Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown fame has a great piece up at In These Times on the ways in which the Internet has helped to highlight virulent and violent misogyny — and inspire effective feminist pushback. It’s actually kind of … inspiring? (That’s a word I don’t use often!) Here’s the opening:
When a history of 21st-century feminist activism is someday written, 2011 may be labeled Year Rape Broke. Sexual assault and harassment have, of course, always been key feminist concerns. But in 2011, sexual violence, exploitation, or intimidation were part of nearly every major story that fell under the heading of “women’s issues”–and the activism against it has been particularly widespread, focused and effective.
As we enter this renaissance of sexual assault awareness, it’s worth considering the ways in which new media has informed it–and, indeed, perhaps even made it possible. …
You can read the rest on the In These Times website.
Full disclosure: I worked at ITT for a couple of years in the 90s (yes, I’m old), and Sady says some nice things about Man Boobz in the piece.
NWO, how do you reconcile your stated belief in Christianity with your rejection I’d many of the faith’s core principles?
@Holly Pervocracy
And thus we will continue with quotes.
Moed Kattan 17a . If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.
Have you went to another town to do evil? If not you’re a bad Jew.
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Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a Gentile (“Cuthean”) the wages owed him for work.
Have you paid a gentile for labor? If you have you’re a bad Jew.
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Yebamoth 98a. All Gentile children are animals.
Do you believe all Gentiles are animals. If not you’re a bad Jew.
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Can you stop?
NWO, I know you’ve read my comments, so I assume you’re just too stupid to understand them.
Even the ones where I used really small words and repeated myself a lot.
What you’re doing right now is an egregious display of stupidity. It’s not even an argument anymore. You’re just dancing around displaying your inability to read or think.
Holly, NWO seems to be really envious of Jews because… they have all the fun? Not that he likes fun. I’m not quite clear on the last bit.
That should’ve said “…rejection of…”
One more try.
CHRISTIANITY GOOD! YAY!
NWO BAD! WANTS HIT PEOPLE!
therefore
NWO NOT SO CHRISTIAN!
why is complicated? why use kkk quotes instead of answer? can’t read? HOW ARE YOU EVEN TYPING?
@Holly ‘I’m a terrible Jew. I eat pork’
I don’t eat pork and everyone should stop eating pigs, eating pig dramatically increases your chance of colon cancer and there is some evidence pigs are as smart as young children.
cancer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583396/Sausage-a-day-can-increase-bowel-cancer-risk.html
increases risk by a fifth.
intelligence
http://chris-mclaughlin.suite101.com/the-intelligent-pig-a84448
‘Smarter Than a Three-Year-Old Child’
So yeah, lay off the pigs people.
NWO.
Agree/disagree?
Uh, NWO slave, the sanhedrin 57 quote is from a longer discussion that isn’t about WHETHER you pay a worker, Jew or Gentile (YOU MUST!), but about WHEN you pay him. Basically, it means you don’t HAVE to pay the guy on the Sabbath. You don’t gotta pay the guy right away if there’s no pre-approved payment schedule.
You still gotta fucking pay the guy.
@Holly Pervocracy
Can you stop and never tell me what it is to be a good Christian? The qustion is sooo simple. I won’t tell anyone what it means to be a good Jew or athiest in return.
Every post I see about a Christian will be met with the same hostility.
NWO, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE TALMUD IS?
nwo, sorry, but you’ve been spewing anti-semitism anyway. There’s no reason to think you’d stop. And Holly is saying nothing but really good things about Christianity in the first place.
WHAT IS TALMUD?
AGREE/DISAGREE?
AGREE/DISAGREE?
AGREE/DISAGREE?
easy question, man
Oh dear, please please give us advice on how to be a good atheist.
I can’t wait.
Also the larger context of sanhedrin 57 also implies the worker is being kind of a dick.
But YOU STILL GOTTA PAY HIM!
