"Feminist" humour?

 The vagina-warriors club?

Well...that was a blast from the past yet again

....forgot about that Line "right wing attack tactics are so old",  by I believe it was RP...,but yet some are still sucked in by them, and  the right still uses them...

In respect to this topic, I get told all the time; "if more feminists were like you....." but yet when you ask what other types of feminists they know...one finds they know none.

Y'know what those are, Michelle? Those are glurge. That's the kind of stuff one of my cousins (such a sweetheart) sends me by email almost every morning. And every once in a while I do get a chuckle, or occasionally a serious wow at a gorgeous photo (the polar bears meeting the submarine, eg), but mostly I feel I'm reading well-intentioned rumpus-room humour from decades ago. Well, maybe it's a bit smarter than that (the rumpus-room humour tended to be sexist the other way), but it's still dated. In the early days of the women's movement, we did try to come up with a few zingers, not because we were man-hating but I guess because we were sort of feeling our oats -- we could tell we were succeeding. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" -- I still remember Dan Rather reading that out on the CBS Evening News one night and then staring at the camera in puzzlement. Thought I'd never stop laughing ...

But that was then; this is now. I'm a feminist who has never hated men, and I've got the battle-scars to prove it.    I don't know why the lies about feminism picked up so much steam in the nineties -- I was a little out of touch at the time, being married and working at the same time and all, and then through much of this decade I was taking care of my husband (who was a man; trust me). Do we still need to counter this sort of silly propaganda? I was hoping that it was dying down, that young women were less worried about being misrepresented as man-hating bitches if they called themselves feminists, Yes/no?

(What ever happened to the vagina-warriors club?)

Thanks for the link Michelle, lots of great stuff in that thread, I particularly appreciated what Deborah had to say.  So sure, I'm in, I am definitely a vagina warrior.

I find my humor has changed, it is often much darker and sometimes bitter as I look at what passes for sanity in out topsy turvey world, like reading the newspaper and finding that Gail Asper has received the Order of Canada, now that strikes me as hilarious.  Could this be the same Gail Asper who has a generous understanding of what deductibles are when it comes to raising money for the Museum of Human Rights, another bitter hilarity the monies spent for the archaeology dig is probably about ten percent of what it should have been and half of that went for administration, okay now I am losing my humor altogether.  lol

awww...michelle

anyway back to feminist humour, my partner and I seem to be in retrograde thses days, for childish punning on "adults" and their phoney behaviours and posterings...

... over the last couple of weeks we hear/see something on the news that stretches the bounds of any adult's credibility and anyone's notion of being rational, and we find ourselves punning from it, and clinging to the kitchen island in helpless giggles until our stomach hurts...or I am dashing to the bathroom.

Peter Mackay's TV earnestness comes to mind as being one occasion...and on that note.... did anyone else notice he has got more hair these days?

nothing...

just noticed that he has more hair these days, which accentuates his boyish "earnestness",   as shown by the wind blowing through it ruggedly...in glorious photo op splendor....

I would be surprised if he could read a memo