Comments on: Patriarchy Takes A Day Off http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sharoni http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11382 Sharoni Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:56:43 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11382 What DeviousDiva said. What DeviousDiva said.

]]> By: firefalluk http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11366 firefalluk Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:53:24 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11366 Didn't you get the memo? The patriarchy officially takes Feb 29th off ... so long as noone notices :( On the brighter side, it seems that in the UK, <i>Zoo</i> is having subscription troubles - at least, it's changed it's day of publication, which I read as such (perhaps I'm just being an optimist). As for the Connecticut college <b>lads</b>, how is that not rape? or at least assault with a deadly* weapon. Simply unbelievable. *let's be generous Didn’t you get the memo? The patriarchy officially takes Feb 29th off … so long as noone notices :(

On the brighter side, it seems that in the UK, Zoo is having subscription troubles – at least, it’s changed it’s day of publication, which I read as such (perhaps I’m just being an optimist).

As for the Connecticut college lads, how is that not rape? or at least assault with a deadly* weapon. Simply unbelievable.

*let’s be generous

]]> By: Cass http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11343 Cass Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:58:15 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11343 The issue wasn't infidelity, it was the fact she was about to slip out of his control. Trust me on this one. The issue wasn’t infidelity, it was the fact she was about to slip out of his control. Trust me on this one.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11306 Twisty Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:01:38 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11306 Helen, my tone, in the passage you quote, was intended to be facetious, which device I humbly and perhaps ineptly employ in the service of lo-brow humor. However, since you bring it up, it is my position that fidelity is a patriarchal construct, and, while it is a useful quality in a dog, I really can't advocate it as the primary theme in the narrative of intimate human relationships. So I really <em>really</em> can't advocate murdering people who decline to go along with it. As a matter of fact, I'm more or less against murder generally. But, I'm not giving anybody the go-ahead for anything. If, for whatever loony reason, you tell the milkman "I will be faithful to you" and then you do it with the cabaña boy, you are not, perhaps, enbiggening your humanity to its fullest potential, which is bad. But that's only because lying to milkmen is mean, not because there is anything morally wrong in doing it with cabaña boys. Helen, my tone, in the passage you quote, was intended to be facetious, which device I humbly and perhaps ineptly employ in the service of lo-brow humor. However, since you bring it up, it is my position that fidelity is a patriarchal construct, and, while it is a useful quality in a dog, I really can’t advocate it as the primary theme in the narrative of intimate human relationships. So I really really can’t advocate murdering people who decline to go along with it.

As a matter of fact, I’m more or less against murder generally.

But, I’m not giving anybody the go-ahead for anything. If, for whatever loony reason, you tell the milkman “I will be faithful to you” and then you do it with the cabaña boy, you are not, perhaps, enbiggening your humanity to its fullest potential, which is bad. But that’s only because lying to milkmen is mean, not because there is anything morally wrong in doing it with cabaña boys.

]]> By: Helen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11304 Helen Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:52:01 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11304 <i>His wife had been what’s known as “unfaithful.” This means she flouted the rule that says guys own their wives. She was pretty much askin’ for it.</i> I meant to call you on this one, being a victim of husbandly infidelity in the recent past and still suffering the psychological fallout. But rereading your sentence, I believe you did not mean to say infidelity is OK, just that killing people for it is not OK. Am I right? Because giving people the goahead for infidelity in monogamous relationships is just telling the male sense of entitlement to <i>go for it!</i> <i>A Cornell professor opines that girls are snapping under the pressure imposed by the rule that they be rail-thin virgin sexbots, so they’re wearily drowning what’s left of their shattered selves in liquor and drugs.</i> Well, at least they've pinpointed something other than the "pressure imposed by trying to Have it All, which the nasty feminists have imposed on them, and which they can't handle and should go back to the Home" thing. Refreshing, actually! Your Phyllis Schafly link took me <a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2004/dec04/psrdec04.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> where such gems as <i> When Time Magazine runs a cover story called "The Case for Staying Home," and Reuters reports that housework is good for women because it can help prevent ovarian cancer, you know the feminists are on the run</i>. (Phyllis Schafly) gave me a good laugh. His wife had been what’s known as “unfaithful.” This means she flouted the rule that says guys own their wives. She was pretty much askin’ for it.

I meant to call you on this one, being a victim of husbandly infidelity in the recent past and still suffering the psychological fallout. But rereading your sentence, I believe you did not mean to say infidelity is OK, just that killing people for it is not OK. Am I right? Because giving people the goahead for infidelity in monogamous relationships is just telling the male sense of entitlement to go for it!

