Ms Hegarty, a self-described Women’s Studies enthusiast, “tweets about feminist & feminist-adjacent matters.”
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Ms Hegarty, a self-described Women’s Studies enthusiast, “tweets about feminist & feminist-adjacent matters.”
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Can I get back to you on this?
Posted by: Sam | July 20, 2015 at 07:40
Incidentally, Ms Hegarty is reporting from Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of leftist agitation and selfless chest-puffing, where “the next generation of progressive leaders” parade their deep, deep wisdom.
A flavour of this year’s event can be savoured here. Including contributions by Ms Jess X Chen, mentioned above, specifically her belief that “There’s a correlation between the female bees being colonised & brown/black/yellow bodies colonised to feed this country.” Ms Chen is, obviously, a “poet, artist, activist and educator” whose areas of expertise include “narratives of ecological and colonial trauma” and “connecting the violences between the female, queer and coloured body and the body of the Earth.”
A self-described Women’s Studies enthusiast, Ms Hegarty, tells us that she’s “asking the sassy, awkward, social justice-y questions both inside and out of the boxes society loves to put in front of us.” When not airing baffling assertions via Twitter and “investigating the intersections of queer and feminist topics,” it isn’t clear how Ms Hegarty earns a living.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 08:12
David, on a not-unrelated note, I would like for you to read through this item and I would be interested in your opinion on it.
The author seems like a hate-filled douchette to me, yet the feminist camp seems genuinely mystified as to where the "man-hating feminist" stereotype comes from.
Posted by: Q30 | July 20, 2015 at 08:47
The worst part about colonizing people, is sticking the flag in.
Posted by: Craig Mc | July 20, 2015 at 09:01
Q30,
The author seems like a hate-filled douchette to me
My first impression is of an obnoxious chippy attitude, which is a practically a credential among such people, as if it were proof of their radicalism and authenticity. The author, Ms Alicen Grey, doesn’t strike me as someone it would be easy, or even possible, to please. Except, perhaps, by submitting to whatever unsavoury urges pass through her mind.
Speaking of credentials, I can’t help noticing just how often these supposedly radical (yet eerily conformist) ladies list “living with mental illness” as an area of expertise. Coincidence, I’m sure.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 09:13
"The ice age is coming, the wheat is growing thin..."
Posted by: Lancastrian Oik | July 20, 2015 at 10:05
Twitter has really opened my eyes to how much stupid there is in the world.
Posted by: Connor | July 20, 2015 at 10:12
JESS X CHEN is a first generation Chinese-American poet, artist/activist, filmmaker, and educator...... Her work intimately exposes narratives of ecological and colonial trauma,
So Jess, how's that Chinese colonisation of Tibet working out? You going to be protesting over there? Just asking. Or is colonialism only bad when westerners do it?
Posted by: Jonathan | July 20, 2015 at 10:18
Too bad the bees have been recovering for years
Posted by: TDK | July 20, 2015 at 10:49
What is it about bees which causes strange female behavior?
Posted by: R. Sherman | July 20, 2015 at 12:31
What exactly does these strange people think they mean when they use the word "colonise"? Have they thought up some way in which the mean old White Man can be said to have metaphorically occupied and settled in them? Are they trying to get an emotional guilt reaction by associating their issues, however spuriously, with the history of colonialism? Or do they just mistake it for a synonym of "oppress" or "mistreat" or "discriminate against"?
Posted by: Patrick Brown | July 20, 2015 at 13:04
I've seen parallels first-hand. The projection and transference was chronic, and the denial unending. But they so love their own beauty, such as it is.
Who's to say that the whack can't organize and have entire movements, cultures, and societies?
Posted by: Ten | July 20, 2015 at 13:06
Are they trying to get an emotional guilt reaction…?
Heavens, the very idea.
Incidentally, Ms Hegarty describes Ms Chen’s, um, poetry as “incredibly powerful.” (For example, she was deeply moved by this: “You mistook my wild as for you, took my hive and renamed it colony.”) She also seems to believe that a staggeringly oppressive “rape culture” actually exists on modern American campuses, along with an all-pervasive “white supremacy.” Must be all that “critical thinking” we hear so much about.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 13:19
Chen's premise, I gather, is that nothing the enterprising man does shall be presumed right.
Say, raising and housing bees in conservational symbiosis. My brother raises bees, and typically keeps them alive when and where they'd otherwise die.
See, without bees there's nothing to keep and no reason to keep it. (Nevertheless, I've advised the little tri-corner-hatted monster of his unmitigated, hive-raping evil and that he's the very vehicle of colonial, sexist oppression.)
He's all wrong, man is. Which is why to the Chens everything progressive reactionary man does is right. We're left to figure out the difference - surely Chen has gifted us with the kernel insight. Let's show some appreciation people. After original thought somebody's got to do the heavy lifting.
Consider Marx.
Bad logic commonly comes from bad religion. Bad religion strikes all other mindsets off the table and off the books. They're conducting a nice little inquisition inside their skulls. Competitively, it appears, because of the virtue of sheer outlandishness.
Posted by: Ten | July 20, 2015 at 13:52
Currently reading "Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700" by Professor John E. Herman of Virginia Commonwealth University. It is evident that Chinese have a legacy of genocidal, land-stealing, exploitative, culturally supremacist colonialism--of colonizing "brown bodies," if you will--for which they too ought to express contrition.
Posted by: Agha_Memnun | July 20, 2015 at 15:48
Ms Hegarty, a self-described Women’s Studies enthusiast, . . . .
