tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post3572500349802807540..comments2024-03-28T03:15:55.088-04:00Comments on Fetch me my axe: *sigh* and once again i am roused from my torpor most easily by something that pissed me the hell off.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-31932188170939860032007-07-21T06:46:00.000-04:002007-07-21T06:46:00.000-04:00Also, this:Your “good sex and good paying job” are...Also, this:<BR/><BR/><I>Your “good sex and good paying job” are many women's ideas of torture and hell.</I><BR/><BR/>Putting aside the ridiculous hyperbole for a second, this is really a case of, "No shit, Sherlock." Guess what - as Ren has said in no uncertain terms, supposed 'normal' (whatever that is) sex would be <B>her idea</B> of torture and hell.<BR/><BR/>Once again, she's not Every Woman.Amber Rheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02109708537597646450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-76834068320068931542007-07-20T21:11:00.000-04:002007-07-20T21:11:00.000-04:00"Some women stay married even though they can't st..."Some women stay married even though they can't stand the person, possibly because they aren't being honest with themselves about that. I was shocked by that thread, and how many FEMINIST women are unhappy in marriages; obviously that is why they hate the sex."<BR/><BR/>Sure, but y'know, if that's the root of the problem, I'm not so sure you need radical feminism to help with anything. If radicalTrinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-63621323073892254222007-07-20T12:55:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:55:00.000-04:00On the left, we used to say The Current Regime--wh...On the left, we used to say <I>The Current Regime</I>--which fit all situations perfectly, and is far shorter than bell hooks' long term! <BR/><BR/>I like that fine. :)Daisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-52159124491289743862007-07-20T12:36:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:36:00.000-04:00That's one thing. but mostly, i think some people...That's one thing. but mostly, i think some people use it to mean like, I don't know, Evil Empire; or, Satan.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-39980749901217848602007-07-20T12:14:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:14:00.000-04:00patriarchy = rule of the fathersandrarchy = rule o...patriarchy = rule of the fathers<BR/>andrarchy = rule of men<BR/><BR/>BD, you're saying people use the former when they mean the latter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-79942290442701523232007-07-20T11:58:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:58:00.000-04:00I agree that there are problems with the words and...I agree that there are problems with the words and terms... I fear turning into bell hooks with her <I>white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy</I>... which is just so cumbersome but of course, very accurate, and she is always careful in her theoretical words... <BR/><BR/><I>mm. I think though that that's one of those dichotomies that falls apart outside of theory. Yes, that's the template; Daisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-37941994298959115832007-07-20T11:47:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:47:00.000-04:00mm. I think though that that's one of those dicho...mm. I think though that that's one of those dichotomies that falls apart outside of theory. Yes, that's the template; but is that really how it plays out, even now? We're all subjects to the degree that we are conscious and to the degree that we are limned by external circumstances, including, but not limited to, the particular sociocultural milieu we are in. And we're all objects insofar as belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-33871172210528503682007-07-20T11:32:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:32:00.000-04:00If we live in a patriarchy, which I believe we do,...<B>If we live in a patriarchy, which I believe we do, then women choose which acts are most personally, financially and emotionally profitable for us.</B><BR/><BR/><I>I expect this is true of people, regardless of sex, whether or not they live in a patriarchy.</I><BR/><BR/>Borrowing from DeBeauvoir and existentialism here, and the difference between subject/object, acting/reacting: <BR/><BR/>In Daisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-12709437244582183652007-07-20T11:20:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:20:00.000-04:00If we live in a patriarchy, which I believe we do,...<I>If we live in a patriarchy, which I believe we do, then women choose which acts are most personally, financially and emotionally profitable for us.</I><BR/><BR/>I expect this is true of people, regardless of sex, whether or not they live in a patriarchy.Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-30696065515909934432007-07-20T11:15:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:15:00.000-04:00Okay, but the point of my original comment is... i...<I>Okay, but the point of my original comment is... if radical feminist examining and the whole bit helps you see through all that, wouldn't you, by the time you're over at Twisty's bemoaning how patriarchal heterosex is, know better?</I><BR/><BR/>Read the marriage thread at Twisty's, wherever it is. <BR/><BR/>Some women stay married even though they can't stand the person, possibly because theyDaisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-4932432795796899012007-07-20T11:14:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:14:00.000-04:00"but, you know, in either case: basically we're ta..."but, you know, in either case: basically we're talking about little eight year old boys being naughty, at the root of it, i would say. they think they're like overgrown Huck Finns or something, forever cocking a snoot (i so love that phrase) at all the prissy old biddies of the world"<BR/><BR/>YES. I can't figure out why that is so HORRIBLE. Hustler is, near as I can tell it, a bunch of bratty Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-62021686437782523522007-07-19T23:55:00.000-04:002007-07-19T23:55:00.000-04:00lesser, schmesser, i'm votin' for Cthlulhu, i tell...lesser, schmesser, i'm votin' for Cthlulhu, i tell you. <BR/><BR/>yeah yeah i know, look, i never said i won't vote for whoever-it-is. i'm just so beyond the whole, get out the vote! help us phone bank! oh btw send us MONEY. no. i need a proper career, and frankly i blame y'all in part for the fact that the landscape is what it is, and that i cast my eye longingly toward Canada and Europe; belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-42674634281565057162007-07-19T23:29:00.000-04:002007-07-19T23:29:00.000-04:00With respect to the Democratic Party, we’re back t...With respect to the Democratic Party, we’re back to the question of realpolitik & supporting the lesser of two evils. I always think of the beginning of Bela Lugosi’s Atomic Supermen speech in <I>Bride of the Monster</I>:<BR/><BR/>“Home? I have no home. Hunted! Despised! Living like an animal! The jungle is my home.”