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“When I asked male interview subjects what they would like to do in bed, “ejaculation on a woman’s face” was most often at the top of their lists. But when I asked them what the attraction of this act was and whether it meant anything, their initial response was puzzlement. They had never given it much thought. With time for reflection, however, most came up with answers very similar to those of the pornographers I interviewed: it is about controlling women, doing something disgusting to them. It’s like spitting or urinating on them. Thus something unsettling about gender relationships mediated by pornography is revealed: on-screen male domination is sugar-coated — portrayed as causing women ecstasy — which in turn arouses further desire on the part of the male viewers: the desire to experience the pleasure derived from control and aggression.
And deep down, these viewers understand it. “The second you have an orgasm and that passion sinks out of your body, and you’re still watching the movie, you start to really see what’s going on,” one male college student said. “This is not sexy. This is not sex. This is not how I want to experience sex.
-Chyng Sun, co-director of The Price of Pleasure
“Assassin’s Creed 4 marks the first step into next gen for the franchise. Learn how AC4 utilizes next gen technology to create realistic oceans, dynamic weather systems, ambient lighting, and seamless ship boarding.” – Ubisoft Team
Thanks Ubisoft for making a nice looking ocean and flora that bends with the rainfall. You know what would actually be revolutionary? A female as the lead role in the game. That my besotted dudelly programming/marketing types would be fucking revolutionary.
Yerp! Efforts to maintain historical accuracy prevent Ubisoft from having a female protagonist. Concomitantly, it enables them to continue to act like complete bags of douche!
You know what isn’t revolutionary but more of the standard 365, 24/7, misogyny hailstorm women deal with *since forever*, are interviews like this:
Ubisoft steered clear of making the Assassin’s Creed III protagonist a female character because the game’s setting is not a strong match, according to creative director Alex Hutchinson. Speaking to Kotaku, Hutchinson said the American Revolution time period is all about men. “It’s always up in the air,” Hutchinson said. “I think lots of people want it, [but] in this period it’s been a bit of a pain. The history of the American Revolution is the history of men.”
Oh! Because you are making a historically accurate document and are entering Assassin’s Creed 3 into the Library of Congress NON-fiction. Jebus-dancing-christ-on-a-pogostick. It’s a historically inaccurate run around stab festival with historical trappings, nothing more.
“There are a few people, like John Adams’ wife, [Abigail]–they tried very hard in the [HBO series John Adams] to not make it look like a bunch of dudes, but it really is a bunch of dudes,” he added.
Are you fucking kidding me? You’re saying because of an HBO special you can’t possibly put a woman as lead character? This sort of vapid prolix is industry standard when it comes to worshipping the all mighty ‘peen. It is based on nothing but ignorance and misogyny. If you bothered to look you would see women play just as important role in the revolution as men did (time to google women’s role in the AR? 5 seconds), but as with much of history we favour the male based narrative.
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has bent the books of history before, but Hutchinson admitted that doing so in Assassin’s Creed III could be problematic.
“It felt like, if you had all these men in every scene and you’re secretly, stealthily in crowds of dudes [as a female assassin], it starts to feel kind of wrong,” he said. “People would stop believing it.”
Ah yes because jumping off of 3 to 7 story buildings into conveniently placed bales of hay is stone fucking cold reality. See below about the suddenly all important believably factor…
No Hutchinson dude, I’m calling shenanigans on this polished crown of turds you’re calling an explanation. You are talking out of your ass trying to avoid the issue: that is the money that greases your skids won’t pay for a female protagonist.
And admitting that you are too fucking in love with $$ to truly make a revolutionary game doesn’t look good in the press. So lets see where was that quote….
“Assassin’s Creed 4 marks the first step into next gen for the franchise. Learn how AC4 utilizes next gen technology to create realistic oceans, dynamic weather systems, ambient lighting, and seamless ship boarding.” – Ubisoft Team
Take your oceans, your pretty lights and and whatever other techno-wank you’re peddling and kindly frak-off.
Come back when you have something that actually qualifies as “revolutionary“.
I just needed to share this with you, gentle readers. My humble experiences on other feminists blogs reminds me that women discussing women’s issues is a clairion call that rouses the dudes who either don’t have a clue what’s going on, or by the rights invested in their ‘peen, decide to tell women what the issue is, and even, if they issue is actually an issue at all. It happens on even the most basic of issues that should be obvious if not blinkered by privilege and good ole fashioned ignorance.
Here it is.
The title of the post is “Men Taking up too much space”. No relevant text, just the picture and a link to the tumblr that has more images of dudes being dudes. It brings up a valid point:
that in the public sphere men get to define their own space and women do not.
