Posts Written by Zara
By Zara • 9 years ago

Elliot Roger and the ultimate misogyny

A man called Elliot Rodger has killed seven people more are in hospital in critical condition, after writing a 140 page manifesto speaking of how much he hates women and how they should be “punished” for not being interested in him. People have already started, particularly the media, spouting about how he was a madman and how this was completely out of the blue, and helpfully skirting past the fact that he specifically went after women, the fact that he drove to a sorority house so he specifically could kill women, the fact that he had tried to push a group of women off of a 10 foot ledge years earlier for ignoring him, the fact that he subscribed to multiple men’s rights activist (MRA) YouTube channels and various pick-up artists for entrapping women, and the fact that his 140 page manifesto spoke gleefully about: “On the day of retribution, I will enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB, and I will slaughter every single spoiled stuck up blonde slut I see inside there… I’ll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am in truth the superior one. The true Alpha Male.” 
By Zara • 10 years ago

“Asking for it”

(Trigger warning)

I was browsing a generic ‘funny pictures’ site earlier and came across a picture I’d seen once before. It was a picture of the back legs of a girl lifting her skirt up to below her buttocks with writing at certain points going up her leg, from ankle to thigh it goes; patronly, prudish, old fashioned, proper, flirty, cheeky, provocative, asking for it, slut, whore.

Ignoring the creative use of the word ‘patronly’, there are a couple of things disturbing about this picture.
Firstly, it very quickly goes from being ‘prudish’ and ‘old fashioned’ to ‘flirty’ ‘cheeky’ and ‘provocative’, now as any woman who has ever, I don’t know, left the house will know there are many judgements when it ...

(Trigger warning)

I was browsing a generic ‘funny pictures’ site earlier and came across a picture I’d seen once before. It was a picture of the back legs of a girl lifting her skirt up to below her ...