Hello everyone! Sorry I haven’t been posting lately, but as summer rolled around I got myself a job (which is now done), and have been studying as hard as I can so when I get back to school I’ll be able to work even harder. I’m saddened to see Fredx and all the other blogs close, but I hope everyone else continues to write their thoughts out. The only thing stopping us right now is lack of time, not material!

Just wanted to bring to your attention as I came across this : http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/BitingBeaver

Apparently Biting Beaver wants her own son to die because he looks at pornography like any normal 13 year old would do.

The world is getting crazier by the second.

Sorry everyone for being gone for so long. I’m settling back into the summer and trying to keep myself busy, and somewhat tethered to something other than my bed and my Mp3player.

Hopefully I’ll do some more blogging soon.

Somethings you should check out in the meantime though, are things like the Blogswarm for Angry Harry:

Vote for AngryHarry

The more votes we get, the more people we can reach.

Another is the little girl who went missing, and I haven’t heard about that case for a while. I’m personally not keeping up with it, as the entire media is going gaga for this, eating it up as much as they can and spewing out their own agenda while doing so. Hopefully she is returned home safely.

Argus here on Youtube has an excellent array of videos, this one being one of my favourites: Criticisms of Feminism

Please check out his other videos. He’s an excellent speaker.
Another great video: Feminism Survey on the street

This woman, you should all check her out: I was a teenage Feminist

What I don’t think she understands is, that no matter what you do, you’ll always be judged and felt to conform to something. That’s just the way the world turns. Not everyone in this vast place will agree, and you don’t either. But that’s no reason to change yourself to “conform”. To do so means you were weak in the first place, needing something to conform to (feminism, lesbianism, alternative religions) to feel “different yet accepted”. I’m not going to read into it too much, because I’ve already met a few people like her.

Anyways, keep yourselves busy, and hope you are all having a good summer.

Good luck AngryHarry!

Hey All!

Just posting quickly to say I’ve moved back to my original home, and it’s finally settling down. Next step is to get a 40-60 hour workweek job to pay for next year’s school.

Quick note, the essay actually deviated from the original prompts so I was marked failing, but the teacher said it was brilliant and that since she worked in violence/aggression, she agreed completely. I loved what she said about it too, and how I could’ve improved on it. I’ll quote her: “a quarter of times, it’s men beating women, and then another quarter of women beating men. The last half is both of them escalating it.”

Unfortunately, I handed the URL to this in for a conceptual journal; The teacher said that everyone needed a political viewpoint as an artist. Apparently not. I got another failing mark on that.

I’m looking into it, but until then, hope you all are doing well.

K.

To all the feminists out there:

Fuck you.

Swear to god, if I have to read another piece on why it’s opression to shave your legs I’m gonna have to choke a bitch.

The only reason feminists write about this shit is because they need to verify their own self doubts. Who are the ones that blog about how women should be respected for being hairy? Who blogs about porn being degrading to women? Who blogs about how women should have the right to abortion, disregarding the man’s right in all this?

People who want those rights or are offended that others have them. And only those people.

How many people here would write about those asinine subjects unless they  personally have some sort of bias towards the subject? I’d probably never write a serious piece on cute cats, mainly because 1) it’s pretty fucking lame and 2) as cute as they are, there’s hundreds of sites out there already with them.  But cat’s are pretty cute…

Back onto the topic of hairy legs:

Men; who wants to date a chick who doesn’t even keep herself looking clean for her man? Women; who wants to date a man who can’t keep himself looking clean for his woman?

The double standard appears when you ask these women about how they like their men. Oh, he has *alot* of backhair? EEEEEEW. But it’s natural sweetheart, there’s nothing to worry!  I’m sure if you ask really nicely they’ll even shave a little heart patch out. Just for you. And don’t forget to make them sit down when they piss, because lord knows, that’s opression right there! Standing up to piss? My god! It’s sit down or get out in this household!

Feminists rant about the stupidest things. I’m gonna go shave my legs, slap on a few good layers of makeup and wear something terribly revealnig for my tastes (low cut top woo!). And I’m gonna love every minute of it!

