So I did an interview about my Confused Cats Against Feminism blog with Catster.com, a site that devotes itself to collecting “helpful and hilarious information for the worldly but still infatuated Cat aficionado.” Alas, as a result of publishing this interview with me yesterday, they now seem to be collecting angry MRA commenters as well.
Here are some highlights of the, er, debate so far, which I’ve waded into myself, perhaps unwisely. (These are selections, with a bunch missing, though the comments that look obviously like they are responses to other comments, are.) Maeve Connor is the author of the post about me.
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Here, by the way, are some of the not-belittling, all-inclusive, non-mocking contributors to Women Against Feminism.
I’m just taking a wild guess here, but I’m pretty sure none of these gals are “tweens.”
Liquid eyeliner turned into dark grey under-the-eye smudge in no time for me.
There is no justice Kittyserf, that’s why we must all follow Flying Mouse’s lead and take the fluffy-pill.
Don’t have time to catch up because I have to run to work, but can I just say that y’all are apparently psychic (or I am)? Because I was literally going to ask if anyone had heard an update on Tom Martin’s documentary, and here are my answers before I can even ask the question.
@ daintydougal…
They do not appreciate our sense of humor. We oppress them with our laughter. Our horrible, horrible laughter.
I love watching the trolls leave drive by droppings and the regulars just plowing along past them, enjoying their critter based chuckles all the way.
Priorities , servants of the Furitati got ’em.
I too have been *sniff* furzoned. One of our cats absolutely does not fancy me. She’s tiny, adorably pissy faced and buff and will follow my two eldest kids around, cuddle with them sleep with them etc. When my eldest comes home from school, she is greeted like she’s been gone for ages. I can give her food. That’s what I can do. If my hand hovers above her head as if going in for a pet, she flattens her ears and tries to suck her head into her body as if my hand has something disgusting on it. Sure, there are plenty of other critters here for me to pet, but I WANNA PET TEH KITTY! Poor me. Mean ‘ol kitteh, getting to decide who she does and doesn’t want to touch her.
She’s in the room with me now napping and that’s as close as she’ll get to me unless I have treats. Hypersnacky, indeed.
Flying Mouse is right! Why should I share my popcorn and comfy chair with dogs? They’re just going to shed and slobber on me. I shall go my own way!
…and by “go my own way” I mean that I will spend hours and hours blogging about how evil the furiati are and how miserable people with pets really are, no matter how much fun they appear to be having.
Liz Baker,
All good points. Thanks.
First the Detroit conference and now this WAF thing. What else can Paul Elam come up with? #drunksexculture to debunk rape culture?
I understand being wary of men calling out misogyny from women because I’ve seen it done many times in inappropriate, sexist ways. Men calling out adult women and referring to them as girls, for example, or dismissing the woman as being irrational. I’ve seen men muse about how attractive a given woman is, and how her sexiness/lack of sexiness is obviously what drove her to anti-feminism. Then there’s dudes like an old friend of mine, who will call women out for anti-feminist statements that make it harder for him to sleep with lots of women (calling other women “sluts,” condemning other women for polyamorous relationship styles) but who never has much to say about the sexual objectification of women.
I don’t see any of those attitudes coming from David here, though, and certainly not from submission-based CCAF.
Yeah, if that anonymous comment came from an actual Mammotheer, I’d be interested in discussing it more here. I suspect it came from 4chan or someplace similar. If David were acting like boss feminist, you can be we’d all sharpen our claws on him right quick.
Because all they’re good for is coughing up hairballs, and now, thanks to the furry pill, we don’t need them for that anymore?
Clementine, Mika, and Julius are sooooo adorable. I wish I could have ALL THE CATS. Even though Hazel sometimes furzones me, and Buster shreds every tissue in the house.
Someone needs to invent the artificial purr-machine, that will free us from their feeeeeeeline trickery.
I’m not so sure that question came from a troll. I’ve seen similar comments on a couple of other feminist sites, from long-term commenters.
That said, I also think it’s kind of ridiculous. CCAF is a satirical site skewing ignorant and/or misogynistic comments. The fact that those comments are from women doesn’t matter, especially since most of the CCAF submissions are from women. I’m even usually one who doesn’t trust men calling out women on feminist topics, but I just don’t see this instance as a problem.
I do really appreciate that David put it out there for us to discuss, though. 🙂
@AK
Is that a glorious Australian cattle dog in your photo?
I’d appreciate learning how you shove ideology down cats’ throats.
I can’t get my mogs to swallow their worm pills or their vitamins, let alone ideology.
I’d probably have to put the ideology in a syringe, let it dissolve, then squirt it on their food in order for the cats to take it. Just like with pills.
I looked at the comment on Catster and keep on accusing David saying he is mocking tweens, Why the fuck are they doing that?
Careful Robert.
You’re entering break-my-brain territory when you ask questions expecting coherent answers. If you get any answer at all, you’ll need to have activated your brain shield first because all irony meters will fail when dealing with the Quantum of Witless likely to swamp it.
…some of the cats might be 11-12…?
Did you try coating the ideology with some butter? It’s what the vet told me. Didn’t work really well though. In the end we had to order intravenous ideology and inject it under the skin on their necks.
First he made me laugh out loud in the library, and now David is SHOVING IDEOLOGY DOWN CAT’S THROATS!?
That’s evil, man. I mean…David, you need to go to your room and think about what you’ve done.
P.S. Flying Mouse, your Human Going Xir Own Way manifesto is hilarious.
Nuts. Someone already beat me to it.
I tried to keep my ideology away from the cats, but one of them distracted me and the other one came after my ideology from the top of the couch. My ideology was already down his throat before I had time to react! Now he’s writing essays about the undervaluing of women’s labour.
@saphy, yes it is. 🙂