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Posted by Chris on 02/19/07 (G7, Podcasts)
…in the form of G7 Radio Redux. We are but a mirror held up to society. Remember that (and keep reminding yourself as you listen) (over and over) (and over).
43 fragments of dialogue thus far ...
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Comment by tom on February 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm:
hahahahahahahahahaha could be funniest one ever.
jurassic frog eh? this is cool, this frog may holdmany clues as to why the entire world is at war and millions of people are dying. maybe help with some evoltuionary theory at the same time?
to tell you the truth, i’m surpried they haven’t started doing the same things to all those guilty al’qaida terrorists down in guantanamo.
isn’t there a button we can press to kill the people who devise these barbaric tests? what is this like 25,000,000 B.C.(common era)????????? fuck with the news of these tests you’d think a little froogie just jumped into a pool of amber.
no wonder chris whimpers in his sleep.
Comment by gerty on February 19th, 2007 at 6:22 pm:
hey I traversed all around the city today trying to get ‘gandhi tix to no avail. in due time i suppose.
Lucking sauve ass frog i’ve been trying to get inside Amber for a long time. Once again g7 makes all other podcasts completely irrelevant and impossible to even listen to. the mere existence of g7 banishes other podcasts to a rock tumbler to be deficates upon and showered with lasers shot from the g7 family’s ‘private parts’.
is that a new propagandhi song at the end of the ‘pisode?
Comment by Asshole on February 20th, 2007 at 2:29 am:
JUMPING JIMINY CRICKET ON A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO! Im shocked im laughing at this. Im shocked I didnt know about this.
Comment by Anthony on February 20th, 2007 at 4:44 am:
This episode is the best redux one so far and also what song is that at the end of the episode??
Comment by Marc on February 20th, 2007 at 7:17 am:
Where the hell do you guys get the imagination for this shit? Awesomely hilarious.
Comment by C-wipe on February 20th, 2007 at 7:55 am:
anthony: it is Nels Cline & Gregg Bendian doing a cover of John Coltrane/ Rasheid Ali’s “mars” duet.
Comment by Sebas on February 20th, 2007 at 11:25 am:
Yehaaaaw! It’s getting longer!
It’s gone up to 15 minutes long! (if those were inches i wouldn’t be talking bout the radios show, if you know what i mean… “wink”).
Cline & Bendian should be frozen in ambar and launched towards the sun, get real rad superpowers and come back like the only super-villains that can defeat superman. Oh yeah! And then make a beloni sausage and feed it to macaco monkeys, so they can learn what it is to be nauseas and never want to be human.
Ok, that’s it.
I’ve never been so moronic in my life.
New standard people, throw rocks at me as you see me come.
Comment by mikearkansasman on February 20th, 2007 at 11:43 am:
Hilarious episode.
Amazing tune.
Comment by seth on February 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pm:
I wanted to hear what Derek was saying………………..oh well, then (sob, sob, sniff)
Comment by seth on February 20th, 2007 at 12:29 pm:
I mean, couldn’t Isreal just lend us some of their pigs? I mean, it’s not like they’re doing anything with them.
Comment by seth on February 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pm:
I’m sorry, I did not mean for that to sound racist, that was in bad taste………………………..but damnit, we NEED those pigs!!
Comment by seth on February 20th, 2007 at 12:37 pm:
By the way, does that song they played kinda remind anyone else of that track Henry Rollins did on that William Shatner cd, the “I can’t get behind that!” song. William Shatner is a prophet. Henry Rollins is short.
Comment by Marc on February 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm:
If Henry Rollins is short, I must be a dwarf.
Comment by gerty on February 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pm:
I saw eco-terrorist fringe human sack of hot hot pheromones David Suzuki tonight but forgot to bootleg! Live and learn… till our faces melt and superstorms grind us into a fine dust and to be blown from one would be continent to the next.
I loved my Giant Sons download(and painted thin and john k)! I encourage anyone who hasnt got it to give the beave a “background check” and “pick it up”.
I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about any sorts of organizing or petitioning for the new human rights museum. I worry about eurocentric biases. North over south, Occupiers over aboriginal groups, Zionists over palestinians(especially with so much asper money awash in the construction), patriarchy etc. I realize its probably better to work with human rights groups than hound human rights museums but can’t we do both?
ps. g7 inspired David suzuki…
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/podcasts/
pps are the Evans good?
ciao
Comment by gerty on February 20th, 2007 at 10:55 pm:
revisionist history: Evens
Comment by Duncan on February 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm:
gerty - yes, The Evens are quite good. I think I first heard them through G7 radio and saw them play on Thursday night. Got their first album too. Two good people making some damn good music.
