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‘Our Deepest Feelings’

Posted on | September 5, 2014 | 63 Comments

“Many of us who came to lesbian life in the 1950s greeted the . . . feminist movement in the sixties with exuberance and relief because it articulated our deepest feelings. What feminists were saying — about sexism, for example, about male chauvinism and double standards and inequality — touched precisely on those dissatisfactions that had made us want to become lesbians in the first place.”
Lillian Faderman, “Afterword,” in Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance, edited by Dana Heller (1997)

Any reader can research Lillian Faderman who, prior to her retirement in 2007, was a professor of English at California State University, Fresno and a visiting professor at UCLA. Some dutiful reader might try Googling her name in conjunction with the terms “Women’s Studies” and “syllabus” and see how widely her works are assigned (e.g., Washington State University). It might also be helpful to take the titles of some of Professor Faderman’s more influential works, plug them in as Google terms and find how frequently they have been cited in academic literature. Furthermore, what about Professor Dana Heller, chairwoman of the Department of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia? Why isn’t her full curriculum vitae listed on her university home page? Pardon my crowd-sourcing request, but I’ve found myself sucked into the ravenous Brain-Eating Zombie Essay From Hell.

Thursday, I didn’t post anything to the blog because I woke up at 4 a.m. and began writing something — inspired by Professor Glenn Reynolds’ remarks about “broken people” — that rapidly sprawled out of control. By the time I went to bed Thursday night, it was past the 4,000-word mark and so I woke up early Friday morning with the idea that I’d finish it off by noon. WRONG!

Damn it, I hate when this happens, but the work must be done. If my “Sex Trouble” project about radical feminism’s war against human nature is to be complete as an ebook by Thanksgiving, I’ll have to crank out the draft chapters at a grinding pace between now and mid-October, then convert this all into book format during a three-week blitz of editing. My next sledgehammer assault — the brain-eating zombie that is now more than 7,000 words in length — would be ready for publication in a few hours, except that I’m now  babysitting grandson James. Training the next generation of heteronormative patriarchy is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. So maybe I’ll finish the Brain-Eating Zombie From Hell later tonight, or it might have to wait until Saturday. Meanwhile . . .

Palmira Silva, an 82-year-old widow and grandmother, “was beheaded in a north London suburban garden by a man with a machete.” Police are investigating whether the attack was “inspired by recent footage of terrorists beheading two American journalists in Syria.” Officials have not yet confirmed reports from the victim’s neighbors that the 25-year-old suspect “was a local man who had converted to Islam last year.”

Does anyone suppose feminists can stop complaining about “sexism . . . male chauvinism and double standards and inequality” long enough to notice that crazed barbarians are beheading helpless elderly widows in suburban gardens? I don’t think so.

Anyway, between trying to finish this massive essay and taking care of my grandson, I’ll be quietly busy a while.

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

 

Comments

63 Responses to “‘Our Deepest Feelings’”

  1. Dianna Deeley
    September 5th, 2014 @ 3:16 pm

    Whenever I see that “Crazy Cat Lady Starter Kit”, my first response is “AWWWWW! How cute!”

    Then I get a cold chill, remembering that I am over *cough* 40 (by a bit), and have no kids!

  2. RS
    September 5th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm

    We just getting ready to send out a search party.

    Now, I’ll go read the actual post.

  3. RS
    September 5th, 2014 @ 3:29 pm

    . . . those dissatisfactions that had made us want to become lesbians in the first place.(Emphasis added)

    Once again, we see that Lesbians are made by choice, not born. Query, what other self-chosen sexual proclivities will the SCOTUS see fit to elevate to the status of “constitutionaly protected” to the point where those engaged in same can appropriate the definition of marriage?

  4. robertstacymccain
    September 5th, 2014 @ 3:40 pm

    But, but, but … Equality! Progress! Choice!

  5. maniakmedic
    September 5th, 2014 @ 3:41 pm

    But you have managed to avoid associating yourself with crazy ideologies that tend to lead to being ostracized from polite and civilized society, thereby leading up to the Crazy Cat Lady Syndrome, henceforth known as AMPD (Amanda Marcotte Personality Disorder).

  6. concern00
    September 5th, 2014 @ 4:37 pm

    No-one in the LGBTQWTF Coalition of Deviance was born that way. They are simply all victims of the hetero-patriarchy, mentally ill or just have an unnatural proclivity towards deviance. Or maybe they’re just liberals.

  7. M. Thompson
    September 5th, 2014 @ 4:55 pm

    My girlfriend is in her mid twenties, and firmly convinced that kittens make life better. I have told her that an additonal cat means I’m gone.

