I’m quite sorry I haven’t written in a while. Unfortunately, I don’t want to disclose this, but it does make a point.
I’m an art student, and unfortunately, I can’t swallow my pride nor give up class supplies, leaving me in a big dilema; eating everyday. The past few days I’ve only been able to manage going to class, doing homework and falling asleep, with as little as a friend’s bowl of cereal to last a day.
I don’t want pity. I don’t want posts of “Lol poor anti-feminist girl can’t take care of herself!”. All I want is for people to understand that I, along with MRAs, MGTOWs, and anti-feminists are able to do what they have to to achieve their goals, even if it means self sacrifice. If I have to go hungry and live paycheck to paycheck for the next 3 years, then so be it. I will not bitch about it, I will not cry and scream and have a hissy fit. I will get through this, like every other thing in my life, because as Rocky once said, “It’s not how hard you can punch, it’s how hard you can be punched, and keep moving.”
How many feminists do you see going hungry because they donated everything they had to domestic abuse shelters?
How many feminists do you see getting their uterus or ovaries taken out because their career is what they ultimately chose?
How many feminists do you see quietly suffering because life just dealt them a shitty hand of cards at this moment?
How many feminists do you see actively contributing to their beliefs, either through volunteer time, donations, or whatnot?
I’ve failed to see any feminist in my life do anything other than bitch and whine while guzzling coke, chowing down at resturaunts and flaunting a new wardrobe.
Unlike you hags, I will go next week and donate blood, and every two months after that, along with Bone marrow once a month and peripherial blood stem cells every few weeks inbetween, because regardless of gender or age, everyone deserves a chance at life; something you’re all too ready to extinguish between abortion and infantcide/murdering your husband.
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March 13, 2007 at 4:05 pm
David Clare
Please, don’t worry about donating until you get some regular meals in you! You will run out of energy.
I have been in that space, here are some tips:
* Rice and beans are almost complete protein. Soak the beans ahead of time. If you can find a garage sale slow cooker or crock pot for $5, it’s worth it. Both can be refried.
* Frozen veggies are inexpensive as well.
* Potatoes can be fixed in an infinite variety of ways.
* Carrots. Bags of them.
* Grape jelly is the least expensive. Since you are already reduced to cereal, P&J on white bread will take you a long way.
* Pool your money with another broke student.
* A pint of Hagen Daaz IS A FULL MEAL!
I’ll post more ideas as I think of them. It’s been a while.
March 13, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Davout
K,
Focus on your health FIRST. Do NOT donate blood or anything else until you are in a position to easily replace it in your body. Don’t be a martyr.
David Clare above has mostly good advice. Although, if I were you, I would only pool my money with another broke student as a last resort.
Lentils and legumes are cheap nutrition too. Hope you don’t have allergies to them!
March 13, 2007 at 8:01 pm
K.
David- Thanks for the tips, I’ll have to find another poor student (it shouldn’t be hard!)
Davout- Don’t worry, I am trying to take care of myself
it’s just this week will be tough until about sunday, otherwise I’m good.
If I was a martyr I’d be in there donating my organs by now
I have a slight allergy to Lentils unfortunately, my stomach can’t digest them very well (I’m a meat and potatoes girl).
March 13, 2007 at 8:34 pm
bignasty
Does the town you live in have a church supper? I live in a college town that also happens to have a lot of homeless people, and one day, a volunteer happened to be walking around campus telling college students about the church supper if they happen to be in a situation like yours. Many students are–I’ve gone without a few meals when I was your age…you need some glucose in your brain to keep your creative juices flowing!!
Also, when you get some beans back in your pocket, or if you want to hit the public library, I recommend the book “The Complete Tightwad Gazette” by Amy Dacyczyn. I love that book, I’m a pretty cheap biatch my self! It will really help you stretch your resources…I also find that book useful now that I have a family…
March 13, 2007 at 8:37 pm
A Feminist's Nightmare
we’ve been through there as well… potatoes, carrots and onions….. although no matter what you do NEVER buy those cheap hot dog sausages, even raccoons do NOT eat them. I am not kidding you…
why don’t you e-mail me ( i don’t have yours, if not there is always that yahoo group that we ‘ve just put on) , if you are anywhere near us, which could be a possibility, there is always some extra food around. I always tend to cook too much anyway. I promise, i won’t try to kidnap you.
