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“Making a Statement” Indeed…

Lil' Kim on the cover of "One World" Magazine

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“Fuck Afghanistan”.  So says Li’l Kim. She didn’t even have to say that in the interview. Her photo says it all…

The Birth and Death of the Day

I thought I’d share this with you while I am busy packing and preparing for my move.  This is one of the best songs by my favorite band in the world: Explosions in the Sky (they’re from Austin, TX!).  Listen to the whole thing through.  I am just in love with their music.  They don’t need singing or words for their songs.  They’ve saved my life.

“Birth and Death of the Day” - Explosions in the Sky, 2007

I Promise I’ll Be Right Back…

I’ve been out of the loop a little lately and I am preparing to pack my stuff and move from D.C. to Houston, TX.  So I promise that I have not lost interest in blogging or anything, just a little occupied.  I tend to put a lot of time and effort into my blogging, so when I find a bit of time and energy to make a good blog post I’ll do so.

Thanks for stopping by!

Racist DJ in Arizona Makes Rape Jokes

Did I mention I spent a great deal of my upper-middle class sandnigger childhood in Arizona? Let me just give you an idea of what white males are like there. Here is the story, courtesy of WOC PhD (thanks Prof ;)):

http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/another-public-figure-thinks-rape-jokes-are-funny/

Hi, my name is Jon Justice and I am a sexist racist clusterfuck

Oh, I forgot, most white males are basically like this, on a continuum. Also note that violence against women of color, specifically Latina women near the U.S./Mexico border, is rampant. Coyotes, white vigilantes, and police officers frequently rape, torture, and abuse Mexican and Central American women trying to cross the border.

http://www.change-links.org/Violence.html

http://www.libertadlatina.org/Crisis_Lat_Mexico_Juarez_Femicide.htm

Haha, so fuckin funny :/

I hate girls but I want one!

Another great example of male arrogance and privilege courtesy of craigslist.
Asshole #2 on Craigslist:

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/m4w/769379944.html

I could barely get through the first quarter of his commandments and I was simultaneously yawning and experiencing a “WTF?” moment.
What is it with guys? Really…This craigslist entry is a great example of their male entitlement. They think they can tell women what’s good for them, and then turn around and make fun of them for not knowing what’s good for themselves.
mAndrea says it best in one of her posts:

What kind of character trait is required before one can eliminate all educational opportunites for a group, and then turn around and laugh at that group because they have no education?

What kind of character trait is required before one can eliminate all job opportunities for a group, and then turn around and laugh at them because they have no alternative but to use the only thing they do have - their body - as a bargaining tool?

Really, what kind of character trait is required before one can be that much of an asshole? Because whatever kind it is, men sure do have an abundance.

Not My Nigel

Men rape. Yeah. You fuckin heard me. MEN RAPE. Men fucking rape. Men rape women and girls. Subject verb object. Strangely enough, in discussions of rape, the subject seems to have suddenly disappeared from the equation.

It took me a long time to really realize that rape can’t really happen on the incredibly grandiose scale that it does without a lot of damned men raping lots of women. It doesn’t matter that a male just happens to be your father, brother, son, uncle, boyfriend, whatever. They can rape, and many of them are intent on raping women and girls. Coming to this realization when it comes to the men in my life is a real struggle, and it’s incredibly hard to grasp and accept. But grasp and accept I will. Because if I don’t recognize that many, if not most, men rape or are intent to rape then I am doing a real disservice to women and girls all around me who have been the victims of rape.
When we know that roughly 6 out of 10 men are willing to rape a woman if said males know they can get away with it (I remember distinctly a study once done at a Rhode Island college or institution showing that 60% of males polled said they would rape a woman if they knew they could get away with it)*, then why the hell are some of us feminists so hell-bent on defending men? Why do some of us respond by saying that there’s a small number of men that don’t, or would not, rape? And what is that barely 40% of men who have not or would not rape (on account of not being caught for the act, FFS) doing or not doing about their male friends, family, and coworkers raping women?:

http://witchywoo.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/much-is-being-made-of/#comments

So take 10 men or boys in a room. At least 6 of those men or boys would rape a woman if they knew they could get away with it. Let’s let that marinade a little, shall we? How many men do you walk by in public each day? How many men do you have in your family? How many boyfriends? Spouses? How many do you think have raped or will rape a woman or girl in their lifetime? We always talk about how many women get raped (as if by some invisible, intangible fuckin force) but let’s just get down to the root of the problem here: how many men rape? Because if at least 1 out of 4 women have been or will be victims of rape at least once in their lifetime before they even hit their middle ages, that’s a lot of damned men out there raping women. Nearly 80% of rapes are committed by men or boys that the female victim is very acquainted with or knows well. That means that there’s just boatloads of boyfriends, fathers, uncles, sons, brothers, husbands, and male relatives raping women and girls in homes, in clubs, in cars, in porn studios, etc.

I would like to know why people ask us to be nice to men, to defend the “innocent” men, to not be suspicious of men, when quite a good number of them do this shit to us:

http://littoralmermaid.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/this-needs-to-end-now/

http://sparklematrix.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/radovan-karadzicarrested-for-war-crimes-former-yugoslavia/

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/07/colluders-justify-rape-of-11-year-old.html

http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2008/07/21/women-terrorized-under-fundamentalism/

I could provide yet another hundred more examples of the atrocities committed every damned day by men against women and girls.
So I ask, again: how can someone look a woman in the face, a woman who has every valid reason to be suspicious of men, and tell her that her decision or compulsion to be suspicious of men is a form of “discrimination”?

Phemisaurus brilliantly makes fun of this “reverse discrimination” idea here.

So, fellow feminists, women’s liberationists, womanists. Look around you. How many men?

