(do not read this.)
I was sitting in Ringlers, nodding my head to the Public Enemy song the D.J. had brought into his set in that hard-edged, slightly-imperfect way that made me love hip-hop so much, my mind flashing back to 1988, Ames, Iowa, in a blue 1980 Dodge Omni my father had traded our bright red Oldsmobile Cutlass for, sitting in the Target parking...
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I was sitting in Ringlers, nodding my head to the Public Enemy song the D.J. had brought into his set in that hard-edged, slightly-imperfect way that made me love hip-hop so much, my mind flashing back to 1988, Ames, Iowa, in a blue 1980 Dodge Omni my father had traded our bright red Oldsmobile Cutlass for, sitting in the Target parking...
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i no longer have the energy or patience for games like this. i am more than content to be a plaything, but not if it has no reward when all is said and done. call me selfish, call male, that's fine. i can be objectified, and that's fine, but the courtesy of warning me that i'm being objectified would be nice.
oh, and don't ever,...
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oh, and don't ever,...
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morgan:
Yuck, there was an incident of a bunch of people badmouthing SG over at livejournal (all completely uninformed people) and it made me extremely grumpy.
People are dumb.
People are dumb.
oldschool:
Most of the people who bad mouth it have never tried it. With that being said, do we need them on SG? In my opinion no. Dude, what's wrong with being objectified? If you knew that was the case, would you have proceeded?
ugh...i don't want to post the entry i had written here. go to the livejournal if you're curious.
i sometimes wonder how your face looks while you're asleep.
disdain:
whose? mine?
it looks like this:
it looks like this:
new pictures, only three, but you can see that Lindex and I look fucking cute when we dress up. Okay, Lindex does, anyway.
i hate being comfortable being this awake at this time of night, energized and exhausted at the same time, happy to have found something that, at least temporarily, seems to have filled some need in me, but tired of so many things, of the games of tired old white men in tired, old white houses and the games of drunk white women so young in...
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i will be succinct until tomorrow.
It's all getting heavy now.
disdain:
your journal entries are far too long, i refuse to read all of that!
did you go to sinferno on sunday?
did you go to sinferno on sunday?
last night weighs so much.
Standing in front of her made it all there, present after an absence I feared was permanent and still fear is merely temporary, the weight of real time sinking into my skin, kissing it as it shuddered its way into me, and for the first time, I was living it without observation, wanting to touch her arms, wanting to hold her hostage so that time...
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oldschool:
eloquent mo fo
thistle:
theory is failed creativity.
I was around 250 steps into the 496 when I realized I had to hurt Reykjavik again.
Normally, I try to avoid mentioning my fiction, but it came to mind almost out of the blue, after I'd hopped off the train and tried to digest what the last fifteen minutes had thrown into my waiting lap. Two 16 year old girls, one in a gray...
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Normally, I try to avoid mentioning my fiction, but it came to mind almost out of the blue, after I'd hopped off the train and tried to digest what the last fifteen minutes had thrown into my waiting lap. Two 16 year old girls, one in a gray...
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because i for some reason cannot edit that last entry...
it should read something like this:
there's always the question of whether or not i like the new interface.
guatemalan lady, dyed blonde hair, dark roots, large, expressive eyes and hips at the boiler room last night. she had one of those faces that looked familiar, cliche though it may be. talking to her was...
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it should read something like this:
there's always the question of whether or not i like the new interface.
guatemalan lady, dyed blonde hair, dark roots, large, expressive eyes and hips at the boiler room last night. she had one of those faces that looked familiar, cliche though it may be. talking to her was...
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morgan:
Hey, sorry I took so long to get back to you Re: my post about rape, it's been a busy week.
I'm glad you brought up issues of rape and class. I very much agree with bell hooks when she says our problems with sexism, racism, and classism (and many other problems) come from a "white supremicist capitalist patriarchy". The combinations of all of those things are the direct and indirect causes of all those isms, as well as homophobia. And they are all intertwined, we cannot eliminate sexism without also eliminiating classism and racism.
when I post I definately do often focus on the patriarchy part, mostly for issues of space and the trouble I have trying to tie it all together in a way that people would understand....it's hard for me to describe how I think white supremicist capitalist patriarchy perpetuates rape, for example, in a clear way...and I don't want to just steal from bell hooks and quote her!
Specifically, you seem to direct your arguments toward men on the whole, or at least those you perceive to be components of the general masculine hegemony-
I think being in this nice little bubble at the libeary arts school I'm at means that when I enter into a more stereotypical world I am all the more shocked by sexist, racist, homophobic, and classist attitudes (although you do hear all of those attitudes at my school, unfortunately particularly classist statements) When I go back to my hometown and am near the very fraternity and soritity centered college that is there, I hear all kinds of attitudes that are unhealthy and full of isms. There is particularly a lot of sexism there, many of the frats look at the girls at the school as...well...meat. There was even a book written that mentions a school I know and several others where frats planned to get girls drunk and rape them...it's a fairly common practice, unfortunately. So I see a lot of degrading attitudes and a lot of hatred and fear of women.
I think a lot of the nonviolent rape cases that come from a confusion about who wants what also come from that patriarchal, classist, etc structure. In "towards a feminist theory of the state" catherine mackinnon says that a lot of the times men do not believe that they have commited rape because they are taught that coercion and even some cases of force are acceptable. They do honestly believe that they did nothing wrong, but of course it is not that way to the woman. A lot of those "confusions" would be eliminated if we would teach about what rape really is, and that it is not always violent.
I'm glad you brought up issues of rape and class. I very much agree with bell hooks when she says our problems with sexism, racism, and classism (and many other problems) come from a "white supremicist capitalist patriarchy". The combinations of all of those things are the direct and indirect causes of all those isms, as well as homophobia. And they are all intertwined, we cannot eliminate sexism without also eliminiating classism and racism.
when I post I definately do often focus on the patriarchy part, mostly for issues of space and the trouble I have trying to tie it all together in a way that people would understand....it's hard for me to describe how I think white supremicist capitalist patriarchy perpetuates rape, for example, in a clear way...and I don't want to just steal from bell hooks and quote her!
Specifically, you seem to direct your arguments toward men on the whole, or at least those you perceive to be components of the general masculine hegemony-
I think being in this nice little bubble at the libeary arts school I'm at means that when I enter into a more stereotypical world I am all the more shocked by sexist, racist, homophobic, and classist attitudes (although you do hear all of those attitudes at my school, unfortunately particularly classist statements) When I go back to my hometown and am near the very fraternity and soritity centered college that is there, I hear all kinds of attitudes that are unhealthy and full of isms. There is particularly a lot of sexism there, many of the frats look at the girls at the school as...well...meat. There was even a book written that mentions a school I know and several others where frats planned to get girls drunk and rape them...it's a fairly common practice, unfortunately. So I see a lot of degrading attitudes and a lot of hatred and fear of women.
I think a lot of the nonviolent rape cases that come from a confusion about who wants what also come from that patriarchal, classist, etc structure. In "towards a feminist theory of the state" catherine mackinnon says that a lot of the times men do not believe that they have commited rape because they are taught that coercion and even some cases of force are acceptable. They do honestly believe that they did nothing wrong, but of course it is not that way to the woman. A lot of those "confusions" would be eliminated if we would teach about what rape really is, and that it is not always violent.