tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67243064898355011452012-02-23T22:58:49.966-06:00Obnoxious Libertarian Jew gets in fights with the world and shitM.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16438817799682053974noreply@blogger.comBlogger2951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-44432409338759340412012-02-20T23:38:00.000-06:002012-02-20T23:38:50.655-06:00

Computer's still dead, posting's still light and--as always--completely self indulgent. Right then. I still find it weird that even us hardcore pro-choice types are supposed to relent a little when it comes to ourselves and our family. Like "oh it's cool that your uncle/aunt/2nd cousin/whatever relentlessly pushes you to conform to traditional gender roles that dictate what you do with your own

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-90914918134089539072012-02-18T04:28:00.000-06:002012-02-18T04:28:16.711-06:00

Of course, this *was* on shakesville, that bastion of "it's only feminism if it's liberal and then only if it looks like my feminism and also you're full of fat hate! Bigot". The ever present notion that you're fucking wrong if you're not using the enthusiastic verbal affirmation consent the Perfect Feminists are using. Specifically* some dreck about if you're "privileged enough" to be

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-11654018586257394162012-02-14T23:57:00.000-06:002012-02-14T23:57:33.137-06:00

I pinched a nerve in my back. My upper back, right under the shoulder blades. It's in such a weird spot that breathing can be shitty but by in large movement is unaffected. And it's nowhere near my uterus. Somewhere along the line i began noticing something, that anytime i have some sort of ache or pain or not a headcold illness someone along the line thinks it must be related to the all

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-51335875951340289442012-02-10T22:59:00.000-06:002012-02-10T22:59:36.659-06:00

Quick upkeep note first. All my computers save the ereader are dead. May they rest in peace. Bearing that in mind, posting will be light until i find something that lets me type with more than my thumbs. Now back to our regularly scheduled bitching. Every so often i have a mental editing session when it comes to the great big book of romantic shit i keep stored in my head. Today's edits boil

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-71050762687884474082012-01-21T22:40:00.000-06:002012-01-21T22:40:49.648-06:00

It's been a while since I've encountered the *really* ridiculous shit that the anti-Israel crowd likes to throw out there.  I don't even know how to frame this, what to do with it because it is sooooo ludicrous.  So in the meantime, I'm just gonna throw out how godawful this nonsense is.  Shit like: Zionism is a racist ideology Zionism is fascism  Zionism was developed by imperialist Europeans

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-67630743244297530462012-01-11T22:31:00.000-06:002012-01-11T22:31:24.066-06:00

For fucks sakes.  It's gotten to the point where even bemoaning paulbots for never shutting up ever has elicited responses of "why you gotta hate ron paul bro!".  Just this ridiculous non-stop barrage of fail from--predominantly--drug reformers and sad little white men libertarians who haven't quite thought things out just absolutely enamored of saint ronnie's brand of liberty for me but not thee

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-91883776635166541352012-01-11T12:41:00.000-06:002012-01-11T12:41:18.540-06:00

I hate isolationists.  Isolationism in general is my big political hatefest at the moment.  Though to be fair, that is a bit of a subcategory of "shit I hate about Ron Paul and the Paulbots" (which, upon further thought would be a pretty good band name).  It's been a fairly popular subject between his extreme isolationist stance and the shit he said about the Holocaust being not worth American

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-52638962463514696472012-01-11T00:04:00.000-06:002012-01-11T00:04:54.194-06:00

I had this conversation with the boyfriend that the summation of which is all: Hay thanks for not thinking the potential that i will divulge traumatizing experiences from my life with you andit will be more special than virginity is a romantic activity! I am like that right now, that is what. There's no romance in the whole idea that someone is broken and you, person who has had a normal life,

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-23854116277230409912012-01-10T23:45:00.000-06:002012-01-10T23:45:11.060-06:00

I've been trying to explain how the far left in Iowa operates to the boyfriend, I'm fairly certain his head is about to explode from the sheer mass of fallacies all presented at once.  To be fair though, I'm not certain how my head has managed not to explode.  We were going to go laugh at "occupy des moines" sorry stunt in the capitol today--and for posterity's sake I will note, yet again,

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-4015547941443955532012-01-08T22:32:00.000-06:002012-01-08T22:32:34.869-06:00

I'm dicking around, slowly making a shiny new post with some substance for once but at the moment I'm crazy fatigued for some reason so here's a round up of shit I published on the blog through 2011 that I think is shiny enough to re-post in a self-congratulatory sort of heap.  January was kind of a shitty month, apparently.  With most of my posts being a barrage of head-desks of sorts.  It was

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-32957820142750202252011-12-29T23:42:00.000-06:002011-12-29T23:42:47.641-06:00

