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#SlutWalk OK, I Denounce Myself

Posted on | September 8, 2013 | 95 Comments

Honestly, this is just so wrong:

It’s one of those situations where I know the joke is totally inappropriate, but the temptation . . . Ah, I used to get sent to the principal’s office all the time in school for this impulsive streak and, while I’ve learned to filter it most of the time, occasionally the urge is too strong.

So, I yielded. Hate me for it.

SlutWalk Chicago was apparently about as stupid as every other SlutWalk in the three-year history of this feminist absurdity.

It’s like feminists who think it’s empowering to shout “vagina!” That”s not empowering, it’s just stupid and crude — about as stupid and crude, really, as my tasteless sarcasm, which may be the subconscious motive why I pulled the trigger on that Tweet.

When I see a bunch of feminists parading around half-naked as if nakedness were some kind of profound political statement, I feel an iconoclastic urge to objectify them with the male gaze.

Because they hate that, and I very much want them to hate me.

You other guys can play “white knight” to these feminist if you want. Just go ahead and pretend you’re better than me — more sensitive — and I’ll mentally categorize you with that pervert Hugo Schwyzer.

Feminists love to do this thing where anyone who criticizes them is denounced as “anti-woman.” They use this “kafkatrapping” tactic as though your criticism of their ideology (or their tactics) reveals something terrible about you. Thus, the male critic of feminists is often accused of suffering from some sort of insecurity: “You’re just intimidated by strong women” — which isn’t it at all, of course.

Genuinely strong women are admirable. These women parading around half-naked are not strong. They’re deluded, and the embrace of “solidarity” is actually a security blanket, which ultimately will do nothing either to address their claimed grievance or to solve their underlying problem, namely their own profound unhappiness.

Political activism is a poor substitute for happiness, and to think of your every personal problem in the ideological context of “oppression” is just a rationalization, a way of absolving yourself of responsibility for your own life. Your job is a drag, your boyfriend is a jerk, you need to lose a few pounds — feminism tells you that, one way or another, this makes you a victim of the oppressive patriarchy.

You start viewing the world through that warped lens, and suddenly everything becomes political: Your droopy tits, for example.

OK, fine. Actually, I’m rather fascinated.

The commercialized synthetic ideal of perfectly spherical breasts? Boring. The inarguable authenticity of saggy boobs? Intriguing. So when you decide to display your flopper-whoppers as a political statement, I’m going to ju-jitsu your feminist gesture, objectify you with the male gaze, and make a totally inappropriate comment.

Because here’s the thing: You’re trying to control the narrative, to impose your discourse and deny me the right to disagree.

It’s a straight-up totalitarian power trip, and I refuse to play along.

Not justifying. Just explaining. I already denounced myself, OK?

Hope you enjoy your empowerment.

 

Category: Feminism

Comments

95 Responses to “#SlutWalk OK, I Denounce Myself”

  1. Nan
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:08 am

    Hey! It’s hard to make letters the right way when you’re left handed! I know, I made backwards N and backwards S as a child.

  2. richard mcenroe
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:19 am

    As I’ve said before, the only statement being nekkid in public ever made for me was, “The Marriott shoulda put a bar by the pool and I wouldn’t be in the lobby.”

    You have no idea what a bullet you dodged, what with there being no camera phones and internet in my yoot.

  3. richard mcenroe
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:21 am

    And I’ll meet you both in the lobby.

  4. richard mcenroe
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:21 am

    Darwin. Rocks.

  5. richard mcenroe
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:22 am

    Pretty sure you’ll never meet Paxton Quigley at a Slutwalk.

  6. richard mcenroe
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:22 am

    Without even knowing it…

  7. M. Thompson
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:28 am

    Nope. Crazy isn’t attractive.

  8. M. Thompson
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:31 am

    Most protests are from of mass mutual masturbation, where the participants feel good, make a big mess, and accomplish little in the short run.

    And I apologize if I offend anyone due to bad taste in this post.

  9. DaveO
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:32 am

    Logic check:
    Exhibitionism in the name of suppressing rape will somehow stop rapists who will only see a sign saying “open, inquire within” how exactly? When do rapists care what women say, outside of the final week before an election? How will the police and the judicial system behave any differently now that the young women are slutwalking?
    I know Political Correctness ended the study of abnormal psychology and logic, but damn.

  10. Unix-Jedi
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:37 am

    Yes, heard this before. I’m “tolerant” or “supportive” of “rape culture”.

    “But my view is we arm the women and they shoot any bastard forcing himself on them.”

    “Well, that’s just retarded!”

  11. DaveO
    September 8th, 2013 @ 11:39 am

    No, you do see women protesting in places like Africa and the Middle East. Then the women are rounded up, abused, buried up to their necks and then stoned to death. Sharia is a b*tch.

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  13. La Pucelle
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:05 pm

    That’s exactly what it is. No one is looking at this and thinking “Wow, I never knew rape was wrong!” There are only two reactions here: the “You go, girl” of the choir they’re preaching to, and the “What…the…hell” of normal, well-adjusted people.

    It’s not about “raising awareness”, it’s about pretending they’ve “made a difference” by throwing what amounts to nothing more noble than a street party.*

    * And hey, parties are just what extroverts do, but the moment someone starts pretending their party is a “consciousness raising demonstration” is the moment I start the mockery.

  14. rmnixondeceased
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm

    Mock on mon cher, mock on!

  15. rmnixondeceased
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:09 pm

    No bet. ALL of them that were old enough did.

  16. La Pucelle
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

    Very good point. It seems to me to simply be just an excuse to hold Mardi Gras all over again, a street party gussied up to take on some “greater meaning” for the participants to get that “activism” rush.

