Supe-pah-per Storm Troup-pah-pers?

Karalora, Nyhavn! Awesome!

@David

The AFFAK link on the sidebar points to http://artistryforfeminismandkittens.wordpress.co/ , which redirects to the wordpress homepage, rather than http://artistryforfeminismandkittens.wordpress.com .

Thanks lowquacks for noticing the sidebar link to AFFAK doesn’t work! XD

Meanwhile, new post: http://artistryforfeminismandkittens.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/rejoin-the-man-boobz-poster-revolution-the-final-conflict/

In case you didn’t spend enough time on the posters. They still make me laugh so hard.

Didn’t… didn’t this story happen, like, two years ago? I’m sure I remember the manosphere getting worked up about Swedish feminists making a “violent” video, and those feminists turning out to be a theatre group nobody had heard of, ages back.

Am I anticipating AVFM in my sleep, or are they recycling?

Well, this is interesting. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html

An opinion piece by Jimmy Carter (yes that one).

Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God.
I HAVE been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world. So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be “subservient” to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.

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my fellow Elders and I, who come from many faiths and backgrounds, no longer need to worry about winning votes or avoiding controversy – and we are deeply committed to challenging injustice wherever we see it.
The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by former South African president Nelson Mandela, who offer their influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. We have decided to draw particular attention to the responsibility of religious and traditional leaders in ensuring equality and human rights and have recently published a statement that declares: “The justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, as if it were prescribed by a Higher Authority, is unacceptable.”

I wonder if it will make a difference, and if so how long it will take. The MRAs I find the most offensive are often the ones who use religion as a justification.

@LBT I know, right? They’re one of my favourite comic (in both senses of the word) duo.

Tigers attacking snowMEN – is there not end to the misandry? lol

http://bbc.in/106Kkbt

Maybe not what the MRAs think they hoped for, but it confirms some of their fears (OMG misandrist culture!!!) and gives them more to whine about, so on some level it really did work out in their favor

Actually, all the hype this play got disturbed me.

Firstly you have male journalists who write super-positive reviews about how they were supposed to sit in a particular men’s department in the theatre while women threw insults at them. Everyone seems to agree that this was a very interesting experience that made you understand what it’s like to be under-privileged, and it wasn’t SERIOUSLY disturbing since after all men have nothing to be afraid of.
I think it’s a fucking insult to my gender that men can react that way… You know, women aren’t dangerous FOR REAL so it’s all just an interesting experience. I mean, the men are RIGHT, it’s not like this theatre group will attack them for real, it’s not like men face the kind of threat from women as a group that women face from men as a group. But this just goes to show how ultimately SILLY it is to do this kind of performance.
I don’t think a member of a privileged group can ever fully understand what it’s like to be a member of an underprivileged group… Like I will never understand what it’s like to be black, for instance. But if you wanna get as near understanding as possible, the best way is probably to watch movies, read blogs and so on written by members of these groups writing about their experiences, and simply TALK to members of these groups about what it’s like. Not put on some stupid show where privileged people sit there and PRETEND for a little while that everything is the other way around and women threaten men in a misandrist society.

Secondly, there are female friends of mine who’ve seen the play and put Solana quotes on their Facebook updates, crap about how women are superior to men because women are naturally peaceful and good while men are EVIL. And I’m like, can’t you see that these quotes you’re squirting out are actually very similar to the crap conservatives have been saying for over a hundred years – how women are BETTER than men, all peaceful and sweet (and therefore they shouldn’t enter the army or big business or politics because in these arenas they’ll just get tainted with the evils of the men)? You hate that crap when it comes from conservatives, so why do you celebrate it when it comes from Solanas?

So, urgh… Haven’t even seen the play (I bet it’s terribly entertaining, since me and Husband watched another play by that same theatre group and it was a riot, so they’re obviously an incredibly talented bunch) but the way people who HAVE seen it TALK about it disturbs me for several reasons.

Which doesn’t make it any more right to threaten members of the theatre group, as MRA:s world-wide has done.

Oh, and finally, the title of the video translates to “you’re a cunt you cunt”. Except being a bit tautological, one might think that it isn’t entirely feminist to refer to people you hate as “cunts”.

CWS, Owly thought an American feminist wrote a scene from Chicago that he found on YouTube. Chloe something? It’s on my blog somewhere…

But guys, driversuz admits that she totally made up that weird erotic story about her son:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/women/an-anonymous-letter/

She apparently does have a son, he’s just not as cool as her imaginary son.

Hilarious. Disturbing. Like so much of feMRAdom.

@Dvärghundspossen
“Actually, all the hype this play got disturbed me.

Firstly you have male journalists who write super-positive reviews about how they were supposed to sit in a particular men’s department in the theatre while women threw insults at them. Everyone seems to agree that this was a very interesting experience that made you understand what it’s like to be under-privileged….”

Reminds me of a segment from an early Brian De Palma movie called “Hi, Mom,” starring Robert De Niro. The segment’s called “Be Black, Baby” and has a group of Black radicals putting on a play for a WASP audience where they feed the audience soul food, dress them up in shoe polish, and hurl racial slurs and violence at them. Eventually a cop comes in and arrests the white audience in blackface. The audience finds the play a huge success, talking about how they finally know what it’s like to be Black while the performers look on, pretty sure that the audience didn’t learn anything at all.