Feminism, sexism, iraq, and your mom's fat.
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:21 am
It is as foolish to say that feminists advocate equality as it is to state that all Muslims are terrorists..
No,, that wasn''t a typo,, although I''m being a god damned Irony Ninja all up in this bitch,, so yeah there is.. But seriously, the ""feminism isn''t necessarily bad"" idea is stupid.. I''ve mentioned that there is a difference between identifying as a feminist and actually following feminist doctrine ((closest word I can find))..
Something that enrages me is the concept of racism and reverse racism.. See,, I had this black woman teacher than claimed that racism can only be done by the white majority, while acts of racism by minorities are REVERSE racism. Now, to elaborate, the concept is that the majority is the group that holds power, and the act of racism is depriving chances of advancement to those of the minority group. Reverse racism is the act of those of the minority excluding those of the majority from the activities that the minority do have control over.
There are several major problems with this theory. Firstly, it justifies the act of "reverse racism", which I do not see a true distinction from "racism" or what I like to call "when anybody ELSE does it-ism". The general pooling of power and the interactions between those of the hierarchy above and below matters not on an individualistic case by case basis. You see, I was taught judging an individual because of the fact they belonged to a group of people who were "blacks" or "gays" was wrong.
I acknowledge I benefit from racism even as I fight against it (as a white dude, not as a muslim, let's not even get on that track yet). However, the idea that there is a distinction is retarded yo. I mean, like, how politically inaccurate. That's like, so gay. Must've been some immigrant who thought of that shit, cause seriously, I don't think a woman could have been that dumb, or had enough time out of the kitchen to go to school. LOL ANYWAYS
There is definately a dynamic at work that gives SOME basis to this theory, of course. Small things, such as a black man having the store owner having him be watched closely while white customers can freely browse the magazines or music rows or whatever. This exists. I am aware of this. This is a fact. It does not, in any way, actually support the concept of reverse racism.
During my readings about women and attraction, I learned about the money/power complex. You see, when we are young, a man who with a car, a job, and the ability to easily access forbidden things like alcohol and cigarrettes is attractive because they prosper among those with no money or cars. Ten years later it means crap. You can drive yourself down to the store and buy your own smokes with your own money after work. To be seen as equivalently powerful, you'd need to be a mob boss with your own private jet, with access to prostitutes, good cocaine, other shit I dunno. Or maybe a CEO with a nice house and a limo and they got a chef, or a really big dick, but hey, let's not be ridiculous.
Now before we say "Hey man you're a sexist, I'm not gonna listen to you hate on Feminists because THAT'S YOUR PLAN ALL ALONG EMPEROR PALPATINE, go open a window while I fetch you a hankerchief so that you can recover from the case of vapors having a vagina leaves you succeptable to. God damn, how the hell am I going to keep my house insulated if I keep a window open? Same thing with vaginas and common sense. Anyways, this is just initial attraction, and as long as you aren't severely lacking in the power/money complex it won't hurt your chance with ladies. Just tell me how many cute homeless men you've dated and I'll shut up. (Please don't, I want to believe someone has a worse love life than I do)
There comes a point where a girl's perceptions of wealth and power become relative not to her situation, but the WORLD's situation, and that is maturity. That is what we consider REAL power and REAL wealth and REAL influence. However, if a spaceship arrived with the god damn fountain of youth, teleportation watches they're selling, and they got SUPER GOLD and plasma beams, we'd have to develop a new idea of what power and wealth is. It is more important than it sounds. When learning about WW1 and WW2, were we not all told we expected for the war to end quickly because of our new awesome weapons technology? In fact, it was far more grueling, because our opponents had the same abilities, but our ability to survive sure as hell didn't get any better.
What the hell am I saying, huh? Why did I mention war and attraction and racism if we're talking about feminism? Is it because all of it is men's fault? Well yes, but shut up, I'm done with the tangent and now I'm triangulating the hypotenuse of this god damn moose back to my point.
Refer to the definitions of racism and reverse racism, and you'll see the definitions are rooted around the concepts of power/influence. But as I hope I have illustrated, the idea of power and influence is relative! Is is constantly changing! It is fluid, and it is as it is percieved and acted upon. That is important. It is relative, based on how it is percieved and acted upon. The idea that there is a difference between reverse racism and regular racism is the holding and withholding of power is relevant.
What infuriates me is that I am an individual. The flaw of racist logic is that I take circumstance or attributes or conditions or events and project them on members somehow relating to that group, regardless of whether or not there is merit to such an outlook. The problem is that I am an individual facing down a group. I am vulnerable to the whims of the crowd. The problem is that even though I can drink out of a nicer water faucet, in my direct relations with your store where you give me a hard time cause I'm a cracker, I am the weaker of the situation.
