Homage To Icarus

Some ran­dom thoughts to com­mem­o­rate the blog retitling/redesign:

Primitivism is Bullshit

It may be inescapable at this point, all chances for decent evo­lu­tion hav­ing been squan­dered on jet-into-building porn, but going back to pil­ing mud is bull­shit, I don’t care how egal­i­tar­ian the mud-piling com­mune is. This thought, wrung dry, is the inspi­ra­tion for the reti­tling. The new feel is retro, I think, like 1998 or sumpin’.

Justice is not Vengeance!

I have a prob­lem with the McNews, battle-o-the-sexes, class-analysis bereft ver­sion of fem­i­nism. The ver­sion that says that sex­ism will truly be dead when women can exploit men with the same verac­ity that men exploit women today, aka “when women are equally rep­re­sented among CEOs then every­thing will be OK.” I’ve noticed it’s often the ver­sion of “fem­i­nism” that wishes to inflict fash­ion mag­a­zines, pink shirts, body-image para­noia, and objec­ti­fi­ca­tion on men, or at least would set­tle for it as some form of pay­back for every media image from June Cleaver to Jenna Jameson.

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