The Art of the Cunt (Dear Women..)

A response to 'The Art of the Hunt (Dear Men...)

Five or six decades ago, the situation women were placed in from birth was terrible. In exchange for complete submission to their male ‘partners’ and the machismo rule of the patriarch, women were allowed small concessions such as doors being held open and subway seats being given up.

Women had been fighting for over sixty years for rights they never thought would come. Equality was a dream so far away that it was almost comical to mention it. Forty years after the largest feminist swing in politics, I’m seeing the blood and tears of a countless number of progressive women blasphemed.

Why did men hold doors for women? Why did men carry the heavier physical load? Why were men paid to be leaders while women were ‘taken care of’ and placed in a kitchen? Because men wanted women to believe they were weak. This bulletin entitled ‘The Art of the Hunt’ seems to imply that weakness and femininity have something in common. I think it’s sad that after all of the battles that have been fought in the name of equality and all of the media attention feminism has received over the years, women still think that men are ‘designed’ to take some form of initiative. They still don’t understand what equality is.

Being the CEO of a company or a candidate for the presidency doesn’t mean that you’re equal. Freedom is held within, and until you let yourself understand that kindness should be given and initiative should be taken according to circumstances, not gender, women will never be equal.

Before you call men pussies for wondering what a woman is thinking, maybe you should think about the life you’d have if men stopped caring about a woman’s right to be independent. Just because you want to be pampered and flattered on the grounds of anti-woman and anti-progress coziness doesn’t mean that the rest of the women in the world should have to suffer the consequences.

So to those of my friends that reposted this intellectually vacant bulletin: Shame on you. Shame on all of you for begging after all these years to be taken care of because of emotional differences created by hundreds of years of a patriarchy. Do you know who ‘designed’ men to be the providers? Men. The same way they designed you to be helpless.

You can be feminine and strong. You can be feminine and aggressive. You can be feminine and not be a fucking moron.

The Groundwork

This is the beginning. This is the start of a new political organization outside of established party boundaries to unify the North American left.

We are a group of students and young professionals that have banded together for the purpose of reaching our common goal of a socialist United States.

Uniquely, we believe that the liberation of the American people is impossible without focus on the responsibilities of each individual. Along with rights come responsibilities, and the majority of the international left offers too many excuses based on race, gender, sexuality and economic class, taking accountability away from those who actively seek to destroy the free world. While recognizing the added hardships that certain groups face, the North American Left wishes to build a society that will not discriminate against, nor will it neglect the wrong-doings of any person based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, age or national origin.

We wish to form relationships with leftist organizations and political parties across the United States as well as with our Canadian brothers and sisters, and by doing so we hope to create one unified movement for socialism in North America.

This organization is for those who recognize and refuse to tolerate the failures of the neoliberal Democratic party. This organization is for those who do not wish to stand behind established far-left parties who care more about the kitsch of working class movements than about the people in our country who desperately need a revolution. This organization is for every man, woman and youth that is tired of compromises. This organization is for the American people.

An in-depth view of our positions on a variety of issues will be posted soon.

http://www. myspace. com/northamericanleft

Saving the United States

I would like to remind the American people of something that seems to have been completely forgotten: the power of the human being. The power that we have to mobilize ourselves and others in order to throw out the system that has abused our people and raped our environment from the beginning of our country's creation.

Every four years, our countless number of left-wing organizations come together in order to back the Democratic candidate for the American presidency. Wait. Stop there.

Rather than discussing the obscene amounts of money, human labour and other resources that go into attempting to elect a Democrat into the White House, I'd like to point out the most basic and astoundingly obvious flaw of the American left. Election after election, we mobilize ourselves to support the enemy. We volunteer for, give money to and radically vocalize our support for a compromise, not a solution. Former Swedish politician Olof Palme used the term 'pest eller cholera' (the plague or cholera) to describe the situation that the free world is placed into with their national elections. Voting in the lesser of two evils. Choose which disease you would rather have spreading itself across our nation. Compromising our own political ideals and above all sacrificing our own human dignity and our system of democracy to make sure that the cholera wins over the plague. Why would we want either illness?

