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ismnotwasm's JournalWell I do love a challenge
Note to hosts; this is a PM I received apparently this poster wants it to be seen by all, so without further ado, I will indulge him, if you want me to delete just let me know. This is one of the gentlemen--I won't say which one-who tried to participate in a recent discussion apparently we hurt his feelings too.
Copy of pm mail to to seaybeyond, gromycuss, sheldon cooper, redqueen, ismnotwasm, screeming meemie, baines bane and other harpies if I left any out.
All you man hating girls really crack me up..the only defense you have is ganging up and bullying and banning anyone who disagrees with you in your little world..Your silly and assinine arguments would not last otherwise in a real debate. And yes that proves you are WEAK and full of shit if you have to ban any dissent.
Bunch of fuckin losers..that is all you are..grumpy, frumpy and I bet less than attractive fat harpies..80-100k post on a forum..Seabeyond.. 85,000 post in one year? Are you mental? On disability? WTF is that? Life on the internet is all you have. Get a life srs. Big cheeses in your own mind on a stupid board with 20 other loser women blaming men for all your ills.
Yes I have an awesome wife..she is out making things happen..yes she has encountered sexism in her business..You know what she does? She tells them to fuck off and moves on and goes somewhere else and buys from someone who appreciates her business. Does not complain about it on the internet or cry I am a victim woe me My wife is a the real deal leading by action not words.
I have many women in my business world I deal with every day..they would laugh at all of you man hating losers.
Lets see you post this letter in its entirely without changes... Come at me if you have the balls or is that ovaries?
I know I will be banned..dont care..gotta get back to work anyway.. though it would be fun to debate you w/o fear of being banned for my comments but that would never happen..you could not handle the truth
Oregon's Full Sail Brewing Co. Makes An Actual Feminist Beer
(I don't drink, but for you beer lovers out there...)
Because theyre super awesome (did I mention theyre 100% worker-owned?), Full Sail has instituted a "Brewers Share" program: each staff member gets to brew and keg an experimental beer that they design and name themselves, even if theyre not a part of the regular brewing team. They also get to dedicate all the proceeds from their special limited edition to a charity of their choosing. This time around, Full Sails Marketing Coordinator Stephanie Duffy whipped up a Cascadian Dark Ale brewed with ample rich malts and aggressive hops and clocking in at 7.5% ABV and 82 IBUS (a measure of bitterness). With those flavor profiles, Duffys Counterpunch, as shes calling it, is clearly made to give the average light lager or fruity Hefeweizen a kick in the pants.
STEPHANIE DUFFY (VIA FULLSAILBREWING.COM)
"My beer defies the traditional expectations of a 'girl's beer.' Like many women, I love my beer and I appreciate a broad cross-section of craft brews," reports Duffy on a Full Sail press release. "Even though the beer industry is still very male-dominated (like so many other industries) I thought it was especially appropriate to brew a bold, strong beer in honor of all the bold, strong women who shirk stereotypes and avoid being pigeonholed. Were in no need of pandering!"
Duffy considers her bold brew her feminist argument in liquid form. To seal the deal, she named my beloved radical rag Bitch Magazine as her charity recipient. Drinking delicious beer while also benefiting feminist media criticism? I think Im in love.
http://www.autostraddle.com/fwomens-libation-movement-portlands-full-sail-brewing-co-makes-an-actual-feminist-beer-201251/
7 Women File Complaint Against UConn for Failing to Respond to Rapes
I was notified on the same day as the [Community Standards] hearing that [my rapist] was to be expelled and he was not to be allowed to come back on campus again. Though I was emotionally and mentally exhausted, I felt that this was a victory and that I could finally go back to my life as a student. Then, two weeks later, I was eating in the dining hall, when the perpetrator sat down next to me and threateningly grazed my elbow in an act of obvious defiance. I was then met by heckling by his friend, who shouted at me that the perpetrator was back.
Unaware of what was going on and feeling that I was in a nightmare, I fled the scene to the UConn police. The officer told me, "Women need to stop spreading their legs like peanut butter or rape is going to keep happening 'til the cows come home." Shocked, I left, feeling confused, violated, traumatized and vulnerable. [Breaks down sobbing] I then learned that the perpetrator had filed an appeal, but I had not been informed that it had been filed... The only explanation that I was given was that the Vice President of Student Affairs felt that expulsion for having raped me was too severe.
