Best of Craigslist Men 4 Women Personals!

In the city of Houston, of course. I don’t have THAT much time to troll around all the damned cities and countries on Craigslist, sheesh.
Alright, so this is the first ever Best of Houston Craigslist Men 4 Women Personals post. Woohoo! These personals range anywhere from harmlessly stupid, to obliviously entitled, to downright scary. Every couple of days I’ll be posting a link to a m4w CL ad that catches my attention for some reason or another.
Here it is! The Young Millionaire….

Potential domestic violence situation? Yep. He’s going to “take care of your financial and emotional needs…” Isn’t that something pimps do? Yep.
I’ll let you all rip away at the rest.

Western Democracy At It’s Best!

So some fucker from ::WARNING – POSSIBLE TRIGGERING EFFECT:: the CIA decides that date raping two Muslim Algerian women is a great way to root out terrorists and instill democracy in the Middle East North Africa.  Of course, the CIA refuses to hold an investigation.  This is yet another example of the U.S. government turning a blind eye to the injustices it enacts against folks, specifically women, in non-Western countries.

Isobel Coleman is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and specializes in women’s issues in the Middle East (I would say rape is a “men’s issue” too…but anyway…).  Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“Rape is ugly in any context,” said Coleman, who praised the bravery of the alleged Algerian victims in going to authorities. “Rape is viewed as very shameful to women, and I think this is an opportunity for the U.S. to show how seriously it takes the issue of rape,” she said

I also applaud the bravery of these two women, Ms. Coleman.  Sadly enough, I don’t think the U.S. takes rape seriously at all.  Rape is not just “shameful” to women, it’s absolutely dehumanizing, to put it lightly.  If the U.S. took rape and sexual abuse against women seriously the CIA wouldn’t even have members like Warren, let alone refuse to carry out investigations on the rape.  If Americans took rape seriously, the author of the above article would not be calling Warrens possible tapings of his raping these two women “sex tapes.”  It’s not sex, ffs, it’s RAPE.

What’s really awful about this too is that specifically Muslim women are going to be placed at the center of this debate or discussion as symbols or inhuman vessels of the “Muslim world” by both Westerners and North African Muslims alike.  And you know what that means!  Many Algerians will be using this incident to show that Muslim women are fragile “diamonds”, “virgins” to be kept away from the prying hands/dicks of Western men.  While Islamophobic and racist folks from the U.S. will either deny the two women’s allegations (but, of course, women, especially brown women, always lie :/) OR say that the CIA operative (Warren) was simply a “bad apple” and that “those Muslims” should be grateful the CIA is enabling democracy in their “evil” tyrannical country, thereby belittling the claims and sufferings of these two women.

I would also like to bring up the fact that Algeria is being implicitly referred to as being part of the “Middle East” in this article, and by the U.S. government….WHY?  Algeria is in northwest Africa.  It’s more European than Middle Eastern, geographically-speaking.  Or does the fact that a country has a predominantly Muslim populace and lots of couscous suddenly make it “Middle Eastern”?  The ignorance!

And there are about 170 comments in the ABC news story comment section for this article, which I will not even bother glancing at, lest I have an aneurism.

People drive me nuckin’ futs sometimes…

The fucker....and a map of Algeria.

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 :/

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.

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.

AOL: Assholes Online

Patriarchy says: Miley is being hyerpsexualized as an adolescent girl...so it must be her fault! That tart!

I am studying my GREs (the GRE is a standardized test required for college students trying to get into graduate schools here in the U.S.) and I am working on the section that deals with analytical writing. One of the essay/issue prompts that my GRE practice book provides for practice is this:

During times of war and a struggling economy, obsession with celebrity becomes stronger in the media so that the public can distract itself from the stresses that war and a bad economy bring.

That’s just a basic paraphrasing of what the essay prompt said in my practice book. But it’s extremely relevant and timely, this one. And it is no coincidence that as the U.S. is stretching into its 8th damned year of war in the Middle East and West Asia, American media and the American people are gleefully trashing celebrities, especially female celebrities.

Oh, did I mention that AOL “News” is steeping deeper and deeper into the muck of misogyny and sensationalist trash that is the mainstream media lately?

Yeah. Within the past month or so, I cannot remember seeing more invasive and sexist gossip about female celebrities in my life.
Every single miniscule detail of every woman’s reproductive and bodily functions is laid out in big, obnoxious headlines for all to see. Here’s a list of a set of AOL news headlines shown at the most visible part of AOL’s homepage for only one day:

What Happened To Katie’s Hands? She Tries to Hide Odd Discoloration, But Scientology Rumors Fly: It’s Ugly

‘Plan on Seeing Me Fat … Proud’: Actress Has Reason for Weight Gain

Tinseltown Tribe Has Spoken New Lady Love for ‘Survivor’ Host?