Comment by catchleen on February 25th, 2007 at 1:41 am:
What sort of progressive country doesn’t even have fadas in their keyboard symbols?!
This is completely off topic, but i didnt know where to post it and i want the attention of Winnipeggers.
I made it here today after a long while of picturing it as some left utopia, for no other reason than that it was different and far. I ate in Mondragon, read pamphlets, saw leaflets and felt like the absolutely crippling silence i know was unique to ireland. I felt confident I’d found a legitimately progressive town.
I’m not expressing myself very well here, because I’m upset and its hard to type on this keyboard, but I’m not trying to bitch or blame. I just want to make a point. Within hours of arriving in this city, in my safe hotel, i watched the news.
I don’t have canada-ready media-detectors, but from what i can see, a fourteen year old girl (take a moment to think about that. when you were fourteen. your sister. your mother as a little girl) committed suicide in this progressive town, within the dungeon of people who forced her in to prostitution. One less little woman to walk our streets and raise her voice. Yes, I’m fucking eulogising and you should too.
For a few months now I’ve kept my finger on the pulse of trafficking, of prostitution and slavery, but I’ve never been so close. I don’t believe I’ve ever breathed the same air as trafficked women, and I want you all to feel this. It isnt geography, its awareness.
And really, I’m writing this for one reason. Because I have one question to ask, and it is without hyperbole, or blame, or rhetoric. And its directed primarily to those of you who have the power, through colour, gender, class, or influence or anything else. Mostly, its to the boys, but its also up to the rest of us:
What are you going to do? I leave this city soon and I’m as petrified for these women as I am for those in Bosnia. I leave this country soon, to fight my own battles and those of my community, and I want to leave a city as well equipped to fight the most despicable form of sexism as it is to fight animal abuse.
I don’t want to sound aggressive, or judgemental. i just wish these stories all touched a nerve like they did for me today.
Comment by talm on February 25th, 2007 at 10:07 am:
i would like to challenge any male who reads this, whether or not you belong to the “progressive left”, or you call yourself an anarchist or a femminist, fuck, even if you work at g7. if you’re a man, i challenge you.
i challenge you to look deep down, as deep down as you can possibly go, i’d like you (and me) to ask ourselves some questions. am i capable of rape? do i really think of women as equal beings? have i contributed to the selling and trafficking of women through my actions, my thoughts, or my beliefs? am i, right now, by changing the channel, by not learning (about patriarchy, about sexism, about violece against women) and not acting against violence against women, am i contributing to it? do i feel that my gender entitles me to more power than women?
i challenge all of you to ask yourselves these things. and ask yourself more questions. i am challenging myself. it’s fucking terrifying, but it is absolutely necesary. what do we do in our everyday lives that contributes to the destruction of women? because we’ve all taken part, we all do our share, and when the day is done we can still sleep. we dream while women die.
violence against women happens every day, and every day we are the perpetrators, every day that goes by that we don’t ask ourselves these things, that we don’t do anything about our (real) contributions to patriarchy, is another day where it’s ok for women to be bought and sold, it’s ok for women to be beaten, it’s ok for women to die. this is what we are saying by not doing anything. by not deconstruction sexist, patriarchal , bullshit attitudes AND actions within ourselves, we are saying that it’s ok for women to die because they are women.
this is what i’ve done. i’m not trying to put myself above any other man here, i need to ask myself the same questions every fucking day of my life, and i’m still terrified by it, even after trying to do this for years. we need to ask ourselves these and other questions, and we need to see the direct link between us, and them. it’s real, and it is a killer, it costs and has cost countless lives and will continue to do so until we start to challenge ourselves.
welcome to winnipeg, one great city.
Comment by D-Rock on February 26th, 2007 at 10:22 am:
caítlin: First off, to answer the most important question. To create a fada on a US Englsih keyboard, hold down the Option key and press E. Then release the option key and type the letter you wish to fada-ize.