    Come to think of it, I studied this phenomenon in college. There was a course I attended called “Pilgrimage and Tourism” during which the sociological aspect of pilgrimage was discussed, and how certain pilgrimages existed pretty much for the social and economic purposes. In this case, it seems to be the emotional rush of “making a difference”, even if they aren’t doing anything of the sort.

  17. La Pucelle
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:18 pm

    They seem to have confused making actual differences with being too impatient to wait for Mardi Gras, monsieur.

  18. La Pucelle
    September 8th, 2013 @ 12:41 pm

    You know, they’d probably accomplish a lot more in full plate. Nothing deters a psychopathic would-be rapist like armor and a good weapon at your side.

    Another point of irony here: by being in large groups, they’re actually taking the very precautions that, when adults advise them to take, they whine are “promoting rape culture”. They’re not exactly the brightest flames in the chandelier, though, so I imagine that they really believe it’s their “STILL NOT ASKING FOR IT” signs which are deterring rapists.*

    * Yes, I know the signs are for people who already know rape is bad, but then what’s the point? Rapists aren’t a part of that “rape culture” conspiracy theory. (It’s called antisocial personality disorder and it has more to do with chemical imbalances than current environment. Were you too busy texting during Psychology 101 to understand this basic fact?) And the people who are a part of this mythical “rape culture” (i.e., anyone who doesn’t buy into this bullhockey) don’t actually rape or commit similar crimes, and don’t have any influence over what the sociopaths who are rapists do. So basically, my “early Mardi Gras” theory is proven yet again here.

  19. tlk244182
    September 8th, 2013 @ 1:07 pm

    I realize it wasn’t his main point, and that I shouldn’t have viewed the picture, but for me the epiphany came when he contrasted ‘commercialized synthetic ideal’ and ‘inarguable authenticity.’ Authenticity wins every time. IOW, yeah, she’s hot.

  20. Cube
    September 8th, 2013 @ 1:17 pm

    Check out her Instagram. She’s actually very pretty and posts some great photographs.

    Getting mixed up with this junk – such a waste of potential.

  21. Cube
    September 8th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm

    “certain economic advantages”

    Thanks Jane, that’s what I was getting at but you said it much better.

  22. Regular Right Guy
    September 8th, 2013 @ 1:56 pm

    RSM, I slapped the sh*t out of my inner chick years ago, so we’ve all been guilty. Regular Right Guy …Full Caf Americano

  23. Steve Skubinna
    September 8th, 2013 @ 2:00 pm

    Because if you really refuse to be objectified, you need to identify as a walking vagina.

  24. rmnixondeceased
    September 8th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm

    D’accord!

  25. M. Thompson
    September 8th, 2013 @ 3:52 pm

    You’re forgetting the various, small left wing parties. You know, like the Greens and “Peace and Freedom”.

  26. rmnixondeceased
    September 8th, 2013 @ 4:10 pm

    Mostly ex-hippies and yippies with very few feminists because of patriarchy. Or so they claim.

  27. Bob Belvedere
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:11 pm

    ‘Puffers’ they’re called in the p0rn biz…so I’ve heard.

  28. Bob Belvedere
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:13 pm

    We’ll meet you under the moon. I can see it now: you and the moon – wear a necktie so I’ll know you.

  29. Bob Belvedere
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:16 pm

    Please don’t bring Cher into this – PLEASE!!!

  30. Bob Belvedere
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:18 pm

    Hot physically, but mentally not.

    Since the two must meet, she is, therefore, ipso facto, herein, within, heretofore, theretofore, not truly Hot.

  31. Bob Belvedere
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm

    Ecclesiastes Chapter 10:2

    ‘A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left.’

  32. Kevin Trainor Jr.
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:27 pm

    Kevin Trainor Jr. liked this on Facebook.

  33. unknown jane
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:50 pm

    You don’t see many working class women here in America doing this either, or rural women, or many minority women either! These things are usually partaken of by a subset of American womanhood who have had the luxury of being coddled since birth — in every way.
    And their male hangers on.

  34. unknown jane
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm

    In short: the real reason why most of the Canturbury pilgrims were traipsing along…except I credit the Wife of Bath with more wit and integrity.

  35. unknown jane
    September 8th, 2013 @ 5:54 pm

    I’ve been to Mardi Gras, several times, it’s more honest in its decadence (and probably a lot more fun).

  36. Steve Skubinna
    September 8th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm

    You simply teach all would be rapists to respect women and, uh…

    Lemme get back to you on that. In the meanwhile, I still have a whole bunch of “Gun Free Zone” signs to put up.

  37. herddog505
    September 8th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

    No offense intended. I say, however, that I misspell words quite often, and have since childhood. Nevertheless, I think that, if I was writing (on myself or elsewhere) to make some public point, I’d try to be a bit more careful about the spelling. So should she have been a bit more careful about how she wrote her letters.

  38. Nan
    September 8th, 2013 @ 9:21 pm

    Maybe she can’t tell.

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  44. Linda
    September 11th, 2013 @ 5:06 pm

    Hey there herddog, I didn’t get back here until the comments were closed on the other string. You had asked about time needed for a homeschooling. Elementary school, 3 good hours a day would be plenty. Some “unschool” days sprinkled in are fine too. They learn from really real life at the grocery, the auto garage, field trips, etc. Once older, it takes longer than 3 hours but I am told by more seasoned families that by then they are able to self-direct, and be in charge of their own learning in the daily routine. Being active in a homeschool group or two, where classes are offered and sports played, fills up the sked quick too. Hope this helps!

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