It's 2014 in America: most of us can choose whether to be Patriarchy's handmaiden or not
LauraNorder
lauranorder
As a man who really, really, really doesn't want a baby or an STD (same thing, amirite?!?) I am more than happy to take care of all the condom-stuff in my relationship, including paying for them. I honestly hate how for some reason society has decided that no man ever wants to use a condom, because all it does it A)…
He can support her right to choose any legally-available procedure, while personally believing that one procedure should be legally-unavailable.
Well, not quite. You can be ideologically opposed to a law and still cooperate with it out of necessity or duty.
Just look at all the superstates like Rome, the Reich under Hitler or the Soviet union that tried to do something like that went. In the end everybody suffers because the culture and rules of one ethnicity will get imposed to everybody.
Yes, but as someone who has taken great pains to apply intersectionality to the discourse of oppression, it is Suey Park's job to consider the plight of other oppressed groups before advocating on an issue. If she's so quick to criticise others for not taking an intersectional approach, she should be open to that…
Okay, but if no one can use racial slurs regardless of the context, even if the context is part of the public discourse around the appropriateness of such terms, why do you feel comfortable typing out "R*****n" on an internet messageboard, but object to a well-known social and political commenter and noted (to say…
Pretty spectacular how it's never okay to speak on behalf of a whole group on a social issue (according to Twitter social justice berzerkers), except when it's Suey Park shouting about how something is offensive to all Asians - then it's okay. I wonder if she bothered to consult any other people of Asian heritage…
But why did a story about Native Americans have to become about people of Asian heritage? Suey Park missed the intersectional forest for the sanctimony trees - Colbert has with one joke done more to point out the fucked-up-ness of the Washington team name than she has in her entire activist lifetime, but she's…
Considering you've used three racial slurs in the space of two comments here, I don't think you should be criticising.
Bigger fish to fry.
But really, those hapless micks will just pop out a dozen more. Catholics, amirite?
If you want to say that the joke doesn't work in pieces? Don't fucking tweet that shit!
They might not call themselves rapists, but they understand that they're violating someone's boundary, and very frequently take a lot of glee in it.
The pictures on that Capri-Sun facebook page just made me feel all itchy. I am NEVER giving my kids that stuff after seeing that.
Falafel
Still not funny. Punching downwards to someone less empowered for the sake of a joke isn't funny or clever - it's mean. No one thought it was funny when a 9-year-old was called a "c*nt" last year, even though it was quite clearly a "joke" - this isn't funny either.
Yeah, if you have to "punch downwards" to make a joke, you probably shouldn't. It's just really rude. I wish Madeleine would deign to respond to maybe clarify why she's decided to pick on an old woman, but we both know that Jez authors don't roll like that.