March 13, 2007 at 9:21 pm
A Canadian Liberal Against Feminism
As someone who has done the student thing, and will probably be paying the debts for the next four to five years, your complaints, (even though you don’t want to complain) are completely justified. Tuition in Ontario is outrageous, and it’s only gotten worse since I left school! So don’t feel bad, you can only stretch that joke they call OSAP so far. I’m virtually certain that AFN and I could write a student cook book, tittle something along the lines of How to eat for $7 or less a day! I suppose it depends on where you are. If you’re in Ottawa, I feel your pain, but then again, just about every College-town in Ontario is the same shit.
Oh also, Asian Markets are FANTASTIC for cheap food! I can make about 10 packages of rice noodles (ussually $0.99 each), and a jar of peanut butter last for a month!
March 13, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Craig
2 words: RAMEN NOODLES. 5 for a buck. i lived on them in college.
also, protein powder mixed with milk is a good meal replacement, quick to make, can taste pretty good, and comes out to about a dollar per serving if you avoid the trendy kind. It’s cheap at Trader Joe’s, if you have one there.
March 14, 2007 at 8:59 am
Fred X
K.- I think Davout pretty much said it when he advised you not to be a martyr.
Some questions:
You are in the UK yes?
You have a student loan/overdraft system?
You have access to a market and/or cheap shopping store like Morrisons/Asda/Tesco which do regular discounts on essential food products (veg/milk etc) ?
I know full-well the problems of money, and this factor alone has brung my activism to a halt in the past- and may do in the future
We should get paid for what we do damnit !!
Femcunts do- yet theirs is the promotion of evil rather than good
March 14, 2007 at 10:52 am
K.
bignasty- good idea. There are quite a few churches around here. I think it’s time to get religious
I will look for that book, thanks for the recommendation.
Femnightmare - I don’t buy those cheap hot dogs even when they go on sale. I’d rather just get some deli-meats instead ugh.
I’ll go see what the yahoo group is up to and contact you sometime through there. If you’re willing to feed me, I think I’d *want* to be kidnapped.
Craig- Mmm ramen. That’s a good idea..but the only ones I can seem to find are 2 for 1$ (it’s kinda expensive here). The protein powder sounds intriguing, so I’ll look into that.
Fredx- Actually Canada. I’m not eligable for any student loans because “both my parents work”. Now if I was a black lesbian missing a limb I bet I’d get pity money real fast.
I also don’t have any of those stores around here, the closest “cheap” shopping store is a good hour walk away.
Of course we’ll never be paid for what we do, the femcunts would scream about not getting their share
March 14, 2007 at 12:11 pm
feminist_scum
I echo what Davout said. You must take care of yourself, and not give blood. Sometimes you have to be selfish, and take care of yourself before anyone else. This is one of those times.
If you lived in the UK, I’d also offer my services like AFN has. I’m sure you’ll be fine though, just remember to take care of yourself.
March 14, 2007 at 12:22 pm
A Feminist's Nightmare
Actually, those rice noodles from the Asian Market are like a buck and one person can feed herself a good 3-4 meals out of it. Of curse, you need a pot of peanut butter, but can make yourself in 5 min a healthy filling peanut butter stir fry.
March 15, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Da Whale Boy
what digusting suggestions for food. eat fruits and vegetables, they are cheap
March 16, 2007 at 2:02 pm
A Feminist's Nightmare
actually, around here, fruits and vegetables are extremely expensive, especially at this time of year…… and unfortunately a person, whether she like it or not, need lots of protein to survive in this corner of the world, where we have winter weather almost 1/2 to 3/4 of the year, Welcome to CANADA!
I have heard stories of some Americans coming up here ( in ONtario ) in the midlle of July to go skying, which is stupid, because even though we can have extremely hot and humid weather for 3 months of the year, the rest of it is quite pathetic. Even though you can’t ski in July…… but in January/ february, it is cold with minus 20 something plus freaking humidity and wind….. all this together, make sit worse than a plain minus 50 without wind or humidity….