Onto the more trivial matters …
The fact that women and children (and men to a much lesser extent) are ensalved and exploited for sex - and the consequences this can have - should unfortunately be no surpirse to anyone living in any city. It happens everywhere. Canada and Winnipeg are no progressive meccas in any way. It’s the sad reality of a patriarichal world.
As to what we can do about it? Well, I think Tom has a point about starting with ourselves obviously, and examining our attitiudes and relationships with women in our own lives. That’s where we can have the most impact - with our friends and families, coworkers, and the like. Don’t be afraid to discuss issues of gender and violence, media depictions of women, sexist language, etc.
(Chris mentioned a great film by a woman named Jean Kilbourne called Killing Us Softly that explores the insane sexism in the culture that surrounds us.)
Beyond that, like any other form of activism, I think it’s important to go to people who are most invested in the issue and already organizing around it and ask them what they need, and how you can help. In Winnipeg, Sage House and Sisters in Spirit come to mind. No doubt that there are similar organizations everywhere - groups run by women who’ve lived with the trauma of violence and exploitation, and who are working to help those involved; to stem the demand for it; and change the attitudes (and system) that make(s) it possible.
Comment by dumdiddee on February 26th, 2007 at 10:13 pm:
talm
I’ve actually been thinking a lot about issues related to patriarchy since listening to an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (author of the book “Infidel”) in which she discussed the ritual of female genital mutilation in her native Sudan. As she described this revolting practice I became so horrified and revolted that I actually became phyisically nauseated. Not metaphorically, but LITERALLY.
I am saddened to hear about the death of this 14 year old girl. Quite frankly I often feel the urge to phyiscially annihilate the kind of men involved in these crimes.
That said, I am a fairly muscular/athletic white male, and given these phenotypes I carry, will anyone believe me when I say from the bottom of my heart that I would NEVER, EVER rape or brutalize a woman? And that I KNOW with every fiber of my being that women are equal (if not superior!) to men in every sense outside of physical strength? I actually believe the world would be a much better place w/o men around.
Comment by taum on February 27th, 2007 at 12:01 am:
well, i don’t know how derek figured out the apprently genius cryptic form of my name. oh yeah, he’s got that IP address gimmick.
please bear with me, i am in shittipeg right now and am drunk off of beer that you can only buy in hotels. clearly this city is more backwards than it seems.
for a while after first analying my role within patriarchy, i thought the same. i thought that no matter what women did it was ok because they are oppressed and that all men are evil. well, although this outlook may seem a little more progressive(?) than my previous, completely sexist worldview, bastardizing men for being men aint gonna help either. personally i think matriarchy could fuck over just as many people as patriarchy currently is. heirarchy ain’t ever solved shit.
dont get me wrong, i dont think that youre doing this, but there is something about your comment that reminds me of this.
comparing all men to all women for me doesn’t really make sense in alot of ways. i mean, of course we’re all human (present record label employees excepted), but saying that all men are “superior in strength” or that all women have a more profound emotional existence is a little assumptive and generalized. the fact is that women and men are different and the same in alot of ways. but i mean, who isn’t? everyone is different, we all have different strenghts and we all have different weaknesses. this isn’t exclusive to any gender, colour, race, sexual orientation etc…we’re all different. the other fact is that women (in every culture) suffer for these differences in my opinion. i feel a little uncomfortable addressing women’s issues because i am a man, i don’t articulate well, and well, again, i don’t have a womb. i don’t have a body that is a commodity, and i don’t have to deal with the daily bullshit that every woman has to deal with.
i see my female friends deal with complete strangers who think it’s ok to touch a woman in a sexual way when first meeting them. (or is the woodbine hotel a swingers club?) i see it and feel really angry as a response, but i don’t know how it feels to be the victim at all.
i’ll stop there. blogs aren’t the best way for me to express myself (can’t you tell?). there’s more to be said and there’s more to be done. start at home. i’m just stating the obvious i think. but often in my life i needed to get beaten over the head with the obvious, and maybe others do too. probably not the readers of this here blog though.
look, i’m not trying to talk down to anyone who’s going to read this. i’m trying to communicate my very infantile perceptions. i aint no saint, i’m willing to bet that i’ve contributed more to this fucking mess than most, if not all, here.
but it’s neither the time nor place while in winnipeg getting shitfaced!!!!!!!!
