Comments on: Breaking: patriarchy is actually real

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:19:03 +0000

…the trouble with having a penis is not so much that you think with it, it’s that you keep having to protect it.

That may be true from your perspective, Rolan, but from the perspective of the unbepenised, the trouble IS so much that you think with it.

In spite of evidence of peaceful matriarchal societies before the desertification of “Saharasia,” it seems likely that male H. sapiens have always oppressed the females, because they could.

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:38:06 +0000

Ma’am, of course she’s a chick. Can’t you hear the bok-bok-bukaaaawk of chicken noises every time you click over?

Is that just me?

By: Natalia

Natalia — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:40:57 +0000

By: ma'am

ma'am — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:08:55 +0000

Twisty is a chick?!

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:23:02 +0000

I like you, Natalia.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:09:07 +0000

Well, it’s happened. I’m that chick. The chick with the blog where people write, with a straight face, goop like “good sex is intensely creative.”

Where did I go wrong?

So the other day, I saw this leather belt I really liked and…

OOPS! Sorry! Wrong window!

;)

I don’t get enough of those comments on my wee wittle site. Clearly, I need to start poaching.

By: speedbudget

speedbudget — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:28:10 +0000

Jill: Thanks for the compliment! It was my dad’s nickname for me when I was a kid. Apparently, I crawled at mach III speed.

Rolan: Jill said it better with “culture of domination.” In a post-revolutionary utopia, the need for domination would no longer exist since there would be no need to force people to toe the party line. I would hope that with our system of culture and language, we wouldn’t need to resort to violent domination a la the hyenas.

The whole point of the revolution is to do away with the need for a controlling paradigm.

By: marj

marj — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:07:18 +0000

I think about this all the time. But shit, girls gotta get laid.

By: Rolan le Gargéac

Rolan le Gargéac — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:06:21 +0000

but it’s the culture of domination that’s really at issue here. I call it “patriarchy,” since that’s currently its most recognizable incarnation,

aie..La vérité fait toujours mal…the trouble with having a penis is not so much that you think with it, it’s that you keep having to protect it.

It stunts your view.

Thank you, Jill, you have a great clarity. I nearly said “merci’ but that was too close to a similar word in english whereas the french word for “mercy” is “misericode’, which was a dagger used to put people out of their misery.

I think I need one now.

Merci.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:48:28 +0000

Rolan,

Not to speak for speedbudget (one of my favorite all-time screen names), but it’s the culture of domination that’s really at issue here. I call it “patriarchy,” since that’s currently its most recognizable incarnation, but it wouldn’t be any great coup for Truth and Beauty if a post-revolutionary society merely reinstated the culture of domination under a different guise.