If there is one thing I hate more than Ron Paul it's his weirdo fanboys. I mean, I grew up with that whole groupie mentality shit going on--fucking musicians, total fangirl lust at almost famous musicians and the mindless adoration and rationalization that goes along with it--but then I grew up. The super love-fest that Ron Paul gets from his whackadoodle followers? Shit son, that's a few

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-3706769081856554992011-12-20T01:02:00.000-06:002011-12-20T01:02:14.597-06:00

Here's an assortment of shit in no particular order that's too short to be posted separate from each other. Reading some article on why people delete people on facebook (highest number was because folks are assholes so they get deleted) i was struck with the strange feeling that i get deleted more often tha most folks, and indeed have deleted more folks than i can recall. I say strange because

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-71906658786649356642011-12-17T21:25:00.000-06:002011-12-17T21:25:15.368-06:00

I was at this funeral not too long ago with a chunk of family that are an assortment of Lutherans. *foreboding sense relating to Jews and Luther goes here* Fancy that. But I'll get to that mix of weird at a later date. And I will get to it unlike those times where I just say I'll get to it then space off and forget about it because ho-ly shit. But not quite yet. In the meantime I'd like

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-25082590471790138282011-12-12T00:30:00.000-06:002011-12-12T00:30:42.961-06:00

I wonder how many MRAs i can get to comment on this single post that will say absolutely nothing save this: You are stupid! Also, Poop!

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-58806515414288468972011-12-03T21:04:00.000-06:002011-12-03T21:04:42.144-06:00

This is a Very Special Post, for the weirdo anti-Semites following me. First off, these people apparently exist, whaaaa? Second, I'm torn between thinking this attention is adorable and really creepy.  Third, you do realize I get like, waaaaay less traffic than someone supposedly affiliated with ZOG should have, right? Fourth, I moderate comments, dumbshits.  Unrelated: I got one of those "

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-89802373651214456492011-11-29T23:52:00.000-06:002011-11-29T23:52:44.442-06:00

There is one argument I hate beyond all others.  A tactic sure to inspire fuckwords of epic proportion.  Worse than the non-apology--"I'm sorry if you"--and particularly noxious when paired with the controlling respect strategy--"I really like/appreciate what you do but this..."--the fucking "you misunderstand me!" argument.  Hiss, boo.  Fucking hell. Gee person! If only you would *really*

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-72511888500490134292011-11-23T23:43:00.000-06:002011-11-23T23:43:49.539-06:00

New Atheist colleagues, comrades, and others; we need to have a little chat, you and I. One of those serious chats where I use your full name and put on my stern face. Because you do some fuckawful annoying shit. Like claiming to "hate all religion". And I'm certain you mean "all religion" and not "I'm butthurt because we celebrated Christmas growing up!" or "I'm butthurt because I'm x

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-59937547172056136512011-11-21T22:48:00.000-06:002011-11-21T22:48:58.792-06:00

A friend of mine tells me I need to lay off the OWS bashing. Simply because my blood pressure, it is getting out of control. That's a little easier said than done when shit like this is popping up in my news feed. I had the distinct displeasure of having worked with that asshat. And did I mention? Our falling out came when I was expected to support Hamas. And as a Jewish woman, I was

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-52761166984899397872011-11-20T23:34:00.000-06:002011-11-20T23:34:45.683-06:00

This one will actually provide links to outside sources it's so unbelievable. UIAC had done a lot of stupid with itself and another group--Wild Rose Collective--through a few months. The CAN conference was the beginning of the end in some ways, the problem with the lady committee was where it died, and this thing with the FBI the nail in the coffin. A few years prior to my transfer (and with

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-4179166284183853842011-11-16T23:48:00.000-06:002011-11-16T23:48:06.449-06:00

If you've been following along these last couple months as I tell strange tales of misery you may be wondering whether I'm lying about my own role and ambitions or if I was the most misplaced libertarian in a band of leftists ever and how could that happen? To this I can only say that I was very angry and horny at that point of my life and that was the direction it took. When I transferred to

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-60048569306702113372011-11-16T23:13:00.001-06:002011-11-16T23:20:20.809-06:00

The committee mentioned in this post went two ways, story wise. For the life of me I actually can't remember which happened first but it's largely irrelevant for our purposes here. I could ask one person but it's too embarrassing to be brought up with her again. FMLA was more than just an organization. The majority of activist organizations I've been involved with have been. You love and

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-22181971584783244202011-11-14T13:10:00.000-06:002011-11-14T13:10:05.100-06:00