Why do we accept failure after failure from the Democratic party? Why do we think that we live in a two-party system when that couldn't be further from the truth? As Americans, we have the power to change not only the course of our country, but we have to power to change the course of the world. We have the power to put an end to environmental destruction. We have the power to put an end to world hunger. Politically, we live in the most powerful country in the world. Isn't it time to start stepping up to the plate and taking our social responsibility a bit more seriously?

The Green Party, The Socialist Party USA, The Democratic Socialists...these are just a few of many political organizations that make up a very, very large chunk of America's left. These parties have better solutions, policies of more humanitarian value and have an overall better understanding of humanity and working class issues than the Democrats could ever dream of having. So why don't we spend our time, money and energy into electing a third party to office? Why do we tell ourselves that it's impossible to elect a third party? Ralph Nader showed us that a small party can make a major wave by mobilizing only a tiny fraction of the US population. Would they have won with the support of organizations such as Moveon.org, the Working Families Party and the Democratic socialists of America? I believe they would have had a good shot.

Without our money and labour, it is impossible for the Democratic Party to succeed. Why, then, do we let them? Why do we give them our voices in exchange for anti-human, neo-liberal politics that are destined for failure?

It's a bit late to start working on the 2008 elections, as it will take an enormous nation-wide education campaign in order to secure the support of the more impoverished and uneducated areas of the United States. However, it's not too late (or too early) to start working on the 2012 elections, and I say we had better get started.

We're trapped in a two-party system because we want to be. We're enslaved because we've given our government and media institutions the chains to tie us up with from our own sheds. It's time to fight back and it's time that we show our country and the rest of the world that we haven't forgotten what it really means to live in a democratic society.

A Follow-up

I've been receiving letters from quite a few people in response to my defense of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc's exhibition, explaining why they feel that the artist should be held accountable for what he's done.

I definitely agree with the points that you're all making. It's really impossible to justify murder, but I think that you have to set the blame on all parties involved, not just one person. Habacuc took part in the death of an animal, but created an international awakening. The attendees that watched and did nothing took part in the death of an animal and then created more hate afterwards.

Both parties were wrong without question, but I think that there should be some sort of balance in blame before the guillotine rolls out. I don't agree with Habacuc's decision to let Natividad starve to death, and I think he should be criticized, even jailed, for letting it happen, but I think that everyone who attended the exhibition should be charged with neglect and assisting a murder in that case.

I appreciate Habacuc's intentions, which is more than I can say for those who decided to act only after the Natividad's death. Martin Luther King Jr said that the greatest evil of our time isn't the few that have destroyed, but the vast majority who sat idly by. This exhibition is a perfect example of that. How many people were at that gallery? How many people could have done everything in their power to help that dying creature? Is it right that only one man should be held accountable? Humanity likes to have someone to blame, and that's why we're lucky enough to have someone's name (Habacuc) attached to the dog's murder, because a group of nameless people can't be tracked down and petitioned. Justice is much more complex than that, unfortunately, and we have to think of the larger picture of injustice before we lynch one man and consider the problem done with.

A Prophet

In Defense of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc

I'd like to start by expressing my adamant support for the international animal rights movement. This response is by no means an attack on the dignity of any animal or the advocates of their liberation.

Guillermo Vargas Habacuc is an artist who recently hosted an installation in Costa Rica which involved an abandoned dog found on the streets. The dog, Natividad, was chained to a post in a room of the gallery and tragically starved to death, as she was given no food whatsoever.

There is currently a campaign to send a mass petition to Mr. Habacuc, and his work has created a frenzy of angry blogs, myspace bulletins and hate mail directed at the gallery that hosted the exhibition. They want the public to believe that he intentionally starved an animal to death with 'artistic value' as his only reasoning.

The blogs, myspace bulletins and anti-Habacuc propaganda are neglecting to mention the most important piece of information in their preachings. At the other side of the room, in near proximity of Natividad, 'Eres Lo Que Lees' (the title of the exhibition) was spelled out in dog food.

Sadly, the artist's suspicions were brutally proven to be correct. Habacuc wanted to show the indifference of the Costa Rican people and put the hypocrisies of popular movements in widespread view. He wanted to show the anger and media obsession that would follow. He wanted to prove that people would rather write a letter to their congressmen and stir up international anger rather than walking five steps to the exhibition's title and feeding the dog themselves.

