Saturday, August 16, 2008

Post title fail

Jen here...

I'm probably the last person to discover this hysterical site, but I don't care, because it's hysterical.

I couldn't find any politically-oriented "fails" on it, but maybe our readers can help out with that.

9 comments:

PatGund@gmail.com said...

They've got a political version on the header.

http://punditkitchen.com/

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Pat.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Larry Johnson finally realized that Texas Darlin failed him, too. Check the blogroll list at NoQuarter! No "Texas Darlin" entry anymore. It used to be directly beneath "Talk Left"...

Perry Logan said...

Comment fail.

Anonymous said...

Holy Fuck! Jen when did you become a nazi??

Joe i know you could give a rat's ass if i read your site or not, and Jen I don't know you from a hole in the wall. but WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?? I can not believe that you edited and deldeted my comment here. especially after it was up for a few days... was it because i corrected you for using sexist diction??

Jen i told you that "hysterical" is a sexist term, and when you are trying to get people to refrain from using Cunt and Bitch and Whore, it would be good if you didn't use words that used to be associated with cutting off a woman's clitoris or gouging out her ovaries because she made too much trouble.

I didn't make that up. I corrected you on your language. But instead of editing YOUR language, or leaving it up at least in a way to acknowledge that you didnt use proper language.. instead of that you edited it.

Well fuck that. Joe sorry but i will never send you MP3s again, I will never send you links that I think you might like, I will stop commenting on your blog, and I will start weaning myself off this blog. For Good. And since you couldn't care less if people read or don't read your blog, I guess it doesn't matter, but all I can say is: if i was being proObama or antiHilary or antiClinton maybe you could justify the policing but i wasn't i was trying to help you folks not use a pathetic word (i think you meant to use it --twice-- as a substitute for "Funny" but if you ask people not to use the C word and ask people to watch their language, then you had no fucking right to do that!

Good luck with your election (you dont need it Barack will never win) good luck with your illustration gig, and with the sciatica. I hoe you can get back to doing good work instead of the useless obama bashing (he is losing on his own now) and that maybe one day you will see that BPATS, whether you like it or not, if not before than certainly now.

...and now you are like Saturn Devouring his Young. SO go on and delete anything that doesn't agree with you 100% we all love a circle jerk, don't we?

Joseph Cannon said...

lee? What the hell is going on here? I don't recall deleting any comment. I don't recall any of this.

Did jen delete it? I dunno. If she did, that's her privilege. I just don't know what the issue is.

Anonymous said...

Yes she deleted it. At least a week after the comment was accepted. And there was no screaming Obamania, no threats, all i said was that if we want to not endorse the word Cunt and we don't want to endorse the use of the word Bitch (except of course when its about your dog) then perhaps using the word HYSTERICAL twice in one post is not a good thing to do.

Perhaps Jen didn't know where the word Hysteria came from, i was merely pointing it out. And it is a word that is associated with gouging out ovaries (the cause of hysteria), cutting of clits, and institutionalizing 'trouble making' women all because of this word. So yes, its as bad a word to toss about as bitchorcunt.

But if your blog has become a place where you can not only delete comments that are vile and attacking, but now also the ones that correct a bad use the the English language. Well, that is not acceptible to me. Joe if you censor the ravings and violence from getting to print thats one thing, but when you stifle discourse thats a whole different thing. Jen is the one who posted something asking people to not use the cunt word. Then she wrote that some (almost) funny website was so hysterical she had to use the word twice.

I merely let her know what that word really is, and where it comes from. Added context if you will for all the people writing that PUMAs are hysterical, or that Hillary's remaining die hards are hysterical-- because when "they' are using that word, it's with all misogynistic intent. I was merely trying to help Jen loose some of the sexist diction we are accustomed to --especially since she requested that of your readers.

The fact that it was up for a week- that she made no effort to edit her own word smithing and instead chose to edit mine, a) doesn't change her bad use of a word used for centuries as a way to torture and abuse women, and b) that doesn't make me feel like sharing anything with y'all anymore.

