DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

dagNotes: On common sense claims about hook-up culture

Really disgusting how the critique of hook-up culture always places the onus of responsibility with women insisting women participating in hook-up culture, say, leaving a bar with a new friend, create an opportunity for assault to occur. This lazy common-sense claim certainly objectifies women while liberating men. That young women have adopted this rhetoric within slut-shaming discourse as a kind of feminist practice—we see it on tumblr, facebook, and twitter—is purely reactionary, I suppose, but should be called out for the anti-feminist action it resists an examination of misogynist ideological work accomplished in traditional rape culture. It provides cover for those who assault and that which permits or cultivates assaults. I think it’s the result of boiling feminism down to equality discourse, which has led to other horribly oppressive social movements, like the men’s rights movement.

Libertarianism is stupid. [The Failures of Common Sense]

whatiscapitalism:

Poverty shouldn’t be completely extinguished. If you get fired from every minimum-wage job you get, didn’t apply yourself in school, and spend your weekends smoking pot rather than learning skills or reading books, then you should face possible starvation and homelessness.

I personally know a dozen people who fit the above description, but still have an automatic living standard higher than most of the people in the history of civilization, because our government forces you and I to provide it.

That this makes me “cold hearted” is insanity. The real cold-hearted people are those who want to force you to pay for the lifestyles of the intentional failures of the world.

Summary: Poverty illustrates how rich people deserve unearned ambition and poor people get things they don’t deserve.

Truly fortunate how that logic works: I see something that appears to be the case, so it must be the case. Fortunately, even capitalist philosophers and theorists have long argued against making this argument. Adam Smith, in particular, rails against this interpretation of poverty that capitalism permits in Part 1, Section 3, Chapter 2 of his Theory of Moral Sentiments, “Of the Origins of Ambition, and the Distinction of Rank”. (All three chapters of Section 3 are useful in addressing this common sense complaint.) What you argue above is the exact thing Smith predicted capitalism would encourage privileged people to think and feel about poor people. He believed this was a serious problem that needed to be addressed by both government and schools. He insisted we regulate free market activity via laws to protect the poor; he believed a principled public education about this error in logic and representation was necessary.

So, good job on truthfully illustrating what capitalism is.

The Failure of Common Sense.

#LibertarianismIsStupid

(Source: perplexingperspectives, via postpublisher)

For Her, Seeing is Believing: Patriarchal Feminist Theory (White People Problems)

Catherine Brennan has found comfort supporting a common, traditional, patriarchal binary for sex and further desires to seek her destiny in the limitations of a well-defined, pseudo-scientific and unnatural, that is, ideological and static female sex that belongs to her by birth, giving owning it a grotesque new sense.

She is female because she’s inherited the property, the organs she found in her body. It’s a terribly proscribed anti-intellectual take on sex and gender, no?

Panicked Brennan is in fear of becoming undone. I think she must feel an urge towards feminism for fear of otherwise losing her genitalia.

Brennan on being female: 

I accept trans women as women. I don’t accept trans women as female - because they are not female. If they were female, we wouldn’t be having this stupid conversation all the time.

I support gender identity protections that don’t fuck over females.  See http://radicalhub.com/2011/08/15/frequently-asked-questions-about-brennan-hungerfords-un-submission-re-gender-identity-legislation/

I believe that Females have an absolute right to set a boundary based on sex - because they say so. And you should respect that.

PS - Expressing opinions on the internet is not “harassing” anyone, you nitwit.