I see a lot of "the real purpose of x anti-choice bill is to..." posts in my feminist feed. Which is both useless from a rhetorical and policy standpoint. *pulls up pants, adjusts nonexistent tie, clears throat* In my brilliant, well-educated opinion we can do a couple of things here. Rhetorically, the point isn't the *real* purpose or whatever, but how it works as a narrative and the

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-39658770030446541342011-11-14T12:48:00.000-06:002011-11-14T12:48:09.288-06:00

I hope you are as excited to read this post as I am to write it. Though perhaps "excited" isn't exactly the right word here. Bubbling over, itching with anticipation. Thinking "Oooh, I wonder what stories she will put in here" or perhaps "Bullshit! I will use this as fodder for my angry at neo-cons!". Either way, feel free to enjoy yourselves. I'll write a short explanatory note for the

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-3928809307752307022011-11-14T11:49:00.000-06:002011-11-14T11:49:39.969-06:00

Now that I've started paying attention--sorta--to my traffic sources I'm just a touch weirded out by where it's coming from. I mentioned earlier that looking at the sources I had a vague inkling that there were some folks out there who thought I was part of some conspiracy. (Which is funny considering how tiny this blog is and the subject matter of just utter bullshit.) I was right. One of

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-90726707422903757032011-11-11T02:12:00.000-06:002011-11-11T02:12:40.933-06:00

I think there are those of us who grit our teeth and look to the sky in desperate anticipation of the oncoming shit storm whenever there's a high profile sexual assault case going on. For good reason too. I'm going to repost a few things eventually because i think some of yall could do with a refresher course on discussing rape and narratives but i'd like to focus on violence and white knights

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-78224964280322324162011-11-07T20:53:00.000-06:002011-11-07T20:53:36.697-06:00

1) I have this neverending cycle that goes on of trying to find progressive* sites, reading for a while, then a sudden epic Jew-fail, stop reading, come back and the cycle repeats itself.  Latest fail? "Judeo-Christian".  I'm not even gonna touch how full of dumbshit entitlement-minded ahistorical claptrap that term is.  Maybe I'll come back to it when I finally get around to the "why I don't

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-15057170606853072742011-11-04T11:42:00.000-05:002011-11-04T11:42:17.397-05:00

I finally got around to checking the stats for this blog, because I'm a bit thick, a bit of an alcoholic, and tend to not give much of a damn about who my audience is.  After all, this was created with a combination of goals: to keep my writing sharp (sorta) when I'm not arguing professionally, and as a reference spot for arguments/comments that are too long for small time comment threads. 

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-80371305727550385072011-11-02T22:56:00.000-05:002011-11-02T22:56:11.234-05:00

I would like to share with you two posts from two different facebook friends.  And then hash out some libertarian theorizing.  Okay here's the first one "At lunch an OWS protester physically charged at me and my coworker for the crime of being a 99%er who dared to work in the financial district. Tonight, the police wagon and about a dozen police cars lay in wait. The violence is being

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-75062040797929523912011-11-01T10:54:00.002-05:002011-11-01T10:54:59.905-05:00

I have more information I'm going to type down here re: OWS and really screwy things that go on in the far left.  But first In the course of griping about this because I see people I know are the worst of the worst quoted, because I've had so many former friends and allies come out and decide I'm a horrible monster, because I was in the left and it's a fucked up nightmare I'd not soon

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-61762389139511905502011-10-27T12:53:00.000-05:002011-10-27T12:53:51.376-05:00

I was at a bar with some bloke I'd met at protesting at the Republican National Convention.  He was scrawny, liked to pretend to be deep, and I was lonely and desperate to get fucked.  We were made for each other.  I can't recall exactly what happened, as I get tunnel vision when I'm out for ass.  And that part really isn't so very important.  All I know is that for whatever reason this bloke

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-8454017805773138172011-10-27T12:28:00.000-05:002011-10-27T12:28:23.702-05:00

I left off with a short post on assholes, and before that a post on how--from a public choice perspective--these protests are doomed to failure. It's very likely the people reading this blog are either people who generally agree with my points (or are sent here because whatever I had to type was too long for twitter) for whatever reason, or are Left leaning Jews still active in the community

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-34707739312611746862011-10-24T23:42:00.000-05:002011-10-24T23:42:00.527-05:00

Curiously enough, despite my extreme depression at the time this started, I didn't jump right into the fray arguing against OWS. Instead, I side eyed the "movement"--as I'm familiar with how leftists operate--and questioned the wisdom of the thing in general as outlined in my first post. However, that didn't stop the Typical Leftist Reactions. Let's recap the basics of this argument tactic.

