Posted on 08/21/2007 12:10:27 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor
Edited on 08/21/2007 12:15:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Apparently the Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald will not allow articles to be posted, due to copyright complaints ... so I've provided a link to the article.
The gist of the article is that a few radical feminist blogs (such as the Womens Space and Gentle Sprit) have recently been attacked and shut down in severe denial of service attacks.
It can be read at either the Sydney Morning Herald or the Brisbane Times.
Anyway, despite my undeniable disagreement with absolutely everything they stand for ... these online attacks have been quite excessive, going far beyond rational debate (though describing feminists as "rational" is a stretch ... their attackers have taken irrationality to an art form). Many of the incessant e-mails and blog posts have included rape threats, and threats to the lives of bloggers and their families (including threatening specific family members by name).
One particular blogger named Cheryl Seelhoff (calling herself "Heart" and running "womensspace.org") is apparently a fringe Presidential candidate from the "Free Soil" Party (EXTREMELY fringe ... WAY beyond even Dennis Kucinich). Anyway - she has actually borne the brunt of these attacks ... which only give legitimacy to her loony cause.
Let it be known, however ... these women are absolutely certifiable. They couldn't be more wrong about more subjects if they tried ... they are basically the embodiment of antithesis of everything I believe. Most are lesbians, most are pagans or athiests or wiccans or something, many are socialists, and all are pro-choice, authoritarian feminists. A few choice feminists are actually "lesbian separatists", believing women will only be truly free if they secede from that portion of the world now controlled by the "patriarchy".
One of them actually suggested that she now wishes she'd aborted her son because she caught him viewing pornographic material ... which she deems an abuse of women, and destined to make him a rapist wife-beater. They're all wackos.
That being said, and their collective insanity notwithstanding, the attacks that they have endured are entirely reprehensible. They only serve to further scar these already psycologically fragile feminists, and push them even further into their little world where "patriarchy" controls everything and men are entirely evil. To them, these attacks prove that they've been right all along ... and only serve to tighten their ranks, rejuvinate their feminism, radicalize what few "non-radical" feminists they had, and generally shine a bad light on those of us who think that feminists are insane.
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Sounds like a swell bunch of folks to play Poker with.
If you can’t have a good time with a few lesbian separatists, who can you?
H
Misogyny recapitulates biology?.............
“them, these attacks prove that they’ve been right all along “
That sort of points to possible perps, does it not? Especially since the vicious attackers know the names of the families.
"Help help! I'm being oppressed!"
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>> That sort of points to possible perps, does it not? Especially since the vicious attackers know the names of the families.
The family member that was threatened was mentioned, by name, in the chick’s blog. I know - dumb as a bag of doorknobs.
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By themselves, no doubt.
Why are they so worried about being pro-choice when they don't have to worry about getting pregnant?
I read through the article again. For sure, whoever the Anonymous group is, they seem to know lots of personal information about their targets.
The call for better Internet laws was more muted than I’d expected.
Why would they take the site down, then? Certainly they wouldn’t initiate a denial of service attack on their own website ... so that their carrier would shut the site down.
As loony as these chicks are ... this story seems legit.
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Because you are a probable rapist Mr Man. %^)
I wish that were not the truth to their thinnking, but there it is.
After reading their sites some ... I don’t get the feeling these broads are feminists of the same stripe as Fonda or Steinem. They’re more the Dworkin variety ... they probably think Fonda’s a patriarchal sellout.
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Looks like your photo has been hacked too. I recall just the “Iron my Shirt” statement on that sign, without the *itch part.
Yeah, I’ve stumbled on those blogs too a long time ago when I was searching for stuff on the quiverful movement. While I don’t agree with the quiverful movement, I thought “heart” or whoever it was was way over the top.
The people who did the “hacking” are probably from 420chan. They have an /i/ invasion board where they pick targets and harass them. It’s more like clockwork orange type thuggery than say a mass movement of the patriarchy to put down women.
...”Most are lesbians, most are pagans or athiests or wiccans or something, many are socialists, and all are pro-choice, authoritarian feminists. A few choice feminists are actually “lesbian separatists”, believing women will only be truly free if they secede from that portion of the world now controlled by the “patriarchy””....
Most also are plug ugly....which may be related to their “feminism”.
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