Joe as you know (from over 80% of my sigs) I run a green blog-- or did before i got too busy (in many people's opinion it was more popular and dug WAY deeper than that green website Jen promoted here a few weeks ago) -- I have many things i could share with you about Peak Oil and Iraq-- it's not a new theory, there are lots of players and lots of numbers out there.... but if i do comment, who's to say that it won't be ignored for a week then deleted because it doesn't go with party line, or it somehow offends Queen Jen? See? What Jen pulled, that makes me say, ah fuck it, why send that link to Joe?

That's whats going on Joe. And yes it's her privilege, but like Spidey was told; with great power comes great responsibility. And by censuring constructive criticism one is no longer housecleaning and keeping the crazies out, but merely ensconsing oneself with like i said before, circle jerkers. That "privilege" has just kicked my ass out the door.

Joseph Cannon said...

I dunno. Maybe I DID delete it, although I honestly have no memory of doing so. Memory lapses of this sort tend to happen after the onset of ancient-ness. It'll happen to you too, m'lad.

I know all about the etymology of "cunt" and once wrote a small squib proclaiming its (very relative) superiority to alternative terms. "Vagina" is too clinical, "pussy" is insultingly childish, "twat" seems like the sound made by a flyswatter. It's amazing to me that we don't have a really good term for something so basic.

I also don't like ANY of the terms for the male counterpart: "Penis" carries that clinical vibe, "member" lacks specificity, "cock" is the name of an animal, "dick" is the name of a disgraced president -- and so forth.

But we also have to take into consideration years, centuries of connotation. Most women take "cunt" as a term of insult. Certainly, to say of any woman that she IS a "cunt" is beyond forgiveness.

I think the only proper use of that word in today's society is between lovers, in private moments. The word has a transgressive quality -- a "dirtiness" -- which may make it attractive to some couples. Not to ALL couples, obviously. These things are always a matter of individual taste.

For that reason, I do prefer to keep the word out of these cyber-pages.

Similarly, I don't like to use the word "nigger," even when quoting, except when the situation absolutely forces usage.

That said, "cunt" is preferable to "C-word," and "nigger" is preferable to "N-word." When forced to confront ugly terms, one might as well confront them head on.

Anonymous said...

Joe i would really be surprised if you deleted it. Do you often go about deleting comments already accepted?

My HYSTERICAL comment was posted and up for anyone to read for two days, and then poof! So I doubt that you went out of your way to edit something after the fact.

Unless there's a Joe/Jen thing like Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi in that ghastly DePalma film, and you are Jen, i think Jen did it. And I am pissed, i wasn't being sexist nor violent, in fact standing up for the XX chromosomed (and even pre-empted with knowing that political correctness is a slippery slope...)

And yes you're right, there aren't many good words for the lingam--- schmekle is no good neither. And cunt actually is not as bad as Americans make it out to be--- go to Scotland and see how many times grandmas use the c-word in a pub! As opposed to the V-word (which came from sheath? like that which holds the knife? way more violent and full of men's fears of the peepee-eating-vagina mixed with more violent imagery of a place to stick one's knife. But no, let's be wary of the cunnus....

Anyway, Hysterical is a word used since Hypocrates to blame women for being both unsatisfied (not the man's fault) and unruly, you know, wanting to be treated like a human and all... that was hysterical!

And my main point was that since Hillary is sill called Hysterical as are the pumas (at least 300 thousand times according to gooogle) maybe its not a great idea to use that word twice in the same post.

Joe you have always been a bigger man (uh-oh, sexist diction)about admitting when you make a mistake. And you have helped me accept higher truths that go against my previously held beliefs when the research has been done, and truth accepted. But I feel that what has happened in this thread goes against that.

PS: Jen might not have noticed/dug my green blog when i used to write it, but know who did? Bill Richardson! For some reason (probably because I had some cutting edge info about Sandi green projects) his website had been linking to my blog.... which while green, is certainly not a normal green blog at all....