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Nothing like a fresh Banning in the morning [05 May 2008|08:32am] truckers_child earthstone has been banned for being unsupportive, being unsupportive, telling the OP straight up that she doesn't agree with hir, questioning why we would think that rape jokes aren't funny, and finally, for getting defensive instead of just apologizing to the OP. Did I mention that all of this happened on one post? 29 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Membership Revoked : nacho_cheese [24 Apr 2008|10:57am] panic_girl [ mood | blah ] nacho_cheese has had hir membership from feminist_rage revoked for making posts that broke our rules. On first warning, the user was asked to reread the rules, but made a second post breaking a different rule. If the user had read the rules, as we ask everyone to, there would have been no confusion. The rules broken were not ambiguously worded. Further, the rules state that not knowing the rules is no excuse for breaking them. There's nothing funny here, sorry. Nothing controversial, and no trolling behavior. Just blatant disregard of the rules, and we simply don't do that here. It's how it is, and it's what keeps this space safe and on topic. So, if you are a bit fuzzy on them, I encourage you to go back and read the rules. We will revoke your membership for breaking them, and yes, we're serious. Thanks PANIC, for the mod team. I'm pissed

Update - Yale: 'Abortion' art won't be displayed without disclaimer [22 Apr 2008|01:41pm] shirachan What google returns for the search string, "Yale Moron." Such high standards, it's no wonder poor womb-ridden Aliza doesn't live up to them! Alternate title (because what other cipher have I for my snark?): Yale Patriarchs Demand Uterine Affidavits; Quod Erat Demonstratum, Morons. How perfectly absurd is this? Yale is using its position as artistic gatekeeper to demand that this woman disambiguate her fucking menstrual blood! Is there any other possible reaction that would more definitively prove the worth of her art than a bunch of dudes gathering to force her to publically repudiate her unauthorized use of Teh Sperm Magic? Words fail me. 4 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Reaction to Shvarts: "Outrage, shock, disgust" [18 Apr 2008|01:12pm] shirachan Pictured: Four Yale students gather to reassure me that I made the right choice by not applying to Yale. Alternate Title: Yale Student Uses Privately-Owned Uterus for Her Own Reasons; Nation Flips Its Shit So the story is that a Yale student, for her senior art project, claimed to self-inseminate, take herbal abortifacients, and collect the ensuing menstrual blood, once a month, for nine months.* And people are completely losing their shit over it. Noted patriarchy-enthusiast and forced-pregnancy advocate John Behan said of the contumacious woman-creature, "“We believe that Yale students, regardless of their views of abortion, will be deeply disturbed by this trivialization of the agony of women who face crisis pregnancies and endure miscarriages." Note that it doesn't trivialize the famed agony of women with unwanted uterine growths to force them to give birth. And bringing up the irrelevant end of the spectrum of reactions to this project, Yale freshman Elle Ramel bemoaned the hypothetical seventeen year olds who would defect to other Ivy Leagues: “What if you are a pre-frosh and this is your last impression before you decide what school to go to?” Quelle horreur! As a brief digression, I feel compelled to comment on the name of Behan's organization: Choose Life at Yale, or CLAY. This is presumably a throwback to Genesis, where Art to Grow On shows up at God's fourth grade classroom and gives him the chance to form the first human being (a dude, of course - women are the Divine Afterthought) out of that most organic class of molecules, the phyllosilicates. So I thought I'd come on livejournal and give my $0.02 about whence the hoopla has come: ( Cut for length ) (Crossposted on my personal journal) 35 righteous rants| I'm pissed