Comment by caítlin on February 27th, 2007 at 9:37 am:
Derek - you’re a ledge! I hereby take back all those horrible, vicious and frankly disgusting things I’ve ever said about you. Ho-ho! See what I did there?
I think you’re right though. When things really hit you, especially when you don’t know an area or a movement, there can be a tendacy to act a little too unilaterally. With good intentions or not, nobody wants to cut across these groups and their good work.
Dumdideee: Your timing is ridiculous, about three seconds ago I was having a conversation with tom about FGM and insisting it didn’t happen in Sudan. Shit. I guess I’m going to have to admit I’m wrong… But if I can weigh in here on one point - men aren’t so bad! Some of my best friends have penises. Really, they’re not so different. Seriously, I believe that patriarchy fucks us all over and we need a consistent cross-gender approach to challenging all the shit we’re taught. The problem is not that you’re a man, its that patriarchy accords you power because of it.
Have you ever read John Stoltenberg?
Comment by dumdiddee on February 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm:
Ah shit Caitlin, as ususal i fckued up. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is from Somalia, not Sudan as I indicated earlier. She immigrated to Holland and was elected to the Dutch pariliment, and she was friends with the film-maker Van Gogh (at least i think that was his name), who was assinated by some rabid islamic fundementalist. So you may have right about FGM not occuring in Sudan.
The whole topic of gender relations is disturbing yet fascinating to me. I guess i probably do treat women differently because i get so attracted to them and tend to become all “chivalrous” and romantic around the ones who i like (which are absolutely NOT the Paris Hilton types, who is a fine example of the evil that women are capable of). Despite this archaic behavior I still truly believe that she is my equal. Does that make sense?
Comment by kate on February 27th, 2007 at 11:57 pm:
Hi everybody!
Wow, okay. serious. i can do serious.
Now, last time i attempted to join discussion on this blog about how society treats women i ended up getting all worked up and said some rude (and probably stupid) things. If they were directed toward you, i’m sorry.
Right now i’m straight and sober, so i’m gonna have another shot at it…
dumdiddee:
I’m not sure what your physical appearance has to do with the likelihood of you raping a woman. In my experience, profiling rapists as muscular masculine jocks or the ever-popular ‘urban-ethnic predator’ only serves to distance the problem (and the responsibility) from the ‘average’ male.
The reality is that the men (and boys) who commit sexual offenses against women and girls are our brothers, fathers, uncles, nephews and sons. They are not some convenient ‘other’. Yeah, things like cultural background, hormone levels and certain drugs can be factors, but the actual source of the problem runs much, much deeper. In my experience, anyway.
I also feel that demonising ‘paris hilton types’ is like blaming a junkie for their addiction; yeah, maybe they made some bad choices, and yeah, they’re likely harming people around them. But what they are essentially doing is searching for fulfillment through corrupt means, and we should be asking: Why? How has their perception of what will make them happy become so distorted?
Don’t get me wrong, i’m so fucking tired of seeing that bleached blond, heavy make-up, orange-skinned, disproportionately large artificial-breasted male fantasy everywhere i go (i’m talking real-world here). But instead of getting pissed off at these women (and girls) for succumbing to that ‘this is the way a women should look’ bullshit, a more constructive response is to question what made these women so ashamed of their natural body that they felt the need (or desire) to completely alter the way they look? What caused them to have such little self esteem and self-worth that they were susceptible to it? I constantly find myself looking at other women and wondering what they actually look like under all of that. Much of the time it’s impossible to tell.
I hope this isn’t taken as being condescending or hostile. I think it’s really great that you’re willing to openly talk about these things, i guess i’m just not as confident as you are that you’re not contributing at all to this. I know that i have, and likely still am in ways i haven’t realised yet.
By the way, i don’t pretend to be the ultimate expert on these things just because i have a slit between my legs. I haven’t read much in the way of feminist literature since my teens. If you think i’m a stupid loser who is completely full of shit, tell me why, please. You just might be right!
Oh, and dumdiddee,
i hope that for your own sake you understand that there is a big, big difference between chivalry and romance.
Comment by kate on February 28th, 2007 at 12:01 am:
By the way,
i just recently listened to the last two G7 radio episodes (i was frightened that Frank would return).
They are fucking brilliant.
Y’know, every time i start to think that my affections are being misplaced, you do something that i just can’t help but love.
so thankyou, once again, for making the world a brighter place!