A Cornell professor opines that girls are snapping under the pressure imposed by the rule that they be rail-thin virgin sexbots, so they’re wearily drowning what’s left of their shattered selves in liquor and drugs.

Well, at least they’ve pinpointed something other than the “pressure imposed by trying to Have it All, which the nasty feminists have imposed on them, and which they can’t handle and should go back to the Home” thing. Refreshing, actually!

Your Phyllis Schafly link took me here where such gems as

When Time Magazine runs a cover story called “The Case for Staying Home,” and Reuters reports that housework is good for women because it can help prevent ovarian cancer, you know the feminists are on the run. (Phyllis Schafly)

gave me a good laugh.

]]> By: Christopher http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11276 Christopher Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:17:15 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11276 I am thourouhgly baffled that straight guys in American society can't understand, on a very visceral level, why it would be so hideous to wake up with fucking semen on your face. It's worse considering the woman decided to stay because she thought she might be raped if she walked home alone. That detail is what really pisses me off. I am thourouhgly baffled that straight guys in American society can’t understand, on a very visceral level, why it would be so hideous to wake up with fucking semen on your face.

It’s worse considering the woman decided to stay because she thought she might be raped if she walked home alone.

That detail is what really pisses me off.

]]> By: flea http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11265 flea Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:28:31 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11265 Kaka Mak - Sure, it's right here: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002326.html When I looked at it last, it had 8 comments. Now it has 23. Some of the comments are what I would call reasonable. The rest, well, I'll just say it's lucky that these dudes had a nice safe space to discuss what is or isn't rape so calmly and rationally, without the presence of women who are so disruptive and tend to cry rape when it clearly isn't warranted. What a relief it must be that women aren't lawmakers! Ahem. Kaka Mak – Sure, it’s right here:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002326.html

When I looked at it last, it had 8 comments. Now it has 23. Some of the comments are what I would call reasonable. The rest, well, I’ll just say it’s lucky that these dudes had a nice safe space to discuss what is or isn’t rape so calmly and rationally, without the presence of women who are so disruptive and tend to cry rape when it clearly isn’t warranted. What a relief it must be that women aren’t lawmakers!

Ahem.

]]> By: deviousdiva http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11243 deviousdiva Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:29:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11243 5 years for stabbing a woman so many times they couldn't count the wounds! Why? Because he had a troubled childhood and a disease that was causing him "pain and limiting his mobility"? Didn't see much limit to his mobility when he was stabbing the poor woman to death. Millions of us fucking live with fucked up childhoods and health problems. We don't go out and stab, rape and murder people though do we? What would a woman have got for the same crime? I can bet my last cent it wouldn't be 5 years and there would be a fucking riot over it. I am sick of this shit. 5 years for stabbing a woman so many times they couldn’t count the wounds! Why? Because he had a troubled childhood and a disease that was causing him “pain and limiting his mobility”? Didn’t see much limit to his mobility when he was stabbing the poor woman to death. Millions of us fucking live with fucked up childhoods and health problems. We don’t go out and stab, rape and murder people though do we? What would a woman have got for the same crime? I can bet my last cent it wouldn’t be 5 years and there would be a fucking riot over it. I am sick of this shit.

]]> By: Kaka Mak http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11242 Kaka Mak Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:02:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11242 Flea: Can you post that link to "Sadly, No?" Being a CT resident and minutes from UCONN, I am following this crap intently. Also: GOOD NEWS! Now, only minutes from UCONN will be a new STRIP BAR in Willimantic, CT : The Ultraviolet Cafe! Had this bar been opened sooner--those damn protesting zealots slowed things down--those poor UCONN boys wouldn't have had to blow thier wad on a sleeping girl! They could have gone to UltraViolent (typo there, but, I'm leavin' it)and properly expressed their healthy sex drive there! Flea: Can you post that link to “Sadly, No?” Being a CT resident and minutes from UCONN, I am following this crap intently.

Also: GOOD NEWS! Now, only minutes from UCONN will be a new STRIP BAR in Willimantic, CT : The Ultraviolet Cafe! Had this bar been opened sooner–those damn protesting zealots slowed things down–those poor UCONN boys wouldn’t have had to blow thier wad on a sleeping girl!
They could have gone to UltraViolent (typo there, but, I’m leavin’ it)and properly expressed their healthy sex drive there!

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/10/patriarchy-takes-a-day-off/#comment-11236 Twisty Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:34:39 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=468#comment-11236 Perhaps they were also "lumpen"? Perhaps they were also “lumpen”?

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