Howard Stern Sad by Friends’ Split

J.Lo Must Not Have Known Cameras Were Snapping (when you click on this headline, this is the image and “story” you get)

And that was just one box of headlines, ONE! But don’t worry folks, it gets better:

Underneath a headline about the prospects of a male olympian athlete, and one about how a female tennis player cried because she lost a play or game, there is “Danica Gets Into ‘Heated’ Exchange: Why Did Female Driver Snap at Her?”

Mary-Kate’s Odd Boots Cause Stir

I won’t make you read the poorly written excuses-for-articles that numerous idiots from the AP or AOL crank out. You don’t even have to read the articles (unless you want to sponateously combust) to understand this: AOL wants to remind you that women suck hairy ass. Why? They get “too emotional” and “catty” when playing sports. Hell, the female celebrities that are conventionally pretty and fitting somewhat into their roles (like Katie Holmes, and JLo, for example) are still getting trashed all the time, for, I dunno, doing normal things like eating, not wearing makeup, talking. FFS.

You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. This is the fate of women in the patriarchy. Yes, even if you are white and middle/upper class. Even if you’re a celebrity. Because when you’re a woman, even your racial and class privilege, even your celebrity, is revokable. It seems to me that the only reason there are females who are made into celebrities is so that men, and, by extension, the media, can piss and shit all over these women after placing them up on gilded pedestals.

And you know what’s even more sad? Is that there are quite a few folks out there who think these female celebrities are “empowered.” Empowered because of what? Their money? Their expensive clothes? The predominantly male attention they are getting?…

Here’s what I got when I googled images of “female celebrities.”

Here’s what I got when I googled images of “male celebrities.”

Interesting, huh?

So, tell me, what do you think about female celebrities and their status in Western culture (I am thinking the female celebrity gossip and attacks are prevalent in Europe and the UK too)? Do you think they can be empowered?

Oh, and poor Howard fuckin Stern, he’s “sad.” Boo f’*n hoo. I hope he croaks soon.

I love love love Staceyann Chin

Listen to her. You will see that her passionate and honest words have everything to do with my first post and discussion in the comments.

“…A revolution once pregnant with expectation flounders,
Apathetic and individualistic, no one knows where to vote
Or what to vote for anymore,
The faces that now represent us,
have now begun to look like the ones who used to burn crosses,
and beat bulldaggers
and fuck faggots up the ass with loaded guns…”

Thanks for the inspiration ekitty

Never trust liberal white men

 

Oh yeahh, totally seeing the "satire".... :/

 

So some idiot who thinks he’s the smartest and most edumacated person (re: white male) in the world says this.

Satire?  Really?  Where, exactly?  There is no frame of reference, no juxtaposed image of, say, racist sexist wife-beating McCain* to make this a satire.  Must everything that’s straight up offensive, racist, and misogynist be labeled “satire” by privileged white males who never suffer the effects or consequences of these horrid images and stereotypes?

What you’ve got here is basically a pin up poster for tons of racist and sexist bigots and conservatives here in this country.  I am no genious, but I am certainly not among “the basest” of American society.  Oh, I GET this poster:  it’s racist, sexist BS.

People like me, ya know, angry good-for-nothin’ sandnigger raghead camel jockeys, are the ones who suffer directly from the perpetuation of this racist bullshit.  With the prevalence of racist and Islamophobic stereotyping, abuse, and hate crimes in this country, how can a cover like this on The New Yorker be anything but offensive, downright irresponsible, and a slap in the face to African Americans, Muslims, and peoples of Middle Eastern descent?  White male liberals like the author of the above-mentioned article (Knowles) can bask in their self-righteous glory, unharmed by the effects of these racist images, all the while believing that they are incapable of racism and bigotry, and that only the “basest” (I guess Knowles is referring vaguely to working-class/formerly-uneducated white people :/ ) among Americans wouldn’t be “in on the joke.”

Screw you, and your arrogant white male writing, Knowles. 

Something else important:  anyone notice too the light brown highlights in Michelle Obama’s afro?  Allusion to Angela Davis, much?  For those of you not as familiar with African American/women’s herstory, Davis has been an outspoken activist and writer against sexism, racism, classism, and the prison establishment for years now.  She was, and still is, considered such a threat to governmental white male hegemony that she was thrown in prison years ago based on false charges of intent to murder the President.  Oh, and to add insult to injury, observe the portrait of Osama Bin Laden (or is that the Ayatollah?) above an American flag burning in the fireplace.  Looks like white Americans are scared of what might happen to the White House should Black and/or mixed race folk run it.  If Blackness or Browness is the downfall of American government and society, one must wonder what many (white) Americans think America stands for….

*McCain has made jokes about beating his wife and lots of other wretched stuff, so his being depicted as a wife-beating bigot is not a stereotype so much as very likely.

P.S.: This is my first blog post ever.  How do I create links?  I tried the whole < and href thing and it didn’t work.  If you have any solutions to this problem, let me know.  Thanks!