Hooray for you.
Comment by tom on March 3rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm:
awwwww dere……..!:)
Comment by caítlin on March 5th, 2007 at 6:55 pm:
Dumdiddee: Is Ayaan Hirsi Ali the right wing lady who quit and brought down the government? I realise I could google this but the button is so far away.
I would absolutely say that Paris Hilton (or did you mean Ayaan?) is your equal, and I’m glad you think so too! I’m not sure what you mean by calling her evil, but I do see your point. However, if you’re looking for fucked-up women, you won’t have far to look.
I’m too tired to ramble on here, but a word of advice if I may be so bold. I don’t like getting special treatment because I’m a girl. It makes me uncomfortable when men act all “protective”, or just different, around me. I’m aware we’re different genders, and I’m as proud of my reproductive organs and hormone levels as is appropriate, but gender roles are bullshit and chivalry is a barrier between honest interaction. Perhaps its my hyper-sensitive angry laydee interpretation, but (to use a tired example) a guy making a big deal about holding the door for me makes me think “I’m quite strong enough to do that myself, thankyou”, and when someone insists on paying for everything, I feel like a child. I can count and I can manage my finances relatively well, and I know I never feel I owe myself anything at the end of it! Ho ho ho.
I don’t know if you meant what you said how you wrote it (surely even the horniest fella isn’t instantly attracted to everyone with breasticles) but I imagine its easier to relate to people as plain ol’ people, rather than instantly treating them differently because they are.. well, different. Having said that, some of these things are instant and take serious re-thinking. And I know how goofy crushes can make people…
I know the old “switch one oppressed group for the other” trick is tiresome, but imagine what you’d think if someone said “Totally consider Africans/Asians/Arabs etc equal but I can’t help acting different around ‘em!”
Anyway, thats enough rambling from me.
Kate: Well said! Beat me to it, will ya? *shakes fist*
Comment by dumdiddee on March 5th, 2007 at 9:08 pm:
short on time, but just a quick note:
No way is gender relations the same as race relations. Race is just a product of benighted thouhgt, and people need to learn racism to feel it. Patriarchy is indeed learned also, but the loins have a mind of their own! I mean how could you not treat someone at least slightly differently when you feel the poweful, reason-inhibiting pull of the loins as opposed to someone you’re not attracted to? That differnt treatment does not even necessarily hafta be negative either.
As for Paris — in my view just the fact that people like her exist provides a clear cut case for Anarchism.
I’ll go so far as to give her credit for being born with symmetry and other features pleasing to the eye, BUTT she is a disgusting human being … self-absorbed and self-indulgent to the core.
She had the finanical wherewithal and social connections to do ANYTHING she wants with her life … ANYTHING. A doctor, a scientist, human rights advocate, a teacher, etc. She could have chose to become a positive role model to women, but instead she chose to seek millions of dollars on top of her inhereted millions by reinforcing negative female stereotypes as a materialistic bimbo party animal who does nothing but consume and indulge.
i’m not illiterate btw, i’m just typing real fast!!! gotta go!!
Comment by dumdiddee on March 5th, 2007 at 9:12 pm:
oh yeah, i realize that chivalry was probably ingrained in me from childhood, i understand even if it is well-meaning it can have unintended negative consequences, so i should hafta fight the habit.
BUT … maybe someone can explain to me why so many women seem to flock to abusive pieces o’ shit men seem while many nice guys get shit on!
Comment by kate on March 6th, 2007 at 5:32 am:
Hi again Dumdiddee
i’ve been debating whether or not to respond to your last post. i’m not actually sure that you read what i wrote earlier. But maybe someone else did, so…
Gender is as much a social construction as race. Racism and sexism are both learned behaviors, true. However, one need not recognise the existence of either in order to be negatively effected by them. Do you think an 8 year-old girl being called a slut by other kids because she’s developing faster than others cannot ‘feel’ the effects of sexism because she can’t understand the concept of it?
Girls are not born with an innate ‘patriarchal-bullshit detector’. In fact, my first response to the notion of feminism was “oh, that’s just for ugly girls.” (yes, i was super-lame, but this was a long time ago so give me a break) Many women (i’d even go as far as to say most women) probably couldn’t even vaguely define patriarchy. That does not mean they(/we) are immune to it’s negative effects. Systems of power generally do not encourage critical analysis of their own practices, and women, like men, are a part of this system that is continually self-perpetuating.
