In case you missed it, here’s the second Week In Patriarchy, on Tiger Beatdown. Expect more posts on The Patriarchy’s official Tumblr web presence, too.
Seems fitting: Longest day of the year is such a phallic notion.
Well you’re going to, soon. So get hip.
bmichael:
Fuck all you sports bloggers who are calling out Ben Roethlisberger. Especially you, Deadspin: The blog that regularly rewards its readers for submitting stories of attempted date rape. The blog vacillates wildly between upbraiding the media for covering a sex scandal and, you know, generating hundreds of thousands of pageviews by covering the selfsame sex scandal. It’s the blog that promulgates the already popular notion of athletes enjoying limitless access to sex.
What Roethlisberger has done is (very likely) maximally reprehensible, but his actions are made possible by the larger culture of sports, which is of course not in one of those airless, unpressurized spaces. The general social course of humanity—its telos, if you will—has been toward power becoming less centralized and more distributed. State of nature, social contract, end of slavery, universal suffrage, blah blah blah. Now, it’s the case that in nature, people with more power get to fuck literally and figuratively the people with less power. One of the marks of a great society is the attenuation of this state of affairs. You can make the argument that men should have power over women because they are better/faster/stronger/whatever. But an analogue to our historically expanding knowledge is the growth of empathy, which has created an increasing mutual understanding of shared humanity among progressively larger and larger communities: The men all hang tight together, then the men and women who look similar, then the men and women who are more proximal, and so on. All of a sudden, the United Colors of Benetton are trapped attractively together on an island east of Fiji as the first black President of America passes healthcare reform.
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What don’t you get about No Means No Unless You’ve Won Two Super Bowls (NMNUYWTSB)?
My personal experience is that practically all of the “radical” academics silently count on the long-term stability of the American capitalist model, with the secure tenured position as their ultimate professional goal (a surprising number of them even play on the stock market). If there is a thing they are genuinely horrified of, it is a radical shattering of the (relatively) safe life environment of the “symbolic classes” in the developed Western societies. Their excessive Politically Correct zeal when dealing with sexism, racism, Third World sweatshops, etc., is thus ultimately a defense against their own innermost identification, a kind of compulsive ritual whose hidden logic is: ‘Let’s talk as much as possible about the necessity of a radical change to make sure that nothing will really change!’
Zizek (via lazz) (via curate)
Man, Zizek is so right. I mean, it’s basically proven a fortieri that communism is the way to go, right? I just returned from the USSR, and let me tell you, whooo boy, life is good, there.
The first paragraph of Valerie Solanas’s Scum Manifesto, laid out by katie maclachlan (curate:beetx).
This is so sexist! Not only does it reduce men to being physically sex objects, but it advocates violence against them! And overthrowing the government? Good luck paving roads, managing international relations, and running the prison system—Lady Gaga’s music video showed, basically, how well women would do running a jail. I think it’s so funny that women always have a hissy fit about man-on-woman sexism, but they’re so quick to advocate woman-on-man sexism.
