Comments on: Sienna Miller Is Number One!!! http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7300 Twisty Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:16:42 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7300 Anon, I'm not slamming teenage girls. In my own mind I still <em>am</em> a teenage girl. You know what slams teenage girls? A culture that coerces them into hating themselves and into thinking that it's the worst thing in the world if some boy decides they're not hot enough. It is because of this culture that they grow up to be the unpleasant women you describe above. It's patriarchy I blame, you see. Not girls. Anon, I’m not slamming teenage girls. In my own mind I still am a teenage girl. You know what slams teenage girls? A culture that coerces them into hating themselves and into thinking that it’s the worst thing in the world if some boy decides they’re not hot enough. It is because of this culture that they grow up to be the unpleasant women you describe above. It’s patriarchy I blame, you see. Not girls.

]]> By: Anon http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7291 Anon Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:54:53 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7291 Personally, I'm getting more than a little sick and tired of listening to all the slamming on teenaged girls. They are <i>children</i>, people. They may look vaguely adult-like, but these are children. Get a fucking clue, would you all? If they sympathize more with someone who was cheated on than with someone who had breast cancer, it's because more of them have been cheated on themselves than have had breast cancer. Of course your average 15 year old would feel strongly about something she's experienced herself. Your average 6 year old would sympathize more with someone who has had their ice cream cone stolen than with someone who survived Bergen-Belsen, too. Christ, these are <i>children</i> we're talking about here. Give them a motherfucking break if you can fucking stand it. Society already hates teenaged girls -- teen boys hate them because that what teen boys do. Grown women hate them out of jealousy and resentment, and grown men hate them because they won't blow them. Feminists do not need to add to that. Personally, I’m getting more than a little sick and tired of listening to all the slamming on teenaged girls. They are children, people. They may look vaguely adult-like, but these are children. Get a fucking clue, would you all? If they sympathize more with someone who was cheated on than with someone who had breast cancer, it’s because more of them have been cheated on themselves than have had breast cancer. Of course your average 15 year old would feel strongly about something she’s experienced herself. Your average 6 year old would sympathize more with someone who has had their ice cream cone stolen than with someone who survived Bergen-Belsen, too.

Christ, these are children we’re talking about here. Give them a motherfucking break if you can fucking stand it. Society already hates teenaged girls — teen boys hate them because that what teen boys do. Grown women hate them out of jealousy and resentment, and grown men hate them because they won’t blow them. Feminists do not need to add to that.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7219 Twisty Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:48:37 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7219 I get what you're saying, but somehow I doubt that anything on Angelina Jolie is too big for the current beauty ideal, since she <em>is</em> the current beauty ideal. I get what you’re saying, but somehow I doubt that anything on Angelina Jolie is too big for the current beauty ideal, since she is the current beauty ideal.

]]> By: ae http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7195 ae Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:46:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7195 I'm feeling the horror that the little tweeners identify more w/ the suffering of the cupcake w/ smeared mascara boohooing at the slight of a philanderer than they identify w/ a woman who faces lifethreatening adversity. I should confess, though, that in my own teendom I was barely beyond this. When Simon Le Bon's yacht (oh, I'm dying laughing here) capsized and he almost drowned, I felt sick to my stomach and hated his now-wife with more force than the heat of a thousand suns because she complained in the press that she forgot her toothbrush in the mad dash to be by his side. Oh, I was righteous, because I <i>really loved him</i>, see. A toothbrush was the last thing on my mind. I'm sure there were things going on in my house re: my parents' failing marriage that may have come to my notice, but they paled in emotional resonance against the rich tapestry of my feelings for Simon Le Bon at the time. I’m feeling the horror that the little tweeners identify more w/ the suffering of the cupcake w/ smeared mascara boohooing at the slight of a philanderer than they identify w/ a woman who faces lifethreatening adversity.

I should confess, though, that in my own teendom I was barely beyond this. When Simon Le Bon’s yacht (oh, I’m dying laughing here) capsized and he almost drowned, I felt sick to my stomach and hated his now-wife with more force than the heat of a thousand suns because she complained in the press that she forgot her toothbrush in the mad dash to be by his side. Oh, I was righteous, because I really loved him, see. A toothbrush was the last thing on my mind.

I’m sure there were things going on in my house re: my parents’ failing marriage that may have come to my notice, but they paled in emotional resonance against the rich tapestry of my feelings for Simon Le Bon at the time.

