AmirMortal wrote:

Fukshot wrote:This guy.

http://manarchistryangosling.tumblr.com/

Counterpoint:
http://www.postmodernvillage.com/eastwe ... -0003.html

OK. I can't figure out if that's a parody or written in earnest. Either way, the author has thrown me out of a few potlucks.

Believe me, I wish I could say that I thought it was parody, but my ex was assigned this in a human sexuality class, several years ago. Unfortunately some people really are that misguided.

Everybody wants to believe they're something special. Which is all well and good, except when the only way they can find to be special is by trying to tear down some other group. Like men who think they can only be superior if women are inferior, or vice versa. Or Christians who think they can only be superior if all other religions are inferior, or vice versa. And while the currently culturally dominant groups may be the easiest places to find examples like that, their antecedents exist as well. Pagans who think all Christians are waiting with a torch and a stack of wood. Women who think men are just deformed women. And so on.

I guess on the subject of feminism I will use this example. There is this girl from the Rio Grande Valley who I am kind of acquainted with from my flirting with various Leftist groups. She is a feminist and actually wants to start a "feminist queer collective". Although to be fair I think she is just doing the whole BUG (bisexual until graduation). Well the girl gave me flak when I said no to her incredibly pushy friend. The girl was not just a tad overweight but quite large. After I declined her advances the Rio Grande Valley girl says " You saying no to her is extenuating the image issues of women and blah and blah." I reply by saying " I haven't seen you with anything else other then skinny, smelly and hipster white guys so let's not get into an argument about image issues." Than I proceeded to trash her blog about the time she will spend in Puerto Rico which is called "Crusando fronteras (Crossing borders)" and I said to her "First you misspelled 'crusando' its spelled with a "z" and two you really aren't crossing any borders since Puerto Rico is still US territory." Long story short if you are going to get in a shit talking match with me you better be ready to face the "jefe de jefes" of shit talking.

Another thing that annoyed me about the girl is that she used to say she was from McAllen and would later change it saying she was from Matamoros; right across the border from McAllen according to her. I told her that Reynosa is right across the border from McAllen and that Matamoros is across the border from Brownsville. So she was in other ways a white washed Mexican girl who was trying to create a facade of foreignness in college something that as an actual Mexican immigrant did irk me quite alot.

Beats me why people join ideological clubs of any kind. I've been to a few meetings, from greens to occupiers to democrats to populists to various religions and frankly, most of them seem to be populated by pretty much identical douchebags. Guess I'm just not much of a joiner.

I ranted about this girl at the FW gun show but look at her Spanish:
estoy loca,
estoy una mentiorsa,
estoy una plagua de insuficiencia.

http://tuerta.tumblr.com/post/259726467 ... while-back
Here is the whole poem I actually felt like I would have unlearned Spanish if I wasn't listening to Valentín Elizalde.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:I ranted about this girl at the FW gun show but look at her Spanish:
estoy loca,
estoy una mentiorsa,
estoy una plagua de insuficiencia.

http://tuerta.tumblr.com/post/259726467 ... while-back
Here is the whole poem I actually felt like I would have unlearned Spanish if I wasn't listening to Valentín Elizalde.

She admits in her very first posts that she's not fluent in Spanish, and laments it so. Perhaps you could offer your Spanish editing skills.

I met a nascent intellectual like her while in college. She challenged me in a lot of ways, but most importantly, I felt her assertiveness woke me up a bit, and made me realize that from time to time my ever dormant "machismo" pokes its ugly head.

Xela

Xela wrote:

Zapp Brannigan wrote:I ranted about this girl at the FW gun show but look at her Spanish:
estoy loca,
estoy una mentiorsa,
estoy una plagua de insuficiencia.

http://tuerta.tumblr.com/post/259726467 ... while-back
Here is the whole poem I actually felt like I would have unlearned Spanish if I wasn't listening to Valentín Elizalde.

She admits in her very first posts that she's not fluent in Spanish, and laments it so. Perhaps you could offer your Spanish editing skills.

I met a nascent intellectual like her while in college. She challenged me in a lot of ways, but most importantly, I felt her assertiveness woke me up a bit, and made me realize that from time to time my ever dormant "machismo" pokes its ugly head.

Xela

It is mostly the whole acting ultra-ethnic act that she has going on right now that really irks me about her. Something she only has been doing for a year and does it to look cool for although the Ultra-lefty groups there.

As opposed to me who is so Mexican it looks like this when I pee.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

Xela wrote:

Zapp Brannigan wrote:I ranted about this girl at the FW gun show but look at her Spanish:
estoy loca,
estoy una mentiorsa,
estoy una plagua de insuficiencia.

http://tuerta.tumblr.com/post/259726467 ... while-back
Here is the whole poem I actually felt like I would have unlearned Spanish if I wasn't listening to Valentín Elizalde.

She admits in her very first posts that she's not fluent in Spanish, and laments it so. Perhaps you could offer your Spanish editing skills.

I met a nascent intellectual like her while in college. She challenged me in a lot of ways, but most importantly, I felt her assertiveness woke me up a bit, and made me realize that from time to time my ever dormant "machismo" pokes its ugly head.

Xela

It is mostly the whole acting ultra-ethnic act that she has going on right now that really irks me about her. Something she only has been doing for a year and does it to look cool for although the Ultra-lefty groups there.

As opposed to me who is so Mexican it looks like this when I pee.

Great pic

Well, college is about self-discovery. More power to her. Yes, no?

Maybe this conversation needs to take place face to face, with cervezas and margaritas at hand.

Xela

A more recent example:

no puedo expresar mis sentimientos en los comunidades radicales,
(I can't express my feelings in the radical community)
mis palabras no son pajaros en el aire,
(my words are not birds in the air,)
o el sol en el verano.
(or the sun in the summer.)
cada dia lucha lucha lucha para expresar mis experiencias
(every day a struggle struggle struggle to express my experiences)
de una chicana en espacios blancos.
(of a chicana in white spaces.)
pero soy blanca mi piel es
(but I'm white mi skin is)
blanca
(white)
blanca
(white)
blanca
(white)
como mi nombre.
(like my name.*)
pero, no como mi alma.
(but, not like my soul.)
quiero hablar y escribir en espanol mas y en espanglish,
(I want to speak and write in Spanish (more) and in Spanglish,)
pero los espacios no estan listas (sic) para diversidad.
(but the spaces are not ready for diversity.)
no (sic) siento comodo (sic) en ningun espacio.
(I don't feel comfortable in any space.)
tengo muchas (sic) sentimientos:
(I have many feelings:)
estoy senosa,
(I am (sic!) )
estoy ridiculosa (sic),
(I am ridiculuous (?),)
estoy loca,
(I am crazy,)
estoy (sic) una mentiorsa,
(I am a liar,)
estoy (sic?) una plagua de insuficiencia.
(I am a (or, I am in a) plague of inadequacies.)

* "Blanca", literally white, is also a proper female name in Spanish

Not THAT bad for a rough draft ofa non-native speaker.

Xela

Zapp Brannigan wrote:...if I wasn't listening to Valentín Elizalde.

I think you got your problem right THERE.

Xela