Posts by Danielle
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
like, where is the fear coming from?
I lived in the American south for four years. The insidious religious bullshit everywhere is at best tiresome and at worst actively harmful. We don't need it here in state schools and I'll pitch as many hissyfits as I fucking like about it, thank you very much.
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I was gearing up for a battle when my oldest starts school next year, but according to the survey results spreadsheet our local school doesn't have "Religious Instruction" at all, which is a relief. I remember having it on Auckland's North Shore in the very early 1980s. My mother was most unimpressed by it but let me go for the sake of "fitting in": the instructor was very pretty and popular with the children. I rather wish she hadn't now. All I recall is getting the impression that my deeply irreligious New Zealand family were off to eternal damnation, and it obviously rather worried me. A horrible tale to tell little kids.
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a high falutin’ dinner party intellectual
Did it ever occur to you that not everyone needs to rabbit on about their salt-of-the-earth working-class bona fides all the fucking time?
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Emma Hart,
Learning self-defence will not, as I said, keep you safe from being raped.
Why are we still using "teach women to do stuff" arguments anyway? I'm sick of learning all these fucking things. Let's teach some men to do stuff for a change.
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I’m not sure which of part of David’s post I find more amusing: the implication that the media shouldn’t have talked to the victim of an extremely newsworthy sexual assault *because she’s pretty*, or his low opinion of the “data” used in support of a feminist theoretical term he had apparently never heard of before this week.
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My wife is fond of quoting Germaine Greer: “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
That's what's - excellent? Terrifying? Both? - about the internet: it gives women great insight into how much (some) men hate them. Or dismiss them, or patronise them, or shame them, or any other sort of action that denies personhood. Which then inspires the kind of online analysis that can deconstruct and refute misogynist arguments and rhetorical tropes. I reckon few people outside academia were thinking about that before. Hearts and minds and all that.
(This may be the most Pollyanna argument about misogyny I've ever made. Don't worry, I'll snap out of it soon.)
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Call it the iceberg theory.
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Yes Rich, evocatively put.
(I have certain PAS threads in mind. One had to be closed late last year, IIRC.)
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Tag team represent!
I tend to assume that there is a large group of lurking Guys Who Don't Get It rolling their eyes at everything feminist I post. (Here. Anywhere.) On the other hand, I am quite heartened by how rapidly the consent conversation has changed in the last few years, and how "mainstreamed" it has become. It's not like most people agree with my side, but my side *exists*. It's there to be grappled with, or dismissed, or in some way acknowledged. That's rad. (Uh, unless the acknowledgement is threats. That is somewhat less rad.)
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Hard News: A wretched editorial, in reply to David MacGregor,
Was it to promote the interview subjects views about ‘rape culture’ (whatever that neologism really means)?
Feminist theorists have been talking about rape culture for about 40 years now. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will came out in 1975. Also, if you're actually interested in what it means, it has a wikipedia entry complete with academic references.