Because the idea of there being racism and reverse racism has a small implication to it, one that is subtle. Because, you see, the power of racism is divide and conquer. I have no power. I lost my god damn house, and being white didn't do shit, did it? Yeah, I'm white, I get two cookies a day, while you N words and c words or whatever only get one cookie. Well the god damn baron of sweets is the one with the key to the god damn cookie vault. But he's just one dude, you understand?
He gives me that cookie to turn us against each other. That's all racism is, that's what it was meant to do and what it gets done. I fight you to keep getting that extra cookie, and you fight with me because I get that extra cookie. Racism and reverse racism are the same thing. Two fools beating each other up because some third dude will only give one of us the golden ticket and invite one of us into the chocolate factory to marvel at his slave laborers who don't even have the time to worry about sweets because they're struggling to survive.
Feminism shares the same fallacy. Racism justifies the white man keeping the black man down, and in turn, both the white man and black man were kept down by the people with land and money. It is the same, regardless of who belongs to what group. Feminism is the same thing. Man fighting woman while a bisexual hermaphrodite is sucking off a million horses.
What got me thinking like this? A simple thing. Reading about the holocaust, I read a sentence about how someone threw a few coins of gold into a crowd, and they tore upon each other to grab them to buy some extra bread. Literally fighting over pennies, over crumbs, over retarded perks we don't need, brother and brother, husband and wife, neighbor and neighbor, countryman and countryman, all attacking each other for a short term gain, thinking it is a long term gain. You are pulling up the plant without attacking it's roots. It is within the very foundations of our society. I hate every single feminist because THEY AREN'T GETTING SHIT DONE. Once we can no longer be divided by terms of sexism, we'll just attack something else, you fucking retards. It does not matter if you are not the one being whipped as long as you let him keep the whip in his hands, as it will merely lash against someone else.
This is why I have such disagreeable views on racism and sexism and all that crap. This is why you are to blame for the war in Iraq by just sitting around saying how you were always against it. You weren't, you were scared that your house was gonna get bombed and you listened to what you thought were facts as in iraq people really were getting bombed. Those people don't give a fuck that you realized George Bush was an idiot because they're buildings are destroyed, a young boy's baby sister died in his arms as the rubble caved in her skull, and to him, blowing himself up is okay, hurting you when you "didn't do anything" is okay, because YOU LET HER DIE.
Feminists are trash. Equality or bust. Stop saying you're a feminist, or pro feminist.
Say you oppose all forms of discrimination, and when someone looks at you strange, spend as much time possible opening their god damn eyes so that there is one less plebian toiling for a corrupt system.
No,, that wasn''t a typo,, although I''m being a god damned Irony Ninja all up in this bitch,, so yeah there is.. But seriously, the ""feminism isn''t necessarily bad"" idea is stupid.. I''ve mentioned that there is a difference between identifying as a feminist and actually following feminist doctrine ((closest word I can find))..
Something that enrages me is the concept of racism and reverse racism.. See,, I had this black woman teacher than claimed that racism can only be done by the white majority, while acts of racism by minorities are REVERSE racism. Now, to elaborate, the concept is that the majority is the group that holds power, and the act of racism is depriving chances of advancement to those of the minority group. Reverse racism is the act of those of the minority excluding those of the majority from the activities that the minority do have control over.
There are several major problems with this theory. Firstly, it justifies the act of "reverse racism", which I do not see a true distinction from "racism" or what I like to call "when anybody ELSE does it-ism". The general pooling of power and the interactions between those of the hierarchy above and below matters not on an individualistic case by case basis. You see, I was taught judging an individual because of the fact they belonged to a group of people who were "blacks" or "gays" was wrong.
I acknowledge I benefit from racism even as I fight against it (as a white dude, not as a muslim, let's not even get on that track yet). However, the idea that there is a distinction is retarded yo. I mean, like, how politically inaccurate. That's like, so gay. Must've been some immigrant who thought of that shit, cause seriously, I don't think a woman could have been that dumb, or had enough time out of the kitchen to go to school. LOL ANYWAYS
There is definately a dynamic at work that gives SOME basis to this theory, of course. Small things, such as a black man having the store owner having him be watched closely while white customers can freely browse the magazines or music rows or whatever. This exists. I am aware of this. This is a fact. It does not, in any way, actually support the concept of reverse racism.
During my readings about women and attraction, I learned about the money/power complex. You see, when we are young, a man who with a car, a job, and the ability to easily access forbidden things like alcohol and cigarrettes is attractive because they prosper among those with no money or cars. Ten years later it means crap. You can drive yourself down to the store and buy your own smokes with your own money after work. To be seen as equivalently powerful, you'd need to be a mob boss with your own private jet, with access to prostitutes, good cocaine, other shit I dunno. Or maybe a CEO with a nice house and a limo and they got a chef, or a really big dick, but hey, let's not be ridiculous.
