Posts by Danielle
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With the whole keeping the baby / not keeping the baby child rearing discussion choice comes up a lot, but at certain points the men involved get a distinct lack of choice.
Welcome to the world of people with ovaries until the twentieth century.
The reason why I get so impatient with this kind of false equivalence is that there is a very tiny group of affluent women who currently have reproductive rights. Historically, this is a pretty small window, and it's been a really long struggle for *any* women to achieve autonomy, and rights, and personhood. And the movement for female personhood has been so intimately tied to reproductive rights, in a way that it has not, and seems unlikely to be, tied to male personhood. This is about us functioning as people in society, not whether or not we should be Your Very Special Baby Incubators, FFS. The small percentage of men who get forced to pay child support against their will? Well, OK, perhaps that's an injustice. But could we maybe work on this whole 'women are people' thing a bit more before calling it game over? Because... yeah. We don't seem to have sorted that one out yet.
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Mark, don't you have a Men's Movement retreat to attend? You know, where you go into the woods and beat each other with birch twigs in a spirit circle, and complain about how The Feminists are destroying your Phallic Aura?
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just feel we've been matronized too long
Teh wimmins! They are crushing the poor men beneath their mighty Amazonian jackboot with their insistence on rights to personhood and bodily autonomy and whatnot! Whatever shall we dooooo?
In other words, Mark: meh.
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Sean Wilentz, professor of History at Princeton... lays out the case that Obama can't win.
Sure, the Democrats have alienated themselves from the white working class vote - but the problem has been the way they wrote off entire sections of the country as not worth fighting for or campaigning in. The issue is all that red state/blue state bullshit which has been going on for years, not Obama himself. Forest for the trees, Wilentz.
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Someone's making a lot of money out of propagating this myth that brown/black people are being persecuted.
I'd like to know where my cheque is, in that case.
Your analysis of racially charged events in the USA is really excellent, though. So nuanced. So historically accurate. And with a soupcon of sexism, as a garnish.
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Hillary Clinton, who got where she is not on her own merit, but as the wife of Bill, who trashed women to protect her husband, and who allowed herself to be treated like a piece of shit over a period of decades by an adulterous husband (bloody dangerous in the age of Aids). Quite how she is a great feminist icon escapes me, but as you allude to, feminism is most definitely not my area of expertise.
Heh. Parsing that paragraph might actually be beyond my mental capacity. It's, like, really sexist *and* fake-assed feminist *and* dismissive, but all at once! You've got skillz...
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the feminist aspect of this, a woman trashing other woman to protect her husband is a topic for a whole other discussion
James Bremner, Feminist Theorist. Now I've really heard it all!
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it's a fine line between trolling and trying to initiate frank discussion, playahating and critical feedback, chopping down tall poppies and knocking back overblown egos
Yeah, yeah, fight the power, you mighty truth-teller.
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instead of being bitter it could possibly be an act, cyber performance art if you will. An overblown caricaturised internet persona that as a disclaimer i should state doen't neccessarily reflect the real opinions of the author.
I believe that's called 'trolling'.
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And then to remove his Klan hood to reveal 'blackface' .... oh ... my ... gawwwwdddddd!
I was so, so embarrassed and disgusted by that. And that African-American professor from the University of Canterbury actually responded politely to it. He's a better man than me.
Why was that douchelord even on television? Meh.