[04 Apr 2008|09:48pm] burningmarl I don't post here usually and this isn't so much a rage, but an expression of frustration!! I've been asked a really stupid question by a friend and I basically just wanted to tell some other feminists how annoying a question it is, and how perplexed I am about how to answer it sensitively while also being assertive. I don't want to pander him and spoon feed him because feminists shouldn't have to do that for men, but he is a man I care for like a brother. I did that meme going 'round about 'blog about things you largely don't' and a [feminist] friend asked me what i would hypothetically say to a young girl who didn't feel feminism was relevant. I answered to the best of my ability and my [close, also rl] friend basically commented in a way that suggested they DESPERATELY needed reassurance that THEY wern't sexist, needed to inform me they DEFINITELY WERN'T a misogynist and also asked if unearned privilege was a Bad Thing. It just seemed to me to be one more example of feminist discourse derailed by men's seemingly inherant need to go WHAT ABOUT ME. If he wasn't such a dear friend I'd be tempted just to give it no response at all, answer the more sensible points but otherwise reaffirm that I don't need to give absolution to men because of the patriarchy. I think if men want to become feminists, they really need to learn how to stfd, confront their privilege and learn from us. ( his comments, and some of my half formed thoughts. Please do chip in because I honestly want to try and make him see but not hurt him, and I'm not that eloquent by myself. ) 11 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Bratz - a long rambly rage [26 Mar 2008|02:07pm] girl_narcissus [ mood | annoyed ] This rage was sparked by the discovery of Bratz: The Movie on IMDB. ( Some swearing and ire, mostly harmless ) 10 righteous rants| I'm pissed

[25 Mar 2008|08:26pm] ebonymusic When it comes to abortion, I have to say, there are a variety of arguments against it, but one in particular bothers me. It's the Well,  she should have known to use birth control, and knows it's her own responsibility. Or the related one, Well, she should have known that complete abstinence is the only safe way, and birth control doesn't always work. Okay. So now, pregnancy is a punishment for unsafe sex or failed birth control. Which means that even if you have unsafe sex and don't get pregnant, you should be sentenced to forced pregnancy because of your crime. Or if your condom breaks and you don't get pregnant, you should also be sentenced to forced pregnancy. How would a kid feel knowing that they are the product of a punishment? Who cares? Family values, people! But wait! What happens to the man in the relationship? Does he get some sort of physical, emotional and financially trying punishment? What are we going to inflict on him? Nothing, of course. Because men Can't Control Their Urges and it's Not Their Responsibility. If unsafe sex and failed protection is a crime, then we need to prosecute LGBT couples too. Of course, gay men should be sentenced to AIDS- since they deserve a cruel and unusal death penalty (bring back biological warfare!) and lesbians? AIDS and forced pregnancy, because they're women and should have known better.  Now that pregnancy and AIDS are punishments, we have to use them for other cases, too. Income tax evasion? Forced pregnancy for women and AIDS for men. Breaking and entering? Forced pregnancy or AIDS. Credit card fraud? Well, since all women are greedy and are spending their husbands' money shopping, then both punishments will do. What'll we do with all these babies? Who cares. That's the mothers' problems, not the government. The government doesn't need to give out welfare or daycare- don't all little girls want to be mommies when they grow up? 3 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Goddamn patriarchal programming [27 Feb 2008|10:43am] frightened [ mood | annoyed ] [ music | 'Take the Money' - Carina Round ] I try to be a good little radical feminist. Smash the patriarchy, yeah. Who needs boys when there's Lisa around. And then, growing up in a fundamentally sexist environment, you still get those bits of programming coming through to eat your brain. See, when I was heading back from karate (don't get excited: I'm not very badass and there isn't gonna be a fight scene) with a friend on Thursday night, I saw a couple having an argument of some kind, and the guy had the girl pinned against a shopfront, and she was crying. So I stopped and asked, "Are you alright there, bab?" and when the guy said "she's fine", I caught her eye and asked again, "Are you?" (She seemed to be. I'm not sure. They went their separate ways and he wasn't violent towards her in our presence, anyway.) But just to do that much, I had to shout down this voice in my head saying "it's private, you shouldn't interfere." Goddamn patriarchal programming! 7 righteous rants| I'm pissed

