Misogyny Brings Murder And Tragedies (Commentary About The UCSB massacre)

Recently, in light of the massacre at UCSB, I feel I need to talk about the misogynist statement where he rambles on about killing blond sluts and how womyn didn't love him enough. The fact that he said that shit would have been pathetic and laughable if he didn't act on it. But he did and it was tragic. Some groups of men want to use this tragedy to reinforce male entitlement and make the shooter out to be a victim. This also brought the conspiracy nuts and wannabe Alex Joneses out of the wood works try to gloss it over by saying that the shooting was fake. Well it is very real and very tragic for the families and loved ones of the people he gunned down. Elliott Rodger was not crazy, he was not a victim and unfortunately he is not alone. He is part of an epidemic of male violence against womyn as retaliation for feelings of rejection. He was a misogynist. He was a terrorist... not a martyr, not a victim, not someone who suffers from mental illness and certainly not justified. You would think MRAs would want to tone down their hate speech for a bit, right? Wrong. The MRAs and their whole lot seem to think if one of us womyn had put out for him he wouldn't have been driven to this (because clearly womyn are responsible for whether some guy murders people or not) and some are even rallying around the guy as some sort of victim. One of the MRA groups called A Voice for Men has a conference coming up in Detroit. There is a petition to stop the conference, by the way. The conference is in extremely bad taste considering the recent massacre. Who is to blame for this massacre? Elliot Rodger first and foremost is to blame. The culture of male entitlement and violence is another example. Men are taught in society that they deserve to "have" a grrrl and that womyn are commodities for men to "get" like when you go to the store to get a pack of cigarettes. Well womyn aren't a commodity to get. We are people with feelings, dreams, aspirations and interests of our own.

My condolences to the friends, loved ones and family of the six people who Elliot Rodger killed. My heart goes out to you.

Idealization: Flattery Or Unreasonable Expectations

I heard a term recently someone referring to the "ideal partner" and it rubbed me the wrong way so I had a discussion with a friend of mine hoping he might have some insight. There seems to be something messed up about idealizing a person (though on some level at some point most likely everyone, including me, is guilty of this) as it seems like putting someone on a pedestal and putting expectations on them that they didn't necessarily consent to. The friend I was discussing this with said that the term is like the term "the one" and that is a fairytale. I thought about this and he is right, it is fairytale bullshit. I feel that maybe the reason the term rubs me the wrong way is it is that hetero-normative fairytale bullshit. If someone is labelled that "ideal partner" and they don't live up to said ideals that this person is now expected to live up to, that puts them in a position of failure to a non-consentual expectation. That is really unfair to the one who is idealized. Idealization of a person really hurts that person in the end because nobody can always live up to the ideals thrust upon them as an expectation. Really, I'm serious, nobody can. When they fail, they can't meet these obligations, that idealization turns to the demonization that really is the other side of the same coin. Idealization and demonization really end up being a trap. The idealization puts a kind of pressure on a person that never ends well. Nobody is "ideal" we are all just people who interact with various other people in our own unique various ways, but ultimately we are all skin, muscles, skeleton, various organs, etc. that's all. Humyn.

Dear Putin, Have A Nice Bowl Of Shut The Fuck Up For Your Fucking Face To Drown In

A while back Putin passed a law banning swearing in literature, film and music. This kind of censorship is a really slippery slope. If someone wonders why I would say such things they such take a look at here in the USA how the list of words prohibited as obscene by the Federal Communications Commission and how that list has grown. But none of that is the real reason this censorship law is fucked up. The real reason is that any rule that limits or in anyway inhibits artists's work will hold back progress on a cultural level. There is plenty of art I despise and I will call artists out who make sexist, racist or otherwise bigoted art. But government censorship of art is never fucking okay. That shit is just plain wrong. Does Putin's anti-profanity law surprise me? Hell to the fuck no. It's not like he is known for being an advocate for freedom or even humyn decency. His treatment of the members of Pussy Riot is indicative of that. So Putin can go fuck himself.

