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For newcomers, three more items from the archives.

Uprising.

Mandatory lesbianism and the politics of shoes. A video history of radical feminism.

“It was a fantastic bit of graffiti and everybody had it up on their walls. And then we found out that a man had done the graffiti. We were just like, ‘Right, that’s it.’ We were basically going to go round and brick his house ‘til we found out he lived with women and children [laughs] … then of course we couldn’t do it, yeah.”

I Sense A Malign Presence.

Meet Jane Elliott: “diversity” pioneer and Witchfinder General for the modern age.

Note Elliott’s disregard for context, motive or objective criteria. “Perception is everything,” says she. By which she means the perception, or misperception, of one party only. This is the premise of Elliott’s crusade – to provide moral correction for all pale-skinned people. The particulars of an exchange and who did what to whom are all but immaterial; what matters is which party belongs to the Designated Victim Group, as defined by Jane Elliott and others in the trade.

The Wrong Kind of Rich.

Wealthy Guardianistas deserve hefty salaries. Unlike you.

Toynbee’s Guardian salary, for years a subject of speculation, was eventually revealed as £106,000 - excluding royalties, advances, media fees, etc. Presumably Polly feels her own financial rewards are not at all “extravagant” or “unjust,” or a likely cause of public outrage. It seems, then, that Ms Toynbee only dislikes the wrong kind of rich people, which is to say rich people whose politics and backgrounds may differ from her own.

And the updated greatest hits may reward some rummaging.

Comments

[Ed]

Just watched part 1 of the feminism video. Hilarious. Am downloading the rest to share with my wife (pbuh).

[Sam]

David, thanks for posting the video. Best line (so far):

"It was a bit of a pain because there were all these women who suddenly wanted to be lesbians, but they didn't actually terribly want to sleep with women. But they sort of felt they ought to, to pay their dues."

[Horace Dunn]

"...they didn't actually terribly want to sleep with women. But they sort of felt they ought to, to pay their dues".

I should have thought that all those communist ladies would have relished the opportunity to do some impersonations of Stalin.

[The Colonel]

"Best line (so far)"

How about this one...?

"Giving up fucking [men] is about taking your politics seriously... Penetration is fundamental to the system of oppression."

[Frank P]

Long ago I once arrested a male prostitute, who hustled in drag, for many acts of inciting buggery and gross indecency. In order to escape severe punishment he attended Archie McKindoe's clinic, had his three piece suite removed and replaced with a vinyl vagina. It worked and he/she received a lenient sentence. However he/she then returned to 'straight' prostitution' and later his long term boy friend was arrested for living on his/her immoral earnings. Within a couple years the tranny was so bored with being straight, that he shacked up with a Lesbian madam. What a tangled web we weave ...

[Longtime Lurker]

Excellent blog.