tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post4154091244264536256..comments2024-03-28T03:15:55.088-04:00Comments on Fetch me my axe: "The flip side of this charming worldview..."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-13653618832851045972009-11-10T16:44:25.627-05:002009-11-10T16:44:25.627-05:00I completely agree per quality of Victoria Secret ...I completely agree per quality of Victoria Secret panties, and we have had same experience. Your story matches the experiences I had when able bodied toward those, particularly those with 'invisible pain' chronic condition and/or mental health issues including/particularly PTSD. It also matches the stories I have heard from people who have tried to go to events, or who have had partnersElizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-77506062770387299042009-11-09T22:55:16.551-05:002009-11-09T22:55:16.551-05:00...maybe for that one I'd at least get a free ......maybe for that one I'd at least get a free coupla months' supply of tampons, or a sea sponge, or something.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-82611146111395188652009-11-09T22:54:06.923-05:002009-11-09T22:54:06.923-05:00Elizabeth! Hey! Nice to see you.
You know, I c...Elizabeth! Hey! Nice to see you. <br /><br />You know, I can't remember if I wrote this post before or after something ableism-related in this womens' workshop I went to which-I'd really like to post about it, but I think confidentiality agreements probably mean I can't do it justice.<br /><br /> Just-well the salient part, or part of it, involved someone with chronic pain and belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-85112341082024181422009-11-09T18:01:14.313-05:002009-11-09T18:01:14.313-05:00Well anytime my comment comes after a book advocat...Well anytime my comment comes after a book advocating a day reading about mensus I have doubts.<br /><br />Thank you for including women with disabilities, actually thanks for including all women (I will just throw in small breasted women in case you didn't - since as Daisy DeadHead comments, it becomes QUITE clear who men and WOMEN accept and want to know) - The amount of abuse I, my sister Elizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-50620662243017059332009-10-29T10:05:12.246-04:002009-10-29T10:05:12.246-04:00When was the last time you:
Read a book on the cu...When was the last time you: <br />Read a book on the cultural history of menstruation? <br />AND loved that book so much you skipped Saturday brunch with friends to keep reading?<br /> For me, that book was FLOW by Elissa Stein & Susan Kim—in bookstores in Nov. <br />Call me crazy, but I think this book is beyond perfect for your readers. It’s edgy, gorgeous & evocative. Full-color Sarah Goldsteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-82896576966651713692009-10-24T20:07:03.830-04:002009-10-24T20:07:03.830-04:00Thanks Daisy: been a bit "mehh" today, a...Thanks Daisy: been a bit "mehh" today, and your story cheered me right up!<br /><br />And thanks for the welcome, belledame!Crys Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-27143922124070138112009-10-20T18:46:03.767-04:002009-10-20T18:46:03.767-04:00It's the same fail as the breastfeeding argume...It's the same fail as the breastfeeding argument and any number of others, too. There ought to be a maxim:<br /><br />"When it comes to 'personal rights,' your visual pleasure or lack thereof" does not trump my physical comfort/being in the world. kthxbai."belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-89374559512673487532009-10-20T17:54:11.570-04:002009-10-20T17:54:11.570-04:00Yeah, I had a troll go berserk on my thread about ...Yeah, I had a troll go berserk on my thread about women going shirtless: But, but, but, I don't want to see ALL women 's breasts! Just the ones I like!!! <i>ARGH!!!! Don't make me look at them ALLLLLL!!!!!</i><br /><br />And when we all informed him in unison than we didn't care <i>what</i> he liked or didn't like to look at or not, he seemed to go a little crazy, comparingDaisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-32616765280875317072009-10-20T16:42:24.345-04:002009-10-20T16:42:24.345-04:00hey, welcome, Chrys T, if I haven't said befor...hey, welcome, Chrys T, if I haven't said before.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-57269097824064560982009-10-20T16:37:46.590-04:002009-10-20T16:37:46.590-04:00I think I lifted "yrch" from you, actual...I think I lifted "yrch" from you, actually. so, thank you.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-26890108129863643832009-10-20T09:20:47.884-04:002009-10-20T09:20:47.884-04:00Of course, this is the same attraction/disgust oth...<i>Of course, this is the same attraction/disgust other "undesirable" women get: the exotically fetishized racial "Other," particularly those whose stereotypes don't map to "hyperfeminine" (i.e. the Asian "Lotus Blossom"); trans women; women with disabilities (viz Fuckhead's charming "I'm two thirds of the way to a Helen Keller"), GallingGallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08241627397789129041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-11285256189947894752009-10-19T10:56:27.163-04:002009-10-19T10:56:27.163-04:00It's complete madness and incredibly destructi...It's complete madness and incredibly destructive. From grade school up until around 25 I was "skinny, flat chested b*tch" and "skeletor".From around 27 to 36 I was "crazy hot" Then later from 35 to 40 I was "fata**", now I'm "gorgeous for my age".<br /><br />Please...they can all kiss my whatever a**. As my Ma said: Take me or leave me...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-77403518559815042712009-10-19T10:06:08.660-04:002009-10-19T10:06:08.660-04:00I'm just trying to figure out why I spent all ...I'm just trying to figure out why I spent all that time reading Twisty when YOU exist.<br /><br />Thank you, thank you: you've given me a lot to think about.Crys Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-87494641908969322162009-10-18T23:04:37.769-04:002009-10-18T23:04:37.769-04:00This is making me tear up, because I have seen it....This is making me tear up, because I have seen it. It's bringing a lot of high school back, for one thing. I vowed never to date a guy who went to my school, and it was remarkably easy to stick to that vow. This makes a lot of things make sense. <br /><br />It also accounts for so much of the street harassment my wife and I have gotten both together and separately, and why that guy in theCrackerLilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176388186521154104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-85169021531185641552009-10-18T22:28:35.811-04:002009-10-18T22:28:35.811-04:00"I don't believe it, and even if it's..."I don't believe it, and even if it's true that's not really that big a deal anyway, not like -real- abuse, and also it's her own damn fault for taking so much horrific crap from anyone. No sympathy." <br /><br />I never borrowed that kettle from you! And it was broken in the first place!<br /><br />I love an explanation which cancels itself out...queen emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039121133703594308noreply@blogger.com