Well, who doesn't love a torrent of abuse on a Thursday?
Remember that guy that I ranted about? Well, he
ranted back and that sent some of his readers over to little old me. Interestingly the author just gave what he got - tit for tat - no real name calling, no threats of death - but his readers, oh man, his readers are the most tragic group of hysterically angry men I have ever seen. Check out their comments on my recent posts:
here,
here, and
here as well as here and there throughout. Do it now, 'cause those comments will be removed as of Monday.
So far I have been called despicable, a urinal, a whore, a cunt, a bad mother a bad wife, a swine: and that is just what they are calling me on
my comments, you should see what they are saying over there. By a day in it had degenerated completely: apparently I should be killed and I should have AIDS - if the world were fair that is. Interestingly, the comments got uglier as time went on. "Group think" as my husband put it. Much as we bloggers legitimize ourselves via our similar leanings - they draw strength from their numbers.
The use the perceived worst things of femininity: I have my period, I am a bad wife, a bad mother, I am ugly, I am fat, I am rapidly aging, I have a big vagina, I am (god forbid) saggy - they judge me based on a view of what it is to be a woman that I have long since rejected.
It fascinates me that in crafting their insults they see only the female - I am not a terrible
person, I am a terrible
woman - most of what they hurl at me from their safe anonymity are gendered insults. Because I am not a person, you see, I am an object to be possessed. A cheating wife is kind of like the family dog that bites, she should be taken to the pound. I will, of course, ignore the fact that they seem to have not noticed that my husband is in the know - I don't expect people to go through my archives to better formulate an insult.
Their insults seem to culminate in dire predictions: that my husband will leave me and no one else will ever want to marry me, telling all women that if my way is the way no man will want to marry them, that they will be single mothers, that there will be mass killings (seriously?) - interesting that they associate the threat of not being married with the threat of murder. Because what is a woman, after all, unless a man owns her? If I don't have a man how can my life have value?
It is not so much that I cheat that is their problem, but that I do not obey the man that owns me - and don't mistake it, this is about ownership. He pays the bills, it is his house - I deny him sex and I fuck other men. But, he should be entitled to sex, after all he pays for it with the wedding ring - I am, to be clear, his object. As a result of my errant activities he should disfigure me or kill me and get off for it or he should be able to take the kids and throw me out in the street. That's what men do.
I have always found that vision of masculinity repugnant and I have never really known men that ascribed to it - to be fair our city is home to a disproportionately educated and largely middle class population, which may be why - but I guess it does juxtapose well with their vision of a woman: to be dominated, to be controlled, to be owned - or, in the alternative - to be scorned and killed. Their view of what it is to be a man, of what it is to be a woman and of relationships and their complexity is profoundly ignorant. Fortunately it is the kind of ignorance that dies out a little more every day.
I have been told more than once today that I hate men. Well, dear readers, if that don't beat all. Me. Hating men. I mentioned this to my husband who just about laughed his ass off. He should have such problems. Now, you may not have noticed, but I *heart* men actually. But I find it interesting that you assume because I don't ascribe to your world view that I don't like men. Men I like. That kinda whiny, entitled, bullshit you got going on - that is not so much about being a man as it is about being angry. That's not the same thing.
So, feel free to try to categorize me and judge me according to your tired stereotypes and out-dated views. I think the reason you are so angry is that you feel your cultural power - the kind that has privileged you for so long - being slowly eroded. That is made more obvious by the references so many of you have made to Muslims and Sharia law and not being sure if I am really a woman or if I am a gay man. The world is changing, has changed, and it is not the world you want. You are the type that requires unquestioned power based on your genitals and the colour of your skin because you don't have what it takes to make it, to be men, in a world where merit matters.
That little thought clicked into place for me with the charming threatening email I received just a little while ago: apparently someone is going to put me in a box and send me to Afganistan where those (redacted) will know how to take care of a garbage whore like me, by stoning me to death
like those immigrants do. I am going to
go there in a box and
come back in a box you see. Such eloquent symmetry that. That really is the trifecta of the modern angry cock: Muslims, women and immigrants. It is sad really.
So, feel free to try to put me in my place, just do remember that that place is not on my knees, at your feet, or beneath you. Here's the thing, gentlemen (and I use the term loosely) - I do not seek to define myself through your eyes or your stereotypes. I don't want a man like you, so telling me you don't like me or you wouldn't marry me, or - not so much a problem. Your 'alpha' and 'beta', your 'game' is tragic. You sound like frat boys, that and angry men who were left for greener pastures and can't get over it.
Here is something to ponder: why do you care so much if I write about fucking? What on earth does it have to do with you? You don't like me - because you see a woman that won't accept your right to dictate to her? Because you put yourself in what you perceive to be my husband's shoes? I don't respect your cultural box so I belong dead in a real one? I'm sorry you are angry at women, at the world, at your life...but that is really not my fault. What I do, who I do it with and what it means - that is between me and my husband - a relationship of which you know nothing.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have to get back to my carousel of random cock. Please take your ignorance, your pathetic rage at the world and at women and take that shit back where it belongs - over to Roissy's.
Oh yes, and comment moderation has now been enabled. Yet another feminist whore silencing you. I know, emasculating : )