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Shakesville revolves around libfem rhetoric that the real injustices to women in the world occur when dudes joke about raping people in video games and other such bullshit.

Melissa has got a giant case of white whine. She's beyond being a social justice warrior and straight batshit crazy, like Brianna Wu level victim complex.
 
ChinIsDead said:
The Dickwolves Debacle: In which Penny Arcade makes a comic about dumb MMORPG logic, Shakesville says the comic promotes rape culture, and a months-long explosion of pure autism follows.
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Is it an official requirement that, in order to become an SJW, you must be offended and shocked and rendered literally shaking by either video games or Disney cartoons?
 
Meowthkip said:
Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that Bush leaving office caused a schism in the left on the internet. Without a big common enemy to unite them, they turn in on themselves.

And that's how we got the SJW culture we have today.
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I don't really agree with this. I think it has more to do with the "mainstreaming" of the Internet that came about with the meteoric rise of Facebook and its ilk around that time. No one can deny that the Internet pre-2006 was largely male dominated and frankly a little weird, and I think our current iteration of SJW-ism is an autistic reaction against a web culture that outsiders tended to find gross/shocking/bizarre.

(Yeah I'm one of those people who thinks that normalfags are the cancer killing the Internet.)

And hey, at least Melissa isn't anti-vaccine. (EDIT: sweet wordfilter bro?)
 
Some years back, I remember Melissa McEwan flipping her shit over jewelry made from deconstructed barbie dolls. It revolted her that some heartless anti-feminist corporation would make a cheap buck off the objectification and commodification of women's mutilated bodies. She said the manufacturer of these pieces was engaging in the moral equivalent of a serial killer saving parts of his victims as trophies.

People tracked down the source of the images she had used without permission or attribution, and surprise! These weren't vending machine trinkets, but the work of a female artist interrogating the ways in which Western culture treats its feminine icons. Rather than admitting she'd made a mistake, McEwan doubled down and insisted that this was not art, was very disgusting, and that the artist was in fact too dumb to understand the hideous implications of her work. Commenters who disagreed with her interpretation were banned.

It was amazing to see an ostensible liberal feminist invoke the archetypal hidebound definition of Fine Art to dismiss the work of a female artist as mere worthless craft.

A year or so later, I went to show the post to an artist friend. Mysteriously, it was gone.

Yay Shakesville?
 
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buster_kitten said:
Some years back, I remember Melissa McEwan flipping her shit over jewelry made from deconstructed barbie dolls. It revolted her that some heartless anti-feminist corporation would make a cheap buck off the objectification and commodification of women's mutilated bodies. She said the manufacturer of these pieces was engaging in the moral equivalent of a serial killer saving parts of his victims as trophies.
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Lunacy. It's like she's not even familiar with basic tropes in feminist art. Fuck, even Courtney Love had a song called Doll Parts.
 
I remember I first found out about Shakesville through her series on "Today in fat culture"

She claims she has to eat every hour

" I am constantly hungry, not emotionally or psychologically hungry, and not "mouth-hungry," but physically hungry—an ungodly hunger accompanied by searing stomach pains if I don't eat. I can barely manage to keep it under control by eating a few almonds or a banana or some other snack nearly hourly."
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" I am morbidly obese. I do not have an eating disorder.
What I have is a physical inability to get as much exercise as my body needs to be able to burn the number of calories it needs to survive -- and I walk between one and three hours every day.

If I exercised more and ate less, which is the only way my body could lose weight, I would have an eating disorder."
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AtroposHeart said:
I remember I first found out about Shakesville through her series on "Today in fat culture"

She claims she has to eat every hour
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Ever notice how America mysteriously had so many people start getting health disorders that make it difficult or impossible to lose weight right around the time junk food became cheap and plentiful and we replaced most of our heavy industry with jobs that involve a lot of sitting/standing one place all day?
 
wheat pasta said:
That jewelry is going to give me nightmares. It's very artfully executed, which I think makes it even more horrifying.
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Aw, no arguments from me on that point! Personally, I feel like Margaux Lange hits it out of the park in concept and execution - she took a hoary feminist art trope and made it newly visceral. But Melissa McEwan seems to seriously believe that it could not possibly be good art - or even art at all - because it gave her bad feels.

And you don't have to take my word for it - the barbie jewelry post was restored in the years since I looked for it last. Here it is! Sadly, the comments section fallout seems lost to the mists of time, but we can still watch Melissa McEwan, feminist, inform a female artist that she's probably too dumb to understand her own work.

Dear me, this is even more smug than I remembered.
Even if this jewelry is just meant to be a silly, harmless thing, it nonetheless references something that isn't silly or harmless at all. So the question becomes: How important is it? How important is it to all of us to be able to buy and consider and sell jewelry made from torn-apart dolls right now? And how capable do we feel of fixing all the bad things it inadvertently references and unintentionally reinforces as long as it exists? Does it make our job harder? Is it worth it, if it does? Just how important is it for this stuff to be in our world?
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Et tu, McEwan?!
 
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AtroposHeart said:
I remember I first found out about Shakesville through her series on "Today in fat culture"

She claims she has to eat every hour
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This is, again, classic Liss.

She will go to the wall for the concept that it's OK to choose to be fat, and defend people who do so using language that implies she's one of them.

But then she will explain that she doesn't have a choice, that she has some kind of medical condition that makes her fat, so in fact she is not one of the group she's defending. I think even the most rigid, judgemental fat-shamer would make an exception for those with incurable obesity-causing physical conditions.

In other words, she's trying to have it both ways - she's trying to claim you don't need an excuse to be fat, while making up excuses for herself.
 
It's always freaky to see when people like Melissa have amassed a cult following. It's easy to write off a crazy who's just shrieking into a void on the internet, but when they actually have an audience... well, then it's not quite as funny.
 
For The Internet said:
Am I super duper white oppressed because half my biological family is Ulster Scott and the other half are from the north of Ireland? Cause that would be awesome...

... I mean, a total outrage. Everyone rapes my cultures!
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You better check your privilege.
 
I can't believe its been four years since anyone posted in this thread considering she's been sausage fingering takes like this constantly for the entire time.

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Jobless the Hutt is married to an executive VP for an investment firm by the way.

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Melissa still believes Hillary Clinton has a relevant place in public life. :story:

And Shakesville has officially driven off everyone who isn't a Melissa bootlicker. Most of the standard daily SV posts now receive well under 10 or 15 comments, and even the posts about the Dem debates, which should have been reasonably popular on such a blog, received 36 and 26 comments respectively. Ouch.

It warms my heart that this creepy cult of personality has dwindled down to a few stupid, lonely holdover "friends" of Melissa, the way it always should have been.
 
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