Comments on: Spinster aunt posts link

By: Craroline

Craroline — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:10:47 +0000

Hilarious!

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:11:03 +0000

I especially liked the jaunty little bow in her hair.

By: VinaigretteGirl

VinaigretteGirl — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:27:34 +0000

I prefer my ironically-funfeminist graffiti to be better executed but expertise-loving is patriarchal. Point made, though, albeit with a bludgeon.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:25 +0000

Hi David! Thanks for popping in and telling us wimmins how to do feminism! We shore appreciate it, what with us lacking in Fresh Manly Wisdom and all!

By: FatWhiteMaleEngineerHumanist

FatWhiteMaleEngineerHumanist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:00:59 +0000

Twisty said: “The joke-butt, therefore, is the funfeminist lifestyle, not Emma Goldman.”

I’m sorry I got it wrong; thank you for the help!

This reminds me of the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as terrorists, bumping fists in the oval office. The cover is a good example of ironic humor that a lot of people took literally, missing the joke.

Enough. I’ll take the bullet: I’m humor-challenged.

Only nine more days of Bush!
David

By: Dykonoclast

Dykonoclast — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:11:36 +0000

ambiguouslynamed seems not to have grasped the nature of the conflict between Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons. I love both of them, but Parsons was all about wifehood and femininity. While going on national speaking tours to save her husband’s life and those of their comrades, she sold herself hardcore as feminine, as womanly, as a mother, as a wife, pathos to the max. Goldman had some pretty valid reasons for not liking Parsons, which I’ll not go into here, just as Parsons had valid reasons not to like Goldman.

By: Distingué Traces

Distingué Traces — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:55:06 +0000

Maybe the seeming disagreement here is between “fun” understood as “Emma had a fun day today, what with all the orgasms” as contrasted with “Emma’s sexual labor provided a lot of fun for the men who purchased or otherwise laid claim to it.”

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:54:35 +0000

Actually, Emma Goldman was the “fun feminist” of her day, being a proponent of “free love”.

She also advocated dancing!

By: yttik

yttik — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:08:24 +0000

Speaking of jokes, MS magazine has truly lost it. Their special inaugural issue has a picture of Obama as superman, with the words “this is what a feminist looks like”. Forty years of fighting for equality and I come to discover that I can’t even be a feminist because I lack a penis.

But hey, in the fun-feminist theme, the mag comes with a free 8 by 10 glossy that they girls can hang on their wall next to their posters of movie stars. He’s just so dreamy. And if you’re a real good girl, we’ll let you emulate the first lady’s fashion. She’s just so Jackie. Those are women’s issues, aren’t they? Fashion and 8 by ten glossies?

Speaking of Jackie, wow what grace under fire, literally, but who in their right mind would ever want to idolize the horrors Jackie went thru?

By: Twisty

Twisty — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:42:20 +0000

The humor, FatWhiteMaleEngineerHumanist, lies in the absurdity of the idea of Emma Goldman (and by extension, any female person) as a sparkly pole-dancin’ funfeminist. The joke-butt, therefore, is the funfeminist lifestyle, not Emma Goldman.

But jokes always lose something when you try to explain’em.