Feminism or death?

Rev: Your density is approaching that of a black hole. You might want to read the provided links, find a 101 blog or a blog with a 101 section (I like Shakesville, but not everyone does), and think about what you’ve been told. Because you keep saying these words, but they really don’t mean what you think they mean.

Polliwog:

“I mean, dude, have you ever so much as spoken to any feminists ever?”

You bet. My sister is a card carrying member of N.O.W. So is her significant other. I remember reading her first edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” In earlier posts I mentioned attending feminist lectures at college including Germaine Greer. I’ve read a great deal of feminist perspectives about child sexual abuse. I went as far as to call Susan Brownmiller to disagree with her “rape culture” perspective as she applied it to child sexual abuse. I even spoke to Chrstina Hoff Sommers (but I’m sure you don’t consider her a feminist) for a good half hour about the 11 out of 17 no shows at the 2008 Vagina Monologues Convention. That’s when Oprah and 10 out of 17 other advertised headline acts blew Eve off. There were reports of Eve Ensler weeping backstage and class action lawsuits. There was no press coverage which is unusual for the P.T. Barnum of feminism. Something big must have happened.

Maybe they all finally read the monologue, “The Little Coochi Snorcher that Could.” The one about the 26 year old woman plying a 13 year old girl with alcohol and “seducing” her. The girl concluded, “If that was rape it was good rape.”

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the should of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Maybe they all finally read the monologue, “The Little Coochi Snorcher that Could.” The one about the 26 year old woman plying a 13 year old girl with alcohol and “seducing” her. The girl concluded, “If that was rape it was good rape.”

You keep bringing this up. Do you honestly think the author of this piece was condoning rape? It’s not a rhetorical question, I’ve not heard of it before.

@Kollege Messerschmitt: Plus, maybe Dave can write about it?

I mean can you imagine a bunch of guys coming up with homecoming queens?

It’s funny that you bring up P.T. Barnum in your very next post, since he is involved in the history of beauty pageants. According to Wikipedia:

Choosing symbolic kings and queens for May Day and other festivities is an ancient custom in Europe in which beautiful young women symbolized their nations’ virtues and other abstract ideas. At the Eglinton Tournament of 1839 – a re-enactment of a medieval joust and revel held in Scotland in which many distinguished guests took part and which gained much public attention at the time – a Queen of Beauty was chosen, Georgiana Sheridan, the wife of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset and sister of noted author Caroline Norton.
The first modern American pageant was staged by P. T. Barnum in 1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by public protest. He previously held dog, baby, and bird beauty contests. He substituted daguerreotypes for judging, a practice quickly adopted by newspapers. Newspapers held photo beauty contests for many decades: In 1880, the first “Bathing Beauty Pageant” took place as part of a summer festival to promote business in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Contests became a regular part of summer beach life, with the most elaborate contests taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey (“Fall Frolic”) and Galveston, Texas (“Splash Day”), where the events attracted women from many cities and towns.[2]
Universal produced a newsreel of the Texas Centennial Celebration beauty pageant in 1935, which shows models attempting to fit into life-sized cutouts of the Centennial Committee’s concept of the “perfect figure.”[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_pageant

In short, you might want to look shit up before you talk out of your butt. BTW, the Eglinton tournament mentioned was “funded and organized by Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton”. And yes, I can imagine men in a patriarchal culture setting up a competition in which women were systematically presented and judged according to their beauty, even if I didn’t have wikipedia to tell me they did.

If anything, pagentry, homecoming queens, cheerleaders etc. are matriarchal social constructs. I mean can you imagine a bunch of guys coming up with homecoming queens?

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/faq-isnt-the-patriarchy-just-some-conspiracy-theory-that-blames-all-men-even-decent-men-for-womens-woes/

Patriarchy is not “a bunch of guys”. You really aren’t going to be able to discuss this issue until you understand what the patriarchy is, so perhaps you should read up on it and then come back.

“Is that your’s? Is it part of larger poem? Sounds interesting.”

So you’ve never seen Blade Runner?

I thought you were clueless before, but this takes the cake.

red_locker: Sorry didn’t see Blade Runner. As such it seemed a little out-of-context to me. It was intended as a compliment. Would not having seen Blade Runner make a feminist clueless too?

There are no jokes here! Humor is one of the matriarchy’s more evil creations, and it must be stamped out.

red_locker: “No…look…I was joking, ok?”

I’m not exactly preaching to the choir here, so sometimes it’s a little hard to tell.

Here’s the Hades Landscape instead. It’s the opening scene, so it isn’t a spoiler.

Rev, you’re not very good at reading comprehension. You’re pretending this is just a feminist thing. It’s demonstrably not. You’re too stupid to talk to, you just keep not understanding what other people are saying. You and Toy Soldier should get together, match made in heaven.