2008-09-25 10:29 |

Sweet Machine at Shapely Prose posts From the Archives: On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name, and I want to pluck out a part of it for posterity:

'Cause the thing is, you and the guys you hang out with may not really mean anything by it when you talk about crazy bitches and dumb sluts and heh-heh-I'd-hit-that and you just can't reason with them and you can't live with 'em can't shoot 'em and she's obviously only dressed like that because she wants to get laid and if they can't stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen and if they can't play by the rules they don't belong here and if they can't take a little teasing they should quit and heh heh they're only good for fucking and cleaning and they're not fit to be leaders and they're too emotional to run a business and they just want to get their hands on our money and if they'd just stop overreacting and telling themselves they're victims they'd realize they actually have all the power in this society and white men aren't even allowed to do anything anymore and and and…

I get that you don't really mean that shit. I get that you're just talking out your ass.

But please listen, and please trust me on this one: you have probably, at some point in your life, engaged in that kind of talk with a man who really, truly hates women-to the extent of having beaten and/or raped at least one. And you probably didn't know which one he was.

And that guy? Thought you were on his side.

2008-02-19 22:55 | "Jesus fucking son of an asshat shitstick!"

The very next time anyone even jokes about "feminazis", or how women hate men, I'm going to put my motherfucking fist through the wall.

At Feministing, Jessica posts about Natasha Hall's murder by her ex-boyfriend.  Notably, the police allegedly said that if she kept calling them wrt her ex, they would arrest the both of them.  What the shit.

In comments, one MedicalStudent29 (oh god, he's my age) really wants to know why Hill didn't do everything in her power to prevent this:

The anti-stalking laws are there, but they only work if the female victims actually choose to exercise their rights to file charges. Far too often, they still dont understand the gravity of the situation.

Aghghghg.  People tried arguing with him.  I tried arguing with him.  And then a different commenter responds with this utter tripe:

He's probably going to go to prison for many years to come. She's still dead. As a doornail. All the blame spared her and heaped upon him will not give her another breath of life.

At which point, I stopped being able to see any colour other than red.

I can't stand it.  I can't stand it, that this is the world I live in.  That this world, that has sunsets and laughter and wine, also has shitstains on society who, without irony, state that gosh, we shouldn't punish people for their crimes, for the crime has already been committed, it's in the past, lighten up!

And sometimes I actually wonder why I don't leave the house unless I have to.

2008-01-22 14:20 |

* Jessica at Feministing posts a YouTube link: Practical joke show "rapes" mom to terrorize daughter.  As someone said at Feministing, "Oh good. I think rape hasn't been funny enough in the past. This sort of humor is just what we need."  This is truly vile, and is not helping humanity's case any.

* Jill writes: 10 Reasons to Support Reproductive Justice on Roe Day.  Her post is full of excellent points and linkage.

* PortlyDyke writes about Christianity and the US.