Schwyzer is a Counter-Feminist Reader
The collaborationist Hugo Schwyzer, of chinchilla fame, has had the goodness to link to this blog from the comment section of the Feministe blog, demonstrating that he is one of my readers. I'm sure he is a very regular reader, too - as what person on his side of the gender war wouldn't be? At any rate, we may now aver with confidence that Hugo has excellent taste, for The Counter-Feminist is beyond all doubt the New Yorker of MRA blogs - the creme de la creme! ;)
Those who are sufficiently motivated, may discover the item in question on the following thread:
www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/03/07/
wapo-calls-out-law-school-pervs/
It seems that some law students, or suchlike, committed some truly horrendous act of cyberstalking against some woman - some fellow student if I'm not mistaken - and it raised one hell of a stink. Or so I gather. That's all I can say, since I couldn't be bothered to look into it. But it was quite the hullabaloo, apparently.
Anyway, Hugo chimed in somewhere near the bottom of the thread.
:}
Post post: Hey Hugo!
Would you be willing to ABJURE THE REDSTOCKINGS MANIFESTO?
Those who are sufficiently motivated, may discover the item in question on the following thread:
www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/03/07/
wapo-calls-out-law-school-pervs/
It seems that some law students, or suchlike, committed some truly horrendous act of cyberstalking against some woman - some fellow student if I'm not mistaken - and it raised one hell of a stink. Or so I gather. That's all I can say, since I couldn't be bothered to look into it. But it was quite the hullabaloo, apparently.
Anyway, Hugo chimed in somewhere near the bottom of the thread.
"Gosh, I get swamped at school and miss all this. I have nothing to add, other than a voice of support for Jill and everyone else targeted by these lads. I’m lucky; the MRAs only compare me to Quisling and the Vichy Regime."Did you catch the last bit..? Yes, Hugo linked to my next-to-last post, the one entitled Shaming Language! And it's true, I did indeed shove him into the same barrel with Vidkun Quisling - although I made no explicit mention of the Vichy Regime. But, ahem!, it's certainly a huge relief to know that I'm not as awful as those "lads"!
:}
Post post: Hey Hugo!
Would you be willing to ABJURE THE REDSTOCKINGS MANIFESTO?
posted by Fidelbogen at 9:24 PM
4 Comments:
Fidel,
You would have a field day critiquing the rest of Hugoboy's comment.
Apparently, our favourite collaborationist says that if men criticize a woman for being fat, that's worse than if she is criticized for being a twit.
If men criticize a man for being a twit, however, THAT'S taken as a sign that he has 'male privilege' because those men are not sufficiently 'in touch with their feminine side' to make fun of his physical flaws.
Of course women incur absolutely no blame because they were oppressed.. by men of course.
According to hugoboy's logic, men and women should compete against each other in professional sports on their own merits, since, after all, men and women are 'equal' to each other in every respect, 'cept the hoohoodilly and chacha.
At least within the context of wimbledon, I see no reason why they shouldn't, now that the prize money is the same.
Davout: Thanks for your take on Hugo's remarks; it was penetrating and illuminating. I think you are better at that brand of analysis than I, since I tend to get bored rather quickly with the material in question, and my brain sorta like....glazes over and conks out...!
Which is exactly what happened when I wrote this post - it was originally meant to be longer, and to cover the rest of Hugo's remarks as you suggested. But for some reason I developed a mysterious case of ADHD right in the middle of writing....so I cut it short.
I'm thinking of taking it up again in a sequel. Meanwhile, if you feel like picking up the collaborationist's words and running with 'em (on your blog) then...by all means!
I just looked up the thread on Schwyzer's blog which inspired my post entitled Shaming Language.
It contains plenty of food for thought...and hopefully makes clear my context of thinking while I was writing the post.
CLINK HERE...
The same sort of vicious attack on men that the woman law student so decries when it is directed against women IS NOW PART OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM.
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