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May 19th, 2008
05:01 pm
How many misogynists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One to do the screwing and several thousand to argue that isn't really what he's doing at all and why are you such humourless bitches?
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January 22nd, 2007
08:24 am - Pro-choice
I'm pro-choice. This means that if you decide to have an abortion, I will drive you to the clinic and hold your hand. It also means that if you decide to have a baby, I will drive you to your pre-natal doctor's appointments.
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December 28th, 2006
12:29 pm
From the Rude Pundit:
Dead President:
The nicest thing that can be said about the dead man is that Gerald Ford wasn't bugfuck insane, and these days that is not faint praise.
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December 3rd, 2006
12:35 pm - Masculinity & Feminity
What is masculinity? Being strong, tough, stoic. Protecting those you love. Being dangerous. Guns, war. Serious. Competitive. Driven. Straight-talking. Not asking for help. Not needing help.
What is feminity? Being pretty, fragile, defenseless. Needing protection. Skirts, makeup. Frivolous. Asking for help. Silly, frothy. Pretty.
I've been wondering about these concepts, and this is what came off the top of my head... any additions?
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November 26th, 2006
06:25 pm - Chivalry....Ain't
Andreas Capellanus, in The Art of Courtly Love instructs men how to woo the women of the farmer's class, the lowest class in society:
And if you should, by some chance, fall in love with some of their women, be careful to puff them up with lots of praise, and then, when you find a convenient place, do not hesitate to take what you seek and to embrace them by force. For you can hardly soften their outward inflexibility so far that they will grant you their embraces quietly or permit you to have the solaces you desire unless first you use a little compulsion as a convenient cure for their shyness.
He's writing in the twelfth century, in a time that defined chivalry-as-we-think-of-it-today.
In short, chivalry allows raping poor women.
No wonder I don't give a damn for chivalry.
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March 8th, 2006
10:28 pm - Abortion
I would have an abortion. The circumstances under which I would, might, have, or might have chosen to have an abortion are nobody's business but mine and those I choose to tell. They are not the business of any government. I do not accept the proposition that either the state or my sexual partner(s) should have any say over when and if I choose to bear a child. I do not accept any sovereignty over my body and my reproductive organs but my own. If faced with the situation, I will do everything feasible to help other women and girls I know exercise their rights to safely terminate a pregnancy if they so choose. When a state treats women and girls as chattel, it is they that commit a crime.
Planned Parenthood's take action page
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December 1st, 2005
11:07 pm - Blog Against Racism Day
I was, and still am, very shy of talking about race. I don't want to hurt people, and race is such a sensitive topic; it goes to the core of what people are, how they see themselves, what they hope and fear others see them as.
I grew up in New York City; my grammar school was racially mixed, my high school a bit less so. Until I moved to Smaller City, I was more likely to refer to, "the woman in the red coat," than to, "the black woman."
I felt that I was rude to notice the color of someone's skin, that I didn't want to be describing people as if their color was the most important feature about them.
I can remember, after I moved here, pointing out someone for some reason, and not describing her by the color of her skin, and my friend said, "Oh, you mean the black woman." And I realized that it might be weird to not want to state what seems a simple fact, "The black woman suggested that I might like this music."
Up until I started this post, I was sort of happy that I could say, "that black woman," but after writing it, I think the younger me was right. She is a woman, she happens to be 5' tall, she happens to wear glasses, she happens to be in a red coat today, she happens to be black. Why pick her skin color as the only thing to describe her?
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November 29th, 2004
02:15 pm
just to check that it works
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