Sorry all for being Missing in Action.

this was an essay I just finished less than a minute ago. It’s not the greatest, and I’m not the greatest writer, but hell, it’s worth quite a bit in my intro to psych course and I didn’t want to do another “Womenz are teh victims lol!!one11!1!”

So I’ll put it under the cut! (unfortunately it’s not as long as it should be, so sorry for the short read).

According to many different Women’s programs, 95% of victims of spousal abuse are women. Websites such as WRAP, claim 4 million women a year are assaulted, 20% of women in relationships are battered and two thirds of all marriages will experience domestic violence at some point (WRAP). A popular theory is Battered Woman Syndrome; where a women is abused to such an extent that she kills her spouse. Unfortunately, what is not widely known, is that in 1994, the Department of Justice released statistics claiming that in spousal abuse, 41% of women were the murderer; numbers nearly equal to male on female murder in an abusive relationship (Department of Justice, 1994). A question posed then; Is battered Woman syndrome relevant for legal and psychological purposes if women against male violence/murder is nearly equal? Is a battered woman’s psychology so different that it warrants a separate psychological term that may be used in court? To draw up a theory, we must understand what battered woman syndrome truly is.

The term “battered woman syndrome” original is based off of “battered person’s syndrome”, ICD-9, 995.81 in the DSM IV. It is also referred to as a Post Traumatic Stress disorder, and falls under the Adult abuse, Injury and Poisoning category. However, when referenced from the ICD-9-CM database, the definition of battered person’s syndrome is:

“Women who are physically and mentally abused over an extended period, usually by a husband or other dominant male figure. Characteristics of the battered woman syndrome are helplessness, constant fear, and a perceived inability to escape.”

It is unclear if 995.81 is Battered Person’s Syndrome or Battered woman Syndrome; Both are different applied theories and should not be confused with each other. The Wikipedia definition, as untrustworthy the source, differs greatly:

“In lay terms, this is a reference to any person who, because of constant and severe domestic violence usually involving physical abuse by a partner, becomes depressed and unable to take any independent action that would allow him or her to escape the abuse.”

The DSM IV unwittingly has mistaken battered woman syndrome with battered person’s syndrome. The latter is gender neutral, with both man or woman being susceptible to being subjected to it; the former is only applicable to females in relationships and is based off of combined theories. “Battered woman syndrome” was coined by a Feminist Psychologist, Lenore Walker, in 1978-1982 (Walker, 1979). It is based off of Martin Seligman’s theory of Learned helplessness, where Lenore links the dog’s inability to escape their situation into battered women, as they display the same characteristics. She claimed that abuse has three stages of violence; First, the Tension building stage where there are verbal or minor physical abuse the victim attempts to pacify. The next is Acute Battering incident, where real or perceived danger is at it’s highest. Finally, there is the Loving contrition stage, where the abuser’s attitude changes after the abuse; sometimes they will apologize and promise it will never happen again. The first complication that arises is that in her cycle of violence, there is no indication or reasoning for the killing of the husband; it only outlines the violence in the male, not the defense in the female. Secondly, when it is based on such theories such as Learned Helplessness, contradictions arise.

When all components that create the Battered woman syndrome are analyzed in depth, complications arise. The most prominent one is that it was based off of Seligman’s Learned Helplessness theory , in which the victim does not attempt to escape abuse. However, in Seligman’s experiment, of the 150 dogs tested, 50 of them were “…completely normal and learned to avoid shock in the avoidance test.”(Dr. C.A.P. Kenyon, 1994) Therefor, if it were able to translate to human psychology, one third of all battered wives will escape the abusive relationship or attempt. However, It is unclear whether Walker is referencing the two thirds who become helpless are women who fight back and injure or kill their husband, or if it’s the one third that escape the abuse despite past experiences. Secondly, Learned Helplessness does not factor in aggression. In Seligman’s experiments, there is no notable aggression that is shown or recorded. The results were that the animals did not try to escape, or attempted to escape. Some showed signs of clinical depression while others continued to behave “normally”. Since Battered woman Syndrome is partially based off of Learned helplessness, there is notably some criticism regarding a pacifist theory supporting one where the victim commits murder.