Cliven Bundy: There Is A Place You Can Shove Your Racist Stupidity, White Boy

To whom it may concern, For a while now all these people are talking about Cliven Bundy. I am really getting sick of him. Can he go choke on a pretzel like a good cowboy yet? I get it, he doesn't like the federal government because he wants to graze his cows, own slaves and generally be a dick. He should really learn about shit before he opens his mouth. Mexicans and "spanish people" are not the same people. Spanish people are from Spain in Europe, you know, where white people come from. Mexicans are from Mexico where the overwhelming majority of the people are mestizo. Spanish may be the main language spoken in Mexico (Nahuatl, Mayan and other indigenous languages are still spoken more than some realize) but since English is the most widely spoken language in the USA maybe we should start calling anglo-americans English people. Chew on that with your grass, Cliven. Maybe the federal agents should have made him read a map while they were there. I am not a fan of the government either, the difference is that Cliven Bundy wants to take one fucked up hierarchical power structure and trade it for another fucked up hierarchical power structure. Why? Because the power structure serves him. He is just a white dude who wants to maintain his privileged life on his fucking ranch with his fucked up beliefs about people of color and apparently not learn the most basic geography enough to know that Spain and Mexico are two different places with  two different cultures on two different continents.

No, Cliven, they weren't better off as slaves. They didn't have better family life at a time when black families were enslaved and separated at the slave markets and african american marriages weren't recognized. But hey, maybe you should exchange your ability to be married for a jumping the broom ceremony that isn't recognized by the power structure that enforces a system that makes it possible for people to own you and put a price on your body. Is that the family structure you are looking for, Cliven?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agXns-W60MI

Above is the full speech, still racist as fuck as well as having anti-choice implications. Actually, it has more racist bullshit than the individual clip. It portrays stereotypes about Mexicans, and he can't even remember which culture he is talking about. I once heard a very wise man say "shape up or ship out." Well, Cliven, get your shit together or go fuck yourself, but don't open your mouth just to mass murder people's braincells.

Hey Cliven, shove your anglo-centricism and white privilege up your ass and graze on that, motherfucker!

The Myth Of Reverse Sexism

I've heard it time and again. It annoys the shit out of me. It is those moments where someone (usually some dudebro-doucher) implies that feminism is somehow oppressive to men. It is when some idiot cries "reverse sexism" as if something like that even exists. It is when some dickhead uses the term "femanazi" as if challenging patriarchy and the other hierarchies that reinforce it is somehow comparable to rounding up and systematically exterminating entire portions of the population while militarily expanding into as many countries as you can. People who say these things deserve a good boot to the face. They make me sick. Sexism is more than a simple personal bias based on sex or gender. Sexism is a systemic and institutionalized form of oppression. Sexism is that even the most privileged group of womyn make seventy seven cents to the man's dollar. The biggest pay gap is that the latina population earns fifty nine cents to the man's dollar. That is in the United States of America. This is your "land of the free" and what it represents to those of us that are on a societal level underrepresented. Sexism is that grrrls are still told how to avoid and prevent being raped while boys are not taught not to rape or even in the circumstances where they are they are given a ridiculously poor understanding on what rape is. Sexism is the fact that rape is the accepted norm in society. Sexism is the fact that varying power structures in society feel perfectly comfortable shaming womyn over how much or how little clothing we choose to wear. Sexism is that domestic violence is overwhelmingly swept under the rug (nothing to see here folks) and society doesn't take it seriously. Sexism is rape jokes being considered perfectly acceptable in the media. Sexism is breastfeeding in public being considered obscene while you can find breasts being used for advertisement and marketing pretty much all over. Sexism is how prostitutes are criminalized while the pimps and johns are rarely prosecuted. Sexism is the media bombarding womyn with messages that our bodies aren't good enough, that we need their product to fit their bigoted beauty standards. Sexism is the systemic regulation of womyn's bodies by varying anti-abortion laws. Sexism is so many things that play into the power dynamics that make womyn an underclass. Sexism is NOT simply a personal bias and feminism is NOT the dominant force in society that is being forced on a vulnerable group of people. So to the next dudebro-doucher that accuses me or any other of the womyn who call them out on their sexist bullshit of "reverse-sexism" and calls us "femanazis" they should stop and think for once about the power dynamics and examine their own privilege. Maybe then, they will realize why we are so pissed off.