Comments on: K-LO GETS THE FJM TREATMENT, SAYS SHE DESERVED IT

By: ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » DOUBLE STANDARDS

ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » DOUBLE STANDARDS — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:09:43 +0000

[...] it can be inferred). I can add nothing to the stupidity of that statement that I did not volunteer when K-Lo blamed feminism for domestic violence. It seems like a patently ridiculous claim, no? The alcoholic / pill-popping 1950s housewife is a [...]

By: Ventures in Common Sense at OVERLADY

Ventures in Common Sense at OVERLADY — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:23:43 +0000

[...] is, until I read about J-Lo bloviating about how there wasn't any misogyny until the Damn Feminists noticed all the [...]

By: Just Sayin'

Just Sayin' — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:15:58 +0000

I was so pleased to learn "How liberal judges cause genital warts!". I will write that in my special book. I keep it to read when I am sad because I cannot fit into my old school uniform since I had my home-schooled babies.

Seriously, Uncle Tom was Jesus, not the modern conception of Uncle Tom. Remember he helped people escape. He was not validating white oppression. His life illustrated that even the most perfect gentle loving human would be brutally murdered by a system that treats human beings as chattel. Kind of applies to the whole patriarchy thing. Why does it mean what it does? Because people read "Huck Finn"?

By: ChelseaWantsOut

ChelseaWantsOut — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:56:11 +0000

Hear, hear, Popes! Reading through the comments, I was really worried that nobody was going to get what Hattie was saying, but you nailed it. Thanks for helping my brain unexplode.

Also, good post, I came here from IBtP, etc.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:50:07 +0000

Ed's a piece of knob

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:29:20 +0000

Hey, the McRib wasn't too awful. Certainly not on a WWII scale. :)

By: Popes

Popes — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:03:30 +0000

While I can't speak to anyone's intent, my read on tinfoil hattie's comment was that either:

1) she took exception to what can read as homeschool moms and housewives being universally slung into some fakefeminist group of domestic violence apologists (to be frank, redfems seem like just as good of candidates to choose to homeschool as ultraconservatives are due to the personal importance of their value system and its general incompatibility with the experience of public schooling, and plenty of DV apologists are neither homeschool moms nor housewives) or

2) she took exception to what seemed a negation of what Ed himself had stated earlier: "Well, the psychology of domestic violence is a lot more complex than that but, yes, as uninvolved observers it’s pretty easy for us to say 'Easy fix: dump his ass.'" Despite having referenced the complexity of the situation, he later doubled back and glibly used the idea of abused women justifying injuries from male partners as the butt of a joke he was making at K-Lo's expense. You may choose to characterize this as misogyny or as a logical fallacy (inconsistency), but either way, I'd argue that it ain't quite up to scratch.

Bottom line: Ed's analysis of this and his other pieces on the site are smart, funny, and just plain good. Reading his stuff, I get the refreshing impression that he's trying to live life as something other than a knob. He ain't superhuman, and I'm guessing he doesn't have an editor. Shit happens.

I like the site, and I'll be back.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:24:26 +0000

I think every time a man references 'women' it's misogynistic. Not talking about 'a' woman in general, but referring to women at large men can't help themselves but slip a misogynist quirp in a misogynistic tone.

Any time a woman mentions 'women' at large everyone's up in arms that she's totally a feminist.

Bad for women in both cases.

By: j

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:18:36 +0000

Can a person say "woman" without being labeled either a feminist or a misogynist? I submit not.