Angell went on to describe how her PTSD and anxiety caused her to feel unsafe in her own apartment, to miss days of classes, and to suffer academically. She also stated that after she tried to speak out she was threatened by the administration, who told her she could lose her campus job for being vocal about her attack. She told the Huffington Post that she later learned that her attacker went on to rape another woman a year later.
http://jezebel.com/7-women-file-complaint-against-uconn-for-failing-to-res-1450247823
Texas Republicans Find A Way To Disenfranchise Women Voters
Women are Wendy Davis natural base. Her eleven-hour filibuster of an abortion bill that closed family planning clinics in Texas is the reason she has the name recognition and the political capital to make a run for governor. Anti-choice groups who have never before had to spend money opposing a pro-choice candidate are scrambling to form political action groups to run ads against her. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the man who is most likely to be her opponent, has been touting himself as the real pro-woman candidate for his success at collecting back child support from deadbeat dads. Now, Republicans have found what they hope will be a more reliable plan than trying to persuade women that Republicans have their best interest at heart:
Dont let women vote.
Think Progress reports that as of November 5, Texans must show a photo ID with their up-to-date legal name. It sounds like such a small thing, but according to the Brennan Center for Justice, only 66% of voting age women have ready access to a photo document that will attest to proof of citizenship. This is largely because young women have not updated their documents with their married names, a circumstance that doesnt affect male voters in any significant way. Suddenly 34% of women voters are scrambling for an acceptable ID, while 99% of men are home free.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/texas-republicans-find-a-way-to-disenfranchise-women-voters/news/2013/10/17/77023#.Uma0IEJmQ20
I'm an abortion clinic escort
I didn't set out to become a clinic escort. Sure, I'd seen footage of angry anti-abortion protesters harassing women and threatening doctors, but thought that only happened in such places as Kansas and Mississippi, not here in New York City.
When a local feminist group told me that escorts - volunteers who escort patients from the street and into the clinic - were desperately needed at a women's health centre in a low-income area of Queens, I was motivated as much by curiosity as my passion for reproductive rights.
It was 7am and I couldn't believe people would get up so early on a Saturday to stand outside a medical clinic and yell at patients going in. But they do. And anti-abortion protesters fervently believe they are doing the Lord's work.
They are also adamant that everyone working for the clinic, escorts included, has blood on their hands.
The antis, as we call them, spread out across the street in a 200-metre radius from the clinic. They brandish the familiar images of allegedly aborted foetuses. Some of them follow patients to the front door, crying out things such as Please don't kill your baby! and You will regret this for the rest of your life, and even Don't kill me mommy! in falsetto.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/im-an-abortion-clinic-escort-20131018-2vr24.html
Anybody remember L7?
Female heavy metal band during the grunge years check this out and compare to what's mainstream today. I couldn't get my favorites--some YouTube copyright problem
Holy Shit Even Fem-anarchists have to put up with sexist shits
Found this little rant about an experience at an Anachafem conference in Australasia
The crowd around us got bigger, comrades very much on our side and the others, men who seemed utterly heartbroken (pissed off) that we were chanting kill all men. One well-meaning chap explained how his mum was a feminist and how he had support for women but he felt alienated by phrases such as the one we were using. Assuming he was an anarchist, I asked him if hed ever said ACAB or eat the rich and then whether he said these in the absolute belief that there wasnt a single good cop in the world or that he might actually munch on the upper classes because if he was saying it, then he obviously he meant it. There was a slight pause before he understood what I was saying but he persisted in advising that we were pushing the average man away.
Heres the thing: we dont give a shit about the average man. Were not teachers, were not leaders, were not going to break it down for you in a language you understand. We are expressing ourselves, nothing more, nothing less. We say these extreme things because, powerless as we are, sometimes it is the only thing in our arsenal. Words are powerful, yes, and for those fleeting few seconds, we are in control and you cant hurt us.
