Comments on: God: can’t live with’im; can’t seem to kill’im

By: Cass

Cass — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:52:21 +0000

And don’t take that as a compliment!

By: Infallible Female

Infallible Female — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:24:02 +0000

“There is no question that Allah is here to stay, so we must rely on womenâ€™s activism from within to dilute its toxicity to a level tolerable to its female supplicants and favorable to Western economic interests.”

Obviously, all oppressed people (such as Islam’s “female supplicants”) deserve change for the better. But why “must” we hope that Islam’s “toxicity” is made more favourable to Western economic interests? It’s just that kind of attitude which exacerbates the whole *terror* situation. Besides, you seem usually to consider these economic interests to be synonymous with patriarchy (and hence to be your day-to-day enemy) anyway; until, that is, you see something you can hate even more.

Most women deserve a far better deal than they are given by the established order. And so do most Iraqis, Afghanistanis, Pakistanis, et al. However, the plight of the latter can never justify terrorism and that of the former is not served by your insane rants. *You* are the enemy of free women and of peace.

By: Bewareofthegod

Bewareofthegod — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:01:21 +0000

Australia: packed with Parallel Universes
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I’m as startled by the country Aussie Liz lives in (less oppressive, more healthcare) as I am by Al’s version where we aren’t very religious.

Well, maybe ‘we’ aren’t. But the Federal Government of Australia contains enough activist religious zealots to ensure that the discourses of power here are strongly faith-inflected. That faith is certainly entwined with the ascendancy of violent nationalism Al notes; I would just like to suggest here that they are not separate phenomena.

Here are some dossiers on the religio-political backgrounds of various Australian pollies and movements:
http://www.bewareofthegod.com/?cat=10

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And as for the country where Scratchy 888 lives, with the oppressive hives of lady bees, I haven’t been there, either.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:16:30 +0000

“Isnâ€™t that neat gals, what he/she/it just did there? Sheit took a class from and expert and now is an expert too. I love it.”

Where did I say I was an expert? I shared my thoughts, just like everyone else here.

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:28:13 +0000

“To do that, you have to kill men. Or, if you have generations, breed women and refrain from breeding men. If you breed at all.” Craig Ewart

Yeah, that’ll happen. Feminism does not kill people. And, few women on Earth have the right to chose whether, what or if they breed.

By: al

al — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:03:36 +0000

I always thought Murielâ€™s Wedding was one of the best female buddies movie ever.

I thought someone would bring that up after I hit ‘blame.’

But, really–how long ago was Muriel’s Wedding? Oh yeh–1994. We’re hardly prolific.

By: Mary Sunshine

Mary Sunshine — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:25:45 +0000

Branjor said:

“I blame men.”

So do I, and for exactly the reasons that you stated.

M.S.

By: Branjor

Branjor — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:23:41 +0000

Unfortunately, Craig Ewert is right. Blaming the patriarchy’s for wimps. Patriarchy is not a natural phenomenon like grass or trees, it did not drop out of the sky like rain. It is not a real thing, but an abstraction. It does not “do” anything. It is the people who are behind it, who constructed it so that *they* could do things they would not otherwise be able to do. I blame men.

By: flea1

flea1 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:44:15 +0000

…no female buddy movies…

I always thought Muriel’s Wedding was one of the best female buddies movie ever.

By: Pony

Pony — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:42:42 +0000

There’s no good answer to the problem of breeding. One thing I can think of this morning, just one, is that breeding, for those who vociferously defend it and wax on about how wonderful it is, this miracle of carrying another being within our wombs, bringing it to life, watching it waddle around saying cute feminist things (until it’s about six) and looking just like you, is that someone is going to have to support and nuture it until it can do so itself, and for some children that can mean never. Think on that. Think on the fact that this forever parent is almost always, virtually always, a woman. Animals know instinctively when there is something wrong with their young. They either don’t feed, or kill it.

Can’t we all put our minds to finding an option to breeding?