A Modest Proposal

moddivorce — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:00:22 -0500

ROCKS!!!! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Helene

http://themodernwomansdivorceguide.com

You're welcome, Jill!

Bianca Reagan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:22:42 -0500

Thanks for reading!

Love this!!

Jill Miller Zimon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:45:51 -0500

Wow I've been through a lot of patriarchy driven crap this week - I really appreciate this post. Plus, I'm a white woman who has only recently heard about and started really researching WOC and feminist stuff and all the ways they intertwine and differ - so again, thank you for posting this entry.

Jill
Writes Like She Talks

Someone's cruising for a bruising.

Bianca Reagan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:59:15 -0500

I started reading here: Allies Talking. Then I read this: An Open Letter to Jezebel, which included this--The True Story Of One Epic Day Nerds Groped Free--which was in response to this--The Open-Source Boob Project.

So I wondered what Feministing had to say, and I found this: Women's bodies: Just like open-source software!. I found a Nipsey Russell of responses here: Dear sir: I believe your patriarchy is showing.

In conclusion, my favorite reaction was this: A Modest Proposal, by misia.

As we all know, many women long to give a swift kick in the balls to some male person or other. Yet all too often women are prohibited from doing so.

Sometimes this is due to our culture's repressive attitudes toward female violence or because of societal pressure for women to behave in "ladylike" and feminine ways. At times women must censor themselves from administering a good solid boot to the greater masculine crotch due to historically justified fear of reprisal. At yet other times it is nothing more or less than men's self-serving, self-glorifying attitudes toward their precious little patriarchal testicles that lead them to cravenly avoid supporting women's emotional and political expression.

All in all, we live in a culture that routinely prohibits women this useful and healthy outlet for the outrage that almost every women eventually feels as a result of living in a sexist patriarchal society. Indeed, we live in a culture which punishes women for even thinking or talking about expressing their rage in this way.

This must change, and men, who after all have an obligation to help redress thousands of years of unearned patriarchal privilege, also have a moral obligation to help solve this problem.

To this end, we propose a community-based Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project.

Like other Open Source projects, the Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project (OSSKBP) relies on a wide pool of volunteers working together for the common good.

The Project has very simple parameters and it basically works like this:

Men who are open to being given a swift kick in the balls need do nothing. Women will simply assume that any man not clearly indicating his position vis-a-vis being kicked in the balls with an approved OSSKBP badge or pin is open to being kicked in the balls, as any progressive, free-thinking, feminist man ought to be, by any woman who wishes to do so . . .

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A Modest Proposal

You're welcome, Jill!

Love this!!

Someone's cruising for a bruising.