Since our beloved Sparky has still not learned to share we are going to continue with our little battle. Before you, you will find men that I have declared mine and we shall see how long it takes for Sparky to come running and dispute my rightful claim.
Naveen Andrews
Usher
David Boreanaz
So feel free to stake your claim as well as add anyone else you may be currently crushing on. If you are attracted to women please don't feel left out, feel free to share your lady love. If ze gets your groove going stake your claim. Oh and Sparky, once again it's on like donkey kong.
As usual, the trolls were very busy this week. Heaven forbid a week go by without them stopping by to share their ignorance, bigotry and general small mindedness with me. Most of them are extremely jarring to read, but I think that they teach a lesson in how not to be civilized people. Everyday I get some fool sending me angry e-mail about silencing their hateful vitriol and so I think this is the perfect solution. Now they get to be heard, and we all have the opportunity to let them know exactly why what they said was unacceptable. As per usual, I will give you this week's comments and you can vote on who you think deserves the title of this week's top troll. When you are done and if your spoon has not become to heavy, please share why you made the selection you did.
Philip: I love it ! Mexicans think they can do anything they want. Their motto is "If I can get away with it, whatever "it" is, regardless of the laws, then it's OK. If you don't, can't, won't catch me, I'll bring in all the drugs I want, drive as drunk as I want, and have as many babies as I want (at the American's expense of course). Hold me accountable for NOTHING. Posted on "Shoot the Illegal Immigrants"
Anonymous: Fucking niggers. Always thinking that the Noose always stands for something against you. The noose also stands for many other things. Many non-racist bands use it for a symbol of death, or suicidal visions. You niggers make me sick. Always blaming White people for everything. Maybe if most of you would actually speak english instead of fucking ebonics, and pull your fucking pants up to your waist, stop trying to be "gangsta" and all of that other bullshit, we might actually have some respect for you. Also, when White people say WHITE PRIDE, it has nothing fucking against you fuckers. We are proud. We are strong. Oh, but when you niggers say black pride, as if you have any, its not racist right? Fuck niggers. They should be exterminated.
14/88! Heil Hitler! Long Live the Aryan Race!!!!! Posted on Jeremiah Munsen Gets 4 Months For Hanging A Noose.
Sean: Renee Martin is ignorant of the real teaching of Jesus, taking out of context "Judge not lest ye be judged." In John 7:24 Jesus says, "Do not judge by appearances but judge with righteousness." Beyond that, Jennifer Keeton has a constitutional right to her own beliefs. a right Ms Martin wd like to deny.
Ms Martin is just a cultural lemming, wanting readers to think that Jesus taught "anything goes, nothing's wrong so long as it's between consenting adults." This is "tolerance" run amuck..Ms Martin spews a poisonous bias, not the timeless truth of Christ. But thenm she can't be sure of Gospel truth either. Her professoer told her that.
To be against homosexual marrioage is NOT homophobia. Jesus Himself refused to accept "gay" marriage as anyone who has ever read the first half of Matthew 19 knows.
The practice of homosexuality is as sinful as the practice of adultery.
Fuck Fags: You want me to accept your faggityness. Fuck you. I know your type. I see fags in the gym all the time working out and getting sweaty hoping to get the attention of other men. You people don't care about love, you only care about sucking each other off and fucking each other up the ass. Do you even clean you're dick after you ass fuck? Silly faggot love is for men and women. The only good faggit is a dead faggot. I don't even shower at the gym anymore because I don't want you disased filled faggot to think about me fucking you. Why don't you stick to your own kind and stop telling normal people that we have to accept you. I would spend a lifetime jerking my junk before fucking you up the ass. fuck faggots. Posted on Being gay is who I am. Not what I do. Not what I think
Real Mother: This is what is wrong with the world today. No one cares about protecting children How can you expose your children to these freaks and pretend to be a good mother? If your son grows up and becomes a tranny you have no one to blame but yourself. A real mother protects her kids from freaks and faggots. Women like you don't deserve to be mothers. Someone should take your child away from you before they turn into a freak and a pervert. Don't you realize that trannys and faggots depend on weak minded liberals like you to recruit kids cause they can't have any of their own? God help your children. I will pray for them tonight. Post on: Vagina Power and What is a Trans Man
U.S.A. forever: Shut up you fucking brown cunt. America is for white people. You people have done shit and then come here and try and ruin everything we built. If your country is so much better why don't you go home instead of coming here and telling us everything we do is wrong. Okay. America is a white country for white people. Fucking niggers and spics ruin everything. Man things were better when niggers knew their place and fucking pakis like you stayed home. We don't care what you think cunt. get it . White country for white people. God bless the USA Maybe if I shoved my cock down you're throat until you choked you would shut the fuck up Posted on What If I Don't Want a National Anthem At All
I love my boys and I think this fact pretty much comes through in every post I write about them. I pretty much take them with me everywhere I go and in many cases, there are places I would not be able to go without their aid. Today for instance, we are going grocery shopping. I will ride in the scooter and my oldest will push the baby in a cart stopping to pick up food that we need for the week. By myself, I would not be able to purchase enough food for our family for a week, because the scooter cart is not large enough to contain everything we need, and I cannot walk through the grocery store. There are buildings I cannot even enter because the doors do not open automatically and so it is usually one of my children that holds the door open for me. We have even worked out a system for the laundry. They bring it down to the basement where I seperate it and put it in the wash. They then put it in the dryer and bring it upstairs when it is done. I sit and fold the clothes on the couch and they then put the clothes away.
