i'm so fuckin over it

I AM OFFICIALLY OVER

Hipsters, Pitchforkfullaassholes, fucking hipster artists who "add dates" to their tours that are ALL in NYC, Chicago, DC, Portland, LA and San Francisco. GUESS WHAT? I hate you!

Spoon: YOU ARE NOW LAME, TAKE OFF THE SUNGLASSES BRITT. Just because I still listen to your music doesn't mean I condone the way you dress, act, or what you say when you ain't singing.

Sufjan Stevens, not like I was ever on his fucking side

"Radical" Christians. My friend's brother is no longer a Catholic but people are always trying to "witness" to him. I didn't grow up in the church thank heavens so somebody had to explain "witnessing" to me, and you know what? I think, humbly, that if you're a Christian, you need to stick to your values and set an example. You need to step the fuck off, quit telling people you have the superior religion/God/et cetera, and if people want the church, if they want the Lord, they will find him. How do I respect a religion who keeps getting in my face telling me they, and only they, know what's right? Fuck OFF. No I don't need to accept the Lord into my life, I've lived nineteen years without it and shit's goin' pretty well except you people keep pissing me off.

And while I'm on that subject, what the fuck is with us not trusting a President without an accepted, i.e. Christian, religion? GOD, people, where were you RAISED? WHO! CARES!

you don't get it

FINALLY I saw one of the Guerrilla Girls, Frida Kahlo, speak tonight here on campus. I took a new friend (whee) and my aunt, an art therapist and part of my small estrogen-ruled family. I don't know why but I sometimes assume that an enlightened woman is all the way enlightened, when there are isms I'm not aware of myself.

Here's the thing, I think. Here's what I think. Well, first here's what I know: The basic tenets of feminism are role and pay equality and human rights for all regardless of gender of racial background. Regardless of colour! There are a vast number of other feminist issues (in my opinion anything that involves the suffering of an oppressed person is a fuckin feminist issue) and I don't understand - I mean TRULY, I do not understand - the people that react to feminism with aggression, violence, and hate.

The only period of time in which I hated the terms 'feminism' and 'feminist' was when I was trying to reinvent myself in a way that would attract a group of apathetic people, mostly boys. This was my first year of university. The problem is that I have always been a little militant, and very very passionate, and I'm not able to ignore shit. I mean shit like a verb, I think, like, "That is shit." Quickly (after being called a feminazi by a little white shithead) I reembraced my militancy and I'm using it to change shit around which has to be the thing I'm meant to do, otherwise I'm a drama queen for no reason. Anyway

I can see why people would hate the term, especially women and people of colour who feel excluded from it - thus womanism, which I prefer to feminism but I think it's only applicable to WoC - but I think it's infantile. It's an infantile fear. So there motherfuckers!

The thing about feminism is that it too sometimes sounds infantile to me. I don't want people of colour to think I'm excluding them when I call myself a feminist, but I do understand that a white girl is not going to step in and solve their problems, which are intense, complicated, and varied, and generational, and were caused by us and we ain't helping them any. The other thing about feminism is that we breathe life into it, and it's our fucking job to make sure it's all-inclusive.

I'm not sure where I was going with this. My brain is fried from research papers and shit. Just check out the fucking Guerrilla Girls!

GUESS WHAT, BITCHES?

I use derogatory terms on a regular basis. I use them over and fucking over again in my everyday life. I call the people close to me "bastard," "asshole," "cuntface," "bitch," "whore" and tons of other curse words in the name of friendship and "reclaiming" them, I guess. I don't support "reclaiming" any of these terms - or any others - but I have a derogatory personality, and I like to come on strong. I like to illustrate my point in the best way I know how.

When that conservative bitch said to John McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?", about none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, here's why he should have punched her in the face.

1- It's anti-woman
2- It's hate rhetoric
3- Never before in the HISTORY of this fucking country have we had voters asking candidates "How do we beat the dickhead?" in reference to another male candidate. First of all, you'd have to ask "Why who do you mean?!"
4- It's extremely inappropriate, derogatory, unprofessional, and hateful
5- "Bitch" is a curse word on the same level as "dickhead," "asshole," "bastard" and any other male-centred term

In chuckling and responding, John McCain proved himself totally anti-woman (please, like we didn't know that already) and totally asshole. What? What? It's alright, now that we have a woman in the race, to refer to her in derogatory terms? I'm not talking about in your fucking house or to your fucking friends. This woman, ON TELEVISION, CALLED HER A "BITCH" AND THAT FUCKER LAUGHED AND RESPONDED. If I went on TV and said "HOW DO WE BEAT THAT FUCKING DICKHEAD JOHN MC "I WAS TORTURED" MCCAIN" people would HAVE. MY. FUCKING. HEAD.

And some jock asshole in my sociology class tried to tell me that verbal abuse of women ISN'T accepted! THE HELL IT ISN'T.