Don't Start None, Won't Be None

Now Ms. Althouse asks the “feminists” to come to her aid as she continues her inexplicable vindictiveness against the fledgling Open Source Media:

One thing Kevin [Drum, who, early this year famously asked where the women bloggers were] failed to note is that male attacks on women are not so much of a food fight as a sex fight. Blogosphere-strength fighting with a woman takes on an outrageous sexual tone, aggressively declaring that that this is a boy's game. Are there any feminists around to see when it's happening and say a little something?

Well I don’t know if I am a feminist. As Dean Esmay noted some time ago, black women and Latinas tend to roll their eyes at white feminists, simply as a matter of relativity: most of us never had to fight for our right to work and were often treated a little too equal to our menfolk.

I’ll be polite and won’t tender a virtual snort (as to eye-rolling, well…). But I will note that when a woman starts a conflict and, in the midst of it, turns such poetic phrases including “pus and semen” in relation to a criticism of the name of a venture and then complains about an “outrageous sexual tone” and aggressiveness, the word hypocrisy comes to mind.

My dad told me that if a man ever hit me that I should pick up the heaviest object I could wield with some dexterity and flexibility and try to stuff it down his throat.

However, he also told me that if I ever hit a man first that I should expect to get hit back and that some men might use the weapons available to them as well; that it was only fair.

Accepting reality, human nature and fairness and eschewing victimology, rather than falling back on it when one can't take the heat: that’s feminism.

UPDATE: A new virus has mutated to the human form: ODS. Different from BDS in etiology, it pops up in unexpected places.

Comments

[dave]

Hey Baldilocks,

I"m still waiting for the "American Feminist" to start loudly cheering for the Afghan and Iraqi women who can now move freely in the world of work, elections and having their faces seen in public.

But I'm not holding my breath.

[Cynical Nation]

Your dad sounds like a wise man. :-)

He also sounds a bit like my own old man, God rest his soul.

[wmscott]

Once again you have shown me a rare wisdom that should be common. Keep it up!

I have 2 daughters and both of them have been trained in self defense and taught to be HUMAN first. Most gender issues in my experience are taken care of by the word "no".

Women with self confidence rarely suffer the slings and arrows of badly behaving men. Some men however quite willingly prey on women who lack self confidence.

Strangely many of the worst male chauvinist pigs I have dealt with where LIBERALS! One who was a College VP in charge of Womens Studies.

[playah grrl]

i'm still furious at her.

[playah grrl]

*blush*
my manners.
thank you for the link.
;-)

[Ann Althouse]

Baldilocks: You're misreading the intent of my post. I can defend myself and am defending myself. I'm also laughing at them. (Listen to me on my podcast #21.) My post is about asking people who care about feminism to become outraged about how women are attacked. I'm not asking people to come and help me, but to be aware of the rank sexism that is displayed in certain parts of the web. I admit I asked for a fight, but I'm still allowed to criticize how people fight. In fact, that's part of the way I fight.

[skinnerI]

who gives a rats ass about women
This is a sports blog IDIOTS
I went to my brothers place to watch the oregon ducks game because this women I live with was having a menopause incident
shes soon to be 50 but shes been having them since I met her 12 years ago I guess this is a textbook case If only I could send her to a big hospital , back east or somewhere ... perhaps I could relearn what happiness is.

I came back from the game and she was gone Halleleia [however you spell it } I left out a J or something any ways I brout my dog in and for the first time in a long time I was able to sing New York Newyork as loud as I could I LOVE IT My dog loves me more two and its now his favorite song also his tail was going 90 miles an hour.
But Im a great SINGER!!! DUM
DUMPH DA DA DA DA ! DUM DUMPH DAH DA DA DAH!!!!!!!! START SPREADING THE N E W S hey, IM
LLLEAVING TO DAY!!!! HEY,
You should see me throwing the air microphone up !!! snapping my fingers and jerking it around like no tomorrow I am definetly cooler then man was meant to be and my dog Knows it
I'm gonna WAKE UP in a town that never S L E E E P S A numero uno KING O F T H E
H E A P ON TOP OF THE HILL

OH Im sorry that was Kerrys pipe dream He shouldnt have had butt sex with Viet cong HUH? but look at him now hes butt buddies with chappequidick Melon head
Kennedy WHEN will it Implode?? The pressure must be massive His head is like a big cyst puss bag and when it blows
By all means STAND CLEAR

[Warthog]

It must be the meth!

[Don Surber]

How dare anyone criticize the Biggest Bloggers In The Universe, eh?
Little disappointed in you, Baldilocks. But I still love ya

[baldilocks]

Check your email, Don.