I feel the need to state for the record…

I am a radical feminist and I eat meat.  I don’t have any hang-ups about this, in fact, I see no contradiction at all.  If YOU have a problem with me eating meat and simultaneously being a radical feminist, that is YOUR problem.  Because far from me “backsliding” from pure proper PC vegetarianism into a [...]

I feel so beaten down

In just the last few weeks, the following brutal effects of the patriarchy have been reflected on the lives of women close to me (family or friends) in the following ways – and these are just the ones I know about:
One impoverished woman with a toddler and a worthless boyfriend who wasted her tax return [...]

There are no “gender roles”

I was thinking about this and it occurs to me that this is a powerful anti-feminist meme that’s been force fed to us, the idea that there are two separate “gender roles” and that men are just as trapped and unhappy in theirs as women are.
When I was much younger I recall getting in a [...]

FA and HAES

(For the uninformed, that would be “Fat acceptance” and “Health at any size”)
I’m sorry to all the FA readers or proponents out there, but I simply can’t get behind the HAES philosophy, although it probably isn’t for the reason most people think.  Do I believe a large person with a high BMI can be “healthy”?  [...]

Memorial Day

I don’t celebrate Memorial Day (American holiday for those of you elsewhere – meant to honor dead American soldiers), evil, God hating, man hating, war hating unPATRIotic as I am, no.
Why celebrate Memorial Day?  Well of course if you personally know a soldier in your family who died on the battlefield, yes, this day has [...]

“Choice”

There’s a lot of buzz about “choices”.  About women who “choose” to have abortions, about women who “choose” to be straight or lesbian, about women who “choose” to shave or not shave their legs.  About poor people who “choose” to be lazy and not work.
There’s some deeper philosophical divide going on here.  Are we all [...]

On a Personal Note

I know there have been long quiet stretches here of late, and yes, there will be more of those to come, I’m afraid.  On top of other, smaller crises like the sudden death of my last computer, etc., well the biggest thing going on in my life right now is that my mother is dying [...]

Questioning the numbers

According to the CDC, us fatties are costing all the good, deserving thin people billions of dollars.  (Only a fraction of what greedy, lying, thieving corporate bankers stole from all your pockets but hey – its more fun to hate fat people!)
The claim:
Overweight and obesity and their associated health problems have a [...]

Fat Hatred in the Feminist Blogosphere

I would like to call on all feminists who blog to put an immediate moratorium on the fat-hating comments of their visitors and themselves.  I would like to call on you all to examine the bullshit that comes out of your mouth when you lambast fat people for “liking to sit around eating twinkies all [...]

*brief wave*

I woke up April 1 to a very unfunny prank of the universe, wherein my computer failed to turn on when I pressed the on button.  One week later here I sit with a new computer, slowy going about setting it up and finding all my old links.  Not dead yet.  Sorry to disappoint those [...]

Torturing Women as Entertainment

From a comment on my last post I got the sickening, but not really surprising information that Rhianna’s screams as Chris Brown beat her were posted on the internet.
As a followup to the “why don’t women leave” question in my last post, I ask again, where are we supposed to go?  Is there anywhere in [...]

Robert Anton Wilson – Writer, Woman Hater

Oh, I can sense some people’s blood pressure rising already.
RAW (as his name is popularly acronymized), what a forward thinker!  He broke down what was imprinted on his psyche by society and religion and encouraged others to do the same:  Just listen to what his fans say:
“With all the passion of a religious crusader, Robert [...]

The whitewash continues

Gee, why is it that not a single woman was nominated for best solo rock performance? Let me ponder this…
Although the actual author titled the article “All my rockin ladies don’t bother putting your hands up”, boston.com decided they would retitle it, disingenuously, “”Why no female grammy nominees for best solo rock performance?”  Well the [...]

“You can now use your maiden name on myspace!”

If anything in the patriarchy makes it more abundantly clear that women are not human and have no personhood, it is the “custom” (read, “demand”) that women lose their names when they marry.  No, I will not say “change” their names.  They lose their names, becoming one with their husband.  Oh sure, it isn’t required.  [...]

More Evo Psycho Bullshit

How many times have you heard the predatory male claim, as he plans his attack on an immature female child, “Oh it’s just natural, you know, young girls are SUPPOSED to be more attractive to men, they are more fertile, you know, and I can’t help my evolutionary inbred instinct to breed!  So don’t blame [...]

Just exercise! *happysparklyblinking*

It never fails that no matter what health or mental problem I am having that someone somewhere will tell me I should make sure to get some exercise and it will be alleviated.
I call bullshit.
Look around and you will see how common this is.  Exercise has been recommended to me as a way to cure [...]

Enough with the Evolutionary Psychology Bullshit Already

This is me sick, so sick of hearing men attempt to justify all the bullshit of patriarchy through faux-academic faux-scientific comparisons or humans to the “natural”, animal world. With leering smiles talking about alpha males with “harems” as a reward for “fighting their way to the top”.
Let’s talk about animals, mammals, since you dipshit evo-psychs [...]

Don’t Talk to Me about “Little Caylee”

For fuck’s sake, how do people get off calling her “Little Caylee” and practically crying over her anyway?  They act like they personally knew her and her mother (already tried and convicted in the media) personally took from them someone they knew.
I don’t want to hear about “Little Caylee” anymore.  Here are just a cases [...]

More Male Terrorism

When will they call it what it is?
Once again, a divorce is an excuse.  Can’t have those fucking bitches thinking they have a right to leave, can we now?
Next person who says to me about an abused woman “Why doesn’t she just leave?” I might just have to punch in the face.  Maybe she has [...]

My Trouble with “Fat Acceptance” (oh noes profanity)

So much of the fat acceptance movement stuff I read about seems obsessed with the following concepts:
“You are still beautiful even if you are fat!  Just in a different way!”
“There’s nothing wrong with you being fat because you can still be just as fit and healthy and of course you should work on your health [...]