Humpday Post (or: Get Over It!)

Okay. So here it is Wednesday, and I still haven't gotten laid. Which explains why I never got around to posting the Venusday Love. Cuz face it, folks. If I don't get any... you don't get any. When Mama ain' happy... ain' nooooooo body happy.

All seriousness aside, it's been a busy week. I have, however had plenty of time to write this in my head, if not to sit down and actually put fingers to keyboard. I am fed up with folks taking things over the edge. "Political Correctness". "Poor Me" Waaaahhhhh. So what I wanna say is, Kathy Sierra, Women Bloggers...

Get Over It!!!!

Don't gimme any shit, either. Well, you can try, if you want to, but I'm pretty firm on this one. There's a whole lotta hoopla going on again about women bloggers needing to "feel safe" in order to be able to write, to say our truth, to put ourselves forward. The story made the mainstream media, not to mention the commentary everywhere which seems to have spiked through the roof ever since the alleged "death threats" made against high profile female blogger Kathy Sierra. The issue seems to be "hatespeech against women bloggers". It has escalated to the point that some folks want to define a Blogger's Code of Conduct. You can even get a badge!

Or if you don't want to wear a badge, and abide by the "Code" (and you support freedom of speech)...

A whole bunch of folks decided to be just as ugly about some of the alleged participants, before the incident was investigated, and Kathy herself pointed fingers in a public blog at people who weren't proven to have any involvement. Feminists (not this one) are up in arms screaming "misogyny" at the top of their voices.

Okay. Yes. Sexually degrading and threatening remarks/comments made to/about women suck. But, why do they suck?? Because women allow themselves to be frightened and intimidated by them, which is exactly what the bastard spewing his misogynistic poison wants!! When was the last time a male blogger got his boxers in a bunch because someone threatened to cut his dick off and skull-fuck him with it??? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I've been guilty of it myself. I once told some christionist who attacked me (calling me a murderer suggesting that I accept jesus and beg forgiveness or burn in eternal hellfire), that I'd "bend him over that cross and make a believer out of him"!
But men don't let those kind of comments "frighten" or "scare" them, and would surely not be silenced by that sort of trash.
But really... When are we women going to stop crying that we're scared of these bullshit sexual threats?? We claim to be equal, or to want to be. We claim responsibility for our own sexuality. We want reproductive choice. But we remain fearful. So what?? F.E.A.R. (Fuck Everything And Run?? False Evidence Appearing Real??) "So what", I say!!

Be scared!
But don't let it rule you.

Don't get me wrong. I'm no dummy, nor ostrich. I know there's still a ridiculous amount of violence against women, sexual harassment, rape, molestation. It's not safe. We still live in a patriarchal society in which women are not respected. Men are violent, men abuse women, intimidate them, threaten, use their very maleness to subjugate and control women while the government and church (and a whole lotta women, too...) support this treatment of women. In fact, some of the perpetrators of violence against women are women.
And one by one women who believe themselves progressive, empowered, strong, feminist women... speak and write of fear. Say that they are intimidated. Afraid to write because of cyber-stalkers". Fuck fear!!!

Was Rosa Parks scared when she kept her seat on that bus in Dec. of 1955? Of course she was!! Not only was she a woman, she was a black woman!! Think she wasn't scared?? Sheesh. But she was also fed up.
Fed.
the fuck.
Up.
But her fear didn't stop her.

Think these Palestinian women weren't scared? But they "walked past tanks into the town of Beit Hanoun yesterday morning saying they wanted to help free a group of Palestinian gunmen holed up inside a mosque."

How about the Suffragettes who

carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. One suffragette, Emily Davison, died after she stepped out in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby of 1913. Many of her fellow suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes, during which they were restrained and forcibly fed.Force-feeding was done in three different ways.


"A Suffragette was taken out of her cell, was taken to the hospital ward of the prison. She was held down and often food was just pushed into her mouth, but she could spit it out.

"So the next two measures were the ones that were most used. One was the nasal tube. The nasal tube was where liquid food was poured down a funnel and gradually food trickles down into the back of the throat. Sylvia Pankhurst was rather unusual in the sense that she went on hunger, thirst, and sleep strikes. She wouldn't eat, she wouldn't drink, and she wouldn't go to sleep. She just paced her cell continuously. Of course her health broke down.

"We know that it had a psychological impact on women. Some women's health suffered quite a major breakdown. Very often the food went down the wrong way and the lungs filled with food, and there was pleurisy and pneumonia. There is a serious health risk, apart from the psychological damage, that this kind of experience could have on women."

Hmmm... And women are scared to blog.

You know, alot of courageous women through history have faced and forged through their fear only to suffer and die for their causes, for their rights - for their truth. What a slap in the face of all of those truly brave women, to be afraid to write, fer crissakes.

So okay. Like I said. Be scared. Whatever... but do it. Don't let them silence you. Don't be the weak, frightened "girls" they want you to be. Don't be a fucking pussy.

Get Over It!!!