*this is a conservative estimate, 60%. Because even on anonymous surveys people believe themselves to be “better” than they actually are.

Italians Don’t Give a Crap About The Roma

Apologies for the serial posting lately but…..This is absolutely disgusting, a good example of the racism against the Roma in Europe:

Shocking Indifference to Roma Drowning, via CNN posted: 2 HOURS 38 MINUTES World News

TORREGAVETA, Italy (July 21) - Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that the incident had occurred on Saturday at the beach of Torregaveta, west of Naples, southern Italy, where the two girls had earlier been swimming in the sea with two other Roma girls. Reports said they had gone to the beach to beg and sell trinkets.
Local news reports said the four girls found themselves in trouble amid fierce waves and strong currents. Emergency services responded 10 minutes after a distress call was made from the beach and two lifeguards attended to the girls upon hearing their screams.
Two of them were pulled to safety but rescuers failed to reach the other two in time to save them.
The Web site of the Archbishop of Naples said the girls were cousins named Violetta and Cristina, aged 12 and 13.
Their bodies were eventually laid out on the sand under beach towels to await collection by police. Photographs show sunbathers in bikinis and swimming trunks sitting close to where the girls’ feet can be seen poking out from under the towels concealing their bodies. A photographer who took photos at the scene told CNN the mood among sunbathers had been one of indifference.
Other photos show police officers lifting the bodies into coffins and carrying them away past bathers reclined on sun loungers.
“While the lifeless bodies of the girls were still on the sand, there were those who carried on sunbathing or having lunch just a few meters away,” Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.
Corriere della Sera said that a crowd of curious onlookers that had formed around the bodies quickly dispersed.
“Few left the beach or abandoned their sunbathing. When the police from the mortuary arrived an hour later with coffins, the two girls were carried away between bathers stretched out in the sun.”
The incident also attracted condemnation from the Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Crecenzio Seppe. “Indifference is not an emotion for human beings,” Seppe wrote in his parish blog. “To turn the other way or to mind your own business can sometimes be more devastating than the events that occur.”
Recent weeks have seen heightened tensions between Italian authorities and the country’s Roma minority amid a crackdown by Silvo Berlusconi’s government targeting illegal immigrants and talk by government officials of a “Roma emergency” that has seen the 150,000-strong migrant group blamed for rising street crime.
That has provided justification for police raids on Roma camps and controversial government plans to fingerprint all Roma — an act condemned by the European Parliament and United Nations officials as a clear act of racial discrimination. Popular resentment against Romanies has also seen Roma camps near Naples attacked and set on fire with petrol bombs by local residents.
In a statement published on its Web site, the Italian civil liberties group EveryOne said Saturday’s drowning had occurred in an atmosphere of “racism and horror” and cast doubt on the reported version of events, suggesting that it appeared unusual for the four girls to wade into the sea, apparently casting modesty aside and despite being unable to swim.
“The most shocking aspect of all this is the attitude of the people on the beach,” the statement said. “No one appears the slightest upset at the sight and presence of the children’s dead bodies on the beach: they carry on swimming, sunbathing, sipping soft drinks and chatting.”
© 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
2008-07-22 10:36:37

Ah, Craigslist…

Such are the self-centered romantic and repulsive seductive personals submitted by arrogant, misogynist assholes on Washington D.C.’s craigslist:

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/m4w/765051690.html

Now, typically when I come across male asshole rants on craigslist I laugh it off and move on*, but I decided to write this nasty little booger a nice email reply:

“Go fuck yourself.

-Sincerely,
An intelligent, cynical, and embittered woman”

This is the response I got:

“WOW..really? you’re not a feminist at all eh? Now I’d kindly ask you to return the favor of fucking themselves but I fear you’d enjoy it a bit much…?”

Haha, oh but I am darling, I am. More than you’ll ever know Who is “themselves”?? Hmm.

Go ahead and send Sunny Deo (sunnyd.rr@gmail.com) your best wishes in reminding him that not all women are the same. Lawd knows he needs more than a “cunty compatriot” for his dating and screwing needs.

*one of the best things to do when you are super bored at work with nothing to do (and if you have access to a computer) is to go on Craigslist and browse through the god-awful “men seeking women” personals on craigslist. You might either spontaneously combust OR laugh your head off OR shudder in fright. Good times, good times.

Who Would Have Thought?

That I would care about the presidential election so much?  What with gender and race and so many other factors that have explicitely colored the coverage and progress of the presidential campaign, I guess I have some really strong feelings about what’s going on in Washington D.C. lately.

This article, by Melissa McEwan (via MaryTracy ), is one of the best articles I have ever read about the important decisions being made, and the fine lines being walked, by feminists and womanists all over the U.S. in regards to this presidential election.

It’s really tough being a woman, particularly a woman of color, and trying to wrap my head around the sexism and racism being made even more apparent because of this election. I just got my citizenship about 2 or so years ago, and I have been so jaded with the government and electoral system in this country that I haven’t bothered to vote. This particular quote from McEwan’s essay really struck me:

Shaker CE once said in comments, “Knowing that the alternative is worse actually makes it harder for me; it just reinforces that sense I often get from some Dems, including Sen. Obama in this cycle, that they think they can do whatever the fuck they like to me, because I don’t have any other option. The worst part? They’re right.”

They are right. And I am not sure I am going to vote this election either. That’s the most disturbing thing about this election: the decisions that many of us feminists have to make are extremely difficult and complex. And I am tired of being threatened, cajoled, and manipulated by self-proclaimed “liberals” into supporting a presidential candidate (i.e. Obama) that has benefitted passively and actively from sexism and misogyny.

This sandnigger bitch is not takin’ that white liberal male bullshit anymore. Thanks.

Just go read the McEwan essay! Go, go, go!