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-27010725528172861232011-10-24T23:40:00.001-05:002011-10-24T23:42:25.786-05:00

Note: irrelevant points deleted/edited for clarity Progressive Dudebro #1 Chris: As any sort of an advocate for human rights and civil equality, I would disagree Marni: And every single person is projecting what they want on to it. I find protests immature to begin with but let's talk about substance, so far every single person has tolx me this thing stands for something different than the

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-83129365928878729112011-10-23T23:39:00.001-05:002011-10-23T23:42:11.447-05:00

Here's what we've covered so far, dear readers that I can only assume are dropping off at the same rate my leftist "friends" are fucking wankers and righteous christian warriors they are, constantly whining and screaming "you're a neo-con!" like it had any substance--fuck them. But we'll get to that later. As promised here is the list of groovy shit we've already gone over so no one comes back

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-31039774513576098032011-10-16T20:12:00.000-05:002011-10-16T20:12:03.194-05:00

Before we go any further I would like to come back to earth for a moment with yall to point out a few things both to my Real Life friends--for whom this should be obvious--and for Internet Friends--who may be missing some of the drama. And I would also like to point out that none of this should be read as an excuse, the substance of all that I've been posting is quite in line with my brain

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-80479962008539424112011-10-15T23:49:00.001-05:002011-10-15T23:55:16.353-05:00

This post has two functions. It's both the 3rd installment of "shit I did as a leftist" and should demonstrate the parallels between that noise and the current climate of entitlement minded whiners. Pertinent posts can be found here and here regarding shit I did as a leftist. Now, without anything further, let's hop in our time machine to 2008. The day started off with a lot of excitement

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-34544630766556336302011-10-14T20:24:00.001-05:002011-10-14T20:26:49.646-05:00

I'm going to take a short break before moving on because for the love of all that is holy does this shit piss me off. This will be easier to write than the long "no really there is no difference between this and when I was on the hard Left" post. *Sigh*. Yall, this shit depresses me. The holier than thou shit I see from all my idiot Leftist friends pissing and moaning that I somehow hate "

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-10828637587715101922011-10-10T20:35:00.000-05:002011-10-10T20:35:25.855-05:00

Here is another quote from my good friend, Andrew Elges: 1) Squat in public park 2) ??? 3) Overthrow the class enemy!! I like to break things into parts. Partly out of this bizarre analytical compulsion of mine and partly because small parts make for a more easily digestible meal and we wouldn't want anyone choking now would we? Well...maybe. There are--broadly speaking--two parts to the "

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-79907593082592220392011-10-06T10:18:00.000-05:002011-10-06T10:18:45.034-05:00

I would like to start this post off with a few quotes. "What the hell is there to occupy in Iowa City, the University Credit Union? The Derp is strong with this one."--Andrew Elges and "Dude, so there's an occupy detroit one. And their location is a park across the street from our large dilapitated train station, away from everything. Most businesses on that road are vacant. They could

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-5464086853527452322011-10-04T23:06:00.000-05:002011-10-04T23:06:39.128-05:00

I'm exteremely depressed over the sudden death of my almost 5 year old dog that occurred on rosh hashana for shit's sake. Today would have been his 5th birthday. That's our cheery baseline for normalcy right now. Despite announcing this fact, i was getting dudes begging for attention. "Gee Marni, why are you agitated?" Oh i fucking wonder. For the love of all that is holy, back off. It is

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-7571120146195106152011-09-21T12:16:00.000-05:002011-09-21T12:16:48.839-05:00

Like many, I was feeling celebratory over the repeal of DADT last night. The military still has problems but it's good. I'm happy for the partners of queer servicepeople and that we've finally repealed one more relic of institutionalized bigotry. These are all good things. But Let's get a few things straight shall we? This does not mean there aren't legitimate complaints about the Obama

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-21506604366504260792011-09-18T21:46:00.000-05:002011-09-18T21:46:55.300-05:00

I visited my cousin this past weekend. For us newly graduated, hardly-have-a-job (let alone one pertinent to our degrees) types this means going to our respective parents' houses. Because this is what life looks like when you're broke as shit. Anyway, it also means that i don't just get to catch up with one particular family member with whom i'm a bit closer and hear all the gossip (another

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-9265546505900934952011-09-13T23:38:00.000-05:002011-09-13T23:38:34.283-05:00

I still intend to continue writing the "shit i did as a leftist" posts but life has been a liitle more dreary than usual here at trollop HQ. Which maybe i'll get around to writing about, i don't know. Suffice to say, it would be interesting if new acquaintences read some of the things in this blog. But this was my weekend: PTSD, learning about "uterus shopping" as i've now decided to name that

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-44263613013011613532011-09-01T17:45:00.000-05:002011-09-01T17:45:05.286-05:00