PSA: Bannination and I finally get to use this icon!! [13 Feb 2008|06:50pm] truckers_child The user whackbonk has been banned from feminist_rage for invading the privacy of women for the purpose of mocking their behavior. Yep. whackbonk posted something here that has been friends-locked in either a community or personal journal, and expected us to rip it apart here. Just in case anyone here thought that was OK, we're making it clear that it's just not. But I'm sure y'all already knew that. Rage On! 20 righteous rants| I'm pissed

When Pro-Choice means Pro-Preapproved Choices [24 Jan 2008|12:17pm] tupelo_lights An older feminist once pointed out to me that in the history of restricting fertility choices, abortion has remained Enemy Number One because it is the birth control method that leaves the decision exclusively in the woman's hands for the longest period of time. And I think there's something to that. Perhaps this explains part of why abortion is the last pro-choice issue people will agree to. First comes not having sex during ovulation, then condoms, then things like hormonal birth control, then EC (after they find out it isn't an abortion)... and maybe then they'll agree to abortion with "exceptions" for rape and incest, after that it's abortion "but only, like, once or twice," and finally, maybe they'll agree that pro-choice means all choices all the time as many times as you want. And a lot of those folks will still consider abortion to be in a distinct category from birth control; some of them refuse to even call it that. Why? Yeah, sure, maybe they just can't turn off the Life At Conception show on the All Babies All The Time network, even when they're talking to someone who doesn't even own a damn TV. But maybe it's because of the deeply rooted, misogynistic fear that women might - GASP! - have complete and utter control over reproduction, at least on the not reproducing end of things. After all, we don't worry about the day that men stop getting people pregnant, but men sure are wetting their pants over the thought that women might stop having their babies. In this light it makes Patriarchal sense to set the cut-off date for the decision as far back as possible. Or maybe it's just that, as we all know, the contents of the pregnant womb belong to the man who "put" them there. The message of "Contraception: Fine, (I guess...) vs. Abortion: Evil (even if it's necessary)" can be translated as: "If you're lucky, a Patriarchal society will allow you to make your womb as inhospitable for pregnancy as possible. ... But if you fail and someone manages plant some seed there, by God you'd better not mess with it." 10 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Geography of a woman (apparently) [23 Jan 2008|09:53pm] coinoperated Ugh. This is the fifth or sixth time I've received this 'forward' email in the last six months. Doesn't anyone read it and see how utterly misogynist it is? I let the first few of these emails fly because I hadn't the energy to deal with them, but I've shouted at the senders of the last few. Please stop perpetuating this disrespect for women! Why on earth would I, the 'smart woman' this email is for, find it funny? GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN: Between 18 and 20 a woman is like Africa, half discovered, half wild, naturally beautiful with fertile deltas. Between 21 and 30 a woman is like America, well-developed and open to trade especially for someone with cash. Between 31 and 35 she is like India, very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty. Between 36 and 40 a woman is like France, gently ageing but still a warm and desirable place to visit. Between 41 and 50 she is like Yugoslavia, lost the war - haunted by past mistakes. Massive reconstruction is now necessary. Between 51 and 60, she is like Russia, very wide and borders are un-patrolled. The frigid climate keeps people away. Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Mongolia, with a glorious and all conquering past but alas, no future. After 70, they become Afghanistan. Almost everyone knows where it is, but no one wants to go there. GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN: Between 15 and 70 a man is like Iran - ruled by a dick. SEND THIS TO A SMART WOMAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT. (Cross-posted.) 59 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Preaching to the choir. [21 Jan 2008|06:21am] paradox_dragon I am weary unto death of the idea that feminism somehow robs women of their dignity. The right to have my work justly valued based on merit rather than gender does not rob me of my dignity. My right to choose of my own free will what is done with my body does not rob me of my dignity. Having my voice heard and respected for the value of what I say, rather than by the indulgence of some mythical patriarchal chivalry or through my connection to some man does not rob me of my dignity, nor does my ability to participate in government, receive credit for my intellectual work and gain an education, walk alone at night, support myself financially, or give and receive sexual pleasure when, where, and with whom I see fit. Freedom does not rob me of my dignity. Sexism robs me of my dignity. Never once have I felt exalted by what scraps of honor I am afforded when I conform to patriarchal standards of femininity. I feel debased, helpless, and resentful, not dignified. Dignity granted or withheld at the whim of another is not dignity at all; power is not power when one has no agency to wield it. The abilities to persuade, to evoke sympathy, and to be granted protection are not power, but symptoms of the lack of it. That is all. This rant has been building for a while, but was triggered in part by Ladies Against Feminism. 9 righteous rants| I'm pissed

