Comments on: Chris Rock, Indians, and VAWA

By: Sylvanite

Sylvanite — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aaaauuugh! That’s all I can say. Well, maybe also, grrrrr! Like life as a Native American isn’t tough enough…

By: Kyra

Kyra — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ask a MRD (that’s Men’s Rights Douchebag) if he thinks equal time and money should be spent on a Violence Against Men Act as on the Violence Against Women Act. Answer: Yes, because that would be fair.

Ask the same MRD if he supports Title IX equality in time and money devoted to men’s and women’s sports. Answer: No, because it isn’t fair.

MRD definition of equality: Equal time and money between the sexes is fair only when men have fewer needs for it than women, and therefore more of it can be spent on each area that needs it.

Notice that of all the parts of the VAWA that could be attacked, the Reich goes for the things that protect the women whose positions are the weakest? Natural bullies, the lot of them.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good call on the VAWA vs. Title IX bullshit, Kyra.

By: miz_geek

miz_geek — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What planet are these guys living on?

By: Daphne

Daphne — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kyra’s point is really interesting in light of the PBS doc on last night about education reform (“Making Schools Work”). (Note that I only caught the second hour because after watching Romy & Michelle’s HS Reunion, someone in my house turned on “South Park,” but I am happy he finally recognized that we’d SEEN one of the CRAPPY episodes already–hard to do because they are all the same / end tangent.) Anyway, instead of fiscally rewarding schools that do work (yay) you might try putting a lot of resources into schools that are failing, taking best practices (best teaching) from successful schools and helping teachers who aren’t “naturally” high-performing become high-performing teachers.

Ergo, we need to focus a lot of resources on the poor, the disenfranchised, people of color, Indians, women, in order to make it fair. But guys truly fear a society in which they have to compete with those they’ve had an automatic advantage over all this time. Hell, if you’re a white English-speaker, try to imagine our future when our country is majority non-white, non-English-speaking. It sounds like it might be a harder world to get along in, doesn’t it?

(I know this isn’t groundbreaking thought but for me it’s been a big help in understanding anti-abortion politicians.)

By: Daphne

Daphne — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

PS I have no idea why I tried to use “ergo” and am not sure if I spelled it right. I’m a dork.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Same kind of crap is happening to Aboriginal women in Canada. There is a disappeared women project to document all the Native women who have been murdered or have just disappeared but whose cases have been ignored by the police.

Except patriarchy fucktards just say “they’re working on it.”

But when an overpaid hockey player bashes another overpaid hockey player in the head–violence in sport becomes a huge issue.

Fucking patriarchy.

By: Tony Patti

Tony Patti — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Men’s Rights? Orwell just popped a vein, and he’s been dead for years! Hell, I just almost popped a vein.

The only victims in this country worth caring about are rich white men in positions of authority!!

By: norbizness

norbizness — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, if they’re going to call it a Jane Crow Law, then you should at least be able to get your own fire hose and passel of German shepherds to break up a non-violent men’s rights meeting at the local community college.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, if the fact that the Chimp was unable to even speak coherently to a group of native american journalists in the middle of an election cycle is any indication, I'd not hold my breath for his support. I mean, what kind of womany, non-war-booyah-related nonsense is VAWA, anyway?