Another complication that rises is that it was never tested rigorously by Walker to disprove any criticisms it received. Her study, outlined in “The Battered Woman”, reveals that she only tested 345, Caucasian, heterosexual women who all came from the same background (Walker, 1979). No variations in race, history, or background were used in her study. Indeed, her experiments have also never been recreated, posing the question of is it merely a social/cultural phenomenon, or is it a condition women from diverse backgrounds suffer? Another problem is that the medical world cannot decide at what point of abuse does a person fight back, let alone kill their abuser. This creates even more vagueness to the term, and needs to be clarified and tested further for it be effective as a psychological disorder, used in court to defend or prosecute a woman. Although the theory has not been tested rigorously yet, it appears in tv shows to movies to music.

In popular media, Battered woman syndrome has found it’s place. In India, there is a famous movie named “Provoked” that was made in India, and released in the UK in 2006. From internet movie database (imdb.com), the plot outline is:

“It’s the true story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia who leaves India to marry a London-based guy, only to be badly abused. She ends up in prison for murdering her abusive husband. “

However, news stories and several different articles prove otherwise. This Hollywood version has twisted the reality. Kiranjit Ahluwalia arrived in Britain in 1979 in a second arranged marriage. After having 2 sons born out of what she claimed was constant rape, she testified that he abused her to a point where she took petrol, doused him in it while he slept, and then lit it. He died 5 days later in hospital. She was originally jailed for life for murder; However, later, she was let out on a lesser charge using the battered woman syndrome to support her case (She was let out on Manslaughter). The main issue with this case is that it may spur more lesser charges based on Battered woman syndrome, when the term itself is not adequately defined, and when the evidence was presented after the fact (DailyMail, 2006).

“”I couldn’t see an end to the violence,” she says. “I decided to burn him back; show him how much it hurt.”

Taking this quote, it is unclear whether she means to say that she wanted him to feel the pain of the abuse, or if she was seeking revenge. It was later clear that she had not suffered a disorder or mental illness;

“Her original defence of provocation had failed partly because the jury was told she was not suffering from a mental disorder. But her new solicitor, Rohit Sanghvi, found new evidence that she had been suffering from ‘battered wives syndrome’.”

The “new evidence” was displayed after the first trial where she was sentenced to life in prison. This causes legal technicalities that should have been dealt with in the original case. She is even quoted to say later in the article:

“”A lot of people think the book and film have made me rich but that isn’t the case,” Kiranjit says. “I still need to work.””

According to the courts, she suffered no mental illness, and that she was guilty of murder. The story also seems inconsistent, her quotes ranging from “I decided to burn him back” to “I felt so guilty. I cried and cried.” It is also concerning to have her note about her financial status of money gained off of the murder. It is unclear whether she had killed him in self defense while he slept, or if she had killed him for other motives. An abused person should always get the help they need, but there needs to be a way to confirm it. It must also be treated with absolute fairness in sentences compared to their male counterparts.

According to “Forensic Nurse”, a site dedicated to investigations of violence and medical issues, women are charged with lesser sentences for the same crimes;

“Many reports of U.S. criminal sentencing demonstrate that wives who kill their husbands are acquitted in 12.9 percent of cases, while husbands who kill their wives are acquitted in only 1.4 percent of cases. Additionally, a 1988 U.S. Justice Department study found men frequently receive an average sentence of 17 years for killing their spouses, vs. a six-year sentence for the woman who kills her husband. Probation for female spousal killers is granted to approximately 16 percent, while only 1.6 percent for males may be granted probation.”