It's true that this was an extremely unorthodox, albeit cruel, way of demonstrating a discontent with society, but nonetheless, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc was successful in proving a very, very valid point. People would rather fuel an idea than help a dying creature.

Why did no one pick up the food bits and carry them to Natividad? Why are the same people that visited the exhibition now lashing out at an artist that wasn't even present for the entirety of his own exhibition? Why do we always want someone else to take care of the world's problems instead of doing what we can to conbat cruelties on our own?

I suggest that the hatred aimed at the artist be redirected. It should be aimed at those Mr. Habacuc was aiming for. It should be aimed at the exhibition's indifferent and neglectful attendees, and it should be aimed at the immense hypocrisies within all humanitarian movements.

Nacht und Träume

Holy night, you sink down;
Dreams, too, drift down
Like your moonlight through space
Through the quiet hearts of men;
They listen with delight
Calling out when day awakens:
Return, holy night!
Fair dreams, return!

The language spoken and understood by a dreamer has no logical boundaries. Attempted from many angles and spoken in many dialects, the soul of a dreamer drifts in constant search for a state of betterment. Not necessarily, however, betterment in its definition as understood by one who doesn't dream.

The grass may not be greener on the other side, nor the water more blue at the other end of the ocean, but even as a dreamer realizes his faults when he reaches his long sought-after destination, the initial idea nurtured by an obsessive wanderlust embodies a fantastic journey which weighs heavier than the disappointment of his goal's reality.

The journey of a dream is everlasting; as night ends, new facets of old dreams are born.

Living in daylight is no different than living the beautiful silence of dreams carried by night. To be carried by the solace of darkness is to be cradled by an absense of gravity where any idea, no matter how abstract, is attainable.

Nacht und Träume. Night and Dreams.
Life is beautiful.

Why do I love Boris Yeltsin?

This is why.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I was just revisiting the tragic loss Ségolène Royal was blown to arrogant fascist and apparent alcoholic Nicolas Sarkozy when I stumbled upon this video.
It's from nearly a year ago, but I'd thought I'd share anyway. In this clip, Sarkozy had just met with Putin and is beginning his speech to the G8.

It's funny. It's scary. It's YouTube.

Declaration of Independence From the Gay Movement

Preliminary notes to be later compiled in the form of a formal declaration.

Heterosexuality, according to Webster's:
...of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward the opposite sex
Homosexuality, according to Webster's:
...of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex

All cultural references and lifestyle decisions are completely, one-hundred percent chosen by the individual.

1. I'm not interested in the semantics of sexuality, so don't expect me to respect your wishes to be called queer, androgynous, bear, leather, sub or anything else. You're gay and I don't ever add made-up words to my vocabulary to indulge a phony sense of togetherness.

2. I don't think it's exotic that you pluck your eyebrows, bleach your hair blonder than it is naturally or have a year membership to SATS. Your six-pack doesn't make your plastic, professionally altered face any more attractive. Puckering your lips and making your skin orange does not make you look like a model; it makes you look like a jackass.

3. You don't seem any straighter or more 'boyish' because you drink beer or play football, especially not when you're going to gay bars to listen to shitty eurotrash techno and hump other men. Masculinity is an emotional characteristic, not a to-do list.

4. I don't care that you work in finance. I don't give a damn about your money, and it doesn't make you more intelligent or successful than anyone in any other academic field.

5. Your collection of Dolce Gabana sunglasses doesn't make you a contributing member of the fashion industry.

6. A pretentious alternative/indie gay is just as retarded and narrowminded as a mainstream schlager-gay.

7. I have a dad and two uncles, I don't need more. Not as friends, not as a fuck buddy, not in a long or short term relationship.

8. I don't want you to piss on, shit on or spank me. I don't want to do any of those things to you, either.

9. I don't feel any more brotherhood with you because we're both gay than I would with someone that has the same hair colour as I. I assume that you're more than your sexuality, and if you aren't I'm not interested in knowing you anyway.

10. I'm extremely sexually liberal, so don't be surprised when you realize that I'm actually pretty easy.