]]> By: sunny in texas http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7188 sunny in texas Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:45:40 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7188 well from what i understand, angelina's butt is too big for the current beauty ideal. and i like her even more because of it. by the way, i have a bunch of daughters and sometimes it's a fulltime job to keep them from falling prey to that patriarchal beauty ideal crap. but so far, no anorexics. and i see THAT as a victory. well from what i understand, angelina’s butt is too big for the current beauty ideal. and i like her even more because of it.
by the way, i have a bunch of daughters and sometimes it’s a fulltime job to keep them from falling prey to that patriarchal beauty ideal crap. but so far, no anorexics. and i see THAT as a victory.

]]> By: Dim Undercellar http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7176 Dim Undercellar Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:07:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7176 eeee. Are you sure? I mean, that's some seriously red-flaggy behavior, from a miogyny standpoint. I'd check their basements for duct tape, hemp rope, and battered wooden chairs before assuming they're OK people to the point that you'd, like, stay the night or something. eeee.

Are you sure? I mean, that’s some seriously red-flaggy behavior, from a miogyny standpoint. I’d check their basements for duct tape, hemp rope, and battered wooden chairs before assuming they’re OK people to the point that you’d, like, stay the night or something.

]]> By: Ron O. http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7152 Ron O. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:08:38 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7152 My GI Joe was regularly strapped to a firecracker, set on fire or had limbs dislocated until it was destroyed. It was a stupid toy anway. For "nice" playtime, my sister & I used Fisher Price Little People in our Lego town. Miller is an idiot for taking that cad back. My GI Joe was regularly strapped to a firecracker, set on fire or had limbs dislocated until it was destroyed. It was a stupid toy anway. For “nice” playtime, my sister & I used Fisher Price Little People in our Lego town.

Miller is an idiot for taking that cad back.

]]> By: kelleyBell http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7144 kelleyBell Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:04:01 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7144 Barfy Sucks! Barfy Sucks!

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7142 Twisty Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:04:03 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7142 I like Angelina Jolie, kind of--insofar as a person can like a total stranger who makes a living emulating the patriarchal beauty ideal and who belongs to a much more exalted caste--because she doesn't reproduce. If only more people would follow her example. I like Angelina Jolie, kind of–insofar as a person can like a total stranger who makes a living emulating the patriarchal beauty ideal and who belongs to a much more exalted caste–because she doesn’t reproduce. If only more people would follow her example.

]]> By: The Fat Lady Sings http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7140 The Fat Lady Sings Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:14:24 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/12/27/sienna-miller/#comment-7140 When I was a kid, Barbie came with dark hair too - so if you weren’t blond, you had an alternative. Still - I read that poll, and I think some people equated ‘mutilation’ with alteration. I changed Barbie to look more real – I cut her hair, tried to change its color, made clothes for her – anything to make her look less like some rich kid and more like what I saw every day. I did the same to my troll dolls – cut and died their hair, made new outfits. It also was a way to have a different doll. Presents weren’t big in my house – so you learned to make do. I wonder if that was also considered ‘mutilation’ in that poll. As for that Miller idiot – boy, it bodes ill for little girls that they celebrate some chickie who took her cheating boyfriend back, over a woman of substance who successfully fought cancer. But have you guys watched any music videos lately? Women are almost universally treated like shit – carpets for men to walk over, sexual toys to use and discard. Hell – shit wasn’t this bad thirty years ago when I was in High School, and girls were still considered the lesser sex! Something’s gotta change – or women with spines will become an endangered species. When I was a kid, Barbie came with dark hair too - so if you weren’t blond, you had an alternative. Still - I read that poll, and I think some people equated ‘mutilation’ with alteration. I changed Barbie to look more real – I cut her hair, tried to change its color, made clothes for her – anything to make her look less like some rich kid and more like what I saw every day. I did the same to my troll dolls – cut and died their hair, made new outfits. It also was a way to have a different doll. Presents weren’t big in my house – so you learned to make do. I wonder if that was also considered ‘mutilation’ in that poll.

As for that Miller idiot – boy, it bodes ill for little girls that they celebrate some chickie who took her cheating boyfriend back, over a woman of substance who successfully fought cancer. But have you guys watched any music videos lately? Women are almost universally treated like shit – carpets for men to walk over, sexual toys to use and discard. Hell – shit wasn’t this bad thirty years ago when I was in High School, and girls were still considered the lesser sex! Something’s gotta change – or women with spines will become an endangered species.

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