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.
@Ray Percival
Well if that’s the case you vile, loathesome piece of walking shit. You better damn well toss in the same vile comments about every faith starting with the Jews since there are plenty of them on this site.
Start mocking them now is the same fashion you so non-chalantly mocked my savior.
Start everyone one of your posts with a good old jizball jewish calf worshipping elitists.
@Ray Percival
You didn’t start your comment properly. It must begin with a non-chalant mocking of Judaism.
@Bee
And a fine Wuzza Wuzza to you, too.
NWO,
You really are an easy mark.
Speaking of non-chalant mocking of my savior, why was there no outcry from the manboobz crowd from this vile piece of shit? Ya know, in the name of tolerance and equality?
The only faith it’s OK to flippantly revile. SUch a fine crew you are. Holly, Amused, Hershele. Why you’re all so silent when my faith is ridiculed. Liars. Hypocrites.
Change the name of your site, Dave. You’re nothing but a house of bigots.
Uh, to be honest that semen-sucking comment was pretty unneccessary, RP
Drinking alone and hating on shit. Who cares?
MRAL, I’d like to know what you’re doing Christmas. Do you have plans?
@Ray Percival
“You really are an easy mark.”
Another hatred excuse. Why don’t you proudly say that in public. Show me how brave you are. Maybe a few Texans’ll get a good look at your post here. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
I don’t know, really. My family isn’t that big on Christmas. We have a tree. I’ll probably try to get drunk on egg nog, it’s sort of a Christmas tradition.
Comet,
Yes. I was letting my inner troll out to play. That is a fact. I am sometimes not a nice or a good person and enjoying winding up people like NWO.
@Nobinayamu
Now you’re dictating to me how to act, while either spewing, condoning or remaining silent about vileness thrown at me? Maybe if Ray was given a little ass-kickin he’d learn to keep his sweet semen sucking savior opinion to himself.
How much of that shit should I have to put up with. And here you are defending his right to ridicule what I consider the Son of God. How often do I have to turn the other cheek?
It’s kind of meaningless to me because my mother has to work on Christmas, and I’m sure no one else will be free. Whatever. I mean it’s all good, not complaining.
@Ray Percival
Another excuse. You simply consider it funny to mock the only faith that’s acceptable to ridicule. You’re a vile piece of walking shit. Perhaps the MRA needs a site to list Christian bashers as well?
Jeez, Ullere, even if everyone in the entire world celebrated Christmas, “Happy Holidays” would be an appropriate phrase to use in the last half of December because of NEW YEAR’S GODDAMN EVE.
I mean, do you think that Bing Crosby was being some kind of overly-PC pansy when he recorded the “Happy Holidays” song in 1942?
(NWO, don’t answer that, because “Happy Holidays” was written by Irving Berlin, so it is clearly part of a Jewish conspiracy to not have to say “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!”)
Also a security guard in a government office said “Merry Christmas” to me on Wednesday. In Toronto, a city with fair number of Jewish people, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, and other non-Christians (I’m an ex-Catholic atheist, but I do celebrate Christmas). So clearly the Great PC Conspiracy isn’t doing that great of a job, even in the communist paradise of Canada. XD
NWO,
Uh… I produced a whole list of things mocking other faiths.
I am imagining him being grumpy and whining.
Now, please don’t ask me why. No one knows quite the reason.
It couldbe his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It couldbe perhaps that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But whatever the reason,
His heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve hating the Jews,
Staring down from his cave with a sour, grinchy frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.
For he knew every Jew down in Whoville beneath
Was busy not caring what NWOSlave thinks.
One positive thing- we’ve found out that NWO likes Jesus. Add that to the list!
@KristinMH
Kinda hard to have a Merry Christmas when the celebration is openly ridiculed about a sweet semen sucking savior.
The Manboobz crew is just fine with that.
Here’s my greetings for all the hatred thrown at my faith. Rot in the hell you’ve created. You deserve it.
No, NWO, I’m asking you a real question. I’m genuinely interested. I think that a true belief that Jesus is/was the son of the living god is more than enough for someone to consider themselves a Christian. You’re a Christian. Okay.
I’m asking you how you reconcile that belief and your faith, such as it is, when you have deeply held convictions that run directly counter to the life and teachings of Christ as written in the New Testament of the bible?
You just said that Ray Perceival should be beaten for saying something you don’t like. You don’t believe in turning the other cheek. I can’t reconcile that with the teachings of the faith in which I was raised.
How do you?
21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
The book of Matthew 18:21-22
MRAL, I didn’t think you were complaining. Are you back in the area where you grew up/went to high school. I know finals are over -and congratulations on the GPA. Are you planning on going home even though your mom is working?
Does the gang want respect? See the respect I get. That’s exactly the level of respect I return.
NWO, is this I AM BEING MOCKED FOR MY FAAAAITH thing gonna be your new drum? Knock yourself out, but I think you’ve had way more interesting songs to play.
No it isn’t. I’m still enjoying everything about the holiday and the season.
Ray – Those faiths don’t really count, anyway, and you can’t be mocking them cause of PC and NWO IS PERSECUTED!
NWO,
“Rot in the hell you’ve created. You deserve it.”
You got it right with that one. Mocks my beliefs and only my beliefs. Good job.
FTR, I did throw that in specifically to wind you up and that was not a nice thing to do.