Like Caitlin (hi!) said, i’m not sure if you’re saying that you’re sexually attracted to all women, but no-one is saying that you need to act all nonchalant when you are attracted to someone. Hell, half the fun of attraction is the awkward excitement of it all. We all do and say stupid, stupid shit in those situations. The thing is, it’s just so limiting for everyone involved if you’re gonna view the world as a dichotomy between boys and girls.
You know how they say that 95%(ish?) of all genetic variation happens within ‘racial’ groups?
Well, i’d conject that 95% of all variation in personality/interests/traits/etc happens within gender groups.
would anyone agree?
Comment by caítlin on March 6th, 2007 at 7:38 am:
Again smartypants McKate hit the nail on the head but I have a couple of points to add. This is essentially just a ramble and isn’t meant to be accusatory, but I hope at least some of it is relevant.
I wasn’t actually seeking to compare race and gender relations but while we’re on the subject, racism plays a huge part in sexism and vice versa. In my mind the two are inextricably linked (for minority ethnic women at the very least) and racism is most definitely a feminist issue.
In fact, if you’re at all interested in the lot of non-white/western women under patriarchy (and, shamefully, within feminism) bell hooks wrote a great book about it called “Aint I A Woman?”, definitely a good place to start. I think G7 might have stocked it at some point but I don’t believe they still do. There are actually a million brilliant studies and resources I could rhyme off, but a work of fiction called The Colour Purple sticks out in my mind as being particularly moving (but, be warned, fucking devastating in parts). Its by Alice Walker - check it out, yo!
And again I would recommend good ol’ stoltey for a feminist work directed toward men.
Again I’m not certain I’ve really understood you here (because again we’re talking about male-female relations and you’re talking about the impact of your sexuality on your relationship (presumably) with individual women) but there’s something about this phrase that kind of jars with me:
“but the loins have a mind of their own! I mean how could you not treat someone at least slightly differently when you feel the poweful, reason-inhibiting pull of the loins”
Well… I can see your point. We’re all sexual beings and influenced by our sexuality, yes. But again, we don’t seem to be able to separate your relationship with *women* from your relationship with women you’re sexually attracted to. We aren’t exclusively sexual beings and you risk missing a hell of a lot of fascinating shit if you only view women in one dimension.
I think sometimes there can be a tendency to excuse - perhaps objectification is too harsh a word, but i can’t think of another - as being an uncontrollable, biological reaction. I don’t agree. A man who cannot keep his sense with his sexuality is a dangerous man, in my mind. I’m honestly not trying to scaremonger or accuse you here, but I hope you can see my point.
When you talk about the difference between your interaction with someone you’re attracted to and someone you’re not, which is only human, surely you’re including women in that second category? So I guess what I’m wondering is, does every woman get this special treatment? And why? These traditional gender roles and etiquette reinforce a lot of ideas we are given about our characters as men and women which simply aren’t true. I don’t need a man to order for me. I have a voice. I don’t need him to pay for me. I’m economically independent. I don’t need him to open a door because I am strong and I won’t crumble without him. These things reinforce an unhealthy dependance which (i think) women are taught. And while we’re relying on men, we aren’t equal.
As for Paris, yup, I’m no fan either… I can just think of a lot of women a fuck of a lot worse, and I still wouldn’t agree that she’s “evil”. And as for individual women’s mistakes in finding partners… *shrug* I can’t really comment on that. I mean, if humans had any taste at all, there’d be a queue outside my door, right?
RIGHT?!
Anyway, I hope at least part of this makes sense. Time for some soup!
Comment by caítlin on March 6th, 2007 at 7:49 am:
Fuck I’m smart! As I can’t help but notice my monday was significantly radio-less, the G7 boys should do a woman’s day edition - the music might even be by a female artist/band for once!
