Original link located here.  (Edit for clarity: this tweet went up on the 7th, the day the article was posted.)

Unless you’ve been under a rock, I’ve been posting a lot about this Bitch Magazine/biphobia debacle over the past few days.  (Gosh, I’m still waiting on that public apology I requested!)

Now, many fellow members of the LGBT community have made it clear that we have a HUGE problem with the headline and content of this piece.  Now, I don’t advocate that Bitch should remove old tweets, but I do think it’s telling that this tweet popped up on my Twitter about an hour ago:

(Original link located here.)

Seriously?  Really?  On what fucking planet is this acceptable?  It’s bad enough that Kelsey Wallace seems to think that the title was the only objectionable portion of the article, but to post the SAME article (with nothing changed by the title) again on their Twitter account stinks of childish stubbornness.

I’d rather get my feminist analysis elsewhere.

(But, as a side note, I did find this hilarious comment from Kelsey Wallace on the worldwide intertubes.  Scroll down until you hit it; in a nutshell, she has a problem with a blogger’s criticisms of Bitch‘s take on the travesty known as Jennifer’s Body.  It’s so professional of her to track down bloggers and chastise blog posts on their personal sites.  My favorite portion was this line “but I don’t think that warrants your questioning of our feminism or abilities as bloggers.”  Right, because disallowing non-mainstream feminist voices doesn’t imply that the Bitch editors are the arbiters of feminism, now does it?)

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This is, of course, all under the guise of restoring her autonomy to her. This, certainly, could have nothing to do with the state essentially getting all butthurt about Polanski’s flight, and is all about restoring law and order!

Isn’t it ironic?

Also in “omg, are you living under a rock news”: Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize despite his authorizing his own troop surge in Afghanistan. It’s because, as I’ve sarcastically noted before, Bush was an asshole, but Obama has reasons for continuing Bush’s war-mongering, civil liberties disrespecting, homophobic, oppressive policies.

It’s like a no smoking sign on your cigarette break, my friends.

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…and not with my female ex-roommate’s maturity.

The irony being – of course – that this ex-roommate broke up with her first girlfriend and began initiating her relationship with that exes cousin within a few hours of their breakup.  Then, after she and the cousin – predictably – broke up, she moved onto one of the cousin’s best friends.  I’m going to assume that this was also within a few hours.

No, that’s not some serial killer shit or anything.

Really though, what should you expect from people who work things out by having a falling out, ignoring one another for several months, and then sweeping everything under the rug?  It’s funny, because after reading through about 8 gajillion old posts I’ve made (between Livejournal, Blogger, and WordPress), I’ve noticed a pattern where I have a hell of a time picking friends.  Two themes, however, keep rearing their little heads:

1. The people in question causing more drama then they’re worth
2. The people in question have an inability to work things out with one another

I don’t think there is anything commendable about allowing people to walk all over you, treat you like shit, and then working out your issues with one another via a Facebook friend request.  This is doubly true if there is constantly some big drama between everyone a mere week or two prior to “working things out.”

In a similar vein, there is nothing shitty or bitchy or lacking in self-respect about demanding – much less expecting – an apology for certain behaviors.  There’s even less that is shitty or bitchy or lacking in self-respect about telling someone who has treat you in a shitty manner to fuck right off.  I give a lot of chances for people to redeem themselves, and that’s probably what’s done me in the most over the years.  After reading through, deleting, editing, and organizing several thousand posts from my old Livejournal and blogger accounts, these are the biggest themes I keep seeing.

The craziest thing is that – with some exceptions – I don’t even necessarily think many of the people I’ve encountered are doing it maliciously.  In most cases, I think they’re just not intelligent enough to see how inherently fucked their social interactions are.  Simply put: they’re children and they lack the understanding necessary to realize why they can’t function in society.

What does sadden me, however, is the fact that a lot of this shit has been perpetuated by women I know.  By women who are “feminists.”  Really?  How feminist is it to encourage bullshit competition between your fellow sisters?  How feminist is it to giggle about the back biting, shit talking, gossipy bullshit that hurts all women? Shit, man, it’s 2009.  I thought that sisterhood was supposed to mean something in our interactions with one another.  I thought we weren’t supposed to do this shit anymore.