As the crowd dissipated we made our way to the foyer for the AnarchaFem conference but on the way in, we were confronted by fuzzy mullet man. His face started twitching again, he must have really been resisting the impulse to physically attack me, his whole demeanour was triggering of the men who have attacked me in the past. I felt eerily calm, pushing his finger down when he pointed it in my face and moving into his space to see how he liked it. Do you believe in free speech? He repeated this over and over. Comrades shouted rape apologist cop! at him but this didnt change his stance. It was only when a male comrade physically put his body between us that this manz sloped off, the bulk of my male friend clearly too much of a challenge.
http://samambreen.wordpress.com
Feminist Hulk Smash Shutdown, Rescue Women On Food Aid!(let me try this again)
Enter the Feminist Hulk.
The Twitter monster is smashing the shutdown's threats to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Food and Nutrition program, which provides food aid to pregnant women and mothers of young children deemed to be at risk of malnutrition. And she's urging her nearly 74,000 followers to help.
Feminist Hulk is Jessica Lawson, a doctoral student in English literature at the University of Iowa who's also a mother and WIC aid recipient. She first started tweeting against sexism in 2010 her Twitter profile reads "HULK SAYS F*** PATRIARCHY. HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY."
Since then, she's been called "the biggest superhero" of online feminism. And she's collected a massive social media fan club with tweets about motherhood, patriarchy and kale which she's using for good during the shutdown, setting up this online resource to help families find baby food and formula.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/12/232306911/feminist-hulk-smash-shutdown-rescue-women-on-food-aid
New campaign uses real Google searches to expose how the world talks about women
The search function predicts and displays search terms based on the activity of other web users; the more popular a search term, the higher up it will be on the list of suggested searches.
As the campaign demonstrates, when you type in women need to, Google recommends searches for women need to be put in their place, women need to know their place, women need to be disciplined and women need to be controlled.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/20/new_campaign_uses_real_google_searches_to_expose_how_the_world_talks_about_women/
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The Masculine Mystique
This is a fascinating look at the MRA movement by The Daily Beast; it's eminently fair, bringing up "What it gets Right", using quotes from "moderate" groups,
(This is considered "moderate", and I could rip it apart with ease:If people want to know my own objection [to the campaign] says The Spearheads W.F. Price, imagine an anti-crime poster campaign that says, Dont Be That African-American, or Dont Be That Latino. Women should realize the anger they feel at my generalizing their sex is the same I feel when they generalize mine. Price goes on to argue that modern societys tendency to assume guilt of those accused of rape has terrible consequences even for those later vindicatedwhich, to be fair, is not an unreasonable view")
-It also references that 20/20 segment that apparently didn't happen. Nonetheless, MRA's have gone mainstream-- it doesn't take much to expose them for the hate-filled shit heads they are.
Also they are not I repeat ARE NOT some sort of "opposite" movement from feminism, a natural enemy as it were. They just think they--are since feminism is their favorite whipping boy, since they are essentially hate groups, since so many of them are nut jobs; I think not just misogynists are attracted to the movement, but damaged, hurt men who had few other groups to turn to and with no ability or inclination to start their own. MRA's are damaging to men because it clings to fucked up or debunked representation of manhood, as well as women. They're a white hot mess in other words.
I keep in mind that for all it's flaws and differences of opinion feminism is a progressive movement that promotes equal rights, human rights and justice and health promotion for women and everybody else for that matter.
The Internet has strengthened it, just as it's allowed hate groups like most MRA's to exist, it's also allowed us to find our allies, to open dialogs, to promote intersectionality, to get out of the white cis-gender middle class box, to find women in need, to explain who and what we are--a group of women and men and those who don't declare either as diverse as is human kind.
Also, unfortunately as referenced in another thread, it has promoted the continual attempts to threatened women to voicelessness. These attempts are not necessarily by "MRA's---not by a long shot, they are a sign of the inner sickness of misogyny the permeates our society---if women show strength, if they show attempts at independence of the dominate societal system of patriarchy. (And Yes, Virginia, patriarchy exists---only fools in denial think otherwise. One need look no further than congress)
This summer, two competing Canadian rape-awareness campaigns began popping up on posters across Edmonton and Vancouver. The first, entitled Dont Be That Guy, warned young men that having sex with a woman too inebriated to give consent is considered lawful rape. One of the posters featured a picture of a girl passed out on a couch, with the tagline, Just because she isnt saying no doesnt mean shes saying yes. Police in both cities credit the campaign with a 10 percent reduction in rapes over the previous calendar year.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/20/the-masculine-mystique-inside-the-men-s-rights-movement-mrm.html
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