If I need help, all I have to do is ask, and most times, they anticipate what I need before I can say a word. They may only be 9 and 4 1/2, but my kids are definitely my caregivers. We consider ourselves a team and work together to keep our little home running smoothly. So when someone looks at them and says they don't belong, they are also saying I don't belong. Even if I were an able bodied woman, denying them access would also mean denying me access, because I am their mother. Who exactly do these anti-child feminists think is responsible for their care? Yes, I am once referring to another disgusting anti-child thread on feministe.
Is it really any wonder that you see feminists constantly talking about abortion rights and never motherhood, when they are constantly attacking children and their right to share our space? Write a post about children in a restaurant, store or any other public place and someone is quick to talk about how their evening was ruined by screaming children knocking things over or having something spilled on them. What more, the shaming of their mother is often part and parcel to their commentary. Mothers don't control their children, or remove them quickly enough to ensure that these people have the peace and serenity they desire. Yet, and this is the part I find most ironic, they are supposedly for women's rights. What they are advocating is a removal of women from public spaces by virtue of their motherhood. Here is a catchy concept, if you want serenity and peace, take a hot bath.
Since the first time I heard Blah Blah Blah, I fervently wished that this woman would just go away. When you add to the fact that she has no problem appropriating First Nations culture for a fashion statement, I hardly see anything redeemable about her. She clearly does not care who she offends as long as people keep downloading her music. Ordinarily speaking, she is the type of person I would purposefully ignore; however, she seems determined to use her privilege to harm others and so I am forced to pay attention to her ignorance and bigotry for the purposes of calling her out.
On 'trannies:'
Freaks are what make everything mildly more interesting in life but with trannies, they make me want to be a better woman. I see these men who have way better bodies than I do, more beautiful faces, better complexions, beautiful makeup, and they're more fun than any person I've met in my life. They make me feel like I'm not a very good woman.
Ke$ha is right, she is not a very good woman, and it has everything to do with her failure to practice the most basic form of respect for people. Seriously, where does this woman get off calling anyone a freak? I suppose she thought she was being complimentary saying that trans women are beautiful, but referring to them as men is a complete denial of their identity.
The problem with taking on the label of Christian is that so many other bigots use it as a shield to enforce their ignorance and hatred upon others. Most rational thinking people can see that the bible contradicts itself in many places. In fact, just comparing the God of the Old Testament to God of the the New Testament it would seem like we are dealing with a split personality. The problem with modern Christianity as it is practiced is that many people cherry pick passages to oppress others while ignoring the various ways in which they fail to adhere to nonsensical doctrine that applies to them. The most ignored passage in the bible is judge not lest ye be judged -- and that certainly applies to everyone.
An Augusta State University student filed suit Wednesday after she was told to change her Christian beliefs or otherwise be expelled from the school's graduate counseling program.
"A public university student shouldn’t be threatened with expulsion for being a Christian and refusing to publicly renounce her faith, but that’s exactly what’s happening here," said David French, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund. "Simply put, the university is imposing thought reform."
Jennifer Keeton, 24, has been enrolled in the College of Education's School Counselor masters degree program since fall 2009. She has expressed her Christian beliefs in class discussions and written assignments, but it was her views regarding gender and sexuality that irked faculty.
According to the filed complaint, "She has stated that she believes sexual behavior is the result of accountable personal choice rather than an inevitability deriving from deterministic forces. She also has affirmed binary male-female gender, with one or the other being fixed in each person at their creation, and not a social construct or individual choice subject to alteration by the person so created. Further, she has expressed her view that homosexuality is a 'lifestyle,' not a 'state of being.'"