Once there was a gentile who came before Shammai, and said to him: “Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot. Shammai pushed him aside with the measuring stick he was holding. The same fellow came before Hillel, and Hillel converted him, saying: That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it.”
…
Aww, that’s beautiful. That almost sounds like something Jesus would say.
Cause Jesus was a Jew.
And that’s from the TALMUD.
For real I know where NWO’s coming from. I had some Jewish friends when I was younger and, while I loved those muthafuckas, it was exhausting having to disarm them everytime we hung out and emptying their pockets everytime they left
/ neon bright sarcasm sign
@Holly Pervocracy
And now I will continue with being a good Jew with quotes.
Abodah Zarah 67b . “The vessels of Gentiles, do they not impart a worsened flavor to the food cooked in them?”
Do you believe it iparts a worsened flavor? If not you’re a bad Jew.
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Shabbath 116a (p. 569). Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
Do you believ and have joined in destroying the books of Christians? If not, you’re a bad Jew.
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Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”
Do you believe murdering goyim is like killing a wild animal? If not you’re a bad Jew.
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Can you stop pulling quotes?
Can you stop?
@ NWO:
“Holly hasn’t fucked a little girl under 3. She’s a bad Jew.
Holly, as far as I know hasn’t killed a gentile. She’s a bad Jew.
Holly, as far as I know hasn’t stolen from a gentile. She’s a bad Jew.
Tell me how to be a good Christian, and I’ll tell you how to be a good Jew.”
child-raping, murdering thief /= forgiving, accepting, charitable human being
So even if we were to take your definition of a good jewish person (in this context) as fact (which we don’t), Holly would be a good human being for being “a bad Jew”, whilst you would still suck balls for being a bad Christian (in the context that people are bringing up, so not a swipe at non-christians/ex-christians)
Also, do you see the didactic “bad rabbi said this, good rabbi said that” Goofus And Galliant style of the story there? Cause a lot of the Talmud is in that argument format. And if you were to say, cherry pick some of the quotes that are meant to be “bad rabbi”, you might end up with a really distorted…
Oh, nobody would ever do that, what am I saying.
Hey! I can make up quotes too!
“And Jesus said, lo, there will be a man and he will call himself a slave, though slave he is of nothing, and though he claims to be my disciple I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM DON’T BLAME HIM ON ME.”
Matthew 6:8
“One of the Pharisees, seeking in his heart to trick Jesus, said, yea verily there is a man calling himself NWOSlave who claims to be your follower; he says to beat women and rape girls and that Jews are evil. Jesus said ‘that dude? I’d smite him but the Father thinks he’s funny.'”
John 13:27
“Lo, Cyrillic and Roman are different alphabets; nay, they are not the same alphabet written two different ways.”
The Book of Why NWOSlave Sucks 15:23
@Ullere: you define PC as:
Political correctness, saying or doing things that may or may not be literally factually correct but that are inoffensive. Or choosing not to say or do things that may or may not be literally factually correct but that are inoffensive.
How do you define ‘factually correct’ and ‘inoffensive’? No dictionary definitions, which are the lowest common denominator, but YOUR definitions, based on YOUR experiences.
HOw do you define “politically progressive”?
For example, I was raised in to believe that forgiveness and mercy and loving your enemy are incredibly important tenets of Christianity. Centralofo its practice and the importance not just of faith but faithfulness. A constant striving to extend that forgiveness and mercy to all of humanity.
How do you practice/define Christianity?
My own thoughts are–well, first of all I’m not a Christian so I’m not religiously bound to listen to this.
But I agree with this in spirit. I think love doesn’t mean indulgence–it doesn’t mean you have to treat your enemies the way they want you to treat them–but it does mean that ultimately you have to hold in your heart not “I hope they all die” but “I hope they see the error of their ways and someday we’re all friends.” It can be an awfully abstract hope sometimes, my anger can certainly get the better of it, but ultimately I agree with Jesus. I can’t claim that I do, but I think I should be able to extend some form of love to even the people I can’t stand.
So I agree.
NWO?