I’m the first to admit that I am not perfect or that I have acted in a 100% truly supportive manner, but the way some would tell it, my more recent political shift (which aren’t mutually exclusive from feminism) somehow makes me a latent misogynist.  When, fuck, I’m one of the few that has tried to make a supportive environment for those who need it.  There is nothing unreasonable, fucked up, or shitty about wanting to engage in an honest dialogue with others, which means that we won’t always agree on shit.

I know it seems to be the consensus that the only productive discussion is one in which everyone agrees with you, but there is a distinct difference between respectful disagreement and nasty little digs accusing others of having their self-respect packed away in a box.  The photo that began this post may seem like it’s dredging up “ancient history” (read: shit that everyone wants to sweep under the rug), but the reality is that it’s symbolic of so much shit from the past two years.  It is far more telling than any amount of poorly executed trolling could ever be, and the reactions to it are also far more telling than the reactions to any amount of poorly executed trolling.

And although none of us want to believe that we are in the wrong – especially when it seems that our misguided stubbornness is the one of the few things we really have left – I find it very hard to believe that it’s all my fault.  The answer is more complicated and nuanced then “Drunkenatheist is a mean cunt,” and I think that it’s important to keep that in mind.

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1. Lynette Fromme, better known as Manson Girl “Squeaky” and the only person who has ever wanted to speak to Gerald Ford, was released from prison earlier today.
2. Luckily, Barack Obama has kept up with his promise of keeping a totally transparent government and not making closed door deals with Big Pharma.
3. No more plum smugglers on Comedy Central: Reno 911! has been canceled.
4. Do you hear that?  It’s all of Millville and Vineland, NJ crying, and they don’t know why.
5. In a brilliant move by the Justice Department, voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party were dropped.  (One video can be viewed here.)
6. Frank Schaeffer is still a douchebag, but this time, I’ve got him nailed on some outright lying!  (If you think Frank Schaeffer is some sort of liberal god, read pages 20 & 21 of his completely assinine co-written book AWOL, in which he claims to have left the church before his career began.)
7. For the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is Jello Biafra’s NOLA photo set on Flickr.
8. Oh yes, of course I have a link addressing the heathcare-post office talking point.  I have to wonder if, perhaps, the DMV was just too risky of an association to make in the public’s heads.
9. As I linked in an earlier post – but it apparently needs it’s own separate mention – The Economist weighs in on ridiculous and ineffective “sex offender” legislation.  (Bonus: Reason also brings to light new Illinois legislation preventing sex offenders from using social networking sites.)
10. How quickly before the DARE crowd blames Michael Phelps’ Maryland car accident on pot?
11. A little on the old side, but I just found that there is a medical marijuana bill sitting in the PA state house.  Hey Democrats, good job for once!
12. A female police officer followed procedure but is taking shit because she either didn’t recognize or didn’t know who Bob Dylan is.  The unsurprising amount of sexism in some of the commentary is disgusting; most has an undertone of “what a stupid bitch,” while sweeping the fact that her male partner backed her up under rug.  Since no one else is saying it, I will: hey copper, good job for once!
13. Stop the presses!  There’s a Whole Foods boycott over the CEO’s opinion on socialized medicine.  This was most likely initiated by Zombamas who – like former friends – wouldn’t shop there.  After all, shopping at anything but good, union run stores of the people would cost them all proletariat cred.  We’ll just ignore the fact that Whole Foods’ non-union starting wages are significantly higher than the major mainstream union chains.

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Degrading women is funny and edgy and it’s okay to do if you’re liberal, cause omg! you totally can’t be sexist!

