Saturday, June 10, 2006

YES! At least one vile motherfucker gets what he deserves.

Also, Bitch PhD asks if we can disagree without being disagreeable, and I think that's only possible if we're in the same reality. Let me explain. Some feminists think that feminists that don't like porn are somehow making it harder for them to get their porny porny fun on. Now, I disagree. But we're in the same universe. They don't believe that despite the fact that women get beat up more than men, we should focus on men to the exclusion of women in domestic violence cases. Porny goodness or no porn til it's cruelty free is more of a war of ideas. Neither side has the power to enforce what they want either. Whether some lady says "porn hurts women!" or some lady says "porn empowers women!" we are all at the idea stage here. Not to mention, although I was annoyed by some folks who act either like if you don't like porn, you're a dried up prude who hates sex or if you like porn, you support sex slaves from Moldavia, no one's worth as a person is being debated over. Yea, it's mean, but at the end of the day, we can all agree that a woman is a valid source of authority on whether she is exploited or not. We may disagree with which women, but we all think that the testimony of a woman is not worthless.

Now, it can be difficult to deal with people in different realities. Now, I believe that you can learn about racism through the use of innovative devices like books and websites or maybe listening to the experiences of people of color. But others believe that books and websites written by people who have studied race using interviews, polls, and controlled studies are not valid sources of authority, nor are the experiences of people of color. The only source of authority is random white people(and anti racist whites don't count either.) . Now, we have like no common ground here. I can agree it's not very nice to call folks crackers, but that's not even touching the surface. That doesn't even come close to where the issues are in terms of severity. But that sort of person thinks with that the conversation is over, and so nothing gets accomplished.

The only links to the reality of racism are vetoed in their mindspace, so it's pretty frustrating. Not to mention, the idea that your experience doesn't count, interviews that some white dude down at the college did don't count, but Suzie who can telepathically find out the SAT scores of any black person counts as a source. Add to that the idea that you're supposed to never say the words racism unless they are directed against a person of color, and you have folks sitting around muttering cracka ass cracka. Not to mention, there are white folks who are stupid in high places. POC are clustered at the bottom, and we're all socialized to bend over for uh..white penis(white females get a pass too- maybe white dildo?).

We all are told to doubt ourselves, to think up a million reasons why our experience isn't valid,etc,etc. I may be 'racist' but I haven't ruined any white people's lives, although I made one sad because I said I didn't trust him to not be racist and I'm always worried that he's just hiding the racism and one day he'd be like 'surprise! nigger!", but even that's more a reaction to white people being racist to me making me a suspicious bastard than random malice.

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