tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post2019834642551494189..comments2023-12-21T08:53:00.190-05:00Comments on Forever In Hell: Meanwhile, at the Intersection of Atheism and FeminismPersonalFailurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-21340014402407008382009-03-23T15:29:00.000-04:002009-03-23T15:29:00.000-04:00well...if he had a decent subject, i think he coul...well...<BR/>if he had a decent subject, i think he could be a decent poet. i DO think that its a waste that instead of using his talent for something worthwile, he is wasting it bitching about how his privilege is less than he thinks it should be.<BR/><BR/>i don't know if i should have sarcastiquoted "talent". i can see arguments both ways...<BR/><BR/>wasn't the offspring of Zeus, as a swan, Helen of Troy? how is that a "son"? i, too, immediately jumped to that myth, but i can't make it line up.<BR/>as well,denelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083149213773118359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-32885340854520173162009-03-23T10:28:00.000-04:002009-03-23T10:28:00.000-04:00Didn't you mean to sarcastiquote that talent?"Son ...Didn't you mean to sarcastiquote that talent?<BR/><BR/>"Son of a swan" might be a reference to Zeus, who once seduced a woman while in the form of a swan. (Greeks were WEIRD.)<BR/><BR/>All in all, I'm not tempted to parse it too much. Try being a woman, asshat. Try being a disabled atheist woman. That's even more fun.PersonalFailurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-88653336199340185432009-03-20T09:40:00.000-04:002009-03-20T09:40:00.000-04:00um . . . thanks?um . . . thanks?PersonalFailurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-61614963492693304612009-03-19T22:14:00.000-04:002009-03-19T22:14:00.000-04:00White, Straight Male in a “Feminist’s WorldByJohn ...White, Straight Male in a “Feminist’s World<BR/>By<BR/>John Maszka<BR/><BR/>Once again, she ignores me—calling on everyone else, just not me. <BR/>She waits for someone else to speak…Anyone at all; as long as they’re female or gay or a different color than me. Even when she acknowledges me, she tells me to wait and then never allows me to speak. <BR/>I don’t know why I even try.<BR/>I’m invisible and yet still, she targets me with isolation.<BR/>She’s obviously very angry,<BR/>Her passive-aggression gives her away.<BR/>“Did you have your hand up?” She asks the others but never me.<BR/>“Do you have something to add?” Words I’ll never hear. <BR/>Not here anyway.<BR/>My opinion is not welcome.<BR/>I’m a white, male—<BR/>And heterosexual too!<BR/>I might as well be a leper!<BR/>“Unclean!”<BR/>Ostracized by the “feminist” who claims to champion the unempowered;<BR/>but she uses her position of power to oppress and silence.<BR/>Her thin veil of hypocrisy, yellow like her teeth, barely conceals her cowardice.<BR/>Are you the “son of a Swan?”<BR/>or the abandoned offspring of a harpy?<BR/>The goddess Diana resents your name.<BR/>You preach about ethics, but look what you do.<BR/>You’re not a feminist, you’re a liar—and the worst kind…<BR/>Pretending to be a victim as you wipe the blood from your lips.Dr. John Maszkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16905393599292676151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1334761054277672365.post-11947875619293874242009-03-19T10:37:00.000-04:002009-03-19T10:37:00.000-04:00Hehehe, awesome!Hehehe, awesome!Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01264241978515946396noreply@blogger.com