Women are often let out of jail, and acquitted of murder more often then their male counterparts for the exact same crimes. This shows that there is a natural biased towards women concerning emotionally charged crimes, such as the killing of an intimate partner. In May 1996, the Department of Justice did a report concerning the validity of using Battered woman syndrome in the courtroom, collaborating with both the Department of Health and Human services, and Judges. This report suggests that the term Battered woman syndrome is not a construct adequate enough to describe battering in legal cases, and that on an individual case by case, the term implies far too much; that the woman is helpless and the victim. They even claim that there needs to be more research “of battering and its effects are relevant to these legal circumstances…”(pg.viii) Battered woman syndrome needs to be further investigated for the sake of legal technicalities;

“A substantial number of state courts have also admitted expert testimony in nontraditional self-defense situations (e.g., when a battered woman kills her batterer when he is asleep or hires a third party to kill him)” (pg.viiii)

In any case where a woman claims battered woman syndrome, there needs to be evaluation done on her to ensure that she had killed him in self defense, and not use battered woman syndrome as an excuse to commit a murder.

Through the analysis of the supporting theories of Learned Helplessness and Battered persons syndrome, combined with legal jargon, Battered woman syndrome is nothing more than an attempt of explaining why women kill their husbands. Considering almost half of murdered spouses are killed by women, a fair treatment must be used to ensure that both genders get the psychiatric diagnosis and help to ensure that a syndrome is not used as a legal scapegoat. Both men and women need to be recognized fairly, and that if there are differences in the psychological make up of an abused adult, it needs to be documented much more carefully than casual interviews and reports. The mental health of the patients are the key interest, however, in cases where murder is involved, there must be safeguards for the victim and against the abuser so; Abuse will not continue, and the victim will get psychological help in order to heal the scars brought on by abuse. A syndrome should never be used as an excuse for murder, and more so, it should be punished in the eyes of the law equally. As a feminist like Walker would say, men and women are equal and therefor should be treated as such.

(exam time’s hit so expect me to be gone for another3-4 weeks!)

This was posted on a forum I go to all the time and thought I’d share it with you.

I don’t care about all the people who call me a slut or a whore just because I am sexually promiscuous. In 30 years I will look back and smile at all the good time I’ve had, what will you do? smile at all the time you spent whining?

I will never allow me to limit myself out of fear of your jealousy, because that is what you are, jealous and hypocrites. It is my body and I will fuck whoever I want and whenever, I don’t need your approval or your judgment. You can keep all your moral rants to yourself.

I am so happy that I found a bf that is mature enough to understand me and to have the courage to lose me every now and then. Our special relationship is so above anything you will ever experience and I feel genuinely sorry for your intellectual retardation.

One of the first replies?

PROTIP: If you can only think of social reasons for promiscuity being discouraged, we’re not the only retards here.

Don’t worry all, I’m still alive (though a bag of blood short!. The title is taken from my friend, who described the movie to me in 2 words “blood and tits”. It’s kinda true.

I donated yesterday (in under 5 minutes actually), and there was such a big lineup I was almost late to see 300. Unfortunately, I realized I should’ve probably lied down for a bit longer as I nearly passed out standing on the bus. Luckily, another student from my school offered me her seat for the last few minutes of the ride. I sat in the small bus terminal for a few minutes, then my classmate and I went and saw 300.

Wow! I have not seen that many built men EVER. Some of them had such large legs I thought they were tree trunks. When I told my classmate that there’s actually 3 trannies in the movie, we played “Spot the Tranny”. We found all 3!

That leads to the next point. The Queen character was probably one of the most brilliantly created “strong” woman. There were no hissy fits, no skanking it up, and even when she at the mercy of the counsellor, she found a way to get back at him for raping her (sorry for the spoilers!).  She was probably one of the first characters in any movie that I did not find that was just inserted to be someone’s lover or a plot device. Alot of movies I have found use women as plot devices and not actual stand alone characters. Just look at any movie: Pirates of the Caribbean? Kierra Knightly has no other purpose than to advance the plot and be the love interest (even going as far as causing a slight love triangle).

Why?

I don’t think they have any idea how to actually write a stand alone woman character without finding it a hassle.

Think about it.

Most women in historical context weren’t warriors; if they make a movie such as Arthur, the woman is a barbarian with a slight injury, overplaying it for pity, versus the young boy who was sick and dying in the same jail. She was nothing short of annoying. Otherwise, they’ll make her a princess, played by the prettiest actress they can get.