    But then she did convince me to get a cat, and I will let her turn a barn into a shelter for stray cats…

  8. Jeanette Victoria
    September 5th, 2014 @ 6:06 pm

    When cooking the family meal is now tyranny it’s time to call in the white coats

  9. Dianna Deeley
    September 5th, 2014 @ 6:18 pm

    You’re totally doomed.

    Kittens do make things better, but I satisfy my need by watching various kitten cams.

    Though once I was so traumatized by the horror of the proposal I was working on that I requested my assistant go get me an emergency kitten.

  10. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 5th, 2014 @ 6:28 pm

    Remember that a dinner party for Amanda is opening a can of wet food for the cats, opening a bottle of cheap wine for herself, and having a night of lively drunk blogging.

  11. M. Thompson
    September 5th, 2014 @ 7:06 pm

    I realized I was doomed a while back.

    And there is a Twitter account called “Emergency Kittens” for your cuteness requirements.

  12. maniakmedic
    September 5th, 2014 @ 7:33 pm

    You should try watching corgi puppy videos. The cuteness is almost too much to bear.

  13. kilo6
    September 5th, 2014 @ 7:56 pm

    A stable family including meals may serve as a counterbalance to our hyper-sexualized, Frankfurt School infiltrated culture and thus keep children out of the arms of the state.

    Feminism is based in Marxism and inherently at war with anything which competes with the state as a parental replacement. It really gets tiring reading all that repurposed Bourgeoisie-Proletariat “oppression” dialogue.

  14. Jeanette Victoria
    September 5th, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

    LOL! I used to have six cats. I now only have two but I now also have two dogs

  15. Art Deco
    September 5th, 2014 @ 8:24 pm

    I’m fond of cats and would not wish upon them the ministrations of A. Marcotte or the bald, gap-toothed abortion-clinic IT tech she supposedly lives with.

  16. Jeanette Victoria
    September 5th, 2014 @ 8:34 pm

    I hated the “Emergency Kittens” This was my response

  17. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 5th, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
  18. Zohydro
    September 5th, 2014 @ 9:21 pm

    Is this what it truly means to be “pussy whipped”?

  19. Mike G.
    September 5th, 2014 @ 9:56 pm

    I think she reached into her hoo haa, pulled it out and flung it on the paper to see what stuck.

  20. M. Thompson
    September 5th, 2014 @ 11:45 pm

    No, that would imply certain other things. She enjoys the hetropatriarchy, you know.

  21. richard mcenroe
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:37 am

    ??? She posts with us, doesn’t she?

  22. richard mcenroe
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:43 am

    If I’d known you needed a kitty-cuteness anecdote I’d have taken a picture of our latest rescue glaring at me over its teeth meeting through my thumb… my fault tho.

    In the meantime, here’s a kitty playing computer games…

    http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh465/roue2005/IMG_20140124_222710.jpg

  23. Phil_McG
    September 6th, 2014 @ 6:26 am

    Cats are wonderful, comical, independent-minded animals, and deserve better than to be unfairly stereotyped as the companions of feminists.

  24. Matthew W
    September 6th, 2014 @ 8:18 am

    Fresh batteries too

  25. Matthew W
    September 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 am

    Ewwwwwwww!!

  26. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 9:48 am

    Lol! True, but our overarching goal is not to make people hate us to justify our deviance from societal and civilized norms. And really, I think by this point even Stacy is having a hard time keeping up with the crazy that is the hallmark of feminism.

  27. Mike G.
    September 6th, 2014 @ 9:51 am

    At least you didn’t include us BBQers in this nefarious mix!

  28. M. Thompson
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:03 am

    Cats can earn their own keep, understand concealed carry, and have a sense of hygine. See, furry conservatives!

    Yes, I am joking here. We could use the levity.

  29. Federale
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:34 am

    Anyone notice this: “…touched precisely on those dissatisfactions that had made us want to become lesbians in the first place.’”

    She is claiming that lesbianism is a choice and that she was not born that way. Apparently lesbianism is not genetic, but an apparent neo-Marxist response to wolf-whistles and cat-calls. Lesbians are the Stakhanovites of neo-Marxism, a choice to be at the forefront of the revolution.

  30. Zohydro
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:38 am

    +1 for the reference to “Stakhanovite”!

  31. ChaseOne
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:39 am

    Really? Last I checked Marcotte had a thriving career as a journalist, and a live in boyfriend. What do you got? To hear you tell it, you can’t even land a boyfriend. In short, she’s far more a part of the establishment than you are, or ever will be. You sanctimonious twits need to check yourselves.

