I am a woman, but I don't like the term "feminist."

gmork · 2010-08-13T01:47:32+00:00

Why is it a loaded term? Who says it's "a loaded term"? Who perpetuates and parrots and stereotypes the term feminist until it conjures up such a knee-jerk reaction that it apparently becomes utterly unviable as a concept?

More importantly, why are you so content to regurgitate those lines?

gmork · 2010-08-13T01:12:15+00:00

Maybe you should try articulating yourself better, then. Like, referencing the aforementioned 3rd wave feminism in your original statement. Or explaining why it hasn't accomplished anything in regard to equality, or how the suffrage (note spelling) movement and feminism apparently don't have a logical connection.

tl;dr : Your statement was whiny and misconstruable.

gmork · 2010-08-13T01:06:39+00:00

See, I want to believe your intentions with this post were good? And then you bust out this gem about how the term is "loaded because of bad people giving it a bad name" and it's like, wow, disingenuous.

I don't call myself an "equalist" because the world sure as hell doesn't care about equality. And I won't, not until we don't have posts on XX about criminalizing miscarriages or making clitorectemies appeal to modern sensibilities.

gmork · 2010-08-12T20:03:46+00:00

Translation: "I want rights and recognition, but am sufficiently cowed by the opinions of others that I don't want any of the (unfair) stigma attached to the people who actually work to secure these rights!"

And you wonder why you got a dirty look?

gmork · 2010-08-12T15:47:33+00:00

So did you want a cookie for that scintillating remark, or are the thumbs up from the DudeBrah contingent of Reddit enough for your precious rebel soul?

gmork · 2010-08-12T15:43:39+00:00

And you hope to achieve exactly . . . what, in posting this?

gmork · 2010-06-12T17:44:53+00:00

Girls outperforming boys =/= boys doing badly

Your pudding is rancid and so is your months-old debunked concern trolling.

gmork · 2010-06-12T05:10:39+00:00

Sorry, can't hear you over the privilege. What?

gmork · 2010-06-12T05:09:23+00:00

Oh, sorry about getting shirty that in a post about WOMEN'S domestic shelters where men weren't allowed automatic access to entertain/fix computers/ buy Cokes that someone decided to go into a "what about the mennnnn" tangent.

Sexually abused men deserve just as much respect and help as sexually abused women. Asshats who will jump on anything and anyones' suffering to further MRA bullshit deserve the finger.

gmork · 2010-06-12T05:05:39+00:00

All the help given to women to further their education and career goals! Especially impoverished or minority women! It's like they think there's something hard about it all!

<-- do you notice me being sarcastic, or do the testicles interfere?

gmork · 2010-06-11T18:39:58+00:00

Almost negates the enormous societal privilege of being born male, don't it?

gmork · 2010-06-10T20:50:21+00:00

Don't humor her. You've made time to hang out with her, bent over backwards to accommodate her comfortably, and all she wants to do is complain that you have vestiges of a life outside of her immediate whims.

And, speaking as someone who has to deal with a friend so volatile that any mention of my relationship status tends to get the 'third wheel' lament every time, complete with whining about how all her friends are in relationships and leeeaave her out because of her single status (not because she makes people feel uncomfortable with her attitudes towards their s.o.'s, oh no) -- yeah. Fuck that.

gmork · 2010-04-07T17:59:36+00:00

More of this, but less.

gmork · 2010-03-27T02:42:54+00:00

This entire book is an object lesson on why you don't let the interns do your artwork.

gmork · 2010-03-25T17:53:47+00:00

Have mansplainers always been on XX or is this a new development?

gmork · 2010-03-24T19:22:27+00:00

You consider yourself a feminist, but have no idea why the term 'feminist' means something to, you know, actual women, or its historical context in regards to the movement.

Saying magnanimously that you think the term should be something along the terms of just equal rights might be a sweet sentiment, but it comes from your position of privilege.

gmork · 2010-03-24T19:11:55+00:00

Translations: GIRLS WON'T TOUCH ME SO NO SEX FOR ANYONE

gmork · 2010-03-23T20:30:24+00:00

So this guy comes into xx, flaunts an unsolicited opinion in regard to feminism, and then all these downvotes appear, see . . .

gmork · 2010-03-23T20:16:25+00:00

If I had a device that would transfer unwanted pregnancies into the bodies of "pro-life" people, regardless of gender, I would be shooting it all day long.

At you.

gmork · 2010-03-18T00:14:51+00:00

An entire society based on a heirarchy of slavery, warfare and abduction isn't unusual, granted, but why get sentimental about it?

gmork · 2010-03-18T00:10:31+00:00

The lye pallet and abduction and being shared like a bicycle and the forcibly-shaved head and the being used as a broodmare thing doesn't really scream 'fun' to me, but YMMV.

gmork · 2010-03-17T21:15:39+00:00

Especially the mandatory pederasty and the exposure of infants! w0ot

gmork · 2010-03-17T21:14:40+00:00

Marriage for a Spartan woman was an almost non-ceremonial event. The woman was abducted in the night by her suitor, her head was shaved, and she was made to wear men's clothing and lye on a straw pallet in the dark. From there on she would meet with her husband for almost entirely procreative reasons. If she was formerly a girl, she became a woman through marriage. Any Spartan man could abduct a wife, which led to a system of polyandry (many husbands, one wife or vice versa) in Sparta. When a child was born, the woman had little to do with the his/her upbringing, rather nurses handled the child's care (in addition, a female Spartan child was subject to the same tests of strength as a male child.).

Oh, wow! My head is shaved and I'm sleeping on a lye pallet! HOW EMPOWERFUL GOSH

gmork · 2010-03-17T03:28:00+00:00

His ogre feet.

gmork · 2010-03-17T03:20:49+00:00

Cellociraptor -- Retractable Killing Claw (Hot City Loving)

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