Posts by Emma Hart
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Yeah, I think we've stopped pretending to not be trolling.
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Isn't the 'Trannies nicked my paper on the tube' a spoof piece? Or have I missed another Guardian article where she describes someone as 'it'?
Gods, okay, my total bad. I didn't realise that and looking back I really should have. I'll go off and make the appropriate sacrifices to regain my ability to parse for sarcasm.
Deborah's links are very good, though, I'm pretty sure I have that much right.
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Give him a hug for me!
Ha, so it turns out I DO get to do that.
the idea that we assume heterosexuality, and that all our institutions are designed for heterosexuality, and that in turn creates and / or reinforces heterosexuality, is much more compelling
I have a slight problem with, I guess, the inadequacy of the language, which makes this look like it's saying one thing when I think it's saying something else. Social constructs can't, I believe, affect your actual sexuality. They can, however, affect the expression of that sexuality. "Heterosexuality" is a sexuality, it's internal, just like Gay. It's about how you feel, not what you do.
If we take that quote, and what Deborah has written above, and change 'heterosexuality' to 'heterosexual expression', then I'm comfortable with it.
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And, quite frankly, if you don't find her utterly disgusting attitude to transsexuals offensive, I don't know what you would. The dehumanisation in her description is chilling and horrific.
This. We're talking about a person who has chosen to exercise her power against a group of people lower down on the privilege ladder than herself. That's prejudice, and it's cowardice, and it's pretty much the end of the story. In what other context would it be okay for The Guardian to publish content in which a person is referred to as 'it', simply because they belong to a particular group?
There's an underlying broader issue here, I think, with 'comment' sections in on-line newspapers. I do wonder how clear the divide between those columns and actual news stories are, particularly if you come in through a link and not the front page. Tanya Gold, for instance, simply makes things up and presents them as fact - the rate of prostitution in NZ has doubled, or maybe quadroupled! How many people are likely to be walking around believing that because they 'read it in the Guardian'?
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I gave up reading Julie Bindel a while back after only a couple of her 'comment' columns in the Grauniad.
Obviously they've been reading the AP Stylebook on Twitter:
Opinion pages have that name for a reason. Please ensure no facts appear in yours.
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Give him a hug for me!
I don't think I'm allowed to, not after the speech he gave at the Chch launch...
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I'd get laid a lot more if you greedy bisexuals didn't insist on gobbling up all the cock and not leaving any for the rest of us.
Too true. I mean, it's not like the cock gets any say, is it?
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Now go dry hump a garden gnome, and make an effort!
*sobs* Why do you hate me so much, Craig? Is it because you're gay and I'm a woman?
(I was going to say 'we can do this all day', but I have a date later to go out with a group of drunken women and Dr Haywood. I did promise not to expose any cleavage, but it turns out my wardrobe isn't capable of that.)
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I called it...
Automatic humanity FAIL.
For instance, as a "political lesbian", she tends to regard women who are lesbians merely because they feel love and attraction towards other women, as frivolous backsliders.
I remember a conversation I had on a blog a couple of years ago with a woman complaining that her uni lesbian group had been taken over by political lesbians. "They keep saying lesbianism is about rejecting the patriarchy and the inherent power imbalance of penis-in-vagina sex. No it's not, it's about wanting to have sex with women!"
Something has gone seriously wrong when that needs saying.
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I just re-enacted the moments watching Avatar where I covered my face with my hands and quietly whispered 'oh nooooooooooooo...'
And I would have justified that reaction, but I'm just so tuckered out from fucking anything that breathes.