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By: ToddSeavey.com » Blog Archive » Tactically Speaking

ToddSeavey.com » Blog Archive » Tactically Speaking — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:29:16 +0000

[...] as a particularly arrogant commenter using the handle x. trapnel put it on Ladyblog — there’s Kerry Howley, with whom we began, to insist that feminist ideological diversity is being unfairly characterized [...]

By: webgrrl

webgrrl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:15:04 +0000

Oh yeah, flynngrrl! Is this like a secret gathering of Dita von Teese fans or what? Seriously. Who’s next in the comment thread? I mean really – who best embodies do-me capitalism?

By: flynngrrl

flynngrrl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:40:24 +0000

Hello! I’ve been reading your series “Libertarian versus Feminism: It doesn’t have to be versus, at least, not all the time, yo.”

I mostly commented because the person just before me is another grrl from the web, and I wanted to keep the pattern alive. Hooray!

By: webgrrl

webgrrl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:31:59 +0000

Howdy again Kerry! Cool! I love boots! Wear your boots ‘n rock.

Shoes aside, let’s get down to the substance of the corrected link. I’ll be clear here – only the truth shall set us free – I’ve had a little elective surgery myself. And it wasn’t any big deal, I’m not secretly in denial, and no I wasn’t traumatized because I am not a victim.

Making my own choices doesn’t traumatize me, it empowers me. What is hard to see about this?

Thanks for the welcome.

By: Kerry Howley

Kerry Howley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:20:41 +0000

Hey webgrrl! Welcome! That was totally the wrong link. But I agree. Also, I have a closet full of F-me boots, which really doesn’t do much for her thesis.

By: webgrrl

webgrrl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:46:22 +0000

Heya Kerry, I just don’t get that Atlantic article. I disagree with her understanding of biology – certainly if we look at our monkey relatives, boy howdy, girl monkeys want it.

I don’t think she has good primatology there. In fact, I think the latest primatology suggests that girl monkeys go chasing all over for the monkey boy with the most awesomely hot smelling genes. And we human chicks have got the same vaso receptors too, I hear.

As for the personal experience, woo – I want it too. Frankly, I think it. I love men, I love the way they smell. . .I adore them, I want them, I happily patter about in F-Me pumps and skirts, and I’m not ashamed of that.

Does that make me a feminist or an anti-feminist?