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...

If you prod me in the mornings, this pops out. Someone with a lisp sent me a text about Thamus and Theuth. This was my reply: I don't agree with Thamus who says to Theuth that writing will make people stupid and lazy because they won't use their memories. I think those people are speaking about knowledge and not ideas.  Knowledge is just the sticky stuff (giggle) of ideas. Knowledge is the least important because you can Google it. Ideas are the precursors to knowledge. Ideas are unique and specific to each person. Ideas are what we reach towards when we reach towards people. In community. Ideas may or may not make their way to Google. Ideas live like butterflies.  Ideas float in the ether. The more ideas you are exposed to the more you create. If you had to go speak to Socrates and Plato and Sappho and Steinem and Peterson and Larsen and Hite and Faludi and Ehrenreich every time you wanted to swirl in the world of ideas you'd have to invent time travel an...

  In watching #BlackLivesMatter I see how dismissive the term 'identity politics' is. "We can't talk about anything or get anywhere in discussions because of identity politics." Who is 'we'? 'We' who have the privilege to decide what is important and when someone is allowed to speak and what they are allowed to speak about.  When 'we' perpetrate violence by holding a (figurative/virtual/literal) bat over someone's head to say 'shut up', that is not conducive to them hearing the content of anything you have to say anyway. An inclusive and welcoming environment does not have to be crashed or boycotted or protested or derailed or identitypoliticked. These actions are your flag that your house is not order. Identitypoliticking is striking against 'we'. I believe in the people's right to strike. It is in their solidarity with each other that they are effective against 'we'. It is in their numbers th...

Charlotte Alter writes "As soon as the world perceived them as male. They gained professional respect, but lost intimacy. They exuded authority, but caused fear. From courtrooms to playgrounds to prisons to train stations, at work and at home, with friends and alone, trans men reiterated how fundamentally different it is to experience the world as a man." Source:  https://time.com/transgender-men-sexism/

How distraught men are at losing their position on the top of the visibility pile. For centuries the world revolved around them. And it made them lazy, gave them so much power that they cruised. They didn't have to produce content within themselves. At the same time the rest of the world, buried under their trash, oil spills, rapes, child marriages, molestations, extortions, factory farmings, trophy huntings, pollutions and more, grew to mistrust them. And now we have global media - we can talk about their corrupt souls and discuss the length and breadth of their insanity. No surprise that they are clamoring to control that media, control the internet, control our minds. They are grappling at straws to make rafts to new stages. Indiscriminate killing is their solution. How sad.  Dave Cullen on school shootings, "I have taken to calling them spectacle murders, because they are essentially performances – and without the media, they have no stage."