Comments on: I fucking hate men and I blame them for everything

By: Satsuma

Satsuma — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:15:49 +0000

Just saw a lesbian photography exhibit last week, and ovular was used for some group photos of workshops the women held at conferences back in the 70s.

It was a fantastic exhibit, about 40 women came to it, and only one or two had ever been to a photo exhibit by, about and for lesbians ever! Imagine that. Makes you realize how every photo of a woman is suspect if men control the cameras. Just as the words we use are about men’s inventions of what they think women are as opposed to what women truly are. Not the same thing at all.

Sadly, in the lesbian photos, you saw a lot of group activities, and only in the 90s did you start to see individual photos of women, who were isolated. The youngest photographer on the panel discussion was the only woman to use porn-speak to describe women. Further evidense that the pornification of America contaminates all young women’s lives.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:29:47 +0000

Ack! So that’s what years of college get me: more disgusting dude words to describe everything with. I’m sorry for obliviously using such a nasty dude-word anywhere near Dworkin’s work, especially when germinal, ovular, preeminent, paramount, or principal all would have worked in its stead. I’m going to send a donation to Dworkin’s site to make amends for the insult.

What I wouldn’t give for a fully-customizable spell checker where we could remove choice words from their dictionary.

By: keres

keres — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:22:47 +0000

Jezebella, I prefer to use ovular in place of seminal. Of course, no one knows what I’m saying, or why I’m saying it - until I explain.

By: jezebella

jezebella — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:02:17 +0000

Hey jonathan, how about we not call anything Dworkin wrote “seminal,” alrighty? “Germinal” is a nice non-dudely substitute. Thanks, man.

By: Satsuma

Satsuma — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:26:42 +0000

Love the title of this blog, and all the good old feminist rage. Pipe bombs and all. This site is delightfully free of the whimpy feminist sites out there and thank the goddess in all her wrath! Kali kick butt with her golden spear stabbing the patriarch through the heart!

In this day and age, I ran out and bought Kali statue No. @ for my “Blame office” after Hillary was knocked out of the race. Double Kali needed for this double dose of patriarchy us and running for all to see.

Crow crow crow as Obama becomes more and more of the polker playing patriarch he is, and we get to kick the boys in the gutts and fight back on the Internet the way any self-respecting blamer should be… dum de dumm dumm

By: Lemur

Lemur — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:19:41 +0000

Soooo… does this mean now’s a good time to break out the pipe bombs? Cause I could take responsibitity for blowing a random patriarch’s Escalade 80 feet up.
Or is that too extreme?

By: monika

monika — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:13:25 +0000

I am assuming this is the same John Dias as here: http://www.dontmakehermad.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

By: Zrusilla

Zrusilla — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:46:13 +0000

The day that I hear a man say, “I’ve considered all the evidence, and thought the matter over carefully, and I’ve concluded that my wife is right, I am a gold-plated idiot,” is the day I sit up and pay a shred of attention.

Self-serving tools.

By: dairon

dairon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:00:35 +0000

But ultimately, without violent force or coercion to enforce your beliefs (as punishment), you are weak and helpless when you feed off of a sense of blame.

It’s far more empowering to blame the victim, that being yourself. Take responsibility for your own choices, and you’ll experience a form of empowerment that external validation never could provide.

Okay, so when I was raped, emotionally abused, and psychologically isolated as a child (by men), either 1. it was my fault, or 2. I should go out and visit violent force upon my attackers in retribution in order to not be helpless?

If I agree to swallow my own vomit and accept the first, can I have the second? Like some kind of a double jeopardy thing, I already suffered the pain so now I can commit the crime scot-free?

And to think the feminist-leaning therapist wants me to talk it out! HOW WEAK AND VICTIMLIKE IS THAT!! HAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks for clarifying, John. Thanks. That really is empowering, actually. So, can I come and beat you senseless first for abusing my logic centers in this egregious fashion?

And yeah, not to state the obvious once again, but if blame makes you a victim, shouldn’t he therefore take his own advice and STFU? Especially as it seems he has nothing more awful to complain about than a failed relationship??

Goddamn, I run into this shit from privileged people all the time. “All my problems are generated by my own shit decisions, therefore clearly everyone’s problems ever are all generated by their own poor decision making.” No, actually, the world does not revolve around you. Just because you are not oppressed does not mean that systemic oppression does not exist. Goddamn.

/rant, thanks for listening.

By: victory is mine.

victory is mine. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:33:29 +0000

oh my god > A man who listens