I hate the world
When you’re off in a vortex of writing, totally disconnected from the real world, it’s easy to forget just how godawful the world really is. God, it just sucks. I’ve been reading the news today for the first time in weeks, and it’s like standing under a shit shower while being flogged with a rubber hose:
- Calvin Klein promotes gang rape with a series of grotesque billboards in Australia. Pornsick Australian wankers defend said grotesque billboards as “sexy” “fun.”
- GQ promotes a show about high school students with photos showing the female characters in various spread-eagle porntastic poses. Pornsick American wankers, naturally, defend the GQ pictorial as “sexy” “fun.”
- A Yale fraternity promotes rape with its new pledge chant: “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal.” Pornsick wankers at Yale defend this rape chant as “sexy” “fun.”
- I want all the pornsick wankers in the world to fly away in a spaceship and explode.
- Speaking of pornsick wankers, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is one. He’s also a goddamn perjurer (as some of us knew all along). Fucking wanker.
- The rehabilitation of rapist Mike Tyson continues, with some freakazoid sportscaster musing that Tyson’s only real mistake was in not getting a good lawyer like Kobe did when faced with a similiarly unfortunate “he said/she said” situation.
- A Top Tweet last weekend was from a misogynist with 9000+ followers who tweeted that the best women are like bowling balls, 3 functioning holes, something about the gutter, et cetera.
- Hollywood is still flunking the Bechdel test, and the Hollywood dudes making the movies are still unaware that women are human.
- A fashion blogger asks how women feel about stripper shoes, and a slew of commenters reply that they love wearing 5-inch heels (even though it’s impossible to walk in them for more than 20 seconds and the pain even then is excruciating) because they’re just “so feminine.”
- It’s official: feminism never happened.
And that’s just the fluffy stuff. That’s just the easy, lite-news stuff that comes from skimming a few blogs and glancing at Memeorandum. That’s not even touching the actual horrific rapes and murders and tortures and cruelties being inflicted on living beings all over this planet right this goddamn minute.
I see only two things to be happy about:
- Remember last year when I posted about the porntasticization of Halloween? Now there’s a whole website devoted to coming up with better costume ideas: Take Back Halloween!
- NASA is saying there’s a whole lot of water on the moon. “A whole lot” by moon standards, which apparently means we’re talking about a deep-freeze Sahara desert. But still, that’s a lot more than anybody thought! Basically, it means we’re one tiny, tiny step closer to the day when we can launch spaceships from our Moon Station to take us away from this hellhole solar system and into Magic Star Trek World. That’s what I’m counting on.
By the way: some pornsick wanker actually found a way to sex up the moon water story with an asinine headline about probes and wetness and so on. Not the article I linked to; another one. Fucking wanker.
27 Responses to “I hate the world”
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myiq2xu says:
At least we have a super-feminist in the White House
/snarkfont
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kiuku says:
they’re so disgusting; aren’t they?
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alwaysfiredup says:
Missed you, Violet. :)
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anna says:
“Hollywood is still flunking the Bechdel test, and the Hollywood dudes making the movies are still unaware that women are human.”
What brought this on – any particular upcoming movies we should avoid?
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anna says:
The Calvin Klein ad has been banned, by the way: http://entertainment.blogs.fox.....-and-rape/
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Violet Socks says:
What brought this on – any particular upcoming movies we should avoid?
Read Jill’s latest at I Blame The Patriarchy. I should have linked, but I wasn’t linking to anybody so I didn’t. (I couldn’t remember where I’d read everything anyway, so linking became problematic.)
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anna says:
Have you heard of the new movie version of The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor and featuring Helen Mirren as Prospero? You might like that; it’s coming out in December.
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myiq2xu says:
These are supposed to be “Tween” costumes but they are almost x-rated.
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Swannie says:
I watched Agora twice
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/
This is the IMDB blurb : ” A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.”It was not about the damn slave ( who was of course a guy ) The whole movie was centered around HYPATIA
The movie was well worth watching … even though the plot reflected enough of current times to be chilling -
kiuku says:
america..liberty and justice for males
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Topper Harley says:
Regarding #3, maybe someone should explain to them how funny it will be when some skinny little Yalie gets sent up the river and gets to be the subject of the chant…
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quixote says:
one tiny, tiny step closer to the day when we can launch spaceships from our Moon Station to … Magic Star Trek World. That’s what I’m counting on.
Hey. That’s approaching my philosophy of life:
“What is the difference between a realist and a dreamer? The realist thinks that someday a UFO will come down and hover over the UN building, and that the aliens will come out of the UFO and offer to share their technology and solve all our world’s problems.
The dreamer thinks maybe we can get our act together and do it ourselves.”
(Russian joke [It's a joke?] cited in William K. Hartmann, A Traveler’s Guide to Mars. Just for the record, I, personally, am a realist.)
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bob c says:
Glad you got to take a break and come back! Here’s hoping it’s not a fluke!
Along The Treky Way we keep ourselves hopeful with sayings like this,
“Some day, when we walk we’ll float, and light will pour from our eyes!” -
kiuku says:
I’m glad Violet is back too; otherwise there’s the dim prospect of relying on TNA, a facade which is held up by only a few ever weakening strings of feminist writers.
