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When a manly man dude writes a rant we call it “Op-Ed”. When a feminist woman writes a...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:13:33 +0100

When a manly man dude writes a rant we call it “Op-Ed”. When a feminist woman writes a rant we call it “anger”.

"The designer called the collection “Out of My Mind.” Yet the clothes were powerful for their..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:32:51 +0100

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The designer called the collection “Out of My Mind.” Yet the clothes were powerful for their sensibility to the churning world: the Egyptian Revolution as a simple dress made from a beach towel printed with the mask of Tutankhamen; a burka reworked as a top; a ribbed dress made from an Alexander McQueen leather coat; or outfits created with his great-grandmother’s nightdress or from the American flag.

Mr. Adrover imagined the show as a travel bag of clothes ejected from a plane flying over the Amazon, worn by people with no reference point on the origin, use or status of their finds. The result was a collection that was apolitical, yet throbbed with a sense of global upheaval.

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- Styles by Miguel Adrover and Alexander Wang Reflect a World in Flux - NYTimes.com

“Apolitical”?! Who calls any of the above “apolitical”?!

Tiger Beatdown: When anger is all I have and why anger is my feminist stand

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:42:41 +0100

Tiger Beatdown: When anger is all I have and why anger is my feminist stand:

I wrote about anger. And how anger should be accepted as a legitimate political act. From the post:

And so it is from this moral imperative driven by anger that I write. And I refuse to be boxed in the simplified category of “ranter” because I am angry. Because this anger makes me “difficult”, it makes me “alienating”, it makes me “impossible to deal with” and I should just accept that certain things just are.

Reproductive justice you said? This Cardinal would like to have...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:15 +0100

Reproductive justice you said? This Cardinal would like to have a word with you.

(photo via, worth noting though and I haven’t been able to find a source for the image in English, is that the photo points to the fact that the Vatican is a shareholder in Beretta SpA, a major weapons manufacturer in Europe).

Priceless. (photo via)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:04 +0100

Priceless.

(photo via)

Global Comment: Networks of racist hatred, the hidden side of the European Union

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:02:25 +0100

Global Comment: Networks of racist hatred, the hidden side of the European Union:

I wrote about the racist networks across the European Union that are almost always unveiled when a major hate crime is investigated. From the piece:

Back in July 2011, when Anders Behring Breivik went on a murderous rampage in Norway, leaving a trail of 77 dead and numerous injured he also left behind a manifest that hinted to his connection with like minded individuals and groups across Europe. He spoke extensively of his extreme right wing sympathies and mentioned his contacts with others across the continent. Authorities investigated the links and found that he had been in touch with groups in the US and the UK. The arrest in Zurich this week, in connection with the German NSU, though not related to Breivik, does indicate a certain pattern. These connections across borders point to a modus operandi that is replicated across hate groups who are united by a common goal and racist rhetoric.

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, has been formally placed..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:03 +0100

“Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, has been formally placed under arrest by French police investigating an alleged prostitution ring.”

- Strauss-Kahn arrested by French police investigating alleged prostitution ring | World news | The Guardian

I have written extensively about DSK (actually, all over the place), but his antics never cease to amaze me. It’s like when you think he cannot be more misogynistic, he surprises us all with a new development. Yet, of all the stuff about him, the one I have always found the most baffling was his aspiration (and Party endorsement) to run as Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party.

lickypickystickyfree replied to your post: Soda wars: GOOP edition Is it wholesome and...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:47:23 +0100

lickypickystickyfree replied to your post: Soda wars: GOOP edition

Is it wholesome and pure?

*Precisely* and that’s why I am BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE!

Soda wars: GOOP edition

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:43:44 +0100

Because I am holier than everyone else, I only drink Grandma’s recipe of Grenadine syrup. Traditional values and all that.

Three words I'd love to see removed from any food related discussion

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:28:27 +0100

Whole
Wholesome
Pure

Oh that’s right because all three of them are also inextricably tied to ideas of racial purity, sex and gender normative behavior and a lot of other issues that make me see red.

