Eric: "I understand Samantha. I agree that Abstinence is that only Way to truly prevent teenage pregnancy and STDs at a young age. I apologize for my selfish and foolish Ways. Goodnight, I must be leaving now."
Samantha: "Thank you for respecting and understanding my viewpoints Eric, goodnight. I'd enjoy if we went on another date soon."
Eric: "Thank you. I would also enjoy that."
I can't tell if this is Christian, feminist or a shitpost

Great British Tea Party | Facebook - "“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.  In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea. I liked the Irish way better.”  ― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman"
Comment: "The Serbian way is to get the tea, plus a pan of strudel hot out of the oven without waiting for the answer."
Iranian lady: "I don't take No for an answer. You come in to my home You will have a tea or a coffee or glass of wine for starters. Then I will make you a little plate of something... then will have a meal. My home my rules."
"Haha! In the Philippines we don't ask our guest, we serve and host them till the guest says their farewell, that will be after a week or so."
Weird. Feminists keep claiming consent is as simple as a cup of tea

Meme - "I need advice. On Saturday night I woke up at like 1 am and looked over at my girlfriend sleeping and thought she looked really pretty. So I snuggled up to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Then she stirred and asked what I was doing. I told her and all of a sudden she bolted upright and got really mad. She started yelling that I SA'd her because she couldn't consent to me kissing her in her sleep. She then grabbed her things and went over to her mom's house and hasn't responded to any of my calls or texts since. At first I thought she was just being dramatic, but now I'm not so sure. AITA????"

Coffee and Cleavage: Sex Education on Apple Podcasts - "‘I get being vocal, but being like, hey, so do you want to have sex right now? Fucking like, kind of awkward’
‘Yeah, it is’
‘And it kind of, I've experienced that before, when like, when you ask, hey, do you wanna have sex? It like kills the-’
‘It kills it, it kills it’...
‘Like, I've dated girls in the past where it's kind of like, you get to the point where you're just like, you wanna have sex? It's just like, oh, no. Like, well, you could have like, kissed me and done this.’"
This won't stop deluded feminists from pushing for affirmative consent and claiming those who don't like it are rapists

Env0 (@env0) - "my mom says she’s not a hugger. but when i put my arms around her on a gloomy day or after bad news she’s the last to let go. my dad says he doesn’t want gifts on his birthday, but i see the way his face lights up when i get him a card with a nice message and a box full of chocolate anyway. he’s just a kid inside, still. it makes" him giddy. my brother never says i love you. but when i tell him “i just need to finish the dishes before i vacuum!” he wordlessly goes to vacuum the entire house before i can, and if he sees me struggle with a wrapper or a jar or a bottle he mutters ‘c’mere’ and opens it for me without even sparing me a glance. the thing is, people love you quietly, and you love them quietly, and the air is buzzing with tiny but grand gestures & once you look for them, you find them everywhere. i think that’s really beautiful."
The feminists are going to be very upset, since they keep insisting that consent is as simple as tea

A Brooklyn Sex Club Promised Freedom. Some Called It Rape. - The New York Times - "Most people interviewed for this article — including those who said they were victimized — described Hacienda in overwhelmingly positive terms, saying it offered a refuge from judgment.  “It eliminates the stigma behind sexuality in general,” said Tatyannah King, a writer who said she had never experienced a problem at Hacienda and that the parties helped her grow in confidence. “You just have no choice but to be emotionally naked just as you might be actually naked.”  But even Hacienda’s fans acknowledged a reluctance to speak ill of the group for fear of jeopardizing a cornerstone of their lifestyle.  “These spaces are the opposite of black and white,” said Effy Blue, a former Haciend

a member who designed one of the organization’s early consent policies about a decade ago. “You need the social awareness of a brain surgeon to leave the space unscathed and never hurt someone and never be hurt.”"

Meme - pokimane @pokimanelol: "stop sexualizing people without their consent. that's it, that's the tweet."
Yu-kai Chou @yukaichou: "How do you ask for or obtain consent in a proper way?"
DAISY @thedivinedaisy1: "Ex: "May I comment on your body? May I fantasize about you/us? May I jerk off thinking about you? " Basically whatever you want to do, just ask."

