Me, Me, Me
Posted on | September 19, 2008 | 12 Comments
Come see me tonight at Twisted yarn store where I will be modeling a few knitted things. You get 10% off Louet yarn during the show and there will be prizes, plus I’ll be there mingling and talking about the garments. I get to talk about knitting! I love it.
I’m sorry, Fan Club, that’s about all I can blog about today. I woke up this morning and looked at the internets only to find them thoroughly disgusting. From the Sarah Palin trolls on RSG’s post, to the bible thumpers over on this post at LA Now, to the most ridiculous, navel-gazing, baldly rabid blog about, no kidding, the feminist merits (or demerits) of erotic book covers. On this particularly banal and thoughtless blog, I was accused of attacking feminism when I suggested that we ought to give credit to some really fantastic erotica book editors for treating sex with ease. I’d link, but they don’t deserve a single hit of my traffic. I’m sure that when their schtick of getting attention from doing hit jobs on the very people they hope to be published by wears out and they realize that people have long memories and that publishing is a very small world, the blog will disappear and these women will realize that, perhaps, being argumentative and incendiary in much the same way Sarah Palin and her bible banging counterparts are, is not exactly the way to change minds, but rather an excellent way to alienate people. Though, at least Sarah Palin poses in a bikini with a rifle, something feminists ought to consider doing if they want to be taken seriously. (I threw that last one in so they could see what an attack on feminism actually looks like.) Nicely done, ladies. We’re on the same side. Now step the fuck off my blog.
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September 19th, 2008 @ 11:44 am
The internet is stupid.
September 19th, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
I’m trying to talk HG into posing in a bathing suit while holding a revolver but so far–she’s not playing.
September 19th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Are feminists against even the erotic book covers with dudes being led around on leashes and taking it from behind from some chick wearing a strap-on? Because those seem kind of liberating to me. Especially if the woman is in a bikini and holding a rifle.
September 19th, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
Those last six sentences of your post were particularly rad. Preach on, ML!
September 19th, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
I, for on, welcome our erotic book cover overlords.
Although, to be fair, I am not the poster child for Feminism. I really like being taken care of but hey wait, isn’t that the very definition of feminism? Having it all? Well, then, I can be pampered AND know how to drive a car better than any man alive.
Ta da!
September 19th, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
Once I wanted to do this kind of a mad libs thing that showed that the rhetoric of both of those groups is really the same when the spittle gathers in the corners of their mouths, just the nouns are different. But it seemed kind of hard to pull off. Now I don’t need to because you rocked it. Amen!
September 19th, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Assholes.
September 19th, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
If I ever run into these stupid people on the streets I’m going to kick them as hard as I can in the shins. God I hate stupid people.
September 19th, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
Hi Melissa Lion! I’ve been reading your site (and some of your friends) for awhile and I really enjoy your writing. I’m trying to stop my bad habit of lurking. I’m not rude. Just shy! And I need red wine to function in social settings. I was just internetting and thinking mean thoughts about Sarah Palin when I read your post about SP. I took it as a sign that I should say hello. So hello!
September 20th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
I took some feminism classes at PSU once. Also, I took a class on pornography at PSU!
très vis-à-vis de!
September 22nd, 2008 @ 8:00 am
The category for this post is awesome.
September 27th, 2008 @ 9:51 am
Yes …. She led me into raptures. Feel deeply human approach to understand the problem. The author of many thanks. She touched me.