The feminist manifesto

[Fake Boris]

An excerpt from the "Manifesto of the Pan-Canadian young feminist gathering":

http://www.rebelles2008.org/en/manifesto

We envision communities committed to:
-> Eradicating all forms of violence – including sexual, institutional, emotional, economic, physical, cultural, racial, colonial, ageist and ableist

Seriously, WTF? How can you eliminate "all forms of violence"?

Would we still be human if violence didn't exist?

And as Nietzsche would have it, isn't it violence on the basic functions of an organism to herd it in a perfectly aseptic community?

[Fake Boris]

I could be a feminist, if their program was something like "enslave males, make them suffer, and turn them into sexual slaves". At least these feminists would have guts and style.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
I could be a feminist, if their program was something like "enslave males, make them suffer, and turn them into sexual slaves". At least these feminists would have guts and style.

Don't be ridiculous. Women are too 'sensitive' to power inequality to do that, and they wouldn't be feminists, to boot.

[Riesstiu IV]

ableist? What does that mean?

[Kidlicious]

Re: The feminist manifesto

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
An excerpt from the "Manifesto of the Pan-Canadian young feminist gathering":

http://www.rebelles2008.org/en/manifesto

We envision communities committed to:
-> Eradicating all forms of violence – including sexual, institutional, emotional, economic, physical, cultural, racial, colonial, ageist and ableist

Seriously, WTF? How can you eliminate "all forms of violence"?

Would we still be human if violence didn't exist?

And as Nietzsche would have it, isn't it violence on the basic functions of an organism to herd it in a perfectly aseptic community?

I didn't know you were a violent person.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
ableist? What does that mean?

Bingo, my friend.

If we aren't going to judge people based on their abilities, HOW THE HELL THEN are we supposed to judge them?

Of course, it may simply mean that we shouldn't adhere to "essentialist" prejudices where a certain group is deemed intrinsically capable of something, but still. Let's abolish the prejudice that makes us think children don't judge for themselves! That women shouldn't be linebackers in the NFL!

[KrazyHorse]

I understand the concept of the term "ableist" (though it is of course extremely silly...but what the **** is "ableist violence"?

[Fake Boris]

Re: Re: The feminist manifesto

Originally posted by Kidicious


I didn't know you were a violent person.

I'm actually very courteous and gentle in real life.

[KrazyHorse]

I would beat the living **** out of you if I ever met you...

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I would beat the living **** out of you if I ever met you...

Feel free to try.

[Kidlicious]

Re: Re: Re: The feminist manifesto

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


I'm actually very courteous and gentle in real life.

So you don't consider yourself a human?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


Feel free to try.

All right. Des Moines, Iowa. Noon tomorrow.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
If we aren't going to judge people based on their abilities, HOW THE HELL THEN are we supposed to judge them?

You think someone confined to a wheelchair is inferior?

[KrazyHorse]

They're certainly inferior at walking.

[KrazyHorse]

God, the thought of their shrivelled, useless legs makes me want to beat them with a crowbar.