In a similar vein to a piece on Feministing, how on Earth can someone compare having a non-consensual act of physical violence inflicted upon them to a consensual act of sexual expression?  I’m not going to sit here and graphically describe my sexual exploits.  For Chrissake, my family members have access to this blog.  Instead, I can tell you that when I engage in naughty time with my other half, none of it is degrading.  I am making the conscious, consensual decision to engage in whatever I want, and I’m going to guess that it’s likely Ms. Hilton does the same. I’m also going to go out on a limb and suggest that she’s like me and doesn’t want to be assaulted when out in public.

Regardless of your feelings about Paris Hilton, it is irresponsible for journalists to perpetuate the idea that a female’s worth is dictated primarily by her looks and sexual desirability. This is doubly true when it comes from a liberal commentator. You know what? I expect this shit from conservatives. I understand that most conservatives argue for freedom but don’t really trust me – a woman – to be able to make decisions about my own body, much less want me to break through the glass ceiling. I understand where the conservative’s perspective and focus is, and I can work with that or ignore it, because of one crucial difference: they often don’t feel the need to speak for me. It’s that much more patronizing and degrading what it comes from someone who supposedly supports feminism (or the LGBT community, or non-Christians, or the poor) to see shit that is completely counter-productive to that goal. I get it, no one wants to be known as “that famous asshole who hates woman” (though Olbermann’s arch nemesis doesn’t seem to be hurting for viewers, fame, or money). I get it, but I’m sick to death of seeing this “even though I’m a sexist pig, I can’t admit to being a sexist pig, so I’ll just stick to making my pot shots at stupid bitches no one likes” bullshit play out.

And yeah, I already know this is a three year old blurb; however, I’d like to point something out: I have never received an email from the Democratic Party decrying the enlightened, educated, and wise Keith Olbermann for his sexist shit. This is the exact reason why I can’t take my most recent email from Democrats.com seriously. The email, entitled “Boycott Fox News Advertisers,” is a melodramatic mess of shit wherein the Democratic Party proves that they can be just as big on the “you’re with us or against us” mentality of Bush & co. In it, they make a bunch of wild claims that are tantamount to “Republicans rape puppies and hate ‘Merika, while Democrats are awesome and are nice and would never be mean to anything ever and we swear this has nothing to do with the fact that we’re in power!” Here is a brief snippet of the email:

FOX News has always been the prop aganda [sic] arm of the Republican Party, willing to twist facts and even lie to promote the Republican agenda.

But the election of President Obama in 2008 pushed FOX News into outright hate-mongering and incitement of violence, which is intolerable in a democracy.

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Here are some examples of intolerable hate speech and incitement to violence:

6/30/09 Glenn Beck agreed with guest who urged bin Laden to attack U.S. with nuclear weapons.

There were four or five more examples, but I honestly ignored them because this was the only one I’ve watched. I’m already angry that I had to sit through Glenn Beck once. I’m even angrier that I have to not only defend the jackass, but also had to sit through the clip a few more times just to make sure I got a quote correct. When I initially saw a longer version of this video pop up on Digg, I had to wonder if Democrats, Republicans, and Third Party/Independent voters each got different links to click, because I clearly saw a different video than the Republocrats did. This is the slightly shorter version of what I viewed:

Obviously, the version Republocrats viewed featured Glenn Beck, Osama bin Laden, and Michael Scheuer re-enacting lemon party while torching a Whole Foods.  They finished by alternately crapping on American flags and doing their best Yosemite Sam impressions.

I mean, come on, I’m not a Glenn Beck fangirl by any means, but even in that incredibly shortened clip, there is no proclamation that bin Laden should attack the US. Hell, he and Michael Scheuer even end the clip (right at the 1:00 minute mark) with Beck saying “which is why I was thinking, this weekend, if I were him, that would be the last thing I would do right now.”

I wonder why I view both parties as slight variations of the same damn thing. Let’s see, they’ll both happily use sexism when it’s convenient; using sexism against Palin is worse than coveting thy parent’s murder, but it’s cool to refer to Clinton as a dyke because she’s not super feminine. See, with the GOP you get a two-fer of sexism and homophobia! Score! For the most part, neither side wants to decry the bullshit thrown around by their own party members; a notable exception to this rule is Meghan McCain. “[T]wist[ing] facts and even [lying] to promote the Republican agenda” is something straight out of the Republican handbook, but what the hell did Democrats.com do in this email?