This is what I knew going in: Bring a bandana soaked in apple cider vinegar because breathing may be interrupted. Don't wear contacts because cops may use chemicals that will make them stick to your eyes and blind you. But you *probably* won't be arrested. And if you are they're wrong, because protesting is totally legal bro. We met up at a university in Minnesota for a pre-political riot

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The time has come, dear readers, to regale you with tales of passion, intrigue and romance (well not so much the latter) that occurred during my time on the left. I do this for many reasons. Because it has been long enough that my supreme embarrassment has subsided somewhat and i can now think of it as a learning experience so i can recount the (im)practicalities of it all. I do it for

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I had an "aha" moment when reading a microaggressions. I've been trying to intellectualize that latest rapefail argument (more on that line of thought later). And i feel i have to quantify the reasons he was wrong, how he was wrong, and categorically take down each and every assertion through the power of Argument and Science. But why? Part of it is because of my micro-analytical compulsion.

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There were, as always, some red flags. Not that i paid enough attention to them. He was the type of dude who would prefer to assume that all was well instead of investigating whether or not that was the case. Who thought a lack of no meant yes. Who thought queerness meant "i will sleep with someone i have shown no attraction to whatsoever". And that hiding for 12 hours after this proposition

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Or, some people think people are holes. I have this weird mix of emotion going on right now. Blinding rage+an appreciation for anybody who's not a douche. An extra amount of appreciation for people who have actually learned. I'm not 100% sure either of those is doing me a whole lot of good right now but what ya gonna do. Many months ago this thing happened. This thing I'm calling

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I don't post on emotions much, except angry, i do angry well. But truth be told most of what i write is obsessive compulsive analysis and sarcastic, biting commentary that blossoms from it. This is the other side of that coin. Every day i think about assault. My assault. I see it, and usually ignore it but it just sort of sits there. Everyday for years. Sometimes the thinking's worse than other

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I checked out my stats the other day to see what's been trawled through recently. And the mix is somewhat bizarre, also perhaps telling if my suspicions are correct. Here's the thing, some of these blog posts won't get you very far if you don't know who i am or are unaware of the posts that came before that serve as a reference to whatever you're currently reading. The earlier posts are pretty

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2008? Who the hell is reading crap from 2008? You know it wasn't until 200...uh...9? or possibly 2010 when I had my no-longer-on-the-left breakthrough and anything before that time is juuuust a bit suspect. Hell, some of this was written when I was still a teenager! Or still in college. But for the record, yeah, recent stuff is obviously more in line with current thoughts. Which should be

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Sooooo remember this? you should, since until probably this post it was still on my front page. Heh. Heh. It keeps going. And going. And I'll probably post the rest of it but I think I'll put my "wrapping things up" comment on this post separately because that way no one has to read through all the long. Also, I am vaguely amused. Also, yes, I am aware that this is a public blog. I

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I wish i could write about sex sometimes. Like, really write about it. Not in the detached academic way or the relationships or assault. None of which exactly qualifies. I wish i could write stuff that occasionally floats into my head like unf! Yeah! But that'd probably be way too uncomfortable and i think i've done enough opening myself up as a target without dragging in old memories that still

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Free condoms have floated around for ages. At college i couldn't walk five feet witgout someone chucking a condom at me. And that was just generally accepted. People want free shit, even if you have to put a pile of it at the end of the table and pretend not to notice when they grab them just so that they actually WILL take it. You know what i never once heard while distributing condoms or

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Does your joke about Jews rely upon the following? Jewish blokes having small dicks or Large noses or Being greedy or Castrating women or Effeminate men or Secretly ruling the world? Congratulations, you're a bigoted twat who can't tell the difference between repeating anti-semitic tropes and being clever. And no, white Christian person, throwing in a joke about another religion or race that

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I know I said I would post on this Iowa Democrat's Joo problem. And I fully intend to. But first, a word. HOLY SHIT is she long winded and absolutely bonkers. I mean really, you should play some BINGO with this one. Also this should make it marginally more ah, entertaining? Anyway, I'm going to post the entire thread below for your viewing pleasure. Keep in mind that Queen Batshit

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Hopefully before i go on my grand week long adventure i'll post the entirety of this screwy comment thread. Teaser: it includes an iowa democrat referencing...gilad atzmon. To argue that...i don't fucking know, that joos don't actually experience anti-semitism and to excuse her own. No really, she uses atzmon to defend her anti-semitism as 2 contradictory things: nonexistent but even if it did

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It's the height of biking madness so scarcity in posts. I do have one bizarre thing to post on though that will require a real computer. Get to that slightly later!

