T-Minus Two Days to Halloween

[redstapler]

-Today is my mother's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom. I miss you.

-I was going to wear my Lady Gaga as The TARDIS costume today, but I couldn't find the dress. I did find the obi from my Cyber Punk costume, so I wore my pirate coat and I'm a Software Pirate instead. I'm very sad now though, because my coworker, Pi, is dressed as The Doctor. Grr

Comments

[firynze]

Software pirate! Oh, that's awesome.

[ladypeculiar]

The Femeniste article is great-- I hadn't yet heard about the Gawker article. Ew.

[redstapler]

I found the article about it at Shakesville to be far too HANDS OFF, GENDER BIGOTS!

I think it's legit to acknowledge that an article like this is some what fairer game for a candidate who put so much of her personal sexual history in the focus.

[ladypeculiar]

Oh, exactly. I think the article you posted was able to clearly discuss that line of, "It's not sexism to say that politicians why who try and force legislation about people's sex lives should be held to the standards they espouse, but it's really gross for this guy to be publicly mocking her pubic hair and asking us to join in."

[bart_calendar]

1. The guy is a douche.

2. It's interesting to learn that she actually sticks by her principles not to have intercourse before marriage.

[brewsternorth]

...Yeah, I generally don't read the comments on Gothamist articles at all unless they're mildly funny - and generally they're not - so I can imagine that on a SRS BZNS article like that (I had no idea that NYC was actually behind other cities and countries in collecting this data, but with the attitudes that abound about "the price girls pay", maybe I shouldn't be surprised) they'd be pretty horrible. Interesting that it's taken a private enterprise, Hollaback, to point out something that, frankly, the authorities should've taken the initiative on.

[airspaniel]

Love that comic! But I'm still really bothered by the term "mansplain." The irony of crying sexism in this context has not even remotely escaped me. *facepalm*

[redstapler]

The better term is probably "oppressor-class-'splain," but that's reaaaaaaally clunky. ;)

I used it especially for this case, though, because it's a man explaining to men who tried to "oppressor-class-'splain" to Kate fucking Beaton of all people.

Troglodytes.

[airspaniel]

Yeah, I get that. And I've been following the whole Kate Beaton thing, and it's just gross. :/

[brawdymchwil]

This has really, really, bothered me as well.

I understand the meaning of the term, but I think it's unproductive at best, and ultimately too easy to use as a "shutdown". It's the Godwin of the gender politics discussion in some articles/essays I've seen.

That said: these people should be punched in the face (the oppressor-class assholes, that is).

[setissma]

I'm sort of disgusted at how that gawkwer article manages to try to shame Christine O'Donnell for being a sexual being and for not being sexually experienced. (I hate the terms "slut shame" and "prude shame" but, uh, hey, this article manages to do both in one neat package.) I want to believe that this guy is making a point that O'Donnell hooked up with him to point out the hypocrisy of her political positions, but honestly, it just doesn't feel like it. It feels like, "This woman got naked with me in bed, and then she didn't put out the way I wanted her to! And she was a virgin! Who had pubic hair!" She didn't meet his sexual expectations, so he has the right to mortify her in front of the entire internet? Not so much.