How would you define feminism in a sentence or two?
Wait, stop thinking, for Reddit’s ImissAOL has already provided a wonderfully concise and accurate definition:
I see modern feminism as the equivalent to letting your kids stay up all night eating ice cream.
He adds, helpfully:
Just because they feel they are getting their way doesn’t mean it is actually benefiting them.
Gosh, that’s not patronizing at all!
Sometimes doing this blog makes me hungry.
What about sorbets?
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/shopping/2012/08/what_s_the_best_vegan_ice_cream_we_taste_tested_six_dairy_free_brands_.html No idea if any of these are good.
Almond milk was a surprise to me…I did not know of this.
I had a coconut one called So Delicious that was pretty good. Almond Dream (I think the same company that makes Coconut Dream, they’re covering all the bases) is pretty good too.
I personally don’t think Tofutti tastes like it actually contains soy, but nearly everyone tells me I am wrong about this. So try it at your own risk.
If you like chocolate and almonds together, chocolate Almond Dream is incredible. If not, several of the Rice Dream flavors are pretty good.
Ugh, I just saw that Onion tweet. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
I’d argue that merely existing as a woman in today’s society is akin to staying up all night eating ice cream. I mean, I’m sure it’s nice to have material comfort, emotional validation, and sexual satisfcation bestowed upon you for existing with a vagina, but it doesn’t build much character. This is why men dominate the government, the corporations and most other high-level positions in society. Women’s privilege and consequent laziness stunts their personal development and ruins their self-discipline.
….oh, wow. There’s a massive case of headdesk right there.
Plus some inventive time-travel causation.
Are you by any chance a non-linear being? What’s it like to exist with no relationship to cause and effect?
Poor little baby dragon, he’s trying so hard to rile people up and all we do is laugh at him. I think he needs some ice cream.
Viscaria, Rice Dream also makes ice cream. http://www.tastethedream.com/products/rd_frozen.php
He’s a tachyon.
@blitzgal, it was a major fail, but I have to say, they did apologize and it was actually a good, real apology rather than the “sorry you were offended” types people usually give: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/25/onion_oscars_tweet_horible_joke_about_quvenzhane_wallis_prompts_twitter.html
Just look at all that female privilege in the world today.
It would be nice, is there a form I have to fill out?
There was a time when I was made of money when I would explicitly eat Tofutti not just because I was vegan (though I was) but because I genuinely thought it was better than most ice cream as well.
Sadly, these days I do without Tofutti OR ice cream, though I am no longer vegan.
Though I mostly liked the Tofutti ‘ice cream’ sandwiches.
According to DS here, all you need to do is get a vagina and you will be all set for all the tofutti and ice cream you could ever want or need.
And it will tell you how awesome you are while you are eating it giving you emotional validation in addition to parking validation.
I’m still working on how to get my vagina to stamp my ticket.
I now have a new FB profile pic… thanks Dave!
Also, I found a new fave ice cream flavour last weekend: salted caramel with macadamia nuts. If anyone’s in Sydney anytime soon, swing by Cow & The Moon Gelato in Enmore (no, I do not work for them; yes, I am their biggest fan. And I mean biggest.)
@Dragon Slayer: I just snorted OJ through my nose. Thanks for the laughs, you kidder!
Ronaldo’s in Norfolk makes a flavour called Sicilian kiss. It’s rich coffee & rum ice cream with dark & white chocolate chunks. All natural ingredients. I bought a tub one Christmas & stuck it in my parents’ freezer. Dad had finished it before New Year. It is to die for.
Here’s a story that shows just how incredibly easy the lives of women and girls are.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/14/_9_year_old_mother_mexican_authorities_now_say_child_mother_is_at_least.html?wpisrc=obinsite
The quote that will make you want to cry?
Oh Arks.
Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions guys! I’ve been becoming less and less able to tolerate lactose. Ice cream is totally off the menu now. I had no idea there was such a wealth of options out there.
If I concentrate on ice cream, maybe I can stop grinding my teeth at the condescending idiot that is ImissAOL of Reddit.
So, in his opinion, the infantile women are allowed to play at feminism, like overindulged children, making themselves sick with what they think they want but which the real adults, the men, know is bad for them.
Does he actually know any women? Anyone who isn’t a white hetro cis-male, even? And I mean actually know, not saw once across the street ….
@cloudiah: Privilege isn’t binary. There is no such thing as absolute [insert gender here] privilege. One day MRAs and Feminists need to sit at a table and discuss how unfair the systems (we live in) are on both men and women. Stupid, idiotic comments from that reddit poster does not help the situation, smart people need to sit at a table and rather than wave the banner of [insert a sex-biased ‘ism here] instead think about rectifying the whole crapshoot.
This may sound controversial, that there are infact exist instances of female privilege in the world today but I can give two examples here where as men have been granted unfair privilege, so have women:
Men have the male privilege of obtaining “undesirable” jobs more easily when they are desperate for an income (e.g. there are fewer female bin collectors, far more male brick layers and far more male assembly line workers) – making men less likely to end up homeless due to a lack of income. Women on the other hand have the female privilege in work of still getting 90% of their pay for the first 6 weeks when they are on statutory ordinary maternity pay (then £135.45), while men only receive 2 weeks paid ordinary paternity leave of £135.45, any additional length of pay can only occur if the mother returns to work (bonus points for this privilege screwing both sexes at once when married, it’s a patriarchal fail, but it’s still a female privilege).
Men, depending on the situation, have male privilege in some workplaces whereby the chain of command comprises mostly of men, which makes women less able to freely communicate about issues in the workplace. Women, depending on the situation, have the inherent female privilege caused from being the dominant sex in specific fields across the whole workforce, which makes men less able to freely communicate about issues in the field. For example: “There are just 48 male teachers in state nurseries.” (Source: BBC News, 2011)
Men have vastly more wealth, property nad power worldwide and you’re whining because of blue-collar jobs? And you really think it’s women who’ve kept men out of schools in the US and many western countries? It’s not women running the school systems, genius. On top of that, teaching is coded as a female job and is lower status and paid less than if it were coded male.
You are right in saying there are different levels of privilege and they intersect, but to suggest that men, overall, are not privileged over women is simply wrong.