Let’s sample the comments on this seemingly straightforward post.
I disapprove of this website. It’s pretty mean-spirited to post pictures of people on a public forum for the permanent record for what amounts to (at most) a very minor infraction. Moreover, I can’t tell how empty these trains are. There are a couple of pictures in which it is clear that the dude is crowding out other people — the one linked above for example. But most of them that’s just not even close to obvious, and from what I can tell, a lot of the trains look fairly empty. So why shouldn’t people — men or women — spread out a little? Some of the picture also seem to me to be more anti-fat person too.
Really? We’re going to nit-pick privacy issues and state strong disapprobation with the entire website! The use of public space is a phenomena and not all pictures are going to be black and white clear cut examples. Hyperskepticism rears its ugly head once again, funny how it only comes along when male privilege(NSFW link warning) is challenged.
More on the sacred right of privacy for dudes:
“It’s not hard to blur out the faces of the photographs. It’s in fact really easy. The organizers of this site have opted to not do this.”
“I have to concur that this was an unreasonable decision on the part of the person or persons who operate that website. Even if it weren’t true that, as Matt points out, the website includes many marginal and/or ambiguous cases”
“Why couldn’t they blur the faces? Terrible judgment involved here, of the kind that inherently tends to overshadow the point they were trying to make (which is a shame).”
Translation: How dare you violate the privacy of men?! We are talking about people here and their privacy. What about the poor menz!!11!11!!
I arch my eyebrow at the bleating of this inconsequential minor infraction and then look back up to the link to a search using the key terms “upskirt” and “voyeur” and behold the hundreds of sites offering thousands of pictures of women who unlike the clothed men in the tumblr photos, are often naked or in states of undress, unconsenting and unaware.
But non blurred faces of these dudes “overshadows the point”. *sigh* What isn’t overshadowed is the societal conditioning that Men are the default standard human beings and women are the sex class and most pointedly do not share the same status as men.
It gets better, or really, worse as the comments go on. We’ll file this next section under privileged clueless dudes that have important things to say:
“2) When men do encroach, as in the OP photo, people have to say something. It irritates me to covertly sneer at someone over the distance of the Internet in lieu of confronting them face to face.”
“And I’m not making any assumptions about “equal basis”, whatever that means, or socialization.”
“I’m talking about how we change bad conduct. It’s not by being self-righteous and cowardly over the Internet.”
“Definitely. But the mean-spiritedness and humiliation tactics are misplaced, especially in a world with much bigger issues for gender equality than space-hoggers on public transit. It trivializes women’s issues; it’s so petty I couldn’t take it seriously.”
Oh the sheer ignorance on display. It is so amazing to watch the clueless ramble on about how things are and if only women did this. Make careful notes good readers at the privilege-blind wanking going here that conveniently ignores social norms, power gradients and gender socialization in society. If your space is enroached on, then just tell the person off. Easy as pie. What is your problem here???
*headesking them forever (thanks Syrbal)* – Dudes will come up with all sorts of shite to mansplain away the concerns of women.
But enough indulgence. If you have any spoons left over and feel like taking a run at educating dudes on the internet, join the fun over at Feminist Philosophers.. :)
The following pictures are truck decals;pictures you would paste on to the back of your truck bed. I assume this is so you can ‘pimp’ your truck in order to share with the world your creepily-violent-asshole-ish nature.
These are actual things in the world. Unfuckingbelievable .
THIS IS MARRIAGE!!
Thats right!
Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.
He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”
Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.
I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT
LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.
In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.
Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.
Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.
Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.
FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.
Many thanks to the Evil Feminist.
Almost always when discussing Feminism there is a person that decides to add to the discussion and proceed to *argle-bargle* on about things when in fact they are proving most adroitly that they cannot find their ass with both hands.
Education is one of the goals of this blog and in that light I present an incomplete, yet succinct list of some of the disadvantages women face both historically and today.
Limited range of motion = weakness, so men invent foot-binding and corsets and neck elongators
Lack of education = weakness, so men create a systemic restriction of education, where women are prohibited from entering (the concept of universal, collegiate education is a 20th c western phenomena, and still hasn’t reached parity in other areas of the world)
Lack of capital = weakness, so men have historically prohibited women from owning property, voting or exercising political, economic or social capital
Lack of agency = weakness, so men devise a system that packages “woman” as something to be owned; fathers own their daughters until they’re “given away” to their husbands, whereupon they’re expected to produce sons on whom the mother is expected to rely in old age
“Femininity”, at its very root, is the male fetishization of an idealized weakness. That’s Feminism 101.
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