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The scene in Dr. Socks’s yard this morning as thousands of revelers gathered to celebrate Mardi Gras.
I’ve been in a vortex the past few days, writing and sleeping at all hours, and when I awoke early this morning I didn’t know what day it was. At first I thought for sure it was Monday, but then I looked outside and realized I was wrong.
Posted by Violet under Holidays on February 20, 2007, 9:52 am EST
I’ve learned two things from this week’s wrestling match between the feminist blogosphere and the Christofascists (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, ohforchrissake).
These things generate a lot of email. My inbox is so flooded with missives from the other gals on the super-secret Satanic Feminist Network that I can’t even find my penny stock spam. And Goldmark Industries is at 14 cents!
It’s okay that Amanda’s brief career as a campaign blogger has run aground on the enormous rocky outcroppings of misogyny and dried boogers that dominate the American political landscape, because the stress has brought her hitherto-undiscovered talents as a playwright to the fore:
A Good Deal of Human History Culminating in The Events of Last Week, A One-Act Play
Multiple patriarchal religious traditions: Woman, obey! God himself has told me you must.
Bratty feminist bloggers: I think you’re making that up. I bet god hasn’t been talking to you, but that you’re listening to that dirty pile of laundry that won’t get done unless someone else, someone female, does it for you.
Bill Donohue: BIGOT!!11!!1!!eleven!!1!
Bill O’Reilly: Do you think the Jews put them up to it?
You know, I used to be a professional circus performer, and I’m telling you: that thing’s got legs.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on February 16, 2007, 9:49 am EST
As many of you probably know, the American Taliban, Catholic Division, has launched a Holy War against Amanda of Pandagon, Melissa of Shakespeare’s Sister, and indeed anyone who dares to point out that their idiotic religion is a nothing but a load of white hot sticky jism.
I’ll have more to say on this later, but for now I’m just going to bring back my Valentine’s Day post from last year as my Very Special Gift to Bill Donohue. Enjoy:
Jesus really, really wants you to be his Valentine.
Posted by Violet under Godbags, Various and Sundry, Holidays on February 14, 2007, 4:16 pm EST
There have been some wild assertions on this blog recently that people in the U.K. are perhaps not quite as fucked up as people in the United States.
I think this video is proof otherwise:
Sure, Americans created this deeply horrifying thing, but it was in the U.K. that the record spent two weeks at #1 on the pop charts in 1975.
Two weeks.
No doubt some of you Brits will scramble wildly here and claim that the only reason thousands of you were buying this record was so the copies could be burned in a gigantic bonfire on Salisbury Plain, with the Archbishop of Canterbury leading a special invocation to ask that God spare your sceptred isle any further incursions by humongous disembodied floating heads and bald Greeks speaking from the bottom of drum barrels. But I think we know better. Put this together with the Mull of Kintyre evidence and the existence of Human League, and the truth is all too clear.
Thanks to the Poor Man for the Savalas video. My life will never be the same.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry, Recommended on February 10, 2007, 11:33 pm EST
A columnist reminds us that even if women pretend they can do manly jobs like astronautin’, deep down they’re still just silly bimbos.
So I guess we should just quit with the pretense and surrender to our bimbo natures, right?
The Republicans who put together this poster seem to think so; what matters about a woman isn’t her wit or her wisdom but her prongability:
Funny thing is, when a woman does spend her life concentrating on her looks and behaving like a bimbo, people laugh at her and ridicule her and even make jokes about her death. She dies tragically at a young age and people laugh. Stupid dead stripper, they say. Ho-ho. ‘Cause really, who gives a shit about some bimbo?
Posted by Violet under Gender Issues on February 9, 2007, 1:20 am EST
Zeke
I just now saw.
Goodbye, dear sweet blog dog. My heart is so full I can say nothing else.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on February 8, 2007, 1:23 am EST
UPDATE 2/8/07 at 12:18 pm EST: Amanda and Melissa have not been fired!
Remember a few days ago when I mentioned that Amanda was going to work for the John Edwards campaign? Well, in the interim the wingnut noise machine has launched an all-out attack on Ms. Pandagon, which would be funny if people weren’t taking it so seriously. Amanda has been accused of hate speech by such Gandhi-like figures as Michelle “Concentration Camp” Malkin and Bill “Hollywood Jews killed Jesus” Donahue, and Edwards has been warned that if he doesn’t fire her, then Republicans like Malkin and Donahue won’t, er, vote for him. Right. It’s really quite the shitstorm, and just about everybody in the feminist blogosphere (other than me) has been covering it. Liza at culturekitchen has the round-up.