Gee we are mid-march and even on a day like yesterday where we had 0, i still got frost bites on my face for half an hour walk because of the crazy wind and humidity around here…. and I am gonna have those for a couple days for sure… ( and I am far away from being in northern Ontario…. )
So not too sound to mean or nasty, but the truth is… around here, you can’t live with only fruits and vegetables, even if they were cheap….
March 16, 2007 at 9:50 pm
bignasty
My God, Canada sounds COLD. We’re having a good storm here, but at least the temperature is 32!
Lots and lots of protein sounds like the way to go…
March 17, 2007 at 1:02 am
A Feminist's Nightmare
well it depends on the province and on the year, this year it has been the worse in many…. BC and southern Ontario are pretty lucky, but the rest of us are freezing our behinds in the winter. Hey at least we get to really enjoy the short summers we have. I guess the best thing about having such winters, is the nice spring and fall. The smell of freshness during spring and fall is just marvelous. No words to describe it. BUt even winter is nice, skating, tobogganing, and then you come in for nice warn hot chocolate….
March 17, 2007 at 4:08 am
Da Whale Boy
haha, yes I see - im from the tropics and live in California now. more fruit than I could shake a tomba drum at!! I would have to be very hungry and in need of protien to make peanutbutter stir fry though… seriously is that good????
da whale-boy (bites into some canteloupe and pineapple with my baleen LOL!!)
March 17, 2007 at 4:09 am
Da Whale Boy
I feel so childish and tropical compared to you folks in the north country of Canada
March 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Davout
Hoi K,
How are you doing? Hope all is well.
March 17, 2007 at 7:16 pm
K.
Sorry for not getting back to you all! I just finally got myself a full night’s sleep. Oh man I feel good.
Da Whale boy - Yes it’s true. All the snow melted this week only to be snowed down on again. You pretty much only have the choice of Carbs and Proteins (I’m not complaining!) to keep you warm. You’re not childish, it’s nice
Fem Nightmare - I’ll email you when I get a chance, hopefully in the next few days! Thanks for the suggestion, it looks like I have some of those noodles in my cupboard!
Davout- I’m doing fine. I got my parents to pull some more money out of my loan account, and I bought myself something to eat. Hopefully the school stops slamming me with ridiculous fees.
FemScum- I’m still scheduled to donate blood, but now that I have some food in my fridge I don’t think it’ll be a problem. The other donations I mentioned I’m going to do during the summer so it doesn’t conflict with my schooling
Thanks everyone!
March 19, 2007 at 12:17 am
A Feminist's Nightmare
da whale boy, actually, surprisingly enough, peanut butter stir fry is delicious, usually it is even better if you can add some carrots and broccoli and peppers to it, it gives abit more texture to it, if you want to try it, google for thai peanut butter stir fry recipes, it will give you some variations. it is really yummyyy in the middle of the winter, it is very filling…
if you like thai food and peanut butter, you’ll enjoy it.
March 19, 2007 at 3:12 am
Da Whale Boy
ha, thanks, I’ll check it out - I like every kind of food, and I do like Thai food quite a bit. The only food I do not like was a raw cuttlefish soup/stew/mess that one of my aunts made once - yuck!
March 21, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Zoe
Just stumbled across your blog. I absolutely love it.
‘I’ve failed to see any feminist in my life do anything other than bitch and whine while guzzling coke, chowing down at resturaunts and flaunting a new wardrobe.’
Well, as with all ideologies it’s more important that they talk the talk not walk the walk. As far as I can see, being a feminist generally just means mentioning the words ‘oppression’ and ‘patriarchy’ in every other sentence.
You’d imagine that feminists would like me- an intelligent woman who makes her own money. Surely, that’s what feminists want for women. Well, no actually, because I refuse to talk their rubbish and as a result must be ostracized.
Anyway, great blog.
March 22, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Patschef
Milk, Milk, Milk…Everything you need is in a glass of milk.
proteins etc…
In France, I was eating dills and eggs on milk for a couple of years. Never felt better. hehehe
Bravo for your blog and take care !!
A bientot
Patschef