I'm reminded of a Mark Russell assessment of Lyndon LaRouche from yea many years back, during one of LaRouche's occasional spasms of claiming to aspire to the US presidency.
[Russell, paraphrased from way old memory]
The current economic downturn is the cause of manipulation of the price of gold, by Queen Elizabeth, who is following the directions of her Illuminati overlords on the planet Mars.
[/Russell]
Posted by: Hal | July 20, 2015 at 15:59
Checkout this masterpiece of race hustling from Obamadingdong...
http://www.samizdata.net/2015/07/you-will-be-assimilated/
Posted by: Johnnydub69 | July 20, 2015 at 16:28
Not a scientist then.
Posted by: Rob | July 20, 2015 at 16:43
Check out this masterpiece of race hustling
As noted at Samizdata, the identitarian hustlers want to force banks to behave like the payday loan companies that the hustlers themselves denounce, and despite its disastrous real-world consequences. Just as their interference in school discipline policy has led to things like this, over and over again. Repeated refutation does not stop such people.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 16:47
In other news, the Guardian’s Jessica Valenti is a strange woman.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 17:14
Part of the apian decline is the decline in beekeeping hobbyists. Also, yes, hive parasites exist. A former co-worker of mine keeps bees and he showed us photos of the mite attached to the thorax of a hapless worker. Right there on the back, exactly where she could never reach it.
Like every single back itch you've ever had.
Posted by: dicentra | July 20, 2015 at 17:40
'Colonisation' seems to be a popular theme amongst SJWs. Can anyone explain this though:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/2496da7fbc75aa5bd8d66984d4bbf75b/tumblr_mqbb02vm2E1symmvdo1_1280.jpg
Posted by: Jonathan | July 20, 2015 at 17:58
Hmmm. And then there are rats . . .
Borg, v. 0.001?
Posted by: Hal | July 20, 2015 at 19:54
@Jonathan
Was she colonized by pies? If we accept her, do the pies leave? I have too many questions.
Posted by: R. Sherman | July 20, 2015 at 19:56
Her colon is probably full of pies. And she's certainly a looker!
Posted by: Theophrastus | July 20, 2015 at 20:20
Previously, from Mr. Chen:
"#1 Beauty Nail Salon: A spoken-word poet, Paul Tran, excavates the violence, horror and racial capitalism beneath the beauty industry of post-Vietnam-War-America through the lens of Vietnamese nail salon workers." -- IMDB
"Red: A woman is born of a drop of blood that falls to Earth from space. Every month she walks across the Earth as long strings of her blood return to the moon. As it becomes full, the woman tries to explain a lover what it feels like to be touched while on her menstrual cycle; how he mistakes the copper he tastes for machine, when really her body and blood are soft, tender folds he has yet to understand. Based on a spoken word poem, 'Red' is an exploration of body, blood, bravery, and love. It is a mythology about the origin of the moon that celebrates the beauty of every menstrual cycle." -- Likewise
Posted by: mojo | July 20, 2015 at 20:37
Yes, I know. Just to be disagreeable.
Posted by: mojo | July 20, 2015 at 20:48
More tweets by leftist intellectuals, by which I mean, professional educators.
Posted by: David | July 20, 2015 at 21:14
Was she colonized by pies?
Nobody knows Johnny, nobody knows.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 20, 2015 at 21:39
Are they trying to get an emotional guilt reaction by associating their issues, however spuriously, with the history of colonialism?
This one.
Every few years their favorite epithet loses its punch so they appropriate a new term of outrage that always figures AFTER the colon in their published papers.
Posted by: dicentra | July 20, 2015 at 22:28
Mein Gott.
That Katie Hegarty Twitter feed must be pretty close to the motherlode of stupidity.
Although I think I said that last week, and the week before that, and ...
Posted by: james | July 20, 2015 at 23:17
@James
Like this one?
Posted by: R. Sherman | July 21, 2015 at 00:47
Alicen Gray. Yeah, I thought I knew everything when I was 21, too.
Pie Woman: You're colonizing your body with a fork. Knock that shit off.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | July 21, 2015 at 01:59
And why are these feminists trying over and over and over and over and over and over to explain feminism to men who mock, belittle, ignore, tease, berate, blah blah at them? Does no one know how to walk the fuck away any more? Jeez Louise, get a fuckin' grip, fed-up feminists.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | July 21, 2015 at 02:03
that celebrates the beauty of every menstrual cycle.
oh good lord
the only thing menopause has going for it is finally not having any periods any more.
Posted by: Darleen | July 21, 2015 at 04:36
Hmmm. And then there are rats . . .
Borg, v. 0.001?
Posted by: Hal | July 20, 2015 at 19:54
See also: "Count Two, Think Blue", Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger)
Posted by: mojo | July 21, 2015 at 07:20
@RSherman
Yes. That one is a beauty.
The one below is a more typical one.
https://twitter.com/HegartyKatie/status/622079466601197569
She is prolific- dozens of tweets each day.
Posted by: james | July 21, 2015 at 08:40
You can watch Ms Chen's Netroots performance online here (if you have the stomach for it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwJEtG5u5Mo
Why do these audiences always holler 'woo woooooo'? I would find it very triggering if I was there.
Posted by: OJ | July 21, 2015 at 13:19
@R Sherman
Like this one?
That was the 'plot' of a porn movie I ..er...accidentally saw.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 21, 2015 at 15:41