The fox news of the internet
Dec. 22nd, 2011 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pktechgirlbackupI stopped reading Pandagon when it moved from being a policy blog to a political blog. I like ready about policies I disagree with, those are informative and interesting. Reading Amanda Marcotte call another Republican a dickless wonder? Less so. I gave it another shot yesterday, and have had my decision more than confirmed.
...because you see, people who disagree with Amanda Marcotte are not merely wrong, they are uninformed children who are deliberately wrong for the sole purpose of annoying her. And they need to be sexually shamed for it. And that is totally an appropriate tactic for an extremely prominent feminist to use.
If I was the sort of person who thought being a victim of a thing made people more sympathetic to that thing, I would be shocked by this. Feminists on the internet are constantly being called so ugly (or hairy legged) or bitter that they can't find a man, and if only someone fucked them straight they'd give up this life of blogging. To turn around and use that tactic against an entire political orientation* is abhorrent.
And I agree with her that there's some weird sexual repression going on in some members of the anti-choice movement. I just also recognize that there are some people who genuinely, sincerely believe that an embryo is a full human being and that, while it is tragic we must violate a woman's rights to honor the embryo's rights, we still have to do it. I think they're wrong, I think they're being manipulated by leaders who genuinely do have "oppress women" as a goal, but I recognize that you can sincerely believe a thing that is different than what I sincerely believe. Hell, there are statistics that prove that evangelicals' sex lives deviate further from the norm than mainstream liberal sects. But in our brave new sex-positive feminist world, that doesn't make them wrong.
And then, when she's called on this in the comments, by someone objecting to the way it portrays asexuals, people actually defender her with "Amanda is clearly a sex positive writer and thinker and her work reflects that." Why didn't they just claim Marcotte has an asexual friend and be done with it?
*and no weaseling out of this with "but some people DO do that." She said average Republican
I realize it was SOP in pundit circles to think [Newt Gingrich] ever had a chance against Romney, because it is true that your average Republican voter likes him way more than they like Romney. After all, they believe he pisses off the liberals, since that's what they remember happening last time they tuned in to what liberals were actually thinking in 1995. Pissing off the liberals is the fundamental urge of the wingnut, after all. It's a primal urge that fills in the holes where your sex drive used to be.
...
(Anti-choice nuts are excluded from this, of course. They are like subway masturbators. They know they're inappropriate, and that's what gets them off.)
...because you see, people who disagree with Amanda Marcotte are not merely wrong, they are uninformed children who are deliberately wrong for the sole purpose of annoying her. And they need to be sexually shamed for it. And that is totally an appropriate tactic for an extremely prominent feminist to use.
If I was the sort of person who thought being a victim of a thing made people more sympathetic to that thing, I would be shocked by this. Feminists on the internet are constantly being called so ugly (or hairy legged) or bitter that they can't find a man, and if only someone fucked them straight they'd give up this life of blogging. To turn around and use that tactic against an entire political orientation* is abhorrent.
And I agree with her that there's some weird sexual repression going on in some members of the anti-choice movement. I just also recognize that there are some people who genuinely, sincerely believe that an embryo is a full human being and that, while it is tragic we must violate a woman's rights to honor the embryo's rights, we still have to do it. I think they're wrong, I think they're being manipulated by leaders who genuinely do have "oppress women" as a goal, but I recognize that you can sincerely believe a thing that is different than what I sincerely believe. Hell, there are statistics that prove that evangelicals' sex lives deviate further from the norm than mainstream liberal sects. But in our brave new sex-positive feminist world, that doesn't make them wrong.
And then, when she's called on this in the comments, by someone objecting to the way it portrays asexuals, people actually defender her with "Amanda is clearly a sex positive writer and thinker and her work reflects that." Why didn't they just claim Marcotte has an asexual friend and be done with it?
*and no weaseling out of this with "but some people DO do that." She said average Republican
