Posts by Emma Hart
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I have absolutely no problem with the long comments, guys. I set this up because I don't know the answer, so restricting comment would be kind of pointless.
I'm not saying that a man can be a feminist
I really don't see why not. If feminism is an ideology, and as loose and open a one as people seem to be saying generally here, then why can't a man be a feminist?
But everyone is so busy drinking the kool-aid of mass culture they don't notice.
So... Battlestar Galactica and shoes stop people thinking? Again?
Oho, so that's what y'all get up to at these "Great Blends" I never manage to make it over for.
Aheheheheheheh.
When it comes to feminism, and who is or who isn't a feminist, I'm prepared to say that feminists must be pro-choice. Not pro-abortion for themselves, necessarily, but pro-choice. They must recognise that other women are autonomous adults, fully capable of making decisions for themselves, and fully responsible for living with the consequences.
Oookay, but, why 'responsible adults' in just that one area (given it's a really big one). I don't feel like I'm treated as a responsible autonomous adult when I'm told what my dress, hobbies, and sexual habits should (or more to the point shouldn't) be. Does that make the women who tell me those things Not Feminists? Because I think they'd be startled.
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Do we ask that liberals all agree on a few key points? Conservatives? Marxists (hahahaha)?
A friend of mine has just commented on the link at Facebook:
I've been called a bad feminist by people who think their feminism is The Feminism, and frankly I'm beyond caring... Also you get labels police in all kinds of other areas of thought/politics, and they can all bite my arse.
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If you want to be seen as non-threatening (and therefore appealing and attractive), reject it.
Wow. So, B, did you think I was lying when I talked about why I don't call myself feminist, and I actually do it to appear non-threatening? Because I think, if that's my aim, I've done a pretty piss-poor job.
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Yeah you're probably gonna need a sense of humour if you like penises. They're crazy.
Sense of humour and liking of penises firmly established. They're adorable.
But so was the entire frame of the review, right down to its horrifically auto-misogynist concluding line.
Yeah. That line is, for people who haven't looked,
If this is what modern womanhood means, then just fucking veil me and sew up all my holes.
See, to agree with Matthew, I not only found that repulsive, I found it try-hard. Most of the column is well-written, but that just clanged. It was like she was trying, really hard, to be offensive. And also, as Craig said, the complete lack of any ironic awareness. Calling a woman who has too much sex a "prostitute", then cutely crossing it out? Hardly bloody original. It's not like she invented slut-shaming. An awful lot of the 'jokes' go down the privilege chain, which is odd considering the movie is about rich privileged white women.
You know who's good on this? Megan. And again. I made a comment on that first blog about my problems with the idea of 'consumer feminism'.
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Are you being facetious?
Yes, I am being facetious. Sorry, I know it's hard to tell. Usually I tell people that they can tell when I'm being facetious because my fingers are typing.
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gosh, you're a hussey, Emma.
Aw, thank you. And I didn't even post Portugal in their official underwear. Frankly, the feminisation of rugby has some catching-up to do.
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Suddenly I feel like an ugly fat loser. ;)
Weird, that's not what it makes me feel like at all.
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his name is Cannavaro
Am I the only one whose attention tends to slide sideways when Cannavaro's mentioned? Yes?
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This is an odd question, but how much are cows supposed to fart?
Burp. The basic underlying problem is the hideous inefficiency of grass/clover/green feed as a food. Cows have to ferment it in their stomachs to be able to digest it, and that process produces methane as a by-product. (Yes, I typed 'bi-product' the first time.)
We don't use 'modern farming practices' here like they do in the States, we still have this ridiculous sentimental attachment to keeping animals outside.
But yes. I do not understand the fundamental opposition to this kind of GE - which is no different in the end result from traditional cross-breeding or grafting. I vote Green and this drives me batfuck.
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Really? How cool!
I'm hoping to work 'grog-slut' into September's.