If they try to make her a love interest from the beginning, then she automatically becomes some lusty busty whore, attracting the attention of the main character from her pitiful situation, or even worse, someone has paid/bet someone to go out with her (10 things I hate about you, etc). There is always one girl who is “non-conformist”,  living her life by “trying to be different”. Even worse, are the ones where they transform the shy nerdy ones to sex goddesses.

There are great women characters, don’t get me wrong, but they are usually

A) not the main character/ unimportant supporting character.

B) they are too young or two old

C) They were in a Frank Miller movie (even though he’s obsessed with hookers, they’re pretty down to earth).

I think it’s very hard to protray a realistically sound and sane female. Look at the W-network (Or as I like to call it, “watch-susie-get-beaten-again-movie-network”). Almost any show that showcases a female as the main character is so out there it’s almost hard to watch.  Sex in the City type characters are rampant, or the strong dominate female that can do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING. It’s worse than watching a 3 ring circus going round and a round. Beaten, abused, or Harlequin-romance-novel characters are much easier to keep the story going than to use some effort.

So what can we do about it?

Short of writing my own scripts and submitting them to Hollywood? Hell if I know.

But I do know that I enjoyed Dining in Hell last night.

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.

Playing around with the header for a while, so if it goes wonky, I’m sorry!

also, my classes should be done with their March break of death projects, so new full posts coming again sometime on saturday.

(Yes that is a picture of me, I’ve got nothing to hide!)

Be back soon! Thanks!

I’ll be quite frank; These are my views on abortion. They aren’t “right”, they aren’t “wrong”, but they’re mine none the less.

I am not pro-life. I don’t believe in completely outlawing abortion, and I don’t believe in the radicals that firebomb abortion clinics. I don’t believe in denying birth control or keeping people in the dark about it.

I am neither pro-choice. I don’t believe that you should be able to walk into a clinic and commit infantcide without evaluations. I don’t believe that it’s completely “your body, your choice”; you’re forgetting the other half that made it.

I stand somewhere in the “anti-choice” section by default.

I might get a lot of flak for this, but most women who get abortions are selfish. Children concieved from rape, incest, or the child could potentially kill the mother that are aborted are less that what, 10%?

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

Almost half of the abortions the past few years were due to not using any form of birthcontrol. You would think that their parents, or even the schools, would drill it into their heads that if you’re going to sleep around, at least be smart about it. The other half were from using birth control…poked holes in condoms? Unsafe foreplay? what? I’d like to at least know what that section is about.

Secondly, apparently less than 0.5% of the abortions were the husbands or boyfriends asking them to have one, and another 0.5% for rape. Apparently men aren’t the savage brutes we all thought they were! /sarcam.

The two biggies for abortion?

Can’t afford the baby and Unready.

Maybe if you were “unready” you could possibly keep your legs closed? Just a thought? If you can’t afford a kid, I hope to god you can afford a pack of birth control pills and a few sets of condoms.

You can justify these things in certain situations, such as carrying the child to term might kill the both of you, or that the child will be born with severe defects, physically and mentally. But it is selfish when you do it because you “want a little girl” and not the 4th little boy; It’s selfish when you knowingly try to get pregnate to “save” a relationship and then fall back on abortion for your mistakes. Or even worse, willingly poking holes in condoms to try to trap a girlfriend into a relationship or “forgetting” to take your pills to trap your boyfriend.

I really do not think kindly of people who had abortions for selfish reasons like that. Deal with the thought of the consequences before you open your legs, because you’re literally killing something that inconviences you.

To fix this, I think you’d need to have

a) a Psychiatric evaluation

b) a Doctor’s evaluation

c) Signed papers from the other half of the relationship

It’s not fair to expect your boyfriend to agree with you on it. It’s not fair to do it anyways if he objects. You slept with him, you deal with him and try to find a way to come to a compromise, even if it’s him raising the child as a single father.

There is always precautions, and I’d wish people would start taking them.