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I had this doctor's appointment. It wasn't very interesting except for one tiny bit of information. Asked if everything was normal i mentioned that last period i bled out enough to fill a bathtub in one day, then nothing. Which struck me as rather unusual. And really shitty. Also so gross. Which is when she mentioned "sometimes birthcontrol can become ineffective" WHAT?! That really would have

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In the fantastical world of facebook i get to learn a lot of what my friends' choices in friends are. Or at least what they'll put up with. It presents sort of an awkward problem when someone makes incendiary comments on a friend's post and the friend ignores it (or worse, supports it). I had this happen the other day when, after i had commented on a friend's link to something DSK related,

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I don't expect there to never be a fucked up comment. What i do expect is a proactive environment that does not privilege fucked up comments to go unmarked. I accept that most people have never had to think about what they're saying and how it can be harmful on a structural or power+privilege level. I accept this is learned and reinforced behavior and it's hard. But if you really give a damn

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I've been admittedly rather harsh on SSDP's diversity endeavors for reasons i've touched on previously (more critiques will be posted later) and have charged the people who think a diversity manual is a good solution that they're missing where their focus should lie. That is to see, the onus of change should be upon themselves and structure. Because i am so damn helpful here are some examples.

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I came up with the previous name of this blog when I was still in? Newly out of? High school so I figured after 4ish years it was time for a change from the obscure reference to a painting that I'm sure no one actually caught. Madcrazies apparently also means something pertaining to inebriation which technically doesn't fit well anymore. That's right, this foul demeanor has nothing to do with

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Here it is, at long last and after many failed attempts: the story of the thing that happened with that guy. If there is something i hate as much as having my time wasted it's being lied to. If there's one thing i hate more than that it's not having the fortitude to be upfront with me that you're a dick and instead passively hoping i'll disappear. I am not a woman that lends herself easily to

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This will be a short post because for some inexplicable reason I feel quite ill. For anyone paying too much attention, there was a miniature uproar over something that happened at some atheist conference.  Since I'm not an atheist I don't exactly look into whatever the hell they're doing, but it leaked into a few of the feminist blogs I read.  Then apparently there was an uproar over the uproar

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I have 3 4. 4 things. I can't count. 4 things I've been meaning to jot down, mostly for Real Life folks. I figure maybe if I write down what they are I'll get around to them sooner or later. They are: That shit that went on with that guy, and, godamnit why did he pop back up? How To Get Laid--a guide for the woefully inept. No, you mean "Christians", ya dumbshit, not "religion" Keep me away

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*editing note: I'm having a bit of trouble putting this into the BINGO format as my laptop is still broken and have no clue what I'm doing on this desktop.  So in the meantime I've only got this in list format and hope to change it later.  As my activist work has progressed (and my pissed off level...), so has my understanding of how insidious the stupid shit people say that derails conversations

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I've been training for RAGBRAI--the annual bike ride across iowa--and have this jersey i never got to use last year because i got food poisoning from hell. I lived, obviously, despite a massive fever and numerous blackouts, but didn't get a chance to ride in support of medicinal marijuana. I was wearing that jersey, emblazoned with pro-medicinal marijuana messages, when i went to a chinese place

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For the past 48 hours, roughly, okay more like a week or more...i've been entertaining the vague notion that i might be a touch gayer (side note: is gayer a word?) than initially suspected. Which means jack shit when cocks are optional to begin with. So scratch that notion, i somehow doubt i'm actually a lesbian prancing about as a socially acceptable (heh) queer. But it would make a neat little

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I got it into my head that I should mosey down to Des Moines with the idea that I'd be removing myself from brooding or whatever other dramas life had in store for me.  A nice relaxing evening going to see a friend of mine perform at the open mic stand up show at the House of Bricks.  No hookups, no dramas, no analytical rape, gender, queer whatever shit going on.  Lord did I ever bet on the

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Douchebags use words differently than you and I, so it's easy to get confused. Luckily, this work in progress will compile various phrases, signal words and appearances that the douchebag uses so you can easily spot and avoid them. Enjoy! 1-"I'm into whatever the girl's into" What he really means: I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and lack the creative will to change.  Also, I think of

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I've decided functional asexuality is the way to go. (I'm not an actual asexual, hence the "functional" definer). I reckon, if there aint no weedin out the assholes no matter what ya do, and there aint no warning signs, what's the point of trying? I may as well save myself the trouble and take myself off the market, so to speak. Maybe every once in a while I can find somebody as pretty as me

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I intend to eventually write about the *Sigh* latest round of fail that befell me. Posting texts and so forth and explaining just how misogynist this shit is. Currently, I'm too sleep deprived and depressive to want to deal with it though. But I think it's important that someone that fucked up be slapped on the internet, and turn up in google search results anytime a woman comes near him.

