Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

2007-01-21 04:34:00
Oooops! I may be plagiarizing there. Whatev. I’ve been quite irked of late to read a lot of dismissals of theory and ideology, as if to say that asshattery and shitbagginess are caused by commitment to a political theory or ideology. I’m an ideologue and I am proud. Indeed, pretty much every single person […]

this was also originally published a few years ago, 2007-01-01 00:51:11
reposted for archival purposes. It’s actually a repost of something written for the Bad Subjects zine by an anonymous writer. Don’t know if it’s still online but the link to the old issue is included below.
Dedicated to RenEv, you spitfire, you. heh.
Actually, the title is, […]

I rescued my old posts on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions, archiving them here: http://cleandraws.com/category/so-very-1998/janet-halley-so-very-1998/
sorry to be behind on that project. took a spill on my bike and had to recuperate.

good god. monday, i forgot to bring a book to work. i dropped into the bookstore and picked up Bitch magazine to read at lunch. I read about a woman who twittered her abortion and the attacks she received.
why i am surprised that jezebel readers accused her of being a baiter for the rightwing, i […]

*rolls eyes to back of head*
good grief. i get back from vacation and get to read romaniticizing bullshit about breastfeeding on the loblist! capitalist pigs hate breast feeding, yanno? coz it combines pleasure, sex, and food and that combination is subversive, doncha know. ferfucksake!
when i was little, i used to sit near my mother’s feet […]

looking for something in the archives of the old blog. i’m thinking i’d like to eventually teach a course for the workers justice center we are getting off the ground here. i want to call the class: your employer hates you. i knew i had used that phrase before, so i looked it up and […]

lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]

this was originally posted on the old blog, 2006.05.02. I’m reposting it because it is too long to post the whole thing on a discussion list.

I’d mentioned to piny that one of the problems with the attacks on “trans politics” (sic) was that they argued that, as long as transfolk weren’t being denied their formal […]

Doug Henwood tried to mock Carrol Cox for chiding people about using logical fallacy in their discussion of Gore Vidal. Doug wrote:
Life isn’t about people. It’s about Historical Forces.
Yeah, it was a dumb comment because it really has zippo to do with Carrol’s theory of society. It has a lot more to do […]

So, one of the other things I didn’t address in Walter Been Michaels’ book, The Trouble with Diversity, was the chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems to begin as an attempt disarm critics who might argue that he is singling out race when it comes to diversity. To really be fair, and not […]

since a bunch of people i respect are recommending the work of hardt and negri, i started poking around reading reviews. i read this:
Multitude contains solid concepts undermined by nuttiness: “We need a more generous and more unrestrained conception of love. We need to recuperate the public and political conception of love common to premodern […]

undercover punk wrote to ask me if i’d somehow find time to get a Sarah Hoagland article on lesbian separatism back online. It’s buried in the deadness that is the old blog. It’s been hacked because of neglect and I have been too lazy to inspect all the files to find out which they hacked […]

i have to say, in trying to explain why Other people were bad people who should be paid n attention, she described exactly why i no longer read her.
the post itself exemplifies the behavior she is criticizing. these ones over there, they do X and its bad and destructive to healthy debate (which implies […]

freakin’ idiot. i don’t recall how i found this, but I saw this blog post, http://hellonhairylegs.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/like%E2%80%A6no-way-wevs/
The author, in comments, replies to someone named whatsherface. WHF says that there is sich a thing as feminist porn. Blog author says,
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you mean porn in a magical location where patriarchy has been eradicated?
The idiocy of such comments… If feminist […]

dish please. I’m reading on brownfemipower’s blog that there was something that bloggers did to marcotte, valenti, etc. called swarming?
WTF is that all about?
now it seems to be that folks are apologizing for doing it.
dish please!

yeah. i think I’m adorno, ‘k?
first, I have two new books with which to avoid reading Moishe Postone. _Fresh: a perishable history_ by Susanne Freidberg and _The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language_ by Christine Kenneally.
I immediately wrote Dwayne to let him know since we have been relishing reading various books that […]

last week, i had to work an early morning release: get up at 3 a.m. to be to work by 4 a.m. to help make sure a big software release goes out correctly during our maintenance hours. I was doing this twice a week, to help out an understaffed QA department. After months, they cut […]

This is a really awesome talk hooks gave. In it, she brings up the issue that inflamed folks recently when Renee Martin wrote about big girl panties. While I disagree with Martin’s characterizations of Black Amazon and others, I think hooks says some really interesting things here, some of which I tend to chafe against […]

At work, I’ve been doing a lot of rather rote work that requires a ton of QA. It leaves me lots of time to listen to lectures and talks on youtube. I finally found that one video that I’d seen, the one where hooks discusses institutionalized racism and what she thinks of as the need […]

went to see Observe and Report over the weekend, on the strength of Lauren’s (Faux Real Tho) comments about the director’s previous work. I have had The Foot Fist Way on my list of must-sees for awhile…
Meanwhile, I ordered my book for my feminist book reading group last week and it finally arrived. While logged […]

this is a really great review of Martha Nussbaum’s book, Sex and Social Justice Cecilia (from Au) kept telling me to read it because I’d probably appreciate her discussion of objectification, sex work, etc. I read it two summers ago, and after wading through what seemed to be far too much text for what it […]

http://www.brittanyshoot.com/archives/61
Rumor 2: I am a failure if I’m not asked to “guest blog.” Sorry, I was never into nepotism, and no, I would not be honored to spend my afternoon linking to a bunch of other “feminist” blog posts because you need ad revenue and are too busy to post that shit yourself. Spreading my […]

at work, I’ve been listening to Angela Davis — just search on youtube and listen to them all. It’s all you need to understand what is going on, and how to address so many of the issues that come up repeatedly within leftist and feminist circles.
Seriously.
Meanwhile, a “related video” alert brought me to this […]

Angela Davis talks about how change happens and about her understanding of feminism. She speaks to the issue, often noted here and elsewhere, that the people behind the Montgomery bus boycott were women, that Rosa Parks wasn’t just a tired woman who got fed up one day, etc. It’s very good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6RHtEbiOA

Last year, I read Serrano’s Whipping Girl, which was very good. I was reminded of it when I saw a post at Womanist Musings which featured several cuts of Serrano speaking out against the bigotry against transgendered women on the part of ‘radical feminists’. She’s pretty engaging, much like her book. It reminds me though […]