Lolita's Fist

Dear feminist scholars You have not spoken to the concerns of the patriarchs – women abandoning their careers for family care, elderly care, and sick children. Women abandon their posts due to menstrual cramps and pregnancy. The perception that women are ‘fragile’ and victims of mental health – disinformation campaigns run by the patriarchy claim this. Women leave their posts because they have been raped and harassed. Women cannot focus on their work because the harassment prevents them from doing their work.  The patriarchs want someone on their post no matter what and will harass them out of the post so they don’t have to deal with these issues. The ability of women to lead is severely compromised due to men’s behaviour. They won’t stop. They see it as an effective way to prevent women from entering the workplace and having another place to judge their asses. They homophilically play all day with other men and are free from the demands of women. Women's mere act of demanding is c

To be a feminist is to believe that one can make a difference. How people behave during #loadshedding tells you about how they think about #voting . It's all about the heater. Do you turn it on or don't you? On the one hand, if you turn it on, it's equal to you-don't-vote because you don't think it will make a difference. It's just one heater. It won't crash the system. On the other hand, if you don't turn it on, you join voices with all the other people not turning it on so that electricity can be more evenly spread throughout the population for necessities. There are people that believe that the saved electricity would be hogged by the capitalist monopolies. And there are people who believe that the saved electricity is shared among the people on the ground. #Worldviews . #GetAFuckingBlanket . Dammit.

Apartheid was vile. And its effects are so far-reaching. Colonialism led to apartheid which led to eugenics. The whole world was gripped with hate. The task of dismantling that hate is slow, and this global recession will set our efforts back because precarity makes the powerful into monsters and conservative monsters.

#StarTrek ~ I'm so disappointed in Kate Mulgrew for being cross with Jeri Ryan. Ryan was used by the patriarchy to insert a 'babe' (yes, I personally heard them use this word in a documentary) into the show. Ryan did an admirable job of ignoring the myriad leering references to her appearance on the show by men from so many species. Mulgrew should know that you can't be upset with women for doing what they need to do. Don't infantilise women by saying they should say No. Their choice is their choice. And if you don't like it, suck it.

In 1896, when William Hadaway was abusing his penis-power by patenting the first electrical stove, I'll bet he didn't walk down to the kitchen where his wife was sweating while tethered to the not-electrical stove and ask her what she would contribute to his design. She would have said, "A timer that switches the stove off so that I can go to a meeting down at Pankhurst's house with the other suffragettes." In fact, I suspect Hadaway intentionally left the timer off to keep her tethered. Fucker. #historicalrevisionism