My nieces got a Geotrax train system for Christmas. [27 Dec 2007|02:06pm] conuly (And they love it to bits, by the way. Precious few people have told them this sort of thing is a "boy" toy yet, and I think I'll have to hurt anybody who tries it in the future. But that's another rant for another day.) Now, you know how it goes, there's a little pamphlet inside the box telling you all the other stuff you can buy to go with your new toy. Apparently, there are lots of "teams". There's the "Oldest team" and the "Biggest Bullies" and the "Most Trusted Team" and a whole storyline... And there's predictably only one team with any female human or train on it. And you know what they get fobbed off with? They're the Nicest team. Nicest. Not that nice isn't a perfectly good thing to be, but it's so boring. Like that's the best thing you can say about them. In a world of adjectives like "Most Rugged" and "Most Generous", they get the world's most boring adjective ever. Nice. And so stereotypical. Nice, nice, nice. I mean, seriously. If you're only going to have the one token female in the entire playset, can't you come up with a better adjective? ANY other adjective? All the other teams get great things, like "Most Adventurous" and "Toughest" and even "Crankiest" or "Stinkiest" (which is interesting, if nothing else), and the girls get nice. The character, I'm reading, doesn't even work on the train. She's a passenger. So I've got my nieces playing with these toys all day, and the underlying message is that they shouldn't be, that working on or with trains is for guys. (Again.) I'm so irritated. And then I'm upset that I'm upset - like a toy is that important? - and upset that I'm upset that I'm upset. So it's not "that important". Shouldn't I still care that it's full of stereotypicity? Ugh. At least neither niece can read yet. They don't know any of this. That's something, anyway. 8 righteous rants| I'm pissed

