feminist blogs

Pam of Pam's House Blend got her hands on one of the batshit craziest homophobic screeds disguised as an email opposing legislation from County Commissioner Bill James of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. Americablog is on it, but I just gotta join the love.

Someone still believes that hoary old legend? I can't wait for future missives from James, where he explains that the Rod Stewart did too have to get his stomach pumped after swallowing 3 gallons of semen and he knows for a fact that the head cheerleader at his high school got a frozen hot dog stuck in her vagina while masturbating, because a friend of a friend of someone who knows her told him so.

Of course, we all know that no straight people have ever peed on each other ever. It may have looked like that in the porn you were watching, but in fact they made sure that the woman was a lesbian and the man was gay before they engaged in heterosexual golden showers. They have signed affidavits and everything.

I read that sentence three times before I just gave up and got out my grammar book so I could diagram it. This is what it means: All gay men (because I think James thinks only men are gay) are in an organization called the Gay Alliance. The most honored members, who most likely earn their status by sucking the blood of the innocents, are promoted to the status of pedophile. And I naively thought the conspirarcy theory that the Illuminati, who are a bunch of giant lizards, secretly runs the world was unbeatable.

And if the subject doesn't come up, he'll just have to go home and jerk off to these stats in the dark.

Sex acts homosexual men say they love:

Huh. Who knew I was a gay man?

I for one am appalled! One third of gay men who like to get rimmed don't want to return the favor! Didn't their mommas teach them nothing about good manners? Clearly what needs to be taught in the schools is not the Ten Commandments, but the Golden Rule.

And I don't beleve these stats by a long shot. Less than 3/4 of gay men like to get blow jobs? I have yet to meet a single man who will speak ill of the blow job, straight or gay.

Am I the only person who thinks that it's unfair of conservatives to want to refuse anyone their rights just 'cause they're jealous? What next--revoking marriage rights for young people with hard bodies who have the energy to fuck three times a day?

Out of all the bullshit stats he coughs up, this might just be my favorite:

Well, if you're going to fudge the numbers to get the results you want, why not go all out? Why stop at counting adults or teenagers close in age who had sex with each other? You could say that 100% of all men, straight or gay, has had sex with an underage male, if you count "self-dating".

Whoops! That last one was from the wrong survey. That was a survey taken from North Carolina frat houses. Forget he even mentioned it.

I considered taking pity on poor James here and purchasing him a book on how to have safe, comfortable anal sex but this last set of stats made me realize that wasn't a workable way for him to get out his obsessions. This is clearly about way more than boring old anal sex--there is a strong curiousity about playing with shit, and while I try not to be judgemental, I just can't write him a letter expressing my support for his interest in scat. But if you would like to, Pam included his email address, which the folks at Americablog seem happy to use.

My boyfriend and I went to vote today for city council and on the smoking ban. My main goal was to cast a vote, but I also enjoy having the old ladies at the polling place size me up. The smaller the election, the more likely it is that at least one of the people manning the voting booth will lift an eyebrow as if to say, "Why are you bothering to vote today?" Or perhaps they think they already know how I'm going to vote and they disapprove. No matter--since 30 looms larger every year, my opportunities to get disapproving looks from my elders goes down all the time, so this is a cheap thrill.

I usually get dressed up to vote, but today I almost forgot about it until my boyfriend reminded me, so I just threw on the first T-shirt I could find and my oversized sunglasses, but that was enough to get the cherished disapproving eyebrow. (Might be the T-shirt that says, "Room 710 is for Lovers" with a picture of a toilet on it, a reference to the club's all-too-temptingly large stalls, I do believe.) No matter--I cast my vote against the smoking ban and for a self-described feminist running for city council, one who I predict will win.

The old lady at the polling place cocked an eyebrow at me for a second, but then she smiled and scanned my card and waved me in. More than anything, this is why I love voting--it's a nice little reminder than no matter how much the shrill politicos of the right try to marginalize liberals, progressives, and assorted rebels, we still get to stand up and be counted. It's a reminder that despite the fascist rhetoric from the right, average Americans gladly respect each others' rights, even when we don't like each others' T-shirts. It's a reminder that no matter how much "red" Americans get called "real" Americans by the punditry, we all have one vote for one person. (PZ Myers discusses this quite eloquently.)

I especially love local elections, because they seem to be the only ones where I cast a vote for winners. As I've said before, I've voted against Bush three times now and I'm glad I never have to vote for him again, because I am cursed.

I highly recommend voting in every election, even and especially teeny school board elections. Read voter guides to your family over dinner. Vote for weirdos to shake things up. If you are faced with a bunch of Democrats that all look the same on paper, as I often am, vote for the woman or the racial minority, because affirmative action starts at home. Enjoy the fact that you still have the right, even though you haven't signed a loyalty oath to the Shrub yet.

According to this quiz, by the way, I'm at the top of the list to get my right to vote revoked.

Quiz via Feministe.

Twenty-eight attendents, 600 guests--sounds like your typical overdone, fairy princess Southern wedding to me, the sort of thing many of are groomed to start planning from the time we are big enough to turn the pages of bridal magazines. Problem is, the bride realized she didn't want to get married, and instead of just cancelling the wedding, she faked her own kidnapping.

On one hand, I cannot believe someone would be so damn selfish and mean as to make her family think she was kidnapped and possibly dead rather than simply cancel the wedding. On the other hand, well, after spending god only knows how long planning such a lavish wedding, it has got to be hard to tell everyone, "Well, the dress was perfect, the flowers gorgeous, the food delicious. It was perfect down to every detail, except for the one--I don't want to get married to this man."

It was bound to happen sometime. Weddings nowadays are about everything but marriage. And, in a spare moment after getting all the important details like the flowers and catering right, she might have taken a moment and realized that the one thing she hadn't thought too much about is whether the groom was the right one. No wonder she went out of her head and ran away to New Mexico.

From the 13 year-old in Florida whose abortion was blocked by the state:

Girl: "Why can't I make my own decision?"

Judge Alvarez: "I don't know."

Girl: "You don't know? Aren't you the judge? I think if I want to make the decision, it's my business and I can do that."

Via DED Space.

Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen recently introduced a
bill into the state legislature that would keep "gay" books out of
public school libraries.

Banned books would include those written by gay authors - like
Tennesee Williams, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal - and books with gay
characters in them, such as Alice Walker's "The Color Purple."

Allen said he was afraid of the "homosexual agenda" and "I don't look
at it as censorship. I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls
and minds of our children." Allen must not have gotten the memo that
at every single point in history when politicians have banned books,
it has turned out to be a bad, bad idea.

Luckily, the bill died before it could be voted on, because not enough
state legislators showed up for the vote. But isn't it nice to know that asshole like Allen still exist?

Contributed by Jess Wakeman

Let's hope so. A UN spokesperson announced yesterday that there has been a number of U.N. peacekeepers that have sexually abused and exploited local women in Liberia, where they were stationed to protect them. Old news, my friend.

The official speaking on a condition of anonymity said that the number of total allegations could reach up to twenty. “The allegations range from the exchange of goods, money or services for sex to the sexual exploitation of minors. The peacekeeping department here in New York as well as the mission on the ground are taking appropriate follow-up action."

We'll see about that. These atrocities have been continuing for so long and near to nothing has been done about it. If you want to take some action, click here.

Here’s some other posts on the UN and violence against women in war:

What's (Not) Being Done in the Sudan

UN's Inadequate Response to Gender-Based Violence

Report Released on Women and War

Sexual Assault and the UN (AGAIN)