And here in my continent, or country, things are only getting worse, extreme even, that women, educated, hard working are pushed into the corner of fuck-to-eat. The dedication of a celibate woman is rewarded with starvation.
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Ciccina says:
Per number 8, I just saw Paranormal Activity 2. Passed the Bechdel Test with flying colors. 4/7 characters were female, or 5/8 if you count the dog, which did a fine job despite not having any lines.
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votermom says:
Yay! You’re back!
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Gayle says:
I thought Supreme Court Justices could be impeached. Am I wrong?
Now that a women has stepped forward and said Thomas had a porn obsession wouldn’t that prove he was lying to the judicial committee? Isn’t that an impeachable offense?
PS: Glad to see you post again.
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Gayle says:
Here’s something to make you feel slightly better.
Mel Gibson’s cameo has been dropped from “The Hangover 2.”
The bad news? They are actually making “The Hangover 2.”
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Sasha CA says:
I’m glad Violet is back too; otherwise there’s the dim prospect of relying on TNA, a facade which is held up by only a few ever weakening strings of feminist writers.
Agreed. TNA has pretty much morphed into a cesspool of right-wing talking points (a recent fave: equal pay legislation is bad for women because higher wages will mean that more women lose their jobs during periods of economic downturn) where some of the country’s most vile misogynists are routinely cheered on simply because they come equipped with a vagina. I mean, what else can you call politicians who would like to turn women into reproductive chattel by outlawing abortion even in cases of rape and incest? The utter contempt and hatred for women and girls one must feel in order to force a rape victim to give birth to her rapist’s offspring is almost unfathomable.
When TNA started embracing right-wing bigots, people who care about social justice left the site in droves, so it’s no surprise that they’re now overrun by anti-feminist Republicans.
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Alex says:
But… did you know that in the new television drama “the Event” the script was written with the Alien leader being male but they cast a woman instead? So it seems that the planet earth does see the potential for female leadership on ALIEN planets. This is an improvement!
Also in Hollywood… an actor dude in Hangover 2 complained about Mel Gibson being cast in the movie and Mel managed to be thrown off. Meanwhile, Jodi Foster who starred in a movie about rape thinks Gibson is just fabulous. This also seems like an alternative universe…
And then… I am struggling with #5. As a college girl I supported Anita Hill and thought Clarence Thomas was a liar. As a college girl I also thought Bill Clinton was hot, had sexual fantasies about him, supported him during the whole Monica thing and thought Paula Jones was a liar with bad hair. Now I am dealing with this double standard in a very bad way. It is not fun.
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Alex says:
Sasha in CA,
TNA endorses the equal pay legislation. The article that you are referring to was an opinion piece by one author but TNA as an organization does endorse the legislation, has spoken about it and has written about it.
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Alex says:
BTW,
Kiuku has been a recent and avid commenter at TNA but has gathered some criticism for her suggestions that male offspring be eliminated. I guess that criticism is a little too “right-winged” for her.
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the15th says:
I still heart TNA, but that equal pay legislation piece was unbelievable — it also made the argument that it’s okay for women who weigh more to be paid less because their weight is important “market information” for employers to take into account.
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AngryPunkPixie says:
“I want all the pornsick wankers in the world to fly away in a spaceship and explode.”
HALLELUJAH!!!!
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julia says:
I know Violet, it’s getting worse and making me sick and almost do what Andrea Dworkin said ‘walk with your head down, because wherever you look there it is.’
Only slaves walk with their heads down.
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kiuku says:
Alex, actually I have no idea what you’re talking about. Can you point me to this criticism or are you outright making that up?
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kiuku says:
I can speak for myself about TNA. First of all, it’s called “TNA”, a misnomer with a double meaning, and then there was a few misnomers, or titles of articles that have double meanings like “the uncomfortable walk home”, then there are all the articles written by Kathryn Ciano, one of the worst adherents to Evo Psych I’ve seen to date, and her articles are generally antagonistic while also being inarticulate nonsense/ There are articles that seem to be written by men telling women what to do; they let “Arun Gavali” make a “but what about the men” article for petes sake, they made a documentary called “searching for sexism” and as if that’s bad enough it features a magnifying glass. It’s very men friendly and MRA friendly; it’s a sham of a woman’s organization that I imagine is run by men with a female regent, for God knows what purpose. I do get some criticism, but not very often; my work has been featured on an MRA site; I sense TNA’s stance on “anti male sentiments” as they delete my posts, but they’ve never said anything to me directly that I’ve witnessed, and only recently has TNA said outright, blatantly, that it does not accept “anti male rhetoric” after commenters unanimously stood in support of anti-male sentiments in feminism; honestly it seems to be run by men, male evo-psychs with a male agenda and I personally do not buy it; never donated; never will. It doesn’t take strong stances, only pretending to take a strong stance while mostly asking for “apologies.” I post there only to make it more Feminist, especially when I see an anti-feminist sentiment in an article or if I think it’s not taking a hard enough line, or to converse with the commenters that I like, such as Janis. It has only a few frequent commenters.
