Ah, the inevitable “but”. Meaning, Brandon doesn’t give a rat’s ass about James’s comment, and doesn’t particularly care to notice the implied threat in it; he’d just prefer to use it as a jumping-off point for his own issues.

I’m sure if an angry gay man told Brandon that he thought Brandon just needed a bit in his mouth and a cock up his ass to make him change his stupid political views, Brandon would chuckle heartily at the gentle satire.

BTW, I’ve had a deep and meaningful relationship with my vibrator for years and I’m still a feminist, so I’m not sure how that qualifies as a cure…

:)

You’re a braver person than I if you could do that without screaming or throwing up. I’m both glad and sorry that it doesn’t work that way. Glad because you don’t have to make the sacrifice, sorry because the world would be so much better if you could cure Bush’s bushit with a little screw.

If sex was some cure all, I might consider taking one for the team and screwing Bush. We can implement a Fuck A Bigot plan and give them all a mercy fuck. World Peace will surely ensue.

but now i’m a little confused. oh well. It doesn’t matter at all to the subject at hand.

I don’t know much about Maia’s ideologies, but if, as I suspect, what she’s advocating is a more egalitarian social democracy -

She’s a self declared communist. Most communist countries end up killing a pretty large number of their own subjects to maintain the position of the individuals in charger. Mao and Stalin have the largest body counts, by a LONG way, but they’re not alone.

This is no way justifies the insult.

So any generalization that has a sordid history must have absolutely no basis in truth? Okay.

“Furthermore, she’s using this generalization to advance an ideology whose implementations have very often involved mass murder.”

I don’t know much about Maia’s ideologies, but if, as I suspect, what she’s advocating is a more egalitarian social democracy - which is exactly the same thing as Stalinist Russia - then every developed country in the world is socialist. (Even the US is at least a welfare state, which I’m sure to neolibs differs to the gulags only in a matter of degree.) This standard also makes the majority of developing nations are far less socialist. Which leaves “socialism” as pretty much the gold standard, doesn’t it?

“Do women on welfare deserve special protection from insults and abuse, above and beyond the protection that all women and all people (regardless of income or employment status) deserve?”

If a woman came up to you smartly dressed and in business attire, and another woman came up to you afterward wearing a potato sack and a torn bedsheet, can you honestly say there’d be no difference in the delicacy with which you’d address either?

To go more mundane, what if you have two kids and one is crying? Can you honestly say you have no human impulse to respond to him in a different manner, at least during that instance, than with the one who is not?

No of course you can’t, because the feigned conservative confusion that disadvantaged people should be treated differently is not honest.

(I do wonder if James or Heine could look his mother, sister or girlfriend in the face and tell her “Today I said a woman on welfare whose politics I disagree with could be fixed by raping her with a big black dildo.

Do women on welfare deserve special protection from insults and abuse, above and beyond the protection that all women and all people (regardless of income or employment status) deserve?

A: Somebody should rape you.
B: What the fuck? That’s not okay. That’s the exact opposite of okay.
A: But people say “rape” all the time.
B: That’s completely irrelevant! It’s in different contexts!
A: But that person over there said it last week, and you didn’t get all uppity.
B: That was satire, you imbecile!
A: “Satire”, you say? So it’s okay to say that if it’s satire?
B: It doesn’t work like–
A: I was being satirical. So you can’t touch me. Safety zone times infinity, I win.

Satire that implies women who disagree with a man just “need” sex, consensual or not, to help them come around to the correct point of view is soooo funny.

I’m just bustin’ a gut with my giant laughter. What impeccable wit. What biting irony. They sure defeated her arguments about capitalism.

Them wimmens should just stick to bean sexual receptacles. They r to dumb to debait.

she needed a dildo [quoting james]

No, I think Maia needs a real cock. I would advise Maia to check out Cactus Kate’s website regarding the cock article.

The truth usually does out, one way or the other.

Yeah, crys t, it’s the whole “plausible deniability” thing we’ve discussed in the past. Now they’ll just go on about how Maia is hysterical and overreacting.

Brandon–won’t someone think of the bosses? Teh genocide against teh bosses must be stopped NOW1!!!1!

Free the bosses!