The Patriarchy

SOCCER?

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:48:47 -0400

I barely know her.

BURN!!!! (Via nickihebert) It seems like it’s time to...

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:33:49 -0400

BURN!!!!

(Via nickihebert)

It seems like it’s time to cultivate a better mathematical and scientific understanding in women so they can start doing that molecular gastronomy stuff I saw on Top Chef.

GPOYW: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’entrate.

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:57:00 -0400

GPOYW: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’entrate.

Damn right! (via holymaurymotherofgod)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:54:32 -0400

Damn right!

(via holymaurymotherofgod)

The Patriarchy started following you.

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:01:00 -0400

Sometimes it occurs to me that searching for ‘patriarchy’ and then following all the people writing about patriarchy might actually be the best part of The Patriarchy (qua tumblr).

ACK! ACK! ACK! (Via missworld:janeaustenyeah: via thatwetshirt)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:58:16 -0400

ACK! ACK! ACK!

(Via missworld:janeaustenyeah: via thatwetshirt)

In case you ever feel like you hate men

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:57:14 -0400

In case you ever feel like you hate men:

This link will take you to tons of letters that this organization has recieved, by feminist men. Definitly uplifting to read testimonies from men who are on board :)

Just one example

I am pro-feminist because women’s liberation is necessary if we are to build a just world free from sexism, racism and homophobia. I am pro-feminist because women are partners in the struggle to end
militarism, imperialism and colonialism. I am pro-feminist because women deserve the right to live their lives free from male violence and oppression. I am pro-feminist because I can see no other way to live my life with dignity and pride. I am pro-feminist because if over 50% of the world’s population are not free none of us are truly free. I am pro-feminist because it is right and just.

Peace,

Tim Looney
Chicago

(Via femasculine)

Sex with feminists and picking up ladies at pro-choice rallies.

Feminists fighting to change the world

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:55:00 -0400

Feminists fighting to change the world:

In 1902, Winifred Harper Cooley imagined a 21st century without sweatshops or slums. Cooley was a US feminist, once described as a radiant woman “in flowing, graceful robes”, and in this new world, she explained, no one would be tramping the streets without a home, or be unemployed. The world’s labour would be shared so that each person only worked five hours a day. Society would be fair, just and equal.
(Via moreapologies)

I like how this is in the “Life & Style” section of The Guardian. Burying the lead in the women’s section, since forever.

Also, re: the quote, LOL.

"When I am onstage, I am every woman’s outrage about where they put us."

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:52:06 -0400

“When I am onstage, I am every woman’s outrage about where they put us.”

- Joan Rivers, in New York magazine. (via communicatrix)

This doesn’t even make any sense. More like, “I *drink* every woman’s outrage about where they put us.”

"Here’s one,” she says. “If people ask, you can give them this one. You fall..."

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:59:05 -0400

“Here’s one,” she says. “If people ask, you can give them this one. You fall totally in love with a man who tells you he’s totally in love with you, too. He’s older. He’s important in terms of business. You give him all of yourself. He goes to France, on important business. He won’t let you come. You wait for days and don’t hear from him. You call him in France, and a woman’s voice says a French hello on the phone, and you hear the man’s electric shaver in the background. A couple days later you get a hasty French postcard he’d mailed on his first day there. It says: ‘Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.’ You reel into lesbianism, from the pain.”

- Possible reason for lesbianism.

"All of the anti-Ayn Rand comments are moronic. MORONIC. I’m dubious that a movie can do justice to..."

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:56:37 -0400

“All of the anti-Ayn Rand comments are moronic.
MORONIC. I’m dubious that a movie can do justice
to the greatest novel in world literature. It should
be a miniseries or a one year tv series.
Just read her works and ignore the statist-collectivist
retards who denigrate her.
They are zeroes and Rand will live forever while all of her critics are
forgotten.”

- Michael Hardesty, via The Sexist

It’s taken a while, and a few tries, but we maales (sic) have found us a Cheval de Troie in Ayn Rand: A woman who writes and thinks like a U Chicago via Brigham Young Poli-Sci major.

You can get Texts From Last Night on tshirts now…

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:16:33 -0400

You can get Texts From Last Night on tshirts now…

Thinking about buying this pepper mill, the 9-inch Unicorn...

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:42:20 -0400

Thinking about buying this pepper mill, the 9-inch Unicorn Magnum Plus. Because, you know, I don’t have anything to prove. Especially in the kitchen.

The Week In Patriarchy 2

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:31:18 -0400

The Week In Patriarchy 2:

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.

Yo yo yo whut whut whut: The Patriarchy's on Tiger Beatdown

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:56:36 -0400

Yo yo yo whut whut whut: The Patriarchy's on Tiger Beatdown:

(via bmichael)

This shit’s so patriarchal.

Have you ever wanted to read a column called This Week In Patriarchy?

Fri, 28 May 2010 13:10:46 -0400

Well you’re going to, soon. So get hip.

missworld: grrleigh: I LITERALLY just had to have this...

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:42:09 -0400

missworld:

grrleigh:

I LITERALLY just had to have this conversation with a drunk asshole music snob of one of my bf’s friends the other night who was bitching about it and rambling about conspiracy theories and all that bullshit.

It’s like, look: do not even act like you know what happened. You were in the fourth fucking grade. And, don’t even try to pretend like Live Through This is not AMAZING album. Courtney was a talented artist and musician in her own right, with her own problems to contend with. Move on with your lives, please.

If Kurt had lived, he’d be just as much, if not MORE of a mess than she is right now. He’d be like Ozzy Osbourne x 1,000. Can you imagine what HIS twitter feed would look like? Jesus fuck.

missworld:

(via haleygrrrl)

It’s so pathetic that people still talk about Kurt’s “murder” by Courtney; that this is something worth talking about after all this time. It’s been almost 20 years, and you’d think people would grow tired of throwing stones…

I’m so fucking sick of the whole deal. Kurt and Courtney were/are very gifted musicians. They had a partnership based on a lot of common ground (abandonment issues, childhood crap, drugs, music, pain and anguish) and I would go as far as to say that neither of them were worse for the other, that they both had their shit that they flung at each other…like any marriage/partnership out there.

SO MUCH love right here. Had to reblog this.

This is why there aren’t more girl music critics.

Sports Blogs are to Culture as Joe Morgan is to Baseball Stats

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:03:06 -0400

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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"My personal experience is that practically all of the “radical” academics silently count on the..."

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:02:42 -0400

“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...

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:01:27 -0400

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.