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-61796347206264955082011-06-19T18:51:00.000-05:002011-06-19T18:51:59.758-05:00

I don't ask much of my lovers. I think i can count off reasonable expectations on 1 hand. Things like: Being upfront with me, not an avoidant dick Not expecting me to sleep with other women of your choosing And generlly being an adult that treats me with a reasonable degree of human decency. Know how my last 3 affairs ended? --dumped me on the phone for not wanting children --rapefail --secret

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I came across a few blogs I was really excited about at first.  More complex than the 101s of old.  More in depth.  Most of the -ism based blogs I used to read I stopped reading a long time ago because they would inevitably suddenly go off on a rant about *sigh* the Jews.  Of course.  But these? A fucking treasure trove.  And what's more, vindication.  Finally someone(s) else could better

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It seems like there's been an uptick in fucked up arguments since, well that must have been april. With at least one major fail and fallout per month. March: uni republican queerfail April: rapefail May: ron paul bigot fail June: genderfail AND drug testing "i'm better than you" fail. We aint even halfway through the last one yet. Course, feb was also dumped on the phone and hit by a car month

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Let's see i've gotten through most of my shit i've been meaning to write about with surprisingly little conflict. Which leaves us with an obligatory post about jews (that will inevitably be far too focused on my own love life), a post about allies, and perhaps a redux when all's said and done. Earlier this week i had dreams about almost all of the jewish men i'd been involved with. Since making

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Much like a poorly done breakup, that email has me thinking, "if only I knew you were this much of a cunt, I'd have been the one to leave".  I guess that says something about being sort of sheltered that this hasn't happened before, someone I've been close with--if not currently but in the past--pulling a once over on me that I get so blindsided by.  Sure there've been a couple of skirmishes with

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And I've received death threats for working in drug reform!  Anyway, this email is from someone I've known since grade school, my opposition to drug testing welfare recipients is what caused her to send: "I'm glad you're passionate about what you believe in and you fight for the causes you believe in. We don't have much in common anymore though and I'm sorry it go that way. I'm starting a

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I'm going to do that obsessive compulsive shit I do every once in a while in just a moment here where I list out every single point of what's wrong with this and analyze each one in detail. But first: What the fuck fuck fuckity fuck? Really now how the hell? Just, what? Fucking hell that shit is ridiculous I can't even man you gotta be some kind of stupid to think this is a brilliant idea.

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Before we continue the rant at hand I'd like to take a moment to address this interesting comment. I've gotten it quite a lot when I've pointed out how or why something or someone is being fucked up. For the record, I don't think I know a disproportional amount of terrible people, though during the onslaughts of rapefail, genderfail, iowa republican queerfail and the like it can certainly

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It seems to me that anger and high passions are only natural when you're talking about identity. How can someone not get pissed off at a direct challenge to who they are, how they exist as a person. When you're telling someone they're wrong or selfish or irrelevant from an identity based standpoint, it's more than a face value accusation. No, when someone has lived experience, you're

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God help me I've been being avoidant. And weird. Maybe it has something to do with trying to replace boozing with biking. It's kind of a toss up which one's better when you consider biking means roughly 90-100 degree heat. Or maybe it has something to do with needing to address a whole helluva lot of "can you add more details to genderfail?" and general thoughts on why being a dick--and

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Somewhere in my analytical development i lost track of things. Various 101 posts, rhetorical tools and the like. And now, when i need to go back and link to them because i either don't want to tread the same ground i've been over before or am lacking the words myself, i can't remember where they went. All i can find is a bunch of shit about fat feminism. Fine. That's popular but ever so 1

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I remember when I first got involved with intra-movement reform.  There had been increasing conflict stemming from male dominated activism within Iowa's anti-war movement.  A number of women, mostly a loose coalition of feminists, decided that reform was necessary.  We met in some stink hole known as the tobacco bowl to discuss our options. Two points were at the forefront.  The first was that

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I know I know, I need to edit.  I just wanted to throw it all out there right away, I'll get into the wheres whys and hows later.  My head hurts, why the hell am I still online? Fuck this I'm going to go watch Doctor Who.  As an aside, now that I've been called, fat, ugly AND FINALLY a man-hater, do I get my official feminazi bonerkiller placard? Or do I have to send for it in the mail? Also: "I

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-87348938112490051662011-06-03T12:27:00.000-05:002011-06-03T12:27:19.388-05:00

I received this after announcing I was leaving the gender group.  Reposted here with no comment for now. He'll be in blue, I'll be highlighted in orange. Jason: What exactly did I do that was so "Sickening"?Marni: i have the distinct impression you probably don't actually care to know or will dismiss it. Jason: Well you need to stop with the assumptions marni Marni: good move, that will