In May, Keeton was notified that she would be asked to participate in a remediation plan. Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley, an associate professor who also oversees student education and discipline, explained that the faculty wanted to see Keeton's writing skills improve and that they are concerned with some of her beliefs and views pertaining to GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) issues.
Several faculty members later met with the student and told her that they considered her to be failing to conform to certain professional standards. In a written Remediation Plan, the faculty said her speech on GLBT matters violated the codes of ethics that counselors and those in training are required to adhere to.
Keeton's views "depart from what 'the psychological research about GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning) populations asserts' that that 'sexual orientation is not a lifestyle or choice, but a state of being,'" faculty members said.
Here we go again with false oppression being cited by a woman that claims to be Christian to support her bigotry. How can she be effective as a counselor when she fails to accept the most basic premises? If she were in a position to counsel a GLBT person coming to terms with their gender and or sexuality, her particular views would end up causing harm to them. A person does not seek out aid to end up being hurt. The decision of Augusta State University is an attempt to insert accountability into their programs. If you think that someone is choosing to engage in an abomination, how can you possibly advise them in a neutral way? By giving this woman accreditation the university would be supporting the idea that such beliefs have a valid space in the profession of psychology.
I'm a 23 year old Sinhalese woman in Minnesota by way of Dubai by way of Sri Lanka. I am a Womanist, and part of my womanism is figuring out how to be in solidarity with my transnational sisters worldwide. I'm a daughter, a sister, a partner and a writer. I'm a brown girl who knows Shakespeare by heart and devours anything Toni Morrison. I believe in radical, revolutionary living and loving.I blog at Irresistible Revolution.
‘The old lie, ‘Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori’ – Wilfred Owen
Yesterday, I came across this article. The article describes how Professor Timothy Askew, a professor at Clark Atlanta University, a black college, is uncomfortable with the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” being recognized as the ‘Black national anthem’. His worry? That the song might be “construed as racially separatist and divisive”. I was quite furious by the time I finished the article, so much so that I didn’t trust myself to blog about the issue. But after some though, I decided this needs to be said:
WHY do we not label white folks as ‘separatist’ and ‘divisive’ for adopting ‘The Star Spangled Banner’, a poem written by a white man, as the national anthem? Why, despite the fact that lines like “the land of the free and the home of the brave?” ignore and erase the realities of people of color in the US, sidestep the inconvenient truth that the star-spangled banner waves over the genocide and dispossession of First Nations people, is the song wordlessly embraced as capturing the ‘true’ spirit of America? Why is a song written by and for white people entrenched in American consciousness as the national anthem, when a song written by and for black people is accused of peddling divisive racial politics?
Dare I suggest, dear post-racial America, that the United States is first and primarily understood as a country of white folks, into which the rest of us are grudgingly permitted entry based on our ‘merit’?
I’m not discrediting Prof. Askew’s scholarship or his cognizance of his people’s history. In fact, I think this was also an instance of a media outlet trying to push the ridiculous ‘color-blind-we’re-all-the-same-let’s-do-away-with-race’ BULLSHIT that America is enamored of. It’s funny, isn’t it, how the call to ‘do away with race’ seems to crop up when POC want to talk about the realities of race in ‘the land of the free’, while the overrepresentation of whites in positions of wealth and power goes unnoticed? But hey, that’s not racism, that’s just the way things are.
Is anyone giving out an award for the most bigoted Hollywood personality? Something must be going on because it seems that Oliver Stone is attempting to challenge Mel Gibson for bigotry.
In an interview with The Times to promote his documentary “South of the Border,” which is about South American politics, Mr. Stone defended Hitler. “Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein,” he said. “German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support. Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people.” Mr. Stone then proceeded to discuss what he called “the Jewish domination of the media,” adding with an expletive that Israel had messed up “United States foreign policy for years.”
He is absolutely right, with the policy of appeasement, Hitler was supported by western industrialists. Many nations were willing to give him anything to avoid war and it was only when it became impossible to ignore the legitimate threat that he posed, that war was declared. Even after Europe declared war on Germany, the U.S. remained neutral. When Hitler turned and decided to open the war on two fronts, breaking his treaty with Stalin, there can be no doubt that the Russians paid a terrible price. I do however think that Stone's approach specifically ignores the pogroms that happened in Russia. Who does that man think died? Russia was no place of warmth and tolerance towards Jewish people either, and Stalin was certainly no saint. Stalin's time in power was a reign of terror.