"Also, while public harassment motivated by racism, homophobia, transphobia, or classism—types of..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:03:46 +0100

“Also, while public harassment motivated by racism, homophobia, transphobia, or classism—types of deplorable harassment which men can be the target of and sometimes women perpetrate—is recognized as socially unacceptable behavior, men’s harassment of women motivated by gender and sexism is not.”

- What Is Street Harassment?- Stop Street Harassment

I wish we had an “Intersectionality LOLcat”. It’d make the above slightly more bearable.

—

Your wish is my command. Intersectionality cat is now a meme.

(via redlightpolitics)

Everyone who's shocked

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:01:30 +0100

by my previous post and the inherent intersectionality fail, you can also read non intersectional blog posts by magnificent intersectionality infused allies at their site.

You are welcome. I knew you could do with an extra dose of rage.

"Also, while public harassment motivated by racism, homophobia, transphobia, or classism—types of..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:51:46 +0100

Emily Manuel at Tiger Beatdown - Even kitchenmaids get the blues: compulsory heterosexuality on Downton Abbey

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:03:00 +0100

Emily Manuel at Tiger Beatdown - Even kitchenmaids get the blues: compulsory heterosexuality on Downton Abbey

....AAAAAAND.... Ryking is no longer an editor of Politics

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:18:35 +0100

....AAAAAAND.... Ryking is no longer an editor of Politics:

Thanks to Torie for the twitter tip! (Tweep?)

"Misandry” may be the most efficient word in the English language. In just one word it condenses the..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:06:29 +0100

““Misandry” may be the most efficient word in the English language. In just one word it condenses the self-denying assholery of “I’m not a racist, but …” with the misogyny of “All women are bitches,” throwing in a free persecution-complex bonus”

- Cracked, of all things. Seriously. Cracked is now doing better on gender politics than Tumblr. Just sit with that for a moment.

(NB: The rest of the article contains some of the same problematic stuff that’s in most Cracked columns, and for the love of all that is good, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!)

"[Trigger Warning: Sexisim, racism, and telling someone to ‘go kill themselves’] Hey,..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:02:00 +0100

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[Trigger Warning: Sexisim, racism, and telling someone to ‘go kill themselves’]

Hey, STFUConservatives, Redlightpolitics, advocating censorship is a very feminazi thing of you to do; you’re both pathetic scum. Not only that, but you’re also idiots too stupid to see how easily a right-winger could use your argument against you; right-wingers can just as easily make a case to Tumblr that it is promoting left-wing extremists practicing Hate Politics. And you want to complain that he’s “undermining your rights” while you’re trying to undermine his First Amendment right? Really, cunts? Finally, for the record, MOST people on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle reject your racist, sexist notion of privilege; it’s only left-wing fringe radicals like you trash who buy into that nonsense. Do the world a favor: Go kill yourselves you feminazi twats. — Ryking

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- Alexander Ryking

(via stfuconservatives)

Dear dumb fuck ryking;

People on the left are aware of privilege. People on the right, consistently deny it.

Feminism is not equal to a genocide, and you should kindly check your fucking privilege before you start talking shit about people who ACTUALLY DID FUCKING DIE IN THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST YOU IGNORANT TWIT.

Now, kindly go fuck yourself, stfu, and gtfo.

The end.

(via stfuhypocrisy)

There’s a difference between feminism and feminazism, and you’ve just proven which camp you’re in. Sieg Heil, cunt! You should take your own advice and STFU you racist, sexist hypocrite. And no, not all people on the Left believe in privilege. I’m living proof. — Ryking

(via ryking)

So I don’t think this guy knows what racism and sexism are

(via angrybees)

You summed up your entire worth in that last sentence.

Go kill yourselves you feminazi twats.

