Rainbow Girl feeds the bears; they were so cute and it seemed so harmless.
Published by Kyso Kisaen April 22nd, 2007 in Punkass!Note for the sarcasm impaired: I actually love Rainbow Girl’s post, just like everyone else. Jesus freakin’ crimeny, people.
I’m not sure if I’m at all pleased with this sparkling post of Rainbow Girl’s. I mean, here the rest of us are telling all the Nice Guys and MRAs that of course they too can have their own versions of Women’s Studies, or male domestic violence shelters, or colored-ribbon campaigns against sex-specific cancers, all they have to do is follow the lead of 70’s era feminists and organize, organize, organize, because today’s feminists sure as shit ain’t doing that work for them.
Then Rainbow Girl basically codifies concern trolling for them. She wrote them a freakin’ instruction manual. Great frickin’ job.
How to Talk to a Feminist.
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Step one: Cite Essential Difference.
The conversation may have started on unequal pay, sexual violence, or discrimination, but it is your duty to immediately direct the conversation to the fact that women are inherently different from men. This first step is crucial, because everyone knows that essential difference legitimizes and therefore neutralizes oppression.
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Step Three: Demand a Definition of Feminism and if Necessary, Provide One.
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Step Six: Helpfully Suggest How To Be a Nicer Feminist.
Essentially, Step Six is about helping feminists make men feel more comfortable about living around misogyny-something that should undoubtedly be at the top of their agenda.
Ok, I’ll admit, it’s a really good instruction manual. Very appropriate, rather dead-on. But I’m still steamed.
Everybody be sure to stop by Rainbow Girl’s and read the whole thing, then thank her next time some guy is whining at you, “but I don’t wanna start a conscious-raising group for men to discuss how the system oppresses them and what long-term plans and activism can help change it, or spend decades building up a new area of scholarly research, I want you to do if for me and I want it right now! Why can’t you be more like Rainbow Girl? She helped us out!”
So noone should ever be sarcastic in case trolls take them seriously?
I think I must have missed what you’re getting at, because that can’t be your point, can it?
If it is not a joke then I would be surprised. It is full of typographical errors, not to mention pictures of Hitler and if i’m not mistaken Judi Garland. Yes, I could see how someone who is trying to fight the good fight could be put-off by the aforementioned blog, but I think some sage advice would be simply to pick your battles. This may not be worth any of your time or energy, much less deserving of a serious response.
Chewbacca
P.S. If it is serious, than rainbow girl is simply an idiot, see above advice. Its kind of a win-win situation.
Don’t listen to Chewbacca, Kyso! Start a flame war on my blog! C’mon, I’m game for a flame any time!
Chewy, full of typographical errors? I went through it again and found that indeed, I had typed “relevent” instead of “relevant”. As an underemployed Arts graduate, all I have in life is a false sense of superiority based largely on my verbal/grammatical abilities, and therefore your comment causes me great concern. Seriously, I’m not being sarcastic this time. I’m having an identity crisis here. What else did I do wrong? Do I need to fire my stenographer?
Hitler and Judy (with a “y”) Garland aside, the post ends with the Monty Python troop. That might be a big give-away that it’s intentionally tongue-in-cheek.
Do I need to fire my stenographer?
See if you can get a new one from the same place Twisty got Phil.
“et cedro digna locuti ” because if it aint worth the cedar then it is most definitely not worth saying. Furthermore, I have always been fascinating by the power that Stenographers hold in their tiny little tablets as it is always the person who is translating what is said who holds the impact of the words in their hands. The hands must be tiny to write on that thing right? I wonder if there are size limits in the stenography business. I think i will do an expose on this as they are obviously sizeist’s, how dare they discriminate against the man-handed subset of the population.