Comments on: The vital mission of intimate apparel http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hutbug http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-120621 hutbug Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:37:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-120621 I don't like the use of misogyny to describe all this because it's not really accurate. It's really exploitation, of our entire beings, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. After 50 years of struggling to understand why things are they way they are, I think it all began when men figured out that they had something to do with reproduction. Prior to that, we were probably regarded as magical, and probably dominant in society. After that, the 'might makes right' rule activated, and we because reproduction and property transference tools. It's really all about money and power. They don't hate us, they just like making money off us. They have convinced us that our only power is our physical appearance, and they can market to our fears to the tune of trillions. We buy makeup and hair removers and ridiculous clothes and uncomfortable shoes and plastic surgery and self-help books and weight loss scams and counseling sessions...and we get married and/or have babies, trying to feel like we are worth something, anything, and no matter what we do it doesn't get much respect because only the money makers get that. And of course, all the violence is just way too much testosterone from millenia of natural selection. Thanks to modern technology, all we need to do there is alter the water. I don’t like the use of misogyny to describe all this because it’s not really accurate. It’s really exploitation, of our entire beings, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. After 50 years of struggling to understand why things are they way they are, I think it all began when men figured out that they had something to do with reproduction. Prior to that, we were probably regarded as magical, and probably dominant in society. After that, the ‘might makes right’ rule activated, and we because reproduction and property transference tools. It’s really all about money and power. They don’t hate us, they just like making money off us. They have convinced us that our only power is our physical appearance, and they can market to our fears to the tune of trillions. We buy makeup and hair removers and ridiculous clothes and uncomfortable shoes and plastic surgery and self-help books and weight loss scams and counseling sessions…and we get married and/or have babies, trying to feel like we are worth something, anything, and no matter what we do it doesn’t get much respect because only the money makers get that. And of course, all the violence is just way too much testosterone from millenia of natural selection. Thanks to modern technology, all we need to do there is alter the water.

]]> By: stephanie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-120506 stephanie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:40:34 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-120506 At first I was like...what is that? Then I realized it's a cervix. I wonder why I never knew what a cervix looked like. I have had cryosurgery and a LEEP to cut off the nasty pre-growth business on my cervix. Mine probably looks lopsided now. And, you know, where was cancer on the STD chart? I remember warts. Like, don't have sex, you'll get warts. Here is a picture of the warts. No cancer. Nothing about HPV and your cervix. Bastards. At first I was like…what is that? Then I realized it’s a cervix. I wonder why I never knew what a cervix looked like.

I have had cryosurgery and a LEEP to cut off the nasty pre-growth business on my cervix. Mine probably looks lopsided now. And, you know, where was cancer on the STD chart? I remember warts. Like, don’t have sex, you’ll get warts. Here is a picture of the warts.

No cancer. Nothing about HPV and your cervix. Bastards.

]]> By: Lt. Rev. B. Dagger Lee http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118817 Lt. Rev. B. Dagger Lee Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118817 I beg to differ with Donna: colons are totally sexy; it's semicolons that aren't. I beg to differ with Donna: colons are totally sexy; it’s semicolons that aren’t.

]]> By: islandmamma http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118305 islandmamma Tue, 13 May 2008 06:34:33 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118305 BTW the question marks were cute little music notes... BTW the question marks were cute little music notes…

]]> By: islandmamma http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118304 islandmamma Tue, 13 May 2008 06:30:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118304 I thought the picture was of a boil you'd get from wearing thongs! ???????????????? stuck in the middle with you ???????????????? I thought the picture was of a boil you’d get from wearing thongs!

???????????????? stuck in the middle with you ????????????????

]]> By: donna http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118029 donna Thu, 08 May 2008 05:04:52 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-118029 Aw, c'mon, where's my colon cancer campaign already? We could use the undies thing, too! Colons just aren't sexy, dammitall. Aw, c’mon, where’s my colon cancer campaign already? We could use the undies thing, too!

Colons just aren’t sexy, dammitall.

]]> By: Casey (kcb) http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117933 Casey (kcb) Tue, 06 May 2008 22:01:26 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117933 <i>I have seen this “shapewear” on TV, and it’s just a massive expanse of heavy-duty lycra spandex that starts under your tits and ends just above your knees. I can’t imagine how you put one on, but I suspect it takes quite a bit of writhing.</i> Mrs. G. (whom I love) of Derfwad Manor recently reported on her brief first-hand (so to speak) <a href="http://derfwadmanor.blogspot.com/2008/04/liberation.html" rel="nofollow">encounter with Spanx</a>, that tits-to-knees shapewear. Sounds like the girdle from hell to me. I have seen this “shapewear” on TV, and it’s just a massive expanse of heavy-duty lycra spandex that starts under your tits and ends just above your knees. I can’t imagine how you put one on, but I suspect it takes quite a bit of writhing.

Mrs. G. (whom I love) of Derfwad Manor recently reported on her brief first-hand (so to speak) encounter with Spanx, that tits-to-knees shapewear. Sounds like the girdle from hell to me.

]]> By: Lara http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117923 Lara Tue, 06 May 2008 19:59:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117923 You're more perceptive than I am Keres, heh. I guess I am more impulsive ;P Ahh, so lycra makes good projectile material....should we then use the lycra to project huge rocks into the windows of porn shops?! Now THAT would be interesting... You’re more perceptive than I am Keres, heh. I guess I am more impulsive ;P
Ahh, so lycra makes good projectile material….should we then use the lycra to project huge rocks into the windows of porn shops?! Now THAT would be interesting…

]]> By: keres http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117866 keres Tue, 06 May 2008 04:21:12 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117866 <b>Lara</b>, as much as I share your pyromanical bent, burning Lycra would be: a) bad for the environment, b) expose you to cancer-causing chemicals (don't burn those porno mags either, as most printed material release dioxins), and c) a waste of a perfectly good projectile launcher. Lara, as much as I share your pyromanical bent, burning Lycra would be:

a) bad for the environment,

b) expose you to cancer-causing chemicals (don’t burn those porno mags either, as most printed material release dioxins), and

c) a waste of a perfectly good projectile launcher.

]]> By: Lara http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117864 Lara Tue, 06 May 2008 03:53:49 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/05/02/the-vital-mission-of-intimate-apparel/#comment-117864 Feminists used to throw bras in the trash, we should just burn those damned lycra things. Burning instead of trashing just seems more exciting to me.... Feminists used to throw bras in the trash, we should just burn those damned lycra things. Burning instead of trashing just seems more exciting to me….

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