Comments on: My Patriarchy-Blaming Day Is Shaping Up Nicely http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: rhondda http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2057 rhondda Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2057 Perhaps Bush and co. are good for something and that is the fact that women are again starting to question and make deeper connections, as they see where the male left is really coming from. I have been in despair over the women's movement for a long time now. From my days as a social worker working with the younger generation of "little girls", playing at a job,who only wanted the union to get the gov't to pay for their birth control pills while gleefully imposing harsh rules on their poor clients, to a transgendered friend of my son's comtemplating loping his balls off, I have thought there is something deeply wrong going on here. While the back lash is severe, so is the retreat of women who know better. My local women's centre has become a NGO and they impose the harsh rules of their funding from the government. It is now a business for white middle class women. They recently sponsored a fashion show to get the money to sponsor themselves. As far as I am concerned, they have been assimilated and colonized, but,they would label me as redundant, if I try to point that out. Anyway, thanks Twisty for your site and the exposure of this book. I want to read it now for sure. The link to winter woods helps too. The last book that inspired hope for me was Mary Daly's Quintessence. I eagerly await her new one. Perhaps Bush and co. are good for something and that is the fact that women are again starting to question and make deeper connections, as they see where the male left is really coming from. I have been in despair over the women’s movement for a long time now. From my days as a social worker working with the younger generation of “little girls”, playing at a job,who only wanted the union to get the gov’t to pay for their birth control pills while gleefully imposing harsh rules on their poor clients, to a transgendered friend of my son’s comtemplating loping his balls off, I have thought there is something deeply wrong going on here. While the back lash is severe, so is the retreat of women who know better. My local women’s centre has become a NGO and they impose the harsh rules of their funding from the government. It is now a business for white middle class women. They recently sponsored a fashion show to get the money to sponsor themselves. As far as I am concerned, they have been assimilated and colonized, but,they would label me as redundant, if I try to point that out. Anyway, thanks Twisty for your site and the exposure of this book. I want to read it now for sure. The link to winter woods helps too. The last book that inspired hope for me was Mary Daly’s Quintessence. I eagerly await her new one.

]]> By: Baubo http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2058 Baubo Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2058 'Beauty and Misogyny' looks like an amazing book! What do you think of it so far? I'm thinking of getting a copy, although amazon.ca lists two very different prices..$106 and $30.95! ‘Beauty and Misogyny’ looks like an amazing book! What do you think of it so far? I’m thinking of getting a copy, although amazon.ca lists two very different prices..$106 and $30.95!

]]> By: ehj2 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2059 ehj2 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2059 Oh, Twisty, You make me ache with pain and laughter. I'm so glad you and Bert do this "writing gig" because you are so totally good at it. I am so totally disgusted with the boys for messing everything up and showing no inclination to stop. There's even a fallacy of logic named for this misapplied objectification of reality. In some places it's called "ideology over reality." Basically, those in thrall to objectification (ideas and ideology) have the following mental disease: when the terrain (reality) and their map don't agree, they continue to follow the map. Thank you for what you do and the way you do it. You are a light in my day. /e Oh, Twisty,

You make me ache with pain and laughter. I’m so glad you and Bert do this “writing gig” because you are so totally good at it.

I am so totally disgusted with the boys for messing everything up and showing no inclination to stop. There’s even a fallacy of logic named for this misapplied objectification of reality.

In some places it’s called “ideology over reality.” Basically, those in thrall to objectification (ideas and ideology) have the following mental disease: when the terrain (reality) and their map don’t agree, they continue to follow the map.

Thank you for what you do and the way you do it.

You are a light in my day.

/e

]]> By: Paris http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2060 Paris Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2060 Is Sheila Jeffrey's responsible for coining the phrase "the blonde burka"? Is Sheila Jeffrey’s responsible for coining the phrase “the blonde burka”?

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2061 Chris Clarke Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2061 <em>Winter Woods goes on to note that feminists on the left often seem reluctant to voice their disapproval for fear of betraying the cause, but suggests (I paraphrase) that we need to grow a pair. "We need to demand that these men show more solidarity with women, not the other way around."</em> Well, to be fair, you gals have only been making that same point to left men for like a hundred fifty years. I'm sure we'll get it soon enough. Patience! Winter Woods goes on to note that feminists on the left often seem reluctant to voice their disapproval for fear of betraying the cause, but suggests (I paraphrase) that we need to grow a pair. “We need to demand that these men show more solidarity with women, not the other way around.”

Well, to be fair, you gals have only been making that same point to left men for like a hundred fifty years. I’m sure we’ll get it soon enough. Patience!

]]> By: Mandos http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2062 Mandos Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2062 I note that this issue seems to emerge from the anxiety of the Democratic party on how to achieve a majority in the House. The problem is that if they can't achieve a majority, there's not much they can do on any front including women's rights. I note that this issue seems to emerge from the anxiety of the Democratic party on how to achieve a majority in the House. The problem is that if they can’t achieve a majority, there’s not much they can do on any front including women’s rights.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2063 Twisty Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2063 And if they do achieve a majority, Mandos (although it seems unlikely, since they don't stand for anything), they will dream up some new reason why women's oppression should take a back seat to more "pressing" issues. It's always the way. And it's fucking bullshit. There are more female American casualties from domestic violence, for example, than there are American military casualties in Iraq. Women's casualties in turn spawn increased risk for kids. White male liberals couldn't give a flip. I'm not sayin' we should blow off Iraq, but come <i>on</i>. If these chumps won't do the stand-up thing, then fuck'em. They're misognynist assholes no different from the Bushwads. And if they do achieve a majority, Mandos (although it seems unlikely, since they don’t stand for anything), they will dream up some new reason why women’s oppression should take a back seat to more “pressing” issues. It’s always the way. And it’s fucking bullshit.

There are more female American casualties from domestic violence, for example, than there are American military casualties in Iraq. Women’s casualties in turn spawn increased risk for kids. White male liberals couldn’t give a flip. I’m not sayin’ we should blow off Iraq, but come on. If these chumps won’t do the stand-up thing, then fuck’em. They’re misognynist assholes no different from the Bushwads.

]]> By: norbizness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2064 norbizness Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2064 Fair enough, but when the time comes, this white male liberal douchebag doesn't want his legalized weed issue to be shunted aside. Fair enough, but when the time comes, this white male liberal douchebag doesn’t want his legalized weed issue to be shunted aside.

]]> By: Denise http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2065 Denise Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2065 Norbizness, If you stand with me on women's right to sovreign control over their bodies and destinies, I'll stand with you on legal weed, even though I don't smoke. Deal? That's how populism is supposed to work. Norbizness,
If you stand with me on women’s right to sovreign control over their bodies and destinies, I’ll stand with you on legal weed, even though I don’t smoke. Deal? That’s how populism is supposed to work.

]]> By: norbizness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2066 norbizness Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/08/29/my-patriarchy-blaming-day-is-shaping-up-nicely/#comment-2066 Sovereign control over bodies _and_ destinies? You drive a hard bargain. Throw in legalized recreational LSD use, and you have a deal. And I still get to be Che Guevara, or at least the giant black dude from <i>Network</i>'s Ecumenical Liberation Army, once a month, right? Sovereign control over bodies _and_ destinies? You drive a hard bargain. Throw in legalized recreational LSD use, and you have a deal.

And I still get to be Che Guevara, or at least the giant black dude from Network’s Ecumenical Liberation Army, once a month, right?

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