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As a follow up, needless to say, I quit.  I'm perfectly aware of when I'm swearing and though folks may lecture, you best be believing that I think I have a damn good reason when I do it.  Like all of that bullshit.  When people can't even get the fuck over that, cannot even think that "professionalism" in and of itself is a loaded concept.  What hope is there? Plus, I will not put up with the

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When I first started typing out the meta diversity posts I had, if not exactly an optimistic, an educational slant in mind.  A long drawn out step by step play of what I've seen fail in other organizations and how it is applicable to current activists. I've done this before to a certain extent in the rapefail posts so I thought I could do it again. It was going to be a more drawn out version of,

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Talking about diversity blows. Everyone screws up. And I know their heart's in the right place but AGH. With all this shit it's like repeating yourself over and over and over again and going over the same tiny little minute details, laying the framework and you can never fucking advance to the things you really want to ponder because everyone's still stuck in kindergarten and you've got a

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This got a bit long to keep coherent so I've decided to do it in installments. I've been somewhat less than enthused at the ways and means of talking about getting diversity talk off the ground. So, here's some talking about talking about diversity. It's specifically oriented towards SSDP's current project. Compared to the other organizations I have been involved with, SSDP is actually

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-14961178817612144032011-05-24T14:21:00.000-05:002011-05-24T14:21:57.135-05:00

A while back a friend of mine posted something about Ron Paul. Whatever, he likes him, I hate the guy. That's not too interesting. The thread veered off into "is Ron Paul a racist" territory. For my own purposes let's put it this way: it matters very little whether or not Ron Paul himself is purposefully racist. What is important is that his simplistic world view lends itself easily to

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The obama speech didn't do it for me. With some exception the overall takeaway was--and this has been repeated everywhere--stating the obvious or stating de facto positions. I have two caveats as regards the substance before moving on to The Problem. 1)What good does stating the obvious do? 2)I noticed a couple of signaling words that i'm sure the batshit crowd interpreted as "one of us!" and

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Very rarely do i get out into the world of intersectionality. At least, when it comes to my own identities interacting with others. For my own issues i have my quiet corner of internet that i putter around in, occasionally coming out to play with other bloggers but by in large pondering to myself publicly on here. It's not really that different from the real world interactions (though i have been

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There's a common defense of racism and other forms of offense/injury. That the individual who said or did something bigoted was acting out of empassioned anger and they're "not really" like that. You know, similar to the defense that rape is merely a crime of passion. For both of these i call bullshit. I rather doubt that we are all of us keeping these demons in check and that releasing them is a

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In the course of an argument i unfortunately deleted a response to me on facebook as being "too douchey" with the specific subset of standards:fucking bigoted. Despite its paryicularly special niche occupied in "holy nazis, batman!" land, i really should have kept the damn thing up to serve as an example? No, really to point and laugh at such logicfail. The jist of the damn thing, of which i

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-15739138877371674362011-05-15T20:17:00.001-05:002011-05-15T20:18:49.115-05:00

I thought of this right after the last post, and with the full power of my degree backing me up, plus the fact that i'm weirdly good at economic theories pertaining to crime and punishmenyt, i'm fairly confident going here. There is perhaps a conflation of time preference and precaution amongst rape apologists. Who can take precaution against a rape? The rapist, the victim, or both? Across

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-66582825755157418002011-05-15T19:14:00.000-05:002011-05-15T19:14:20.270-05:00

I managed to royally screw up an email the other day. In a very rare instance of what was said not equalling what i meant to say the intention was supposed to be more like "certain types of frames are fundamentally flawed, therefore--as i have effectively analyzed and dismissed them as inherently wrong--i will not spend time arguing with them as if they had any merit". What came out was a bit

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-79861953751468373662011-05-13T13:51:00.000-05:002011-05-13T13:51:34.895-05:00

Everything is finished and I am just about a real economist! Oh boy how exciting.  In retrospect I would have done a lot of shit differently but alas, I have no time machine and despite assertions otherwise, acid is not in fact a form of time travel.  So here we go into the future at regular speed.  In the world of random wtf am I doing with my life that very few people except for me, my mom,

Marni Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465079785969357846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6724306489835501145.post-4008902469575310262011-05-10T00:15:00.002-05:002011-05-10T01:34:29.952-05:00

I'm going to attempt to compile a list of useful links and such that should feasibly help interested parties educate themselves before doing something incredibly stupid. I do it because I care kids. And I do highly recommend reading them. However there is one thing that puzzled me from the get go with all this. Why the hell were the folks arguing against me so very, very invested in the

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