[19 Dec 2007|03:21pm] timetoknowbe [ mood | terrified ] this will be scattered. dear sir: i dont see how i could be more clear. i told you a thousand and one times that i was uncomfortable with you pursuing me. i am 19 and you are 29, married (but "seperated) with a child. the fact that this was online makes this even creepier to me, since you took things so far knowing i was uncomfortable with the situation. the fact that you talked very seriously over and over again of us meeting when i told you i was uncomfortable with your advances makes this even creepier. the fact that you knew this all made me uncomfortable, but still did it after putting yourself in a "supportive friend" position, KNOWING i had no one else at the time and knowing i was struggling with a very hard time in my life, makes you an absolute asshole. and it doesnt help that through everything, at key moments, you would ignore what i said and fill my mouth with words and portray me as this cute, childlike little creature, naive and innocent, that was just waiting to dote on you. you wanted a toy. thats a whole other rant, but fuck you for messing with me when i was at such a low, and fuck you for trying to ignore everything about who i am so you could build me into your fucking dream of what a sweet little girl should be. ASIDE from how pervy and creepy that is, its fucking bullshit. and you did it too many times for me to be making something of nothing. i flat out told you (and you later found my online journal and saw my entries detailing) that your behavior toward me caused severe daily panic attacks and made me very suicidal, made me hate myself, made me lay in bed imagining abstract ways to harm myself. but even without reading it in my journal, i told you this. SEVERAL times. i thought you understood because you stopped talking to me and left me alone. i was feeling better. so WHY, you fucking piece of shit, did i just get a phonecall from my cousin asking why she had a box of godiva chocolates with her address but my name, with an UNSIGNED NOTE? WHY THE FUCK did you think it was alright to find her brother, ask him for my mailing address, then use his when he said he wasnt comfortable giving that information? you FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. i TOLD YOU i was uncomfortable with the age and power dynamics and that you made me fucking suicidal when you acted the way you did. and you respond to this by sending CHOCOLATES? anonymously?! with a cryptic note giving only enough information to let me know it was someone i know online? FUCK. YOU. and fuck all the people who think its silly that im curled up in my room crying and shaking, terrified that this creep knows the address of people 5 miles away from me. sincerely NOT yours and never fucking will be you piece of shit, me. ps: you dont "surprise" people with gifts when as far as they know, you don't know their address, and you only know them online and live in another country, and know they've had trouble with sexual harassment online and you're included in their list of ASSHOLES. have you HEARD of "stalking"? cause you're fucking doing it. BACK. OFF. 10 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Male politician notices that rape happens; world stops to stare at this amazing new discovery [13 Nov 2007|12:02pm] frightened [ mood | angry ] Background for the non-UK people: David Cameron is the leader of the Conservatives, who are a) the largest party not in power and b) the most right-wing mainstream party. On to the rage. ( More talk of rape; sarcastic impression of non-feminist responses. May be triggery. ) 6 righteous rants| I'm pissed

grrr. [02 Nov 2007|11:44pm] timetoknowbe mkay ive rewritten this 234242432 times. and in the process, calmed down. but i'm still gonna mention it: dear world of warcraft raid group: following every statement a girl says with "GIRL NOISES!" is not cool. especially in a male-dominated environment where its hard enough to even speak without being talked over or interrupted, and where, even if i do speak, i'm ignored or outright mocked. if it happens again, i will be busting some faces and causing drama. also, bitter and antisocial rogue? my request for you to kindly stfu is not a reason to call me a drama queen. sincerely, -crazy feminist shadow priest. 9 righteous rants| I'm pissed

Local news anchor asshattery. [22 Jan 2007|06:00am] thewayoutis Hey, asshole male news anchors. ( cut for body image issue/ED triggers and swearing. ) 6 righteous rants| I'm pissed

I'm beyond pissed [10 Oct 2007|11:06pm] jennifer19 [ mood | angry ] [ music | Ghosthunters ] I. Hate. Victim blaming. ( Cut for sexual assault triggers, victim blaming, and general stupidity ) 15 righteous rants| I'm pissed

IT IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY [09 Oct 2007|11:59am] lil_elf So, remember pro-life boy in my women's studies class who is there because he wants to understand the woman's/feminist perspective yet is constantly rude during class? Well here is another rage about him in class... ( cut for possible sexual assault triggers and victim blaming ) 2 righteous rants| I'm pissed

[22 Sep 2007|02:21am] shirachan For those of you who facebook, I want to direct your attention to a group I have started to petition facebook to add 'feminist' to the list of options for political views. The group is called "Add Feminist to the Political Views tab! (Official Facebook Petition)" and can be found here: http://berkeley.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5990018335. Please join! And write to facebook! I have even written a boilerplate letter that you can just copy and paste. We as feminists deserve the right to identify ourselves. For the requisite rage: how freaking ridiculous is it that the "philosophy" of entitled privileged hetero white dudes, aka, "libertarianism," is an option, but feminism, a transnational social movement that fights oppression on behalf of half the freaking human race, is collapsed with everything not on the liberal-conservative axis besides libertarianism into "other"? (And oh, the irony of that word choice). I blame the freaking patriarchy for the obvious bias of the douchebag facebook programmers. 6 righteous rants| I'm pissed

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