Two days ago was Blog For Choice Day. I didn’t do any blogging in recognition of it this year, because I honestly don’t know what I would say that hasn’t been said more eloquently before. Speaking of which, Antiprincess linked to one of the best posts ever written on the subject (which I bookmarked on del.icio.us exactly a year ago, coincidentally enough), and which everyone should read. It also sums up why I so strongly loathe Daily Kos and other “A-List” liberal blogs, and self-identified “progressives” who prattle on about a big tent and winning elections - with their fingers stuck firmly in their ears, as they reinforce the same old hierarchy of privilege and ass-haberdashery.
One time at Manuel’s, at a meeting about some sort of blogging PAC, I said, “Fuck Kos; I won’t be a part of anything that he’s associated with,” and I think I unwittingly hurt Catherine’s feelings. I felt badly about that, because Catherine is awesome and kicks much ass, and I would never want to hurt her feelings; so Catherine, I’m sorry. I probably should’ve prefaced it with something. That doesn’t mean my general sentiment would’ve been softened, though. And I have a feeling you can understand why I feel the way I do.
Anyway, here’s the introduction.
It’s always painful when places you thought might be one of the last few outposts of sanity’s owner and other readers decide they’re willing to trade your life away, and the lives of others away, and ultimately their own lives away, because for some reason, they genuinely don’t understand what’s at stake. Words are important, and so tonight, at Daily Kos, I as one of the written off, am going to write a diary for the first time, raise my voice, and once AGAIN tell so called ‘friends’ how much they’re hurting the people next to them. To say nothing of how much they’re cutting their own throats in the process.
Sorry Markos, but “abortion” IS the whole ball of wax. It is, for those of you who’ve read their “Art of War” our “dying ground,” it is one of the ‘must defends’ if we’re going to survive. Why? Because far from some cute little women’s issue deserving lip service and to be refiled under some more palatable heading, abortion is autonomy. We lose abortion, and we’ve lost the most basic ownership of our own bodies and lives, no matter what gender you happen to be.
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Ass-millinery, surely?
nitpicking aside, thanks for pointing to a really great article.
Perhaps. I’ll let Thomas be the judge of that, though. He’s the one who coined the term “ass-haberdashery” (among our group of friends, anyway), and I tried to find the blog post where he did it, but came up empty.
millinery: the craft of making hats OR a store that sells hats OR a person selling hats OR the hats that are being sold
haberdashery: a store that sells hats (and gloves and other small articles of clothing)
Without taking a little creative license, an ass haberdashery would need to be used a noun as a store that sells hats for asses. A person who sells hats for asses would be an ass haberdasher.
So, I think ass millinery is more accurate. But I also think that ass haberdashery has a much nicer ring to it, even if it’s not quite accurate as used.
I prefer using it just because it leads to conversations like this one.
Actually, another definition I just saw defines haberdashery as the dry goods sold by a haberdasher. Taking that definition into account, both terms are equally accurate.
Ass haberdashery FTW
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