Ryking, you are an arrogant fool that is so deeply seeped into the cultural rot designed to maim independent thought, souls and bodies and subsequently destroy even the ones working for it. You do not win anything by lowering yourself to hate speech. The First Amendment does not protect hate speech. It doesn’t protect slander or libel either so if you or any other public official has yet to take that basic law class or grasp that concept that you have no business speaking about things you don’t understand. Otherwise, that’s a little something we call bullshit.

Furthermore, about that last line, you’ve finally degraded yourself into nothing more than troll scum. Granted, you’re still human but one who thinks he’s somehow superior to everyone else around him. You have no fucking right to tell someone to go kill themselves. And what if they actually did? What if someone actually took you serious. What would you accomplish? What do you win when someone looses everything? In a world ruled by chaos and violence and suffocating in the stench of apathy that even you have helped to pollute, what do you gain by presenting a message filled with slurs and enough hate that wishes for another person to take their own life? You don’t win shit.

Fuck you.

Love,

Taylor

(via thecuntmentality)

This was back in June. As we can see, he hasn’t changed one bit. And some sycophants want to tell me that he is the “most egalitarian” person. Yeah, as long as you are not someone he labels “feminazi cunt” who should “kill herself”. And “scum”. Because that’s what I am according to him.

Btw, his reference to “racist notions of privilege” is because he believes that White privilege does not exist. So those of us who speak against it are labeled “racists against Whites”.

It was after he wrote this that Tumblr made him an editor.

You know, violence is rewarded.

About misogyny in politics

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:25:00 +0100

Back in June when I wrote about a certain Tumblr editor in the Politics tag, I was dismayed that Tumblr would allow someone who specifically worked against reproductive justice to represent their brand. This guy held an Anti Affirmative action bake sale in his University! And this is who Tumblr saw fit to represent them. Which is to say, a person with deeply sexist and racist views is allowed to control the visibility of the content that is promoted. Now, Ryking holds a similar position. Also, a known misogynist who uses violent rhetoric against those he dubs to be “feminazis”.

Here is the thing, media does not necessarily change our minds. If we read something that is at odds with our beliefs systems, media will not magically turn us to the other side. However, media does validate opinions. It does give people the ideological framework to justify their ideas and to promote their views/ ideologies.

When a corporation like Tumblr gives someone like Ryking a platform to validate his misogyny and propagate it, Tumblr is contextually participating in the erosion of women’s rights. The congressional hearing yesterday in the US where reproductive rights were discussed by men? Tumblr is also playing a role in the normalization of those views. Because the media we consume cannot be contextually removed from the sociocultural and political environment where it is produced. What Tumblr is saying when they bestow some kind of corporate endorsement on the Rykings of this world is that this violence against women (whether cis or not) is to be validated, institutionalized, given a “framework of truth”. Which is the way violence is normalized and perpetuated.

Though I am careful what I wish for

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:33:26 +0100

Though I am careful what I wish for:

Back in June I already wrote about the Politics editors on Tumblr. That’s what got me the hatred from Ryking (feminazi cunt, kill yourself, etc.). Now, here’s the funny thing: back when I wrote about this, Ryking was not an editor of the Politics tag.

He was rewarded with the position after I wrote about the racial and ideological markup of the section. That’s right. After I took it against another known misogynist editor, Tumblr rewarded Ryking by giving him a similar position. After he hurled slurs at me and violent rhetoric.

So, you know… maybe now they’ll elevate someone worse than him to prove that we have no power?

Petition to remove Alexander Ryking as editor of the Politics tag.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:26:13 +0100

Petition to remove Alexander Ryking as editor of the Politics tag.:

whynotshesaid:

dobbaaa:

stfuconservatives:

steviemcfly:

The goal is 1,000 signatures. Please sign and reblog, because we should not have someone who is an unrepentant sexist and rape apologist, who heaps praise upon men who threaten to beat and rape women, in an editorial position here.

DONE.

Guys.

C’mon.

Just keep signing it please please please.

And I know change.org asks for an address, but they don’t e-mail you or send stuff to your house or anything.

Signed, reblogged.

As someone who has been on the receiving end of his hatred, I signed. Please consider doing the same.