Comments on: Drudge report http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Body Impolitic Presents the 27th Carnival of Feminists - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-125235 Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Body Impolitic Presents the 27th Carnival of Feminists - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:52:21 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-125235 [...] no point in summarizing Twisty, in this case on women’s increasing incomes and consumer power: Women, it turns out, are so [...] […] no point in summarizing Twisty, in this case on women’s increasing incomes and consumer power: Women, it turns out, are so […]

]]> By: grrr kitty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28558 grrr kitty Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:34:57 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28558 Yes, Pony, I totally empathize. I have a conservative republican nephew whom I'd dearly love to edit. I donated my father's .38 to my sister's husband, who is of a more stable, sane temperament. Yes, Pony, I totally empathize. I have a conservative republican nephew whom I’d dearly love to edit. I donated my father’s .38 to my sister’s husband, who is of a more stable, sane temperament.

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28532 Pony Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:16:13 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28532 Well yah I guess he's a male nephew. I was going to anonymize him, then decided he doesn't bloody well deserve it but didn't edit it properly. Would I could edit him. MALE relative? Non. Nephew. Well yah I guess he’s a male nephew. I was going to anonymize him, then decided he doesn’t bloody well deserve it but didn’t edit it properly. Would I could edit him. MALE relative? Non. Nephew.

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28531 Pony Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:15:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28531 The only power tool I want is the one I used to have, my father's long barelled 38 revolver, which is now in the illegal position of a male nephew. The only power tool I want is the one I used to have, my father’s long barelled 38 revolver, which is now in the illegal position of a male nephew.

]]> By: grrr kitty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28523 grrr kitty Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:52:03 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28523 The only power tool I enjoy is my chainsaw. It was a birthday gift from my sister and it is not pink. I dream of using it on the patriarchy and smile whilst artfully sculpting the shrubs in the front yard. Hairy-Leg HQ, ho ho ho. The only power tool I enjoy is my chainsaw. It was a birthday gift from my sister and it is not pink. I dream of using it on the patriarchy and smile whilst artfully sculpting the shrubs in the front yard.

Hairy-Leg HQ, ho ho ho.

]]> By: hedonistic http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28517 hedonistic Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:31:22 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28517 Oh, Jezebella, that's BRILLIANT! Too late for me, unfortunately: My ex even took my grandfather's tools. I screamed bloody murder over it and was able to retrieve the ones I recognized, but I'm sure my ex still has most of them. I'm TOTALLY giving this advice to my sister, who is going through a divorce but still has the keys to the house she shared with her now-ex . . . Oh, Jezebella, that’s BRILLIANT! Too late for me, unfortunately: My ex even took my grandfather’s tools. I screamed bloody murder over it and was able to retrieve the ones I recognized, but I’m sure my ex still has most of them.

I’m TOTALLY giving this advice to my sister, who is going through a divorce but still has the keys to the house she shared with her now-ex . . .

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28510 Jezebella Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:53:47 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28510 bewilderness: This is perhaps the best new breakup/divorce advice I've encountered in ages: if you don't want your soon-to-be ex to take something, Paint it Pink. Genius. I wish I'd thought of this before I lost my good hammer and some other tools to my last ex. He would never have "mixed up" pink tools with his own abundant supply. I bet it works with just about anything you might want to keep: slap some flowery stickers or pink paint on the gas grill, and its yours! Fridge, stereo, TV... all worthy of a dash of man-repellent. Finally, home decorating serves a worthy cause. bewilderness:

This is perhaps the best new breakup/divorce advice I’ve encountered in ages: if you don’t want your soon-to-be ex to take something, Paint it Pink. Genius. I wish I’d thought of this before I lost my good hammer and some other tools to my last ex. He would never have “mixed up” pink tools with his own abundant supply.

I bet it works with just about anything you might want to keep: slap some flowery stickers or pink paint on the gas grill, and its yours! Fridge, stereo, TV… all worthy of a dash of man-repellent. Finally, home decorating serves a worthy cause.

