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seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 09:55 AM Nov 2012

twisty....

we have another feminist that men have decided we MUST reject. lol.

really....

lol.

no kidding. this is truly amazing to me. if the men do not like what a feminist is saying, then a campaign develops to discredit the woman. well, after reading a lot of garbage about twisty, i blame the patriarchy, from a handful that admittedly had never heard of her, totally trash the woman off what others feed them, had me wandering to her site, to check out what she had to say, since i have noticed this pattern of so many women who speak up and out are vilified.

the first entry was well worth me going to her site. she didnt write it. but, i found it on her site and read it on her site, and that makes it worth it for me.

You have to wonder what good it is to bother supporting women for political posts when they can’t summon the courage and common sense to knock out insulting language like this in the 2012 Democratic Platform under the heading “Protecting a Woman’s Right to Choose”:

“Abortion is an intensely personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, and her clergy; there is no place for politicians or government to get in the way.”
Well shucks, if her family, doctor, and clergy get to make a woman’s decision for her, why not drag in politicians, governments, and any stray passerby and his dog to have their say as well? What kind of a personal decision is that??

And why the judgmental and gratuitously emotional ‘intensely’? Her decision and state of mind are her own business.
All these inserts and modifiers should remind women that their famous ‘right to choose’ is a cruel illusion and a blurring of the meaning of the word ‘right.’ Rights are inherent to the person, but women’s rights mean nothing in a country where men can continue to withhold constitutional recognition of them.

I don’t see a dime’s worth of difference between parties in men’s determination to control women as breed stock.



what an excellent point. and why have i not heard a mention of this. yes dems, .... it is not about the family and the doctor and anyone else. narrow it to the WOMAN. please. and only the one. that is all that we need.

A Marlboro Man and a hot but sass-talkin’ pioneer woman with a suspiciously modern hairdo are arguing in a rustic cabin. The Marlboro Man is “proposin’” to her, but it turns out he doesn’t even know her name. She is pissed about this, calls him a “wax figure.” She tries to leave. He grabs her by the shoulders and starts lecturing her, shaking her every so often as punctuation. When she mouths off, he hits her in the face.

The Marlboro Man looks confused and apologizes for hitting her. He ain’t never hit no woman before.

Suddenly demure and submissive, she smiles up at him gratefully, and admits she reckons she had it comin’.
I turned it off then, but it looked a dead cert. that these two were gonna hook up by the time they rolled credits. This would preserve the natural oder, because the M.M. was actually a really nice guy who was driven to violence by his passion for the sassy pioneer woman whose name he doesn’t know. It was a love-assault!

This was considered family entertainment.


i kinda thought this a good point.

Apart from, of course, the opportunity to say the word “pussy” 37,265 thousand times a day with complete impunity?

It turns out, according to Radfem Hub, that Pussy Riot is something akin to a women’s auxiliary of a Russian gang of pervy dude anarchists.** Known collectively as Voina, the group exploit the women in public stunts involving torture porn and humiliation. Read the post for the lurid details; they disgust me too much to summarize here. Suffice it to say that, although the Pussy Riot women are branded by Western media as militant feminists and masked avengers championing the cause of freedom, the freedom in question is only sexual, and is sought so assiduously merely to preserve male sexual access to degraded, roach-covered meat toilets. Pussy Riot are now characterized, not as feminists, but as sex slaves.

This is the only kind of “feminism” anyone around here ever sees anymore. Slutwalks, Boobythons, “nude revolutionaries,” 12-year-olds in Times Square wearing cheerful, colorful knitted bondage masks in solidarity with women’s sexual “empowerment.” [NYTimes] P.U.

Which might explain Madonna’s interest in the case; any excuse to perform a striptease onstage, right Madge?


ya, she is harsh. and i may not get where she is coming from in ALL things. i may not agree in ALL things. but, she is not one to just throw away because some men have decided they do not like her voice.

so, along with all our other feminist that some men have decided we just do not need to read about, i will put i blame the patriarchy in the feminist camp to be heard. agree or not. harsh or not.

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/



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twisty.... (Original Post) seabeyond Nov 2012 OP
funny... what can i say. seabeyond Nov 2012 #1
I loved her comments about Pussy Riot. MadrasT Nov 2012 #2
I used to love the guys who'd write in, 'mansplaining' everything. They got no love. Nay Nov 2012 #4
Twisty is wonderful and her site is full of pointed essays on patriarchy. The comments of the many Nay Nov 2012 #3
ya. i read that also. i am glad you weighed in seabeyond Nov 2012 #5
I've always loved her wit ismnotwasm Nov 2012 #6
Oh for Gods sake ismnotwasm Nov 2012 #8
grinnin.... seabeyond Nov 2012 #9
Willful blindness. n/t MadrasT Nov 2012 #10
Oh, who is trashing her? ismnotwasm Nov 2012 #7
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. funny... what can i say.
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:11 AM
Nov 2012

New study explains women!

Junk Studies by Twisty

You sexually unfulfilled girls will be happy to know that your problem has been analyzed by brilliant evolutionary psychologists at the University of Newcastle who have been working round the clock to unlock the unknowable mysteries of women’s orgasmicality.

Their conclusion: You have not been boning wealthy men.

Rich dudes, quoth the sexperts, are able capitalize on women’s hardwired predisposition to be physically gratified by money, causing their partners to sexplode with greater frequency than they do when putting out for mere Joe Sixpacks.

Because the brilliant evolutionary psychologists grasp the little-known fact that all women are straight, there is no word on whether wads of cash influence the number of orgasms “gay” girls experience. Thus it is my conjecture, based on this exciting new research, that “lesbians” only exist because they were, in their formative years, unable to find rich enough guys, thus giving them the erroneous impression that sex with men was kind of gross.

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2009/01/21/new-study-explains-women/

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
2. I loved her comments about Pussy Riot.
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 11:15 AM
Nov 2012

From what I've read, I think Twisty knocks it out of the park more often than not. But then, I like snarky, in-your-face feminism.

The outrage about Twisty is amusing, as are the frantic attempts at character assassination and conspiracy theory spinning.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
3. Twisty is wonderful and her site is full of pointed essays on patriarchy. The comments of the many
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 11:21 AM
Nov 2012

readers are illuminating as well.

Unfortunately, her latest entry says that she is starting another blog (not feminist in nature) because she feels like she's said all she needs to say many times, and is tired of it. The "I Blame the Patriarchy" website will remain up, but only for historical reasons. She won't be adding to it. I cried when I read that, because Twisty was always right on the money.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
5. ya. i read that also. i am glad you weighed in
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 12:18 PM
Nov 2012

with your enjoyment of her. i do not know why we allow men to drive us away from a womans voice. old habits and all. but, i love swinging back and saying, ....

fuck that shit.

say it, twisty.

i have got your back

ismnotwasm

(41,946 posts)
6. I've always loved her wit
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 01:44 PM
Nov 2012

I think she's planning on posting less, which is a shame

Edit; I see that has been addressed, that'll teach me to read posts a little more carefully

ismnotwasm

(41,946 posts)
8. Oh for Gods sake
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 07:24 PM
Nov 2012

Could people be any more obtuse? Ostrich people have always irritated me. I can handle the snarky ones---They're there for entertainment and they know it. The deliberately stupid are annoying as hell.
Thanks for the PM

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
9. grinnin....
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 08:21 PM
Nov 2012

actually. i gotta thank them. i hadnt really read her. i did because of what was being said. i am glad that i did. it was fun.

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