Comment by tom on March 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pm:
well, while thinking about how it’s summer right now in australia and brazil, i froze off my testicles in this -40 celsius shit. just in time, eh? oh the beaches…
so safe to say, you can be a man and have a vagina or you can be a woman and have a penis. gender roles- just like sexism, is a creation of men. is that sexist? so the only real way we can judge people is by if they have farting holes. cause then, you’re mammalian. and all mammals are equal. even men!
sexism and racism aren’t exactly the same, no, but in the sense they are frames of thought to exercise power and control over others, they’re exactly the same. the thing is (if you’d ever read this far) is that patriarchy crosses all race lines. every culture has embedded itself into patriarcy, so of course we’ll be brought up this way. for now.
don’t tell me it’s ok for an arabic man to stone “his wife” because it’s his custom. bullfuckingshit. no. patriarchy crosses all lines - gender, race, colour, farting, age, class, etc.. etc…
and so femminism must as well. there’s a book somewhere by someone called men and femminism. google it yourself you lazy twats.
i hope that’s easier for all us horrible carpenters out there. i hit the nail near the edge and it ended its’ course at my thumb. my hand is broken. i have no thumbnail.
dummidee, i don’t think you should feel guilty for feeling attracted to someone. attraction and desire, or the creation of these emotions are uncontrolabble. the way people look does not represent their beliefs at all.
every woman has a right to self determination, even haris shiton, dude. yeah, she’s a goof, a total fucking stupid stinking goof, but she’s entitled to that too. not to live as a queen of capitalism, but to determine the course of her own life.
take it from me dude, im a nudist. there are all kinds of shapes and sizes out there, and you can’t pick which ones you like and which ones you don’t. it just happens.
and in terms of chivalry, are we chivalrous because we’re nice to our friends, or because they’re women and they’re not capable…?
my excuse is i’m drunk.
Comment by tom on March 6th, 2007 at 5:51 pm:
your moderator is a fucking nazi.
from swastika, ontario!
Comment by kate on March 6th, 2007 at 7:14 pm:
hey Tom
you ok, sweet pee (yes, that’s right, PEE. ha ha!)?
what’s this “awwwww dere……..!:)” business?
And then the random critique of the Exorcist trilogy with a may-have-been-cute-in-the-80’s-but-c’mon reference to yourself in the third person on the other thread?
Have you finally o.d.’d on vegan farts?
Comment by tom on March 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm:
hey Kate
im ok, mushy pee(yup)
that’s what i say to my dog “lucky”. “were…..dere!!!!!!”
that “random” critique was actually my ph.d thesis thanks….haha just joking its a randy song from “can’t keep a good band down”. suggest to buy. been really drunk lately that’s why i sound extra-even-more-than-i-usually-do-stupid. got my grade 10 thogh!
wait until (if) you read my moderated post. ugh.
my tolerance is extremely high. i farted yesterday after eating a portabello mushroom burger, tofu dog, french fries, fallafel vegetarian plate, and a vegan sanwich from an indian place. my room smelt for 3 hours and im not kidding, im even surprised by that. 3 fucking hours of methan posinoning and bunny halucinations. oh and uhhh…vegan cheese cake, which isn’t good from mondragn or aux vivres. no texture. sorry.
Comment by caítlin on March 8th, 2007 at 6:56 am:
On a slightly related note - happy [token] Women’s Day! Hooray for bajingos!
Read these articles:
http://news.independ...s/article2338425.ece
http://news.independ...a/article2338358.ece
Comment by tom on March 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pm:
happy women’s day mom!
no, not ok.
Comment by jack on March 12th, 2007 at 4:45 pm:
im glad G7 Radio Redux is still a weekly feature..
Comment by james on March 13th, 2007 at 12:23 pm:
Let’s hear it for the non gender specific people who may or may not have a door opened for them! They are my favorite. Well, because in the end, wouldn’t you want a door held open for you, no matter what gender or sex or race you are? I would! Cause I have been raised to be nice to others.
This of course brings me to my next point of discussion: if G7radio returns, wouldn’t that be a nice door opening inwards to the collective hilarity and catharsis of some Real McCoys in response to a world gone mean?
Uh-huh.
Comment by caítlin on March 14th, 2007 at 4:08 am:
If G7 radio was in front of me, I’d hold the door open for it. I’d hold it good.
And if G7 radio held the door open for me, I’d coo “thank yew” and flash that sucka my sweetest smile.
Ah, what could have been.
Comment by james on March 14th, 2007 at 5:54 am:
You know? I would do the very same…(cue outgoing theme music, a movement in 4 measures, strings)
Comment by Hairhole on March 15th, 2007 at 3:08 pm:
Iranian Women Jailed for speaking out against stoning: https://www.amnesty....women/campaign_b.php