So I was sitting at the dinner table with the family and we were chatting about our day, when Destruction asked me what I had written about and I mentioned that Matt had written an excellent post. I went on to list how I thought my space was special not because of the work I do, but because of the amazing collaboration that it has become. I said that Jaded is from India, Sparky (who cannot share) is gay and from the U.K and then I said that Matt is a trans man from the U.S. This made them interrupt me with the question, "Mommy what is a trans man"? When we have talked about the trans community, it usually has been about trans women. My boys are quite familiar with Monica from TransGriot who they call Auntie Monica. They know that she is a trans woman but it matters not when they get on the phone with her and start filling her ear with the details of their day. I have to be honest, they have expressed a lot of sympathy for Monica's situation. Nope, not what you think -- there are no Tim Hortons in Texas and they are not sure how she survives.
So when I said that Matt is a trans man, they wanted to know right away what I meant. So I explained that when Matt was born people thought he was female, but he knew that he was a male -- and so when he was old enough to tell people who he is, he did and now when we talk about him or to him, we know that we are talking to a man. I didn't expect that this was going to be a difficult conversation and I was right. We started talking to the kids about gender and sexuality from a very early age and so much of what people are stuck on, my kids have no problem accepting and understanding.
We went to the computer and I showed them a picture of Matt and Mayhem's response was, of course he is a guy, followed by a scream of penis power. I should probably explain the penis power line. The boys have been saying this for quite sometime as a part of asserting their masculinity, even though it gets on my last nerve -- so I looked at them and said not all men have penises. I don't know the details of Matt's transition, and I am not going to ask, but I really felt that I could use this discussion to make them rethink their understanding of bodies. Does that mean that trans men have vaginas Mommy? Destruction asked. When I answered, "some do," it was followed by a very loud "vagina power". As a woman surrounded by testosterone and that is down to the damn undog, I cannot tell you how happy it made me to hear "vagina power".
I have to say thank goodness for time shifting or "The Gates" certainly would have lost out to AMC's "Mad Men". I really don't know what ABC is thinking running this show while "True Blood" is on, and then putting it up against "Mad Men". Are they trying to make sure it does not make it out of the first season?
As you recall, last episode Dylan revealed himself to Nick when he murdered, Teressa. Nick is plagued by the thought of the danger that he put his family in and is terrified of Dylan. It seems to me, what this incident really points out is that Nick is a control freak -- big surprise considering that he is a cop. Nick demands to know what happened to Teressa's body, as Dylan tries desperately to make him realize that they need to relax and cover for each other because a lot is at stake. When Nick continues to press, Dylan answers him with, "I am going to make this easy for you: holy water, it doesn't effect me it never has; that was the Vatican pure machine working overtime furthermore, I don't sleep in a coffin, and I can see my reflection in the mirror, garlic on the other hand, well that does effect me but then heartburn would do that to someone." That has to go down as line of the night.
What I find very interesting is the way that Andie's succubus nature is being used to have a discussion regarding safe sex. When she asks her father about her parents sexual relationship, he admits that they had to be very careful and that many times her mother did indeed hurt him. He listed the excuses that he used to cover their sexual interactions, which often left him bed ridden. He tries to encourage Andie to take the medication her doctor is recommending, rather than attempting to control this on her own, but Andie does not listen and still meets Charlie behind her fathers back, giving him a small kiss. Unfortunately for Andie, what her father did not tell her, is that he was forced to kill her mother when she lost control of her succubus side. This to me speaks about the ways in which we try to encourage our youth to have safe sex because it leads to disease and unwanted pregnancy. Andie's reaction is very typical of a teenager-- a ridiculous belief that they are somehow the exception to the rule.
If you are curious to know what I thought of the rest of the episode you are going to have to read it over at my new blog Women's Eye on Media.
This is a guest post from Sparky, ofSpark in Darkness. Many of you are familiar with him from Livejournal, as well as from his insightful and often hilarious commentary here. Each Tuesday, Womanist Musings will be featuring a post from Sparky.
I am gay.
No, this isn't a hugely belated coming out post. I am pretty sure it's already abundantly clear that I am a gay man. I am uncloseted in as much of my life as I can manage (more or less) and slowly trying to push back the last vestiges of the closet that still shadow me (though that largely requires society to improve rather than me)
No, here I am talking about the express wording. I am gay. And what that means to me, personally. And the important word here is "am".
I did not say "I do gay". I did not say "I have gay sex". I did not say "I have a same-sex attraction". Or "I have a sexual preference for men".
That is because being gay is what I am. Not what I do. Not what I think.
I knew I was gay before I ever touched another man sexually. Oh I hated it and fought it and tried to deny it at first - but I knew I was gay years before sex came into the picture. When I was a virgin, I was gay.
This is my identity. To me, this is part of who I am, a major, fundamental part of who I am. This is my life, my love and above all - this is ME.