Now before we say "Hey man you're a sexist, I'm not gonna listen to you hate on Feminists because THAT'S YOUR PLAN ALL ALONG EMPEROR PALPATINE, go open a window while I fetch you a hankerchief so that you can recover from the case of vapors having a vagina leaves you succeptable to. God damn, how the hell am I going to keep my house insulated if I keep a window open? Same thing with vaginas and common sense. Anyways, this is just initial attraction, and as long as you aren't severely lacking in the power/money complex it won't hurt your chance with ladies. Just tell me how many cute homeless men you've dated and I'll shut up. (Please don't, I want to believe someone has a worse love life than I do)
There comes a point where a girl's perceptions of wealth and power become relative not to her situation, but the WORLD's situation, and that is maturity. That is what we consider REAL power and REAL wealth and REAL influence. However, if a spaceship arrived with the god damn fountain of youth, teleportation watches they're selling, and they got SUPER GOLD and plasma beams, we'd have to develop a new idea of what power and wealth is. It is more important than it sounds. When learning about WW1 and WW2, were we not all told we expected for the war to end quickly because of our new awesome weapons technology? In fact, it was far more grueling, because our opponents had the same abilities, but our ability to survive sure as hell didn't get any better.
What the hell am I saying, huh? Why did I mention war and attraction and racism if we're talking about feminism? Is it because all of it is men's fault? Well yes, but shut up, I'm done with the tangent and now I'm triangulating the hypotenuse of this god damn moose back to my point.
Refer to the definitions of racism and reverse racism, and you'll see the definitions are rooted around the concepts of power/influence. But as I hope I have illustrated, the idea of power and influence is relative! Is is constantly changing! It is fluid, and it is as it is percieved and acted upon. That is important. It is relative, based on how it is percieved and acted upon. The idea that there is a difference between reverse racism and regular racism is the holding and withholding of power is relevant.
What infuriates me is that I am an individual. The flaw of racist logic is that I take circumstance or attributes or conditions or events and project them on members somehow relating to that group, regardless of whether or not there is merit to such an outlook. The problem is that I am an individual facing down a group. I am vulnerable to the whims of the crowd. The problem is that even though I can drink out of a nicer water faucet, in my direct relations with your store where you give me a hard time cause I'm a cracker, I am the weaker of the situation.
Because the idea of there being racism and reverse racism has a small implication to it, one that is subtle. Because, you see, the power of racism is divide and conquer. I have no power. I lost my god damn house, and being white didn't do shit, did it? Yeah, I'm white, I get two cookies a day, while you N words and c words or whatever only get one cookie. Well the god damn baron of sweets is the one with the key to the god damn cookie vault. But he's just one dude, you understand?
He gives me that cookie to turn us against each other. That's all racism is, that's what it was meant to do and what it gets done. I fight you to keep getting that extra cookie, and you fight with me because I get that extra cookie. Racism and reverse racism are the same thing. Two fools beating each other up because some third dude will only give one of us the golden ticket and invite one of us into the chocolate factory to marvel at his slave laborers who don't even have the time to worry about sweets because they're struggling to survive.
Feminism shares the same fallacy. Racism justifies the white man keeping the black man down, and in turn, both the white man and black man were kept down by the people with land and money. It is the same, regardless of who belongs to what group. Feminism is the same thing. Man fighting woman while a bisexual hermaphrodite is sucking off a million horses.
What got me thinking like this? A simple thing. Reading about the holocaust, I read a sentence about how someone threw a few coins of gold into a crowd, and they tore upon each other to grab them to buy some extra bread. Literally fighting over pennies, over crumbs, over retarded perks we don't need, brother and brother, husband and wife, neighbor and neighbor, countryman and countryman, all attacking each other for a short term gain, thinking it is a long term gain. You are pulling up the plant without attacking it's roots. It is within the very foundations of our society. I hate every single feminist because THEY AREN'T GETTING SHIT DONE. Once we can no longer be divided by terms of sexism, we'll just attack something else, you fucking retards. It does not matter if you are not the one being whipped as long as you let him keep the whip in his hands, as it will merely lash against someone else.
This is why I have such disagreeable views on racism and sexism and all that crap. This is why you are to blame for the war in Iraq by just sitting around saying how you were always against it. You weren't, you were scared that your house was gonna get bombed and you listened to what you thought were facts as in iraq people really were getting bombed. Those people don't give a fuck that you realized George Bush was an idiot because they're buildings are destroyed, a young boy's baby sister died in his arms as the rubble caved in her skull, and to him, blowing himself up is okay, hurting you when you "didn't do anything" is okay, because YOU LET HER DIE.
Feminists are trash. Equality or bust. Stop saying you're a feminist, or pro feminist.
Say you oppose all forms of discrimination, and when someone looks at you strange, spend as much time possible opening their god damn eyes so that there is one less plebian toiling for a corrupt system.