sff_corgi_lj | What, we have to take back the web /already/? (a ramble) (Reply)

Following a path of curiosity, I ran across a feminist blog I hadn't seen before,

Sparkle*Matrix; one of her entries has a link to a Guardian article I missed, 'How the web became a sexists' paradise'.

Deja vu.

SeleneSue just had some issues - alas, her LJ's Flocked now - of a similar nature, although not to the extent of making her afraid to leave her house (thank Sekhmet). This column might as well have been written about her experience as well, though. However,

SuperSelene will not let miscreants and trolls vanquish her! [heroic music sting here]

Thinkin of trolls, though, I had read the post(s) Valenti refers to in her column, when her mere appearance was attacked by another woman. So much for sisterhood, right? The comments from Althouse's cronies and lapdogs were stomach-churning and blood-pressure-threatening. It's amazing how creative viciousness makes people, isn't it? Even worst — what purpose did it serve?

Back to Sparkle*Matrix, and another post of hers. Sparkle linked this article (I'm ashamed to say it happened in Wales). A classic case of blaming the victim, and a 10-year-old girl at that. Because, you know, the rapist was traumatised and that makes it all OK. (I found another news link to this story with the headline '20 year old man seduced by 10 year old.' Hyeah. Right.)

This is why I find

Ginmar so valuable. She's not afraid [/understatement] to rant about the sheer repulsiveness of acts of social woman-hatred like this at length; she calls the proverbial spade a spade, and even if it's not your way of expressing yourself, she makes you THINK about why it is and is not.

But really... can there be any question about this? Can there be any question that popular music (yes, I mostly mean rap/gangsta rap/rap that isn't Queen Latifah and her ilk) and the false Christianity (yes, I mostly mean Bush, his ilk, and all that Jesus-forgetting Bible-waving which is concealing hatred poorly) that's in fashion nowadays are actively promoting 'those OTHER women' as the sekrit villains behind everybody's problems? Or as one of Sparkle's commenters said (about different post):

These images are more then upsetting. They’re damaging. Why don’t men protest them?