What has he done exactly to merit this?
Anything? Even one tiny thing? Are they giving out Nobels now just for being NotBush?
Oh I get it now- they are giving to him with the hope that he'll make some change.
Hopium Smoking- not just for Obots during primary season anymore.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Other people have kittehs
or otters or alpacas to make themselves feel better when the crappiness of the world leaves them to mad to do anything but plot violent revolution.
I have this. A cartoon flying bison named Appa.
Yes I am a grown up. Yes I am addicted to this silly cartoon. I blame Ouyang Dan for getting me hooked. She is also responsible for making me watch (and love) a show about people I would hate in real life, cowboy libertarians.
Sorry for the sappy music in the vid- it is a youtube video after all.
I have this. A cartoon flying bison named Appa.
Yes I am a grown up. Yes I am addicted to this silly cartoon. I blame Ouyang Dan for getting me hooked. She is also responsible for making me watch (and love) a show about people I would hate in real life, cowboy libertarians.
Sorry for the sappy music in the vid- it is a youtube video after all.
Why so mad little girly?
Let's talk about agency and intent for a minute, cause I'm so fucking pissed off right now I could tear the heads off "well meaning" fauxgressives and bathe in their blood.
Agency. We feminists use that term a lot. Agency is the idea that people get to choose their own lives, without restraint or coercion. For straight up white middle class feminism, that means freedom to choose when and with who to have sex or not have sex, and whether or not to get pregnant, stay pregnant, be a mother, not be a mother. Those are all important things to decide for yourself, but they aren't the end all be all of agency.
Agency means different things to different people (and we ain't even gotten into intersectionality) but at it's core it means having the access to tools and resources to choose your own life. For a person with disabilities those tools might be cars with wheel chair lifts or internet access and video conferencing for those who are bedridden.
For a poor mom, it might be access to enough resources so that they can plan their family's meals with nutrition and tastiness, not cost, as the deciding factors.
That's it, that's all agency means, It means getting to choose for yourself. Period.
Now let's talk about intent. There are lots of well meaning people in the world who just fuck up grandly when it comes to us poor oppressed types. People who talk down to people in wheel chairs may think they are just being friendly and their intent is good, but by treating a PWD as less than they are removing the PWD's agency.
And when people talk about helping the poor by placing MORE restrictions on poor people, by say limiting what kinds of food poor people (or fat people) are allowed to buy, they are removing that poor person's agency.
Even though their intent is to help.
And I get pissed, really, blood bloodcurdling, pissed off when one more person with good intentions talks about the poor like we're misbehaving housepets who need to be kept from eating the garbage.
Cause they're talking about me. They are treating me, a real live intelligent person, like I have no more sense than a 4 year old with a bag of Halloween candy.
To be a sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, classist oppressor does not require intent to be any of those things. It simply requires the removal of someone elses' agency, even if you think it's in their best interest.
Agency. We feminists use that term a lot. Agency is the idea that people get to choose their own lives, without restraint or coercion. For straight up white middle class feminism, that means freedom to choose when and with who to have sex or not have sex, and whether or not to get pregnant, stay pregnant, be a mother, not be a mother. Those are all important things to decide for yourself, but they aren't the end all be all of agency.
Agency means different things to different people (and we ain't even gotten into intersectionality) but at it's core it means having the access to tools and resources to choose your own life. For a person with disabilities those tools might be cars with wheel chair lifts or internet access and video conferencing for those who are bedridden.
For a poor mom, it might be access to enough resources so that they can plan their family's meals with nutrition and tastiness, not cost, as the deciding factors.
That's it, that's all agency means, It means getting to choose for yourself. Period.
Now let's talk about intent. There are lots of well meaning people in the world who just fuck up grandly when it comes to us poor oppressed types. People who talk down to people in wheel chairs may think they are just being friendly and their intent is good, but by treating a PWD as less than they are removing the PWD's agency.
And when people talk about helping the poor by placing MORE restrictions on poor people, by say limiting what kinds of food poor people (or fat people) are allowed to buy, they are removing that poor person's agency.
Even though their intent is to help.
And I get pissed, really, blood bloodcurdling, pissed off when one more person with good intentions talks about the poor like we're misbehaving housepets who need to be kept from eating the garbage.
Cause they're talking about me. They are treating me, a real live intelligent person, like I have no more sense than a 4 year old with a bag of Halloween candy.
To be a sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, classist oppressor does not require intent to be any of those things. It simply requires the removal of someone elses' agency, even if you think it's in their best interest.
