Ugh.Mens rights activists sure are clever and funny and goshdarn relevant, aren’t they? I officially do not like Reddit.com.
What exactly was sad about my post? The fact that women are made mentally unstable by trauma, and that it makes us even more vulnerable to violence and oppression? No, it was my delusion, apparently. Yeah.
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Tags: feminism, MRAs, MRAs fuck off, radical feminism
October 3, 2011 at 2:56 pm |
There are TONS of MRAs on reddit.com, I am realizing. I follow ‘RadicalFeminism’ and ‘Womensliberation’ and avoid ‘feminism’ and ‘feminisms’ (those two sub-reddits are full them). I’m sorry they are after you! As they say, they are against women’s rights. That tells us a lot about whether they are worth our time.
They truly need to f*ck off.
October 3, 2011 at 3:02 pm |
Yeah, I don’t even know how reddit works, or how a link to my site got there. It showed up yesterday and now a different post got linked to. Grrr.
October 3, 2011 at 6:30 pm |
Well, from what I know of reddit, this is their strategy. They did the same thing to The Masked Lily. http://sailorcalliope.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/hate/ I think they just hit our blogrolls and start “tattling” on us to each other. Pathetic!
October 3, 2011 at 6:41 pm |
Very pathetic. These MRA types tend to get their boxers in a bunch easily. As if “tattling’ on the naughty radfems will conveniently shut us up. Notice how there is hardly any analysis- they assume that when a woman says something, it is merely silly and moronic, because MEN ARE BETTER BECAUSE I SAID SO DURRR. That’s not to say I’m not wary of those who would try to silence us; I am. Men as a class and individuals have a lot on their side: we are up against a wall of shit right now, as women, globally. But I also believe that we are holding our ground, and that speaking out through blogging will help build connections among women.
October 4, 2011 at 9:55 am |
That’s the best thing, isn’t it? When they show up on blogs all faux-concerned about your mental well-being, opinions etc.to try to trick you into thinking feminism has gotten you damaged or that you should stop caring because they world is bullshit anyway. Yeah, mate, I totally trust someone who joins a group or whatever it’s called on reddit with the name of “against women’s rights”.
MRAs are a bunch of fascist, vicious scumbags who think that if women are reduced to walking incubators and sexual objects they will get to be alpha males.
October 4, 2011 at 5:54 pm |
I think the faux-concern is the most annoying part! I just want to shout, “stay out of my fucking ladybusiness!” I don’t mind women reading it, but it just won’t get through to men, so I don’t write for a male audience…
October 5, 2011 at 1:07 am
so true! they just don’t listen.. so condescending
October 5, 2011 at 1:53 pm
“Condescending” is the perfect word to describe them.
October 9, 2011 at 11:06 am |
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/10/lets-hear-it-for-the-man-who-sticks-up-for-womens-rights/#comment-58227
For your information.
October 9, 2011 at 3:00 pm |
More: :) “knowledge is power”
http://somatosphere.net
The Dance – Medicine and the Idea of Movement
Posted: 07 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT
I have been conducting research on the experiences of women with mental illness in India in an effort to understand how everyday relationships shape medical practice and enliven the subjectivities clinical life makes possible. Like any ethnographer, I am interested in what people say. Ethnographic methods privilege speech: we seek narrative, memories, and a good interview; we hope to overhear juicy talk. However, in psychiatry wards talk can play ambivalent roles. It is highly routinized; it is put to different uses by doctors; it is unreliable; it is changeable.
And often in psychiatric settings things are simply very quiet.
For me, talk has become increasingly difficult to work with.
But movement is constant. Even if it is winter, the in-patient unit is cold, and people sleep through afternoons under heavy quilts, bodies are oriented to spatial and temporal (as well as chemical) arrangements. They gather in the courtyard, “eating sunshine” and waving away flies. They curve in concentration on the tiny movements – intentional? involuntary? – of fingers. They rise when called for a meal, or shake with fever or delusion.
They find routes through the way a day, or a room, is arranged. A woman I spent time with in the locked ward of a private clinic passed more and more time praying during the months of her confinement. She had never paid much attention to matters of faith, but now she cut a line across the concrete floor, running beads through her fingers, walking slowly because of ever-shifting drug regimes. Her stay involved isolation from those she loved. It was of uncertain duration – doctors were vague about not only her prognosis but about when she would be released while her family continued to pay for care. For them, prayer and pacing were symptoms, signs of “increased religiosity.” For her, they were habitations in which to locate longing and grief. For others they were a way to know the time of day.
October 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm |
Sipiy, thank you for the links. :)
October 9, 2011 at 5:37 pm |
Reddit is reflective of the internet world and RL in general – brimful of sexism. DNW.
October 9, 2011 at 11:21 pm |
They had a few pages of ranting on their forums regarding posts of mine, too…*sigh*
January 31, 2012 at 3:56 am |
I hate to say it, but their trolling is very effective. I have been procrastinating over starting a radfem blog because I’m terrified of having to read all their hateful shit. It really upsets me.
Do feminists, or regular women even, troll MRA sites? I fucken doubt it. At least, not to the same degree