There’s a rumor this evening that the Edwards campaign has caved in to the pressure and fired Amanda (as well as Shakespeare’s Sister, who was hired to do netroots stuff), but nobody seems to know for sure. While we all keep our collective fingers crossed that the rumor isn’t true, you can do your part to help the Edwards campaign stay on the side of the angels by going to their website contact page and writing a little note of support for Amanda and Shakes. You might mention that if Edwards can’t be counted on to defend a woman’s right to speak her own mind on her own blog, then he probably can’t be counted on to defend a woman’s right to anything. Just a thought.
As for the Duke case, one of the things Amanda has been castigated for by the wingnuts is her insistence on believing that if a woman says she’s been sexually assaulted, then there’s a really good chance that she has, in fact, been sexually assaulted. In reading through the posts in defense of Amanda’s right to express her opinion, I was surprised to see a couple of liberal bloggers state that the Duke defendants are “almost certainly innocent” and that the “serious charges” have been dropped. Have I missed something? Actually only the rape charge was dropped, because in North Carolina “rape” has to involve penile penetration and apparently the victim in the Duke case can’t be sure what they stuck in her since they were holding her face down on the bathroom floor. If you rape somebody with something other than a penis in North Carolina, it’s called “first-degree sexual assault.”* The Duke defendants are still charged with that and with kidnapping.
It’s also possible that dropping the rape charge and just going with first-degree sexual assault was a tactical move to avoid dealing with the issue of DNA from men with whom the victim may have had consensual sexual relations in the preceding days or weeks. If you didn’t click on that link in the previous sentence, please do so — look, here it is again! Wendy Murphy does an excellent job of countering the defense attorney spin.
The only thing certain about the Duke case is that the defense is funded by millionaires who have spared no expense in the past year to vilify the victim and win the case in the court of public opinion. Their main line of attack has been, predictably, to argue that the rape didn’t occur at all. Since something like 96% of rape accusations are true and the rate of false accusations is the same for rape as for other major crimes, I’m not particularly inclined to believe that the victim in this case is lying. Certainly there’s always that 4% chance, and this case may prove to be one of the rare ones in which the charges are false, but I haven’t heard anything yet that makes me think an assault of some kind didn’t occur. The victim was confused about the details of the story? She may have IDed the wrong person? That’s normal. When I was attacked by a guy who broke into my house, I was so freaked out and traumatized that afterwards I simply could not reconstruct in my mind the precise sequence of events. I also couldn’t identify the guy’s face, even though we’d been grappling with our noses just inches apart.
As for the Duke players, we do know that they were verbally abusive, yelled racial slurs, threatened to rape the woman with a broomstick, and hustled her into a bathroom. These guys are the scum of the earth. Is it really so hard to believe they thought it’d be fun to fuck with the stripper?
*Addendum: According to Wendy Murphy, “rape” in North Carolina refers only to penile/vaginal penetration. All other penetration acts are covered under the sexual assault charge. So, penis-in-anus, penis-in-mouth, and object-in-vagina are all considered sexual assault in North Carolina, not rape.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry, Rape on February 7, 2007, 8:10 pm EST
she asked, referring to herself in the third person.
“I’m right here,” she mumbled to herself through a mouthful of vegetable lo mein as she pasted in the embedding code for a YouTube video.
“You know, you really need to write another post. Actually say something. People will start to think you’ve abandoned the blog.”
“I know, I know. But I’ve got to finish the plot outline for Part II and sort out how I’m going to do the ending of Part I. People can watch this neat kuchipudi dance in the meantime.”
“Jesus God, that is so fucking lame. A YouTube video? You’re not even going to write anything? Comment on all the stuff that’s happening in the world? You’re just going to keep your nose in that stupid book of yours?”
“Look, I’m right here at the computer all the time. I can read people’s comments, I can comment myself, I can beat the shit out of Paul whenever necessary. Everything’s fine.”
And with that she hit Publish.
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Posted by Violet under Reclusive Leftist on February 5, 2007, 7:54 pm EST
Molly Ivins is dead, Barack Obama is the first clean African-American, children as young as five are being sold into Cambodian sex slavery, a Florida rape victim was thrown in jail and denied emergency contraception, and Shrub continues his personal quest to be impeached. Oh, and Amanda’s running for President.
Just feeling a bit gobsmacked.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on February 1, 2007, 9:49 am EST