Bumble Tells Women They No Longer Have to Make the First Move - The New York Times - "Bumble took a shot at winning back hearts and minds with a redesign, which includes a break with the app’s requirement that women make the first move. A new feature, which the company has called “Opening Moves,” allows women to place on their profiles a question, like “What is your dream vacation?,” to which men who match can respond. (In nonbinary and same-gender matches, both sides can include these prompts.)  The shift is a major one for Bumble. Until now, a man who matched with a woman on the app had to wait for her to message him. If she did not initiate a conversation, the match would expire after 24 hours. Whitney Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 because of her own personal experiences. She said that the idea was to give women more control... But over the years, Bumble received feedback from women who found that making the first move was “a lot of work” or “a burden”"
Clearly, affirmative and enthusiastic consent is the way to go and if a man has sex with a woman who is not vocally and enthusiastically into it, he's a rapist

Melissa Chen on X - "The evolution of Bumble:
- Sick of men inboxing women (“the patriarchy is so creepy and icky!”)
- Starts dating app to reverse the natural order (women now make the first move! So empowering! So brave & stunning!)
- Women complain it’s exhausting
- Reinstate the natural law"
Michael Tastad on X - "They found it “a lot of work” and a “burden”, seriously? All they have to do is message: hi"
Outa on X - "Anyone that’s used it would tell you that 99% of the time they would just leave a “hey” or “.”"

very moisturized on X - "The imminent failure of Bumble is a perfect allegory for why you can’t reverse engineer outcomes against some utopian ideal: women don’t like initiating, even if it precludes a “harassment” factor, and will just message the same 5% of men, who d

on’t really need the app. <

br>*Bumble’s stock is down 55% year to date."

Doctor Science on X - "I would regularly have after-parties at my house, inviting dozens of peopl

e, never planning to hook-up. 100% of the time a girl said, out of the blue, "Ok, but I'm not sleeping with you", we would end up sleeping together. As soon as I was ok with a no, her answer changed to yes."

Monica Almaguer on X - "I see it everyday. Men destroyed from their wives lack of sexual desire. Makes me sick the epidemic levels of marriages affected and the shame tactics women try to deploy to make him look like his God given biological drive is "not normal"."
Isaac Revo on X - "I guess lying on your back for 5 minutes twice a week to have a happy marriage isn’t worth it to a lot of women."
Artique on X - "Having sex done to your body while you are not aroused and into the act is traumatizing and damaging. It's the same as rape and it is rape. Would men be okay if their wives wanted them to lie down on their belly twice a week so some guy railed them from the back?"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "I mean....homosexual anal rape of a man, by an unrelated 3rd party who's not in your relationship, actually reeeealllly isn't comparable to you asking your wife for a five minute blowjob when she feels "too full" after date night.   You shoul

dn't have sex with your partner if they beyond-meh don't want to, but discussions of pretty standard relationship topics often reach this kind of hysterical pitch online - something that I basically never see in reality.   The original OP's post here was very very clumsily stated, but MOST people - about 95% - do feel a responsibility to sexually satisfy their lover...and find that it takes them 10-20 minutes to give the other person head, or to use their hands or some wine to get relaxed enough to enjoy sex themself.   Most adults are aware of this. If my Person comes back from one of KY's interminable Lady Princess of the Running Lady Horses-style events, and asks

for oral or a massage - sex would be to easy a test here, for a man - the odds of me saying "Yes" are ~85%.  That's pretty standard. If YOUR Person consistently or invariably says "No," in imperfect-but-normal situations like that, you obviously should NOT abuse them - but you do have a problem, and also shouldn't be guilted out of talking about it. The marriage/long-term standard just really isn't that any sex which begins when both people aren't perfectly in the mood is rape."

Wanting sex and consenting to sex are two different things. A new study of young adults finds that just over half say that they've consented to sex they didn't want before. Women were significantly more likely than men to agree to unwanted sex. : r/psychologyofsex - "I mean, the study seems to imply there is an issue with this. On its face, there isn’t.  The issue is the erroneous definition of want:  “Thus, unwanted consensual sex is often defined as consensual sex where desire is absent in at least one partner and there is no immediate pressure to consent to sexual activity.”  The study does not discern between sex that a party doesn’t/didn’t want to have vs a situation they wanted to have for reasons other than lustful desire.  Studies, and this line of thought is honestly harmful to sexuality. Labeling sex for reasons other than lust as “unwanted” is absolutely harmful and wrong.  Lust is not the only valid reason to want sex. There are other types of sexual desire, the desire for intimacy that comes with sex, the desire to please your partner, the desire to boost your own ego, all of these are reasons people have sex, and they are all valid (hell maybe even required on occasion to maintain a healthy and giving relationship).  They lump these individuals in with ones that have had actually unwanted sex, sex that in the moment the reason they did it was an internal issue with voicing negative consent and during and after the event they had negative emotions over the activity."
Too bad feminists think that if you have sex but weren't horny, you were raped