I realize it looks as if I’m making some conservative shift as of late, when the reality is that I don’t have much of a desire to nuke the impotent dead horse that is the Republican party. This is one of their off cycles, and I’m sure they’ll sweep Congress again in 2010 (unless third parties pull their heads out of their asses, which I doubt), making the second half of Obama’s first term about as effective as a T-Rex’s tiny little arms. Then while rabbling about how each side is terrible, they’ll work together behind the scenes to pass or reauthorize horrific legislation and screw us even more.

Don’t worry, when that occurs, I’m sure the Republicans will once again give me plenty of material to blog about. Maybe I’ll be able to back off of the Democratic Party again and shed a tear for Barry O. I think it’s more likely that I will be shedding tears over “President” Palin, but who knows. Maybe the world will collapse and all of those damn paranoid conspiracy theorists at Lew Rockwell will be right, and I’ll have years of militia soup and canned baked beans to look forward to.

At least Libertarian Boyfriend and I aren’t anti-gun.

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Anyway, here’s a links dump that will give you a bit more info than my original post “Fuck Sonia Sotomayor”:

• Sotomayor sees racism everywhere except for the one place it has been overly documented….law enforcement. Don’t worry coppers, she’s got your backs! Go ahead and Vic Mackey some bitches!

• Sotomayor does not support the 4th amendment, which protects us against illegal search and seizure, making all conservatives who think that having evidence thrown out because the cops stormed your house based on a gut feeling is terrrrrible collectively cream their panties.

• Why Sotomayor’s rulings on guns and affirmative action are important and not for the reasons you might think. (Please ignore the idiotic “reverse discrimination” phrase. The author was a jackass for using that phrasing.)

• Mother Jones calls out Sotomayor’s horrendous, 2nd year law student writing style. This is somehow misinterpreted by too many commenters as “Mother Jones hates spics,” despite the fact that she did her undergrad at Princeton and law school at Yale. I find it hard to believe that these universities did not challenge her more than her public high school in the Bronx….

• …unless this damning article is correct, and Sotomayor would not have made it into either university if it were not for affirmative action.

• Sotomayor supported the Mexico City gag rule. Unless you are against taxation and/or foreign aid, I don’t see how on Earth you can argue that this opinion does not show an anti-choice bias.

Still think she’s this super awesome judge who will love your civil rights because she’s a minority and minorities = liberals?

7. SOTOMAYOR ON ABORTION, GAY MARRIAGE: Sotomayor’s record on two key hot button cultural issues is thin. But, quite notably, her sole opinion regarding abortion was in line with the anti-abortion movement’s position. Some details from the anti-abortion site LifeNews.com:

“Despite 17 years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has never directly decided whether a law regulating abortion was constitutional,” the pro-life group Americans United for Life noted in a recent analysis of potential Supreme Court candidates.

Sotomayor participated in a decision concerning the Mexico City Policy, which President Obama recently overturned and which prohibits sending taxpayer dollars to groups that promote and perform abortions in other nations.

Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor upheld the Mexico City Policy, but AUL says the significance of the decision “may be minimal because the issue was largely controlled by the Second Circuit’s earlier opinion in a similar challenge to the policy.”

AUL notes that Judge Sotomayor also upheld the pro-life policy by rejecting claims from a pro-abortion legal group that it violated the Equal Protection Clause.

BUT OMG IT’S OKAY, CAUSE LOOK AT #9:

9. SOTOMAYOR “SAVED BASEBALL”: “During a brief period in 1995,” the New York Times reported, “Judge Sonia Sotomayor became revered, at least in those cities with major league baseball teams. She ended a long baseball strike that year, briskly ruling against the owners in favor of the players.” A bit more:

The owners were trying to subvert the labor system, she said, and the strike had “placed the entire concept of collective bargaining on trial.”