]]> By: thebewilderness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28501 thebewilderness Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:01:53 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28501 Many years ago when I was a young and ignorant git I helped my grandpa do stuff. As a result I grew up ignorant of the fact that the stuff we did was not patriarchially approved girl stuff, but rather guy stuff. Then I made a miserable marriage and shortly became a single parent. After several less than successful relationships, I made a discovery. Men covet tools. Men do not think women are entitled to own tools. Therefore when a relationship ends men confiscate all tools that do not have pink paint on them. Pink paint was originally applied as a man repellant for tools. There is not much sadder than a man casting googly eyes at a DeWalt compound miter saw with a pink man repellent racing stripe. Those marketing wizards who fail to win the tool loving womens hearts with their cheap ass pink tools clearly do not get the joke. Many years ago when I was a young and ignorant git I helped my grandpa do stuff. As a result I grew up ignorant of the fact that the stuff we did was not patriarchially approved girl stuff, but rather guy stuff. Then I made a miserable marriage and shortly became a single parent. After several less than successful relationships, I made a discovery. Men covet tools. Men do not think women are entitled to own tools. Therefore when a relationship ends men confiscate all tools that do not have pink paint on them. Pink paint was originally applied as a man repellant for tools. There is not much sadder than a man casting googly eyes at a DeWalt compound miter saw with a pink man repellent racing stripe. Those marketing wizards who fail to win the tool loving womens hearts with their cheap ass pink tools clearly do not get the joke.

]]> By: Blamerella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28499 Blamerella Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:36:16 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28499 <blockquote> And, Twisty, I’m with you on this DIY bullshit. I’d rather save my pennies and pay an expert to tile my bathroom in mere hours. To me, DIY means you spend hours taking multiple trips to Home Depot and watching HGTV (aka The House Porn Channel), and eventually spend at least as much money on supplies and esoteric tools you will never need again, and then you have to devote an entire weekend to tiling the damn bathroom. Eff that. Eff it, I say. </blockquote> One post in and I'm commiserating. DIY is the biggest scam ever foisted on humanity. I've yet to meet a single person, including myself in a brief moment of insanity, who has not spent MORE trying to do shit themselves than if they'd just paid the damn professionals that they have to call in to fix the eff-ups in the first damn place. Right now I'm looking at a few grand to hire people to repaint the interior of my house because I got it into my head that plain off-white Just Wouldn't Do! And I was a miserable waste of life if I couldn't create Vibrant Accent Walls! With Fashionable Decorative Finishes! So my living room is a splotchy, streaky burgundy and the flat white paint I used over the unmatching semi-gloss marigold that I painted the wall next to it with cracked so that looks like shit too. My parents lived in the same house for decades and never changed the decor a bit. I think they had the right idea. I blame the patriarchy for DIY.

And, Twisty, I’m with you on this DIY bullshit. I’d rather save my pennies and pay an expert to tile my bathroom in mere hours. To me, DIY means you spend hours taking multiple trips to Home Depot and watching HGTV (aka The House Porn Channel), and eventually spend at least as much money on supplies and esoteric tools you will never need again, and then you have to devote an entire weekend to tiling the damn bathroom. Eff that. Eff it, I say.

One post in and I’m commiserating. DIY is the biggest scam ever foisted on humanity. I’ve yet to meet a single person, including myself in a brief moment of insanity, who has not spent MORE trying to do shit themselves than if they’d just paid the damn professionals that they have to call in to fix the eff-ups in the first damn place.

Right now I’m looking at a few grand to hire people to repaint the interior of my house because I got it into my head that plain off-white Just Wouldn’t Do! And I was a miserable waste of life if I couldn’t create Vibrant Accent Walls! With Fashionable Decorative Finishes! So my living room is a splotchy, streaky burgundy and the flat white paint I used over the unmatching semi-gloss marigold that I painted the wall next to it with cracked so that looks like shit too.

My parents lived in the same house for decades and never changed the decor a bit. I think they had the right idea. I blame the patriarchy for DIY.

]]> By: drumgurl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28493 drumgurl Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:55:57 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/11/02/drudge-report/#comment-28493 Twisty, does this mean you own a Daisy Rock guitar? ;-) Twisty, does this mean you own a Daisy Rock guitar? ;-)

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