‘Arousal-first’ desire may be more typical for women, and it doesn’t need a cure - The Globe and Mail - "[Meredith] Chivers earned fame in 2009 for her "bonobo porn" studies in which women responded physiologically to a startlingly wide swath of pornographic material, from heterosexual, homosexual and solo masturbatory human sex to bonobo apes mating – this despite saying they felt little for the visuals.  The provocative research revealed just how stunningly little we know about the mechanics of women's desire. Now, working on the forefront alongside other Canadian scientists to fill in the sizable gaps in our understanding, Chivers is homing in on arousal and desire – specifically which one comes first in women. While the traditional view has been that people are seized by spontaneous pangs of desire and then get aroused for sex, a newer school of thought proposes that we might have it backward, at least as far as women are concerned. Some sex researchers now believe this "arousal-first" mode of desire may be more typical for women – and that it doesn't require a cure.  It's a paradigm shift that leapfrogs over the hype this month of a "pink Viagra," after an expert panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cautiously approved flibanserin, a drug marketed to spark spontaneous desire in women by tweaking the brain's levels of dopamine and serotonin. Flibanserin has been rejected twice already for its troubling side effects and poor efficacy (the drug resulted in a meagre 0.7 more "sexually satisfying events" per month in trials).  Rather than pathologizing women who don't spontaneously crave sex and prescribing dubious pink pills to fix what might not be broken, some therapists are focusing instead on heightening arousal among couples – some with eyebrow-raising methods, from mindfulness therapy and prescriptions for porn to scheduling appointments in bed. This is not exactly date night, but it's a potential therapeutic game changer, especially for women struggling with low libido in long-term, committed relationships. "For so many women, it's such a relief to hear this," says Chivers, who punctuates her rapid-fire science-speak with bursts of laughter and deft one-liners about sex. She sits in her office, where a Joy Division poster ("Love Will Tear Us Apart") hangs on the wall. "Instead of this idea that there's something wrong with women because they aren't having spontaneous urges driving them to seek out sex, they're hearing that being responsive to their partner and environment is desire as well," says Chivers, adding, "It offers a whole other way of interpreting their sexuality."... clinicians reported female patients often had difficulties differentiating between desire and arousal. Today, some researchers and clinicians believe a more common experience for women might be "responsive desire": desire that arises in response to something pleasurable, not in anticipation of it. Emily Nagoski, a women's sexuality lecturer at Smith College and author of the new book Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, explains it this way: "Responsive desire happens when you're not really looking for it but something sexy like your partner comes along and starts kissing your neck. You're in a good state of mind, your body lights up and you go, 'Oh right, sex! That's a good idea! We should do that.'... What much of this new science of desire points to is a cold, hard reality: good sex takes effort, not popping pink pills. That's especially true for partners in long-term committed relationships who have exited the honeymoon phase and can barely remember the spontaneous fits of desire that marked the early years... Yet even as science reveals that arousal manufactured this way can jump-start desire, many couples recoil at the thought of "working" at better sex. There's a reluctance to give up the myth of lifelong, spontaneous desire: we believe that if it doesn't happen automatically, someone is being disingenuous. Instead of working toward arousal – or risking talking about what they actually like in bed – many spouses would rather contend with marital bed death... Amanda Blackie Parrish, a Tennessee mother of four and one of the most vocal participants in Sprout's drug trials, had described her sexual problems (before flibanserin) as such: "Once I started, it wasn't an issue. It was getting me started."  To experts such as Emily Nagoski, director of wellness education at Smith College, that didn't ring like sexual dysfunction. It sounded more like a woman with responsive desire, a woman who might not initiate sex in spades but responds perfectly well to arousal. "Responsive desire is not a disease that requires treatment. It's healthy, normal sexual functioning," said Nagoski, who attended the hearings and believes women with responsive desire need education, not medication."
Clearly, if you believe this you're a rapist, because if a woman doesn't actively desire sex, trying to make her desire it is sexual assault.
How ignorant. Doesn't she know women are as horny as men?

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