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THE FULL METAL BITCH: Supporting Rape Victims Without Oppression, Part One

Anonymous asked: does it occur to you that most of the people that do that are tired of having to respond to the same five or six derails time and time again and refining the expediency with which they address those arguments? we don't all have the privilege to call out things when it suits us best/when we have the spoons.

Indeed it has occurred to me. Considering the amount of traffic some SJ blogs get on here, it’s not surprising that bloggers evolve a kind of intellectual shorthand. However, that’s not really what I’m talking about here. I understand the need for deal with things quickly - that Derailing for Dummies page is a good example, since it’s not a bad breakdown of how a person might be Doing It Wrong, and most derails can be traced to a point somewhere on it.

However, you seem to be talking about efficiency, whereas my annoyance is with laziness. 

Anonymous asked: i think the way you keep using the term 'sloganisation' in every facile rant you do about the SJ community is sloganising and you need to start critically evaluating your language better

Well, someone’s been waaaay back through my blog.

I literally control-f’d my way back through six pages and couldn’t find a single mention of the word.

That doesn’t especially matter to me though - your question is justified.

I think what aggravates me most is when I see worthwhile concepts and ideas churned down into slurry, which is then used to shut down discussions rather than to begin them.

Take an example which has been popping up on my dashboard a lot recently - the phrase ‘show me the receipts.’

As far as I can tell, this phrase just means ‘show me evidence for the things you’re talking about.’ Nothing wrong with that at all. But it’s often not used for that purpose. Say someone made a critique of someone else’s post, and made a secondary point which was a bit tenuous. The original poster could just burble ‘BRING ME THE RECEIPTS,’ not address any of the other points made, and have done with it. That’s what I mean when I talk about sloganising - it’s a lazy way of not dealing with the points being raised.

I guess the same could be argued in a different way for the term ‘Islamophobia.’ Again, it has its roots in a good idea. In the wake of terrorist attacks on the UK and the US in the mid 2000a, it wasn’t unusual to read reports of gangs of semi-literate thugs harassing anyone they saw who wore a turban (they usually picked sikhs and hindus. Idiots.)

Now, that’s despicable, and I’ve stood up for Islamic friends - and strangers too - who were being given a hard time by shaven-headed idiots who could barely pronounce the word ‘mohammed.’ Islamophobia by definition, you might say. 

But when I, who have read the Quran, and know what it really says about homosexuals and women, and know how it was duct-taped together over a great period of time, make a criticism of it… To call that ‘Islamophobic’ is an insult to every muslim in this country who dies with the words ‘bin laden’ on the lips of their white attackers.

I like the word ‘facile’ though. It puts me in mind of a plant that’s been kept in the dark too long.

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I have just realised that the relationship Nick Gonzo and I have is pretty well analagous to Johnny Depp / Hunter S. Thompson.

Anonymous asked: How canvernous IS your ass?