After play resumed, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that by saving the season, Judge Sotomayor joined forever the ranks of Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams. The Chicago Sun-Times said she “delivered a wicked fastball” to baseball owners and emerged as one of the most inspiring figures in the history of the sport.

Because, certainly, as a sexually active woman who is her child-bearing years and sexually active with a member of the opposite sex, fucking BASEBALL should be a more pressing issue to me than my constitutionally protected right to a fucking abortion. The last challenges to Roe were decided by ONE VOTE MAJORITIES (pro-Roe, obvs). This isn’t a chance I am willing to fucking take.

But it’s cool though, because you see what Obama did? He totally ushered in an era of HOPE and CHANGE!

(Update: More Reasons Why I’m Not a Fan of Sotomayor – published 7.16.09)

Sourcewatch profile for Mackubin Thomas Owens
FPRI profile for Mackubin Thomas Owens – humorously, the easiest one to find
Sourcewatch profile for Project for the New American Century
Main site for Project for the New American Century
Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces from the Project for the New American Century, which Mr. Owens (along with a bunch of nobodies, including some dude by the name of Bill Kristol) co-authored.

To recap: Oh lol.

Conservatives, for the love of God, could y’all please become better historians? Preferably ones who actually read history and formulate an analysis that is maybe, kinda sorta based in fact? I mean, dawgs, I get it. You have your own biases which might not be popular – as do I – but for the love of all that is unholy, at least *I* can use facts to draw my conclusions and support my biases. I really don’t understand why the hell it’s so difficult to write something that isn’t a solely opinion based piece, and on top of it, to reward these people with prominent positions within society and the ability to effect change on a large scale.

For fuck’s sake. If you could pass an English Comp class, it shouldn’t be difficult to do so.

Then again, maybe my standards are just a little too fucking high.

I mean, I guess I could rant about how Obama needs to accept that he received the country is such crap condition that he could very well be a one term president, so he should act accordingly (hai “PBA” ban!); I could also complain about how Ron Paul is anti-big federal government except when it comes to abortion (cause that’s just ooky); I could go into a long, extended rant about no matter how much Libertarian Boyfriend and I see eye to eye, our class backgrounds will prevent us from agreeing on economic issues; I could rant about how I just sat in (what feels like) spray adhesive; I could rant about how much class matters and how entitled white brats make me want to slam their heads into something over. and over. and over again; I could weigh in on the whole Meghan McCain/Laura Ingraham debate (for the record: never thought I’d love a republican as much as I’m lovin’ Meghan McCain); I could post about any of the wonderful things I love about Libertarian Boyfriend; I could freak out about the economy; I could talk about silly things like ethics; I could make a list of 100 facts about me; I could go into an extended rant about what exactly “shooting oneself in the foot” means; I could talk at length about how I shop like a dude and how I don’t want to hear small talk, I just want to get in and out with my purchases and be about my merry way; I could bitch about how my being blunt is perceived to be harsh and mean; I could complain about how I miss a few certain individuals who I haven’t seen in awhile, but our schedules make it a bit prohibitive to hang out regularly; I could post a thinly veiled, passive-aggressive little rant directed at those whose stupidity makes me want to put my hands around their throats and squeeze until their eyes bulge out (and if you think that’s serious, you’ve obviously never seen my weak little grip use a garlic press); I could talk about Libertarian Boyfriend and my theories on child rearing; I could talk about what a surreal experience it is to realize you’re going to be 30 in less than a month; I could bitch and complain and throw an e-tantrum about how everyone is a hypocrite and how much that realization blows donkey balls; or I could put up a string of videos to keep you all ever so entertained.

But honestly? I’m so fucking emotionally and physically drained right now that none of that shit is happening. (Well, with the exception of a possible list of 100 facts. That might entertain me enough to write it up. Oh, and the “I think I sat in spray adhesive” thing. Cause seriously? My ass is now gummy. WTF?) I think I should possibly make an attempt to write about some of these subjects, especially given that I’ve had a few of them bouncing around my head for awhile – namely anything involving class disconnect.

So, instead, have some Mickey Avalon. Because that’s happy times.