<BR/><BR/>Please watch:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE1fzfOogo&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-85431810634736526722007-07-19T22:56:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:56:00.000-04:00...actually, you know, nekkid and fluid filled pic......actually, you know, nekkid and fluid filled pictures aside, i think the closest thing to an ideological descendant of Hustler is probably, like, South Park. probably similar worldview and politics, i would say. actually if anything the South Park people were a lot more jingoistic early on in the war thing, which is one reason i went off them. <BR/><BR/>but, you know, in either case: belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-90425921861436214402007-07-19T22:47:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:47:00.000-04:00yeah, as i just said over at Ren's, I think that p...yeah, as i just said over at Ren's, I think that political CR is great for, well, what it says: *raising* consciousness. if it never occurred to that there were names for these feelings you were having, that other people felt that way too, that maybe things could be different, <I>and you want tehm to be.</I> THAT is valuable.<BR/><BR/>but, if you find yourself contorting to fit the ideology-belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-90419474855118764932007-07-19T22:44:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:44:00.000-04:00...yeah, i guess, you know, i feel very much like ......yeah, i guess, you know, i feel very much like the people who heard the "cry wolf" too many times, both wrt the endless drum-banging on TERROR TERROR TERROR--yeah, no shit, assholes, i was here when it happened, it was pretty fucking scary--and, yep, how we're all going to hell if the R's win again. Well, yes we are; we're soaking in it, point of fact; and yet, -so far,- knock wood, I'm stillbelledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-46482306111713704612007-07-19T22:41:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:41:00.000-04:00Daisy:"Why? I didn't know any better. "Okay, but t...Daisy:<BR/><BR/>"Why? I didn't know any better. "<BR/><BR/>Okay, but the point of my original comment is... if radical feminist examining and the whole bit helps you see through all that, wouldn't you, by the time you're over at Twisty's bemoaning how patriarchal heterosex is, know better?<BR/><BR/>THAT was my question.Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-21855282644427321522007-07-19T22:40:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:40:00.000-04:00and yeah, kh and andi have a point. he's making a...and yeah, kh and andi have a point. he's making a gesture. an individual withdrawing from the D's because of it would be a gesture. i'm not sure how much either resonates in the greater scheme of things; i'd just say, do what thou wilt.<BR/><BR/>sorry, i used to be a lot more vehement about the "look how much WORSE the R's are!" and i haven't changed my mind, actually, in many respects, yes belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-64961951816298063212007-07-19T22:34:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:34:00.000-04:00I feel like a bit of an alien here, Cruella, as al...I feel like a bit of an alien here, Cruella, as all those examples of things that are supposed to bother me about Hustler don't, with the one exception of the voyeurism thing IF it's not staged. The rest -- I don't even see why I'm <I>supposed</I> to be offended. I've got fetishes of my own and, well, it's <I>nice</I> when things are clearly labeled and I can easliy ind things that would appeal Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846032433424879965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-20621686682020028632007-07-19T22:15:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:15:00.000-04:00I have no use for Larry Flynn. I have little respe...I have no use for Larry Flynn. I have little respect for anyone who would make light of Child abuse in any form ( His Chester the Molester cartoons do just that) HOWEVER. As vile as his idea of free speech is I do agree that he has the right to it. As long as he leaves real children out of it. <BR/> His models are well paid, and well take care and they are not forced anymore than I am to go to andihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07193493687484232494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-61094567281075457272007-07-19T22:03:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:03:00.000-04:00It's not accurate to call Flynt a savior of the De...It's not accurate to call Flynt a savior of the Democratic Party. The bumptiousness of his occasional political interventions shouldn’t be confused for evidence that he’s had any significant effect. In fact, Flynt’s contributions to the Democrats’ fortunes have never been anything but marginal, much less than those of a large number of other, more discreet actors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-47793961292990921522007-07-19T21:12:00.000-04:002007-07-19T21:12:00.000-04:00hey, andi. i think "NotOK" is actually a she, for...hey, andi. i think "NotOK" is actually a she, for whatever it's worth.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-78824523259766037202007-07-19T21:05:00.000-04:002007-07-19T21:05:00.000-04:00Hey, thanks, and welcome, Cruella.Well--I'm not ex...Hey, thanks, and welcome, Cruella.<BR/><BR/>Well--I'm not exactly a fan of Larry Flynt, but I think we probably don't share the same POV wrt hardcore porn, yeah, even misogynistic crap (and yeah, there's been plenty of misogynistic and racist crap from Hustler, I think "Chester the Molester" et al is vile, pre-look-at-me-I'm-so-anti-PC shite);<BR/><BR/>but, well, honestly, of all the problems I belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-58761296256179539882007-07-19T20:33:00.000-04:002007-07-19T20:33:00.000-04:00Great blog post. Wonder what you think about the ...Great blog post. <A HREF="http://cruellablog.blogspot.com/2007/07/larry-flynt-what-nice-guy.html" REL="nofollow">Wonder what you think about the whole Larry Flynt as saviour of the Democrats thing. I am spitting feathers. As they say.</A>Cruellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03446805038957924958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-50422679010243737912007-07-19T19:17:00.000-04:002007-07-19T19:17:00.000-04:00I don't get the venom that NotOK and his ilk have ...I don't get the venom that NotOK and his ilk have for Renegade...I've never noticed her advocating for rape or any such thing...she just enjoys what she does and thinks she desrves the respect everyone else gets as a human being from my take on it.<BR/> <BR/> Having been a "victim" of rape and molestation as a child her point of view about sex is revealing and healing. <BR/> I am Celibate now andihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07193493687484232494noreply@blogger.com