You know what I hate
fauxgessives.
Specifically fauxgressives that get paid to spout fauxgressive bullshit.
No really- you all gotta checkout the comments. It's a faugressive orgy. I shit you not.
Specifically fauxgressives that get paid to spout fauxgressive bullshit.
No really- you all gotta checkout the comments. It's a faugressive orgy. I shit you not.
When you're done with math, try some vocabulary
Anglachel, bless her awesomeness, has gotten some shit from the virtuous foodies who who don't like my take or her spin off on why poor people eat what they can afford.
Since we've already covered the math, let's work on basic reading comprehension and vocabulary.
It's called poverty people. It's not called "inability to budget", or "spends unwisely cause they're too ignorant to know better" or "they just wouldn't be in this situation in they handled money more wisely".
Now I hate to be the pretentious blogger who pulls out definitions of words so brutally common as poverty in order to prove a point, but since it's either that or I start carrying around a large wooden mallet to beat sense into virtuous foodies and other asswipes d'jour, you're going to have to suck it while I get pretentious.
Poverty, via wikipedia, "is the condition of lacking basic human needs such as nutrition, clean water, health care, clothing, and shelter because of the inability to afford them". Bolds mine.
See that- it's part of the definition that poverty is defined by the inability to get proper nutrition because of lack of money. It's kinda central to the whole idea of poverty actually.
So next time some dickweed wants to explain how he lives above the poverty line with a grocery budget that is more than adequate and doesn't understand why these poor people can't live just like he does, you can smack him over the head with a dictionary until he learns some vocab. And while he is lying on the floor reeling from a concussion you should totally raid the condescending prick's fridge. It's cheaper than paying full price at the farmer's market or whole paycheck foods.
Since we've already covered the math, let's work on basic reading comprehension and vocabulary.
It's called poverty people. It's not called "inability to budget", or "spends unwisely cause they're too ignorant to know better" or "they just wouldn't be in this situation in they handled money more wisely".
Now I hate to be the pretentious blogger who pulls out definitions of words so brutally common as poverty in order to prove a point, but since it's either that or I start carrying around a large wooden mallet to beat sense into virtuous foodies and other asswipes d'jour, you're going to have to suck it while I get pretentious.
Poverty, via wikipedia, "is the condition of lacking basic human needs such as nutrition, clean water, health care, clothing, and shelter because of the inability to afford them". Bolds mine.
See that- it's part of the definition that poverty is defined by the inability to get proper nutrition because of lack of money. It's kinda central to the whole idea of poverty actually.
So next time some dickweed wants to explain how he lives above the poverty line with a grocery budget that is more than adequate and doesn't understand why these poor people can't live just like he does, you can smack him over the head with a dictionary until he learns some vocab. And while he is lying on the floor reeling from a concussion you should totally raid the condescending prick's fridge. It's cheaper than paying full price at the farmer's market or whole paycheck foods.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Ha!
Wonder and I have been diligently working to find an appropriate word to replace "crazy" in our vocabularies. I gotta tell you peeps, it ain't been easy.
We need one word to perfectly sum up beliefs or actions that cause harm to others and have no basis in reason or logic.
After much stumbling, we have found such a word. And that word, my friends, is
bachmann. This word will now replace crazy when crazy is meant to portray things that are: senseless; impractical; totally unsound OR likely to break or fall to pieces.
For example: Those Rethuglikans who voted against Al Franken's anti-military contractor rape bill are plumb fucking bachmann.
Or: Anyone who thinks teabaggers are cool must be batshit bachmann.
Or: Anyone can see that relying on private insurance and the free market for health care is a bachmann plan.
Feel free to add your own examples and to spread the word. I can only hope that one day bachmann will reach the pinnacle that santorum has in our lexicon.
We need one word to perfectly sum up beliefs or actions that cause harm to others and have no basis in reason or logic.
After much stumbling, we have found such a word. And that word, my friends, is
bachmann. This word will now replace crazy when crazy is meant to portray things that are: senseless; impractical; totally unsound OR likely to break or fall to pieces.
For example: Those Rethuglikans who voted against Al Franken's anti-military contractor rape bill are plumb fucking bachmann.
Or: Anyone who thinks teabaggers are cool must be batshit bachmann.
Or: Anyone can see that relying on private insurance and the free market for health care is a bachmann plan.
Feel free to add your own examples and to spread the word. I can only hope that one day bachmann will reach the pinnacle that santorum has in our lexicon.
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