  32. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:56 am

    That’s all you’ve got? Really? Try again. I won’t settle for fat slobs and she’s got a castrated gamma male whose balls she keeps in a box on display and I’m supposed to somehow feel like her life is so much better than mine? Oooooh. You really got me there. Seriously, if that’s the best you’ve got, you need to go back to high school (unless that’s where you are, in which case, I hate to break it to you, but the popular kids are never going to let you in their club).

  33. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 10:58 am

    Or the neo-Marxist response to seeing other women get wolf-whistles and cat-calls and not getting any themselves.

  34. Federale
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:12 am

    Thanks for noticing.

  35. ChaseTwo
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:23 am

    Her life is quite obviously better than yours hence all the anger, too, at the mere suggestion. And if you’re attracting nothing but fat slobs I’d say it’s a personal problem. You and I both know it’s a self esteem issue though. and in your case it’s quite literally from you being a 40 year old virgin. Say what you want about Marcotte’s “castrated gamma male”(which is nonsense since he’s got a thriving profession and its really just your inadequacy talking) but at least she’s got a man, and for that alone is a step above you. And you think I’m saying this because I’m eager to be accepted? Lol! I’m saying because it’s true, and you’re a self righteous twit who needs to check herself.

  36. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:28 am

    Anger? You thought that was anger? Cupcake, you have a reading comprehension problem. That was me making fun of you. But please, tell me again what I’m thinking. It’s amusing to watch you beclown yourself while thinking you are showing off in front of your high school friends. You are such a funny troll.

  37. RS
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:45 am

    Given that Ms. Marcotte’s “thriving career” consists of attempting to take the most prosaic and pedestrian aspects of human existence and, with sonorous tone and , elevate them to some grand archetype of evil, (See, e.g. “Tyranny of Family Meal) I would appear that you are defining “success” way, way down.

  38. RS
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:47 am

    If one’s goal is to attain the title of “Supreme Poobah of Misanthrop ,” then yes, Ms. Marcotte’s life is obviously “better” than our lives. Indeed, I’m proud to say I’m an utter failure in that reality.

  39. RS
    September 6th, 2014 @ 11:48 am

    “Misanthopy.” My “y” key sticks.

  40. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 12:23 pm

    What do you expect from somebody who has committed the cardinal sin against feminism of proclaiming a woman’s life to be better than another woman’s just because that first woman has a man?

  41. Art Deco
    September 6th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm

    (which is nonsense since he’s got a thriving profession and its really just your inadequacy talking)

    He’s an IT tech at an abortion clinic.

  42. Chase4
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm

    Sorry, I’m judging you by your own standards, hypocrite. And Slate, and the Daily Beast are widely read than anything here.

  43. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm

    I had forgotten about that (though I did remember that his career was nothing to write home about). But I guess I should just go kill myself right now because my life is just not worth living without someone whose “thriving career” consists of helping doctors keep their digital records of baby murders up and running. Wherever could I possibly find a winner like that to tie down, neuter, and then drag around like a pocket dog to whip out and prove my bonafides as a normal straight woman whenever normal women have the audacity to question my snide dismissal of everything they hold dear? ‘Tis quite the conundrum.

    (The preceding was not directed at you, Art Deco. Just in case that wasn’t clear.)

  44. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

    Ah, the standards you built in your little fantasy land in your head. I guess pointing out that you’re wrong and should probably take a remedial logic course would be wasted advice. Now you might want to get back to defacing your schoolbooks before you have to read anything this year and actual risk learning something.

  45. maniakmedic
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:16 pm

    There is no amount of brain bleach that could wipe that image clean.

  46. Mike G.
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm

    I deeply apologize for not putting in a Trigger Warning and I denounce myself.

  47. Chase5
    September 6th, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

    Those are all your standards. You started this with the assumption that she’s a “lonely crazy woman” which is just the usual vitriol and ad hom hat brainless conservatives use in absence of an argument. The opposite is true though. She writes for widely read publications(slate, db, huffpo) and has a boyfriend. And you have what? obviously a good profession and a significant other is something you prize otherwise you wouldn’t have mocked her for supposedly not having these things, or anyone else for that matter. The fantasy is in your head(all that want me are slobs, etc.). I’ve pointed out nothing other than facts. It’s possible you’re just a repressed lesbian as in past posts you’ve described some gender confusion, you’re conservative, and bash gays, the latter two being good indicators also.

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  49. Flyover Pilgrim
    September 6th, 2014 @ 4:36 pm

    Wait-wait-wait: “…had made us want to become lesbians…” I thought it was genetics, that they were *born* that way. /sarc

  50. Dianna Deeley
    September 6th, 2014 @ 7:12 pm

    I lost my corgi on July 17, 2013. I’m not quite up to watching corgi puppies, quite yet. Maybe next year.