― Sophie Ellis Baxter Birney (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sophie Ellis Baxter Birney (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)
i think jdsampson is sweet!
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sophie Ellis Baxter Birney (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sophie Ellis Baxter Birney (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, cross-dressing is more a form of self-expression than a political statement, I believe.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)
I kind of associate them with the whole Venus magazine "look-guys-I-just-knitted-a-uterus" schtick, which does get under my skin from time to time. I'm creeped out that a publication supposedly devoted to cool, accomplished women dedicates so much space to fucking crafts.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Or the part where they started the whole show over again and told the organisers to fuck off when they tried to enforce the curfew?
Or all the 'lady-supporting' demos outside the venue that did not support needs and concerns of straight women, too, like Planned Parenthood or any reps from the women's health movement, specifically those that advocate for health insurance companies to not stigmatise birth control as a "lifestyle choice"?
I met Amy Schroder at that Ladyfest and attended her zine workshop, and it basically turned into a great big advertisement for Venus. I have a problem with any magazine incapable of writing a feature in something other than question and answer format.
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/VPAB49/SCMEDIA/The%20Dinner%20Party.JPG
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Make that LADIES.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)
A feminist's favourite things, according to Venus: cutesy DIY arts 'n' crafts, photogenic female musicians, and vibrators. Yay!
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)
Cause we all know that *this* feminist's favourite things are, erm, Horny Historians, photogenic male musicians and, erm, vibrating ear dildos. Yes, I see. ;-)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I think the whole knitting-uterus movement is part of that whole indulging in the art of our foremothers sort of thing. I understand there's an attempt to legitismise the decorative arts because they have always been dismissed as "women's work" or "feminine" and therefore not worthy of serious consideration of collection.
That said, I don't think every little indie chicklet's oodlee-doo slapped-together handbags and knitted pink mittens qualifies as Art...
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Were they LADIES?!?!?
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Vibrators or fine, but they're not for me, and their relationship to feminism seems oblique at best. Actually, using a machine to get off seems like far more of a 'masculine' concept.
Why must they make such a huge fucking deal about all that? The people I know who make shit are well pleased with themselves, and I'm often tempted to tell them that it wasn't worth the effort. Oodlee-doo slapped-together handbags don't impress me.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Okay, LADIES, perhaps we should start an e-zine for REAL women?
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)
Yes! And it must have a sense of humor! And we can't make anyone feel bad for enjoying Blur's "Country House" video.
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Let's do it. I'm serious. I want to tackle my conflicting emotions about the art of John Currin and svengali-pop.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)
(Once I figure out how, geeta, I will knit you a uterus!!!)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 November 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
First, let me say I was a HUGE bikini kill fan and I loved Julie Ruin and the 1st Le Tigre album was a lot of fun (I have the second, but it's meh).
Riot grrl meant a lot to me when I needed something to believe in. Not everyone needs that much hardcore feminist activism, but it's there for those who want a mantra.
Personally, I am in NO way crafty. I suck. I tried to learn how to knit and then realized I wasn't a true feminist.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Bitch magazine gets on my nerves, but I think it's just because it reminds me of my mom's Ms. magazines growing up. I always felt like her wave of feminism was just a little too anti-man (or, to be straight with you, more anti-my dad), so it was hard for me to swallow.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm fine with people wearing whatever they want. If she wants to look that way, that's fine. Some women find that attractive. So be it.
Come on, LADEEEEZ, I'm posting and I want you all to come back and talk to me!
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)
This is a pitfall of every political/social equality movement I've ever encountered. It definitely describes most of my encounters with Afro-Am student groups (although the hilarious thing is that the same people who drove me crazy as this organization were really, really excellent outside of the organization; really the whole experience was more fodder for my "groups of people suck ass/individuals rock" philosophy).
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost:I agree, Dan. There is something so very college about activist groups. My freshman year my dad was very concerned that I was a member of the Gay Student Union. I thought he would be proud as he's a Democrat. Instead he was like, "Sarah, if you're not gay, why are you wasting your life for their cause?"
I'm not saying I'm against all activist groups. They have their purposes. And I'm basically a lazy asshat. But they just don't appeal to me any more.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)
what is that thing, anyway? Is it actually a Fender, or just a clone with Fender-style headstock?
heh. I also dig this thread since it reminds me of what i dislike about when 22-year-olds get off on the activist kick.
plus, any thread with "knitting a uterus" seems classic.
"groups of people suck ass/individuals rock"
and Dan is so fuckin' right. I hate people, but persons are good.
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
What I think is so irritating about Kathleen Hanna's sloganeering is that it seems like a really desperate attempt to keep her generation interested in The/Her Cause while simultaneously appealing to any freshman feminsit who gets off on saying "fuck" at the dinner table. (see: Maggie Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko: I'm voting for Dukakis)
I'm surprised Kathleen Hanna isn't in marketing.
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
which one is this, again?
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Dan o' course OTM. I kept my local campus activism to my radio station (which in its general issues for recognition and other matters actually did tackle some good larger points)...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― chopped liver, Friday, 7 November 2003 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)
this threads is playing with my BRANE
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)
never seen Venus magazine though. . .
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)
thank you, Groucho. He'll be here all week, everyone!
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)
(also Kathleen H-A-N-N-A)
(I will now step quietly away from this thread and no one will get hurt.)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
...the femenist sloganeering really is very funny when 1000s of people are singing them off a huge video display - I hope the otherds there were laughing my ass off as much as me
...and JD Samosn? She has the most girly voice in the world! There is